The poems reveal the sometimes mysterious longings for love and friendship that men and women have for one another, from the beginnings of relationships to their ends. This leads to patterns in poems like “Farm Stars,” “Women in Doorways,” “A Little Bit in Love with Someone Else,” and the way painters like Millet and Hopper light reality. Believers question millennial parents who do not teach their children to believe in God. The longest poem, “Big Cats,” is a fight between a rabbi, Samuel...

All the fun of Pavilion’s bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form!Test your rugby knowledge with this handy quiz book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from more than a century of rugby history.Quiz categories include:Famous Firsts and LastsTrophy CabinetUnexpected InterruptionsMen and Women Behaving BadlyPolitical ConnectionsThe Numbers GameFamily ...

A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi by Charles John Griffiths.This book was one of the definitive conflicts of the Indian rebellion in 1857.

"A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi" by Charles John Griffiths is a gripping firsthand account of one of the most significant events during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Griffiths, who served as a soldier during the siege, provides a vivid portrayal of the harrowing experiences faced by the British forces and civilians trapped in Delhi. His narrative captures the chaos, bravery, and desperation of the defenders as they fought against overwhelming odds, offering readers a unique perspective ...

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and disciplined of socialist states, so devoted to the rigors of Stalinist aesthetics that the notion of an East German romantic comedy was more likely to generate punch lines than lines at the box office. But in fact, as John Urang shows in Legal Tender, love was freighted as a privileged site for the...

Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War, a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge, this volume fills the gap in the market, including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume includes chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also ...

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars, celebrations relating to events in the history of Empire, and the construction of Empire Day in the early Edwardian period, most citizens were encouraged to think of themselves not only as citizens of a nation but of an Empire. Much of the popular culture of the period presented Empire as a force for ‘civilisation’ but it was ofte...

Covers all major modifications, including phosphorylation, glycosylation, acetylation, ubiquitination, sulfonation and and glycationDiscussion of the chemistry behind each modification, along with key methods and referencesContributions from some of the leading researchers in the fieldA valuable reference source for all laboratories undertaking proteomics, mass spectrometry and post-translational modification research

A rugby history based on exclusive interviews that "takes the reader as close to the action as it is possible to get, short of invading the pitch" ( The Scotsman).Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in that most rarefied of environments—Test match rugby. Drawing on firsthand interviews from a vast array of former and current playe...

A century after a disaster floods a quarry in North Wales, a young woman inherits a house nearby. A weekend with her boyfriend in her dream cottage turns into a nightmare at the gateway to the Celtic Otherworld: a place where the creatures of ancient Celtic Myth walk the land.

Football means everything to three friends from a dead end British town who have now hit their mid forties. They have supported their under-performing home town team through the lean years. Now success has come their way - for the first time in a generation their team has qualified to play in a European football competition. But when Dean receives a ban from all football games due to hooliganism, their plans to go to see this away game together seem doomed. Joe was planning to take his tro...

Blood Eagle is a horror novel drawing on ancient Norse Myth and Russian legend, set on a remote Irish island in the late 1960s. Light house men save a young woman washed ashore in a storm. But the young woman is not what she seems.