"Brilliant...unforgettable..". -- Edmonton Journal Unrequited love, revolution, and poetry -- Edmond Rostand's beloved classic is an epic and heroic tale that has fascinated and enchanted generations of drama lovers. Not since 1938 has Rostand's classic had an English prose translation that is so immanently readable and stageable.
This introduction to Russia explores life in the country from the age of the czars through the rise and fall of Communism. In addition to discussing life in contemporary Russia, readers will learn about the art, literature, music, and traditions of the country. Illustrated with color photographs.
A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects. Cicero was one of the greatest and most human men of antiquity. He was on the closest terms with political giants such as Pompeius and Caesar and far surpassed them in oratorical and legal skills. Since so much of his work survives, he ...
In the midst of the American Civil War, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson discuss the past, the future, life, love and what it means to be human. Cast of 4 men.
In John and Beatrice, Beatrice waits for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. A play about the difficulty of connection and the meaning of love. In Helen's Necklace, Helen wanders through a Middle Eastern city looking for a lost pearl necklace. Helen comes into contact with a series of people, and she is ...
It is the summer of 1922, the twilight of Sarah Bernhardt's career. With her ever loyal secretary, Pitou, the legendary and infamous actress is discussing the imaginary second volume of her autobiography. She has electrifying encounters with people such as Oscar Wilde, and Bernard Shaw, and recreates some of her greatest roles. This play confirmed ...
Properties of Liquids and Solutions Second Edition J.N. Murrell A.D. Jenkins University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Properties of Liquids and Solutions, Second edition, is a fully revised and updated edition of this popular text, providing a broad coverage of the physics and chemistry of the liquid state. In recent years there have been great ...
"The writing is John Murrell at the top of his form, which is very high indeed. Tremendous stuff!" -- CBC Radio Georgia O'Keeffe flourished in the desert solitude where her creativity thrived and was challenged by its dangerous energies, its desolate and hard beauty. In John Murrell's The Faraway Nearby, Georgia O'Keeffe resigns herself to an old ...
Unlike many other books on chemical bonding, this introduction to the subject does not adopt the traditional historical treatment in which the two basic theories of valence, molecular orbital and valence bond, are introduced and applied to increasingly complex molecules. Instead it develops the subject area from fundamental concepts which are ...
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