Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and praised for her "style, ideas, and punch" (Jeanette Winterson), Smith has produced a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, as she transfixes readers with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.
HOTEL WORLD, which was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001, is about Sarah Wilby, a chambermaid in a hotel, who dies in an accident on the job. Various characters who either knew her, were related to her, or witnessed the event, contribute short chapters about Sarah's life and death.
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, ...
From the award-winning author of "The Accidental" comes this dazzlingly inventive new collection of stories in which Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love.
In Laws of the Bandit Queens, photographer Ali Smith presents the images and life philosophies of some of today's most dynamic and revolutionary women, from Janeane Garofalo to Susan Faludi to Venus and Serena Williams to Jocelyn Elders. In the book's inviting portraits these women become accessible to women of every age who can go where they have ...
This text starts with a right triangle approach to help students investigate and understand the trigonometric functions, their graphs, their relationships to one another, and ways in which they can be used in a variety of applications. Thoroughly revised throughout, the third edition builds on the strengths of previous editions while offering a ...
A brilliant collection of new short stories by the Booker and Orange prize shortlisted author of HOTEL WORLD. Stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to...How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, after ...
Known for its student-friendly approach, this book starts with a unit-circle approach. With a focus on applications, it helps students investigate and understand the trigonometric functions, their graphs, their relationships to one another, and ways in which they can be used in a variety of applications.
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in "Free Love" are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity, and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, and love ...
There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland. Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions. By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE ...
For over 1,400 years the sacred book of Islam, known as the Qur?an, has served as an ocean of wisdom and nourishment for the human soul. The Qur?an gave birth to one of the world's most powerful civilizations that spanned from the depths of Asia and Africa to the borders of Europe. Some historians have even credited the Qur?an for bringing Europe ...
A considerable literature has been devoted to the study of Islamic activism. By contrast, Nadje Al-Ali's book explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt. In so doing, it challenges stereotypical images of Arab women as passive victims and demonstrates how they ...
Unlike other works in philosophy of law, which focus on the nature of law in the abstract, this comprehensive anthology presents law as a "process," part and parcel of a system of government and defined constitutional procedures. Using the U.S. legal system as a model, it establishes the basis of law in political theory, then presents substantive ...
In this edition the missing part of one letter and eighteen entirely new ones are presented. The search for these letters even extended to Japan. Therefore, all new Smith letter discovered since 1977 are included. In addition, wherever errors were suspected or misreadings have come to light in the standing text as a result of advice from reviewers ...
Full of pieces from amazing writers, this treasure trove is a personal anthology of what Ali Smith loves best--and without which she would not have become an award-winning writer.
"The First Person and Other Stories" effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket ...
This is a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, a child. This is a book full of pieces from wonderful writers - Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood. But it is also full of lesser known writers about which readers will be very happy to hear, like ...
This is a comprehensive examination of the 'varna' system - a classificatory scheme laid out in the classical Hindu Vedic literature and thought to underlie the concept of caste, which continues to exert a powerful and pervasive influence over Indian life.
Chris Smith explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. He looks carefully at the domestic dynamics of Indian defence policy. This includes an in-depth analysis of the period 1947-62, which is often ignored by Indian defence analysts, and the performance of the defence industrial base. He concludes that India's defence policy is ...
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