A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Publisher: Dell

Published: 1996-12-02

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0440223016

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"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries impetuous Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. Then, one stormy night, a brooding stranger appears in her remote island home, ready to take Rosamond to her word. Spellbound by the mysterious Philip Tempest, Rosamond is seduced with promises of love and freedom, then spirited away on Tempest's sumptuous yacht. But she soon finds herself trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit. Desperate to escape, she flees to Italy, France, and Germany, from Parisian garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau, as Tempest stalks every step of the fiery beauty who has become his obsession. A story of dark love and passionate obsession that was considered "too sensational" to be published in the authors lifetime, A Long Fatal Love Chase was written for magazine serialization in 1866, two years before the publication of Little Women. Buried among Louisa May Alcott's papers for more than a century, its publication is a literary landmark—a novel that is bold, timeless, and mesmerizing."


Optical Refrigeration

Optical Refrigeration

Author: Richard I. Epstein

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-12-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3527628053

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Edited by the two top experts in the field with a panel of International contributors, this is a comprehensive up-to-date review of research and applications. Starting with the basic physical principles of laser cooling of solids, the monograph goes on to discuss the current theoretical issues being resolved and the increasing demands of growth and evaluation of high purity materials suitable for optical refrigeration, while also examining the design and applications of practical cryocoolers. An advanced text for scientists, researchers, engineers, and students (masters, PHDs and Postdoc) in laser and optical material science, and cryogenics.


Where the Sidewalks Meet

Where the Sidewalks Meet

Author: Harold J. Recinos

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-12-23

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1666731463

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Recinos’s love for poetry began on the streets of the South Bronx and the experience of being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on them. On the streets, Recinos discovered a world of extreme poverty and drugs, until four years later he was taken into the family of a White Presbyterian minister and guided back into school. In graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended the Nuyorican poets the late Miguel Piñero and Pedro Pietri who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets café. In Where the Sidewalks Meet, Recinos uses poetry like graffiti on public culture, to make references to the invisible in plain sight, and talk about border crossings. These poems delicately string together the disregarded world of excluded, muted, and rejected human beings and “shouts out the names” of those the world only cares to look at sideways.


Letters at 3am

Letters at 3am

Author: Michael Ventura

Publisher: Spring Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"I'd rather have one or two of his whiplashing essays in my hands than almost any tome of philosophy". -- Thomas Moore


Sexuality and War

Sexuality and War

Author: Evelyne Accad

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1992-05

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0814706150

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In this text, the author explores what she argues is an indissoluble link between war and sexuality. She explores the connections among sexuality, war, nationalism, pacifism, violence, love and power as they relate to the body, the partner, the family, political ideologies and religion.


The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

Author: Alice Sturgis

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780070625228

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This completely revised and updated alternative to Robert's Rules is a comprehensive and logical guide to conducting smoothly functioning, formal organizational meetings.


Understanding the City Through Its Margins

Understanding the City Through Its Margins

Author: André Chappatte

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138045897

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The city and its regulations: Unexpected margins -- Part I Space and state regulation: The urban interstices -- 2 Markets and marginality in Beirut -- 3 The tremendous making and unmaking of the peripheries in current Istanbul -- 4 Resilient forms of urbanity on the margins? Al-Kherba: A vivid market in a damaged section of the medina of Tunis -- 5 Whose margins? Marginality, poverty and the moral geography of pre-Soviet Bukhara -- 6 On the margins of the city: Izmir Prison in the late Ottoman Empire -- Part II Diversity and moral policing: Making claims through marginalisation -- 7 'Texas': An off-centre district at the heart of nightlife in Odienné -- 8 The Manyema in colonial Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) between urban margins and regional connections -- 9 On the margins: Suburban space and religious deviancy in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur -- 10 Ethnic differentiation and conflict dynamics: Uzbeks' marginalisation and non-marginalisation in southern Kyrgyzstan -- Index