In the spring of 1848, a generation of Germans did something their princes had spent thirty years preventing: they took the streets, built the barricades, and demanded the right to govern themselves. From the handloom weavers of Silesia burning the ledgers of their oppressors, to the thirty thousand who climbed Hambach hill behind a forbidden flag, to the exhausted deputies who wrote a democratic constitution in the oval nave of a Frankfurt church — Fire on the Barricades tells th...

In the spring of 1798, a French army crossed into Switzerland and shattered a political order five centuries in the making. Within six catastrophic weeks, the Old Swiss Confederacy — a patchwork of sovereign cantons, subject territories, and patrician oligarchies — collapsed entirely. What rose in its place was an extraordinary and doomed experiment: the Helvetic Republic, a centralized nation built on borrowed French institutions, a constitution stripped of its own promised ratification, ...

U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey write: 'Wordsworth speaks of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. This seems an apt description of these love poems. They are not important resonant pieces of writing: they simply happened when one of us felt like writing to the other, quite often when one of us was away from home. Some of them coincided with Valentine's Days or birthdays, but that was more a matter of good luck than foresight. Quakers, rightly, maintain that Christmas Day is only...

U.A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity. Since her death, much of her work has been out of print. Selected Poems, chosen from over thirty years of Fanthorpe's distinctive and accessible writing by her partner R.V. Bailey, will delight all her existing fans as well as those who come to her poems for the first...

When you think you've got friends/friend that will always stand by you irrespective of your situation but when you need them the most they let you down, or drop you like a hot potato. The question is how do you feel? You feel like the "prodigal son" when all that he had totally finished, his friends turned their back on him. But don't give up because there is a friend that never changes. Hence this book has been exquisitely and sumptuously put together, some wonderful words to comfort you ...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

When she died, in 2009, Anthony Thwaite described U.A. Fanthorpe as a 'smiling subversive with a voice like bird-song'. An encouraging example to all late developers, this particular bird's voice took its time: she didn't become a poet until she was 45. But these examples of her very earliest work show the latent mastery and the rapid development of the craft that would bring her wide critical acclaim and an affectionate general readership. The mysteries of the trade gradually reveal thems...

The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which older people services operate everywhere attracts a range of responses from the very enthusiastic to the very dismissive and hostile response. Thus, family directed support care system would pr...

I have never been to heaven and neither have I ever been to hell, but both have come to me.Amidst an exotic landscape of distant lands, intra-clan rivalries, and family legacies begins the honest, humble, and achingly sincere autobiography and testimony of CAN ũa Waya. While most stories begin in the “ordinary world,” Waya’s ordinary world was populated by witchdoctors, werewolves, and shape-shifters.In this book he tells of his life in which spirituality—i...

Andy Warhol bequeathed us the words "Death can really make you look like a star." But death per se is not a catalyst for the relevance of an artist. What is of crucial importance is the proper management structure for the posthumous preservation and development of an artistic estate. The handbook by Loretta Würtenberger presents the possible legal framework, appropriate financing models, as well as the proper handling of the market, museums, and academia. Her business, Fine Art Partners, h...

Portable and user-friendly, this Thai dictionary, phrasebook, and language guide is the best way to start your vacation.If you only want to purchase one Thai language book, Essential Thai is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Series, it is an excellent beginner guide to the language of Thailand, and is also designed as a phrasebook—making it the most versatile Thai language learning tool on the market.Essential Thai

Making Out in Thai is a fun, accessible and thorough guide to Thai as it's really spoken in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and throughout Thailand.This is your guide to modern spoken Thai as it is used in everyday interactions in Thailand today—including many colorful expressions and informal phrases not found in any other Thai phrasebook.This fully revised edition of Making Out in Thai features a pronunciation guide for beginners to be able to speak...