Author: Gregg Crane File Type: pdf Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity, growth, expansion and the Civil War. Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genres major figures, themes and developments. He analyses the different types of American fiction - romance, sentimental fiction, and the realist novel - in detail, while the historical context is explained in relation to how novelists explored the changing world around them. This comprehensive and stimulating introduction will enhance students experience of reading and studying the whole canon of American fiction.

Author: Hötte Hans H. A. File Type: pdf Volume One offers a survey of the history of Southeast Europe from 1521 until 1699, from the first major land campaign undertaken by Sultan Suleyman I until the Treaty of Karlowitz at the end of the seventeenth century. It covers modern-day Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania (Walachia and Transylvania), Dalmatia, Greece and Cyprus. The first maps in Volume Two overlap with the last ones of Volume One, to ensure continuity and takes the reader into the 18th century, and then to the beginning of the 19th century.

Author: Ross Piper File Type: pdf From mosquitoes to nematodes to mice, there are a multitude of organisms and animals that pose major health risks, cause economic burdens, and even threaten famine conditions for human civilization. Addressing these problems is often extremely costly and only partially effective.ullPests A Guide to the Worlds Most Maligned, Yet Misunderstood CreatureS presents an overview of the animals that have the greatest impact on our lives, from the creatures that eat our crops through the ones that invade our homes and those that transmit diseases. Each entry provides a brief history of our interactions with the specific pest, methods of management or eradication for the pest being discussed, and an extensive Further Reading list that includes resources on both the biology of the pest and methods of control. The author explains the complexity of the worldwide pest problem and demonstrates how some of these issues are a result of human over-population and shortsightedness, inviting readers to consider our place in nature and how other animals have adapted to and benefited from the growing human population.*ll*ll*lul**ReviewEach of the seven chapters is devoted to a specific taxonomic phylum and further divided alphabetically by popular name. These segments engagingly and accessibly explain species activity and impact, while incorporating enlarged and detailed black-and-white photographs. Sidebars offer comprehensive species lists or additional information on unusual pest traits. Further reading lists follow both chapter segments and sidebar texts in this wonderfully vivid and highly informative text.ullulLibrary JournalThe writing style is engaging, and explanations are clear and easily understood. Sidebars are utilized to highlight interesting facts. . . . This fascinating and thought-provoking book would be of interest to student researchers as well as to the general browser.ullulBooklistThis is not a book with all the answers, but an excellent introduction to the vast array of pests and the troubles they cause, including key references to begin a more thorough study of managing any particular pest. Summing Up Recommended.ullulChoiceBook DescriptionCommon houseflies often carry over 100 different pathogens. A swarm of one billion locusts consumes over 2,000 tons of food every day. In some parts of the United States, the invasion of the boll weevil beetle had a destructive effect on society second only to the Civil War. Even the smallest insects can create huge problems for mankind.

Author: Christopher Butler File Type: pdf Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture. About the Series Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of lifes most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.ReviewA pre-eminently sane, lucid, and concise statement about the central issues, the key examples, and the notorious derilections of postmodernism. I feel a fresh wind blowing away the miasma coiling around the topic.--Ihab Hassan, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeThe most intellectually incisive, coherent and comprehensive meditation upon the history and significance of postmodernism that I have yet encountered.--Patricia Waugh, University of DurhamEasily the best introduction to postmodernism currently available.--Hans Bertens, Utrecht UniversityAbout the AuthorChristopher Butler is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, and is the author of many books, including Early Modernism (OUP, 1994).