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What does it mean to be a good mother?
How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.

A novel of memory and loss, set between London of the 1930s and Shanghai between the wars.

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The painted panels made for use in Byzantine and Orthodox churches and for prayers at home are perhaps the most effective and enduring form of religious art ever developed, and also perhaps one of the most mysterious.

Maramures,  tara bisericilor din lemn cu turle zvelte si ascutite care tintesc cerul, a portilor monumentale migalos sculptate, a mocanitei si a horincii.

O incercare de prezentare a teatrului francez, din Evul Mediu si pana in secolul al XVII-lea nu pare a fi lipsita intru totul de obstacole. Cuvantul "teatru", a carui etimologie se regaseste in verbul grec "theaomai" (a contempla), desemneaza, inainte de toate "un loc unde privim". Ori in Evul Mediu, spre diferenta de epoca clasica, nu exista un loc precis, rezervat reprezentatiei teatrale. Exista, pe de alta parte, tendinta de a atribui teatrului francez o calitate literara deosebita. Daca Moliere, Racine, Corneille sunt, intr-adevar, nume mari ale literaturii franceze, situatia este cu totul alta in secolele XII-XV. Din sutele de texte conservate, doar despre cateva se poate afirma ca au o valoare literara de netagaduit. Aceasta realitate nu trebuie sa il mire pe cititorul modern, caci inainte de domnia lui Ludovic al XIV-lea, cel care a nutrit proiectul ambitios de hegemonie culturala a Frantei in Europa, teatrul francez trebuie mai degraba inteles ca o "arta", o "practica" cu o importanta sociala covarsitoare. Mai mult decat o reflectie sintetica asupra genurilor dramatice din Evul Mediu si pana in secolul al XVII-lea, prezenta lucrare se doreste a fi o analiza a productiei dramatice a epocilor enuntate, care privilegiaza contextul istoric si social.

Since 1989 Romania has gone from communist isolation under the megalomaniac Nicolae Ceauescu to being a key player in America’s war against terrorism. This book analyses how the country is seeking to recover from a disastrous period in its history while many of the key legacies of dictatorship remain.

Architecturally, Romania was long regarded as one of the most interesting and beautiful countries In Europe. This book documents the systematic destruction of that heritage by the Ceausescu regime, a process of "systematization" intended to destroy the cultural indentity of a nation on a huge scale.

From the imposition of communist rule in 1945, Ceausescu’s secret police, the Securitate, remained shrouded in secrecy. This work benefits from access to the archives of the Securitate.

This book tells the remarkable story of the Kodak Girl, one of the most durable and successful marketing campaigns in advertising history. Created by George Eastman, inventor of the inexpensive hand-held camera, the Kodak Girl traces the intersection of American culture with photography as it evolved from a studio-bound practice to a snapshot obsession for the masses.

The gold standard of excellence for 25 years, Frank H. Netter, MD’s Atlas of Human Anatomy offers unsurpassed depictions of the human body in clear, brilliant detail - all from a clinician’s perspective. With its emphasis on anatomic relationships and clinically relevant views, Dr. Netter’s work provides a coherent, lasting visual vocabulary for understanding anatomy and how it applies to medicine today.

Anatomy texts just don’t get any better than Gray's Anatomy for Students! Now in its 3^rd edition, this completely revised medical textbook continues its focus on just the core information you need for your anatomy courses, presenting everything in an easy-to-read, visually appealing format that facilitates study.

Photographer Robert Lebeck was interested not only in "the event" in and of itself, but also in the stories on the fringes and the people behind the images.

The experimental character of Stockholm's renowned Modern art museum, the Moderna Museet, was formed in the late 1950s and early 60s, with influences coming primarily from Paris and New York. To mark the museum's fiftieth anniversary this year, three exhibitions focus on other creative hubs--Rio, Milan-Turin and Los Angeles--during that exciting period. Three volumes, available singly or in this 3-volume, slipcased edition, are definitive resources on this trio of cultural centers that don't often get center stage.

Peintre, graphiste, photographe... Alexandre Rodchenko (1891-1957) a été un artiste tous azimuts, participant dans les années vingt à toutes formes d'expression, du théâtre au cinéma, de la publicité au design. Mue par une curiosité toujours renouvelée, habitée par une ferveur idéale peu commune, sa création se lie étroitement à l'histoire de la Russie. Artiste moderne s'il en est, il participe au mouvement constructiviste qui se veut proche des réalités sociales, économiques, intellectuelles et politiques. Toute son oeuvre est dédiée au monde du travail, envisageant l'art comme un engagement personnel pour le bien de tous. Rodchenko a toujours vécu en Russie. Il ne quitta sa terre natale que pour se rendre à Paris en 1925 pour l'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs. C'est aussi là qu'il rencontre Fernand Léger. Avec lui, résolument tourné vers l'avenir, il partage le même souci d'initier "la foule" à l'expression artistique. La multiplication des activités, comme le graphisme et la photographie, participent de cette volonté. Catalogue de l'exposition du musée Fernand Léger à Biot, ce petit ouvrage, illustré de collages, de photomontages, d'affiches et de superbes photographies en noir et blanc, rend compte du parcours créatif de Rodchenko, prophète inquiet de l'Art total, entre futurisme, cubisme et constructivisme. -- (Céline Darner)

Auteur - Erika Billeter

One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in on one of the most magical reading experiences on earth.

Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria.

Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simón Bolívar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as different as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English thought.

Uses a unique critical edition text
`Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!'

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

The only edition to combine the first edition of 1798 with the enlarged edition of 1802.