Author: Adonis Adonis
Publisher: Green Integer
Keywords: books, integer, sleep, could, sea
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1931243298
ISBN-13: 9781931243292

One of the greatest poets of Arab literature, Adonis’s work often centers on the process of poetic creation, but his work has somehow remained highly appealing to Arab readers, and his has had, perhaps, more influence in terms of innovation and modernity than any other contemporary Arab poet. Twice he has been a finalist for the Nobel Prize. For Adonis, poetry is a vision (ru’ya") a "leap outside of established concepts, a change in the order of things and in the way we look at them."Selected from Al-A’mul al Shi’riyya, 1-3 (The Complete Works, 3 volumes) the current book explores the

Authors:Andrew Adonis, Andrew Adonis, Tim Hames,
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: decade, perspective, reagan, thatcher, revolution, conservative
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1993-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0719036690
ISBN-13: 9780719036699

The 1980s are widely seen as years in which the USA and Britain shared a political transformation under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. This book compares their impact across the range of public policy and upon their respective political parties. Behind it lies the question: was there a distinctive Anglo-American Conservative revolution under Reagan and Thatcher? The book examines the political elites, political ideas and policy communities animating the Anglo-American right wing during the 1980s, offering analyses of the processes and personalities shaping Conservatism on both sides of t

Author: Sarah Caudwell
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: murdered, adonis, thus
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0440212316
ISBN-13: 9780440212317

Fleeing from tax-related worries, Julia Larwood indulges in a holiday, unaware that the fellow tourist she falls for is an Inland Revenue employee, who turns up dead in her bed with her copy of the Finance Act nearby. Reprint. PW.

Author: Marcel Detienne
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: adonis, gardens
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-04-04
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0691001049
ISBN-13: 9780691001043

Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne’s landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer’s thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless

Author: Tim Bergling
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: pursuit, perfection, men, gay, adonis, chasing
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1560235098
ISBN-13: 9781560235095

What is it about some men that makes them an object of our deepest desires? And how far are we willing to go in pursuit of those desires? Chasing Adonis: Gay Men & the Pursuit of Perfection delves into one of the most central mysteries of gay life: What is it gay men find attractive in other men, and why? How much is nature, how much is nurture . . . or maybe just clever marketing? This unique book examines steroid use, body image disorders, gym culture, Internet hook-ups, obsession, stalking, porn, erotic Web sites, strip clubs ... and everything else that makes gay men act "a little bit nutt

Authors:Andrew Adonis, Keith Thomas,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: retrospective, jenkins, roy
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-11-18
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0199274878
ISBN-13: 9780199274871

Roy Jenkins was a dominating figure in British politics across the four decades before his death in 2003, with an impact and legacy greater than many prime ministers of the period. These essays, by friends and associates of Roy Jenkins from every phase of his life, chart his remarkable career with insight, anecdote, and empathy. Each contributor writes from a close and unique relationship with their subject.

Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: shakespeare, criticism, essays, critical, adonis, venus
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 081532149X
ISBN-13: 9780815321491

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare’s first published work, his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis, which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid. Particularly important is the book’s coverage of the little-known presence of Venus and Adonis on stage.A substantial introduction of 65 pagessurveys the history of criticism about the poem and its significance, and addresses such issues as the burdens of readership and the poem as a staged production. Following are 19 reprinted works fro