A beautiful & evocative collection of over 100 representations of the Annunciation, presented in chronological order, each on a single page with a caption opposite. ' In the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. ...

Of interest to those learning Latin, this book looks at topics ranging from Ancient Roman curses found at Bath & a birthday invitation from Hadrian's Wall to fascinating extracts from post-Renaissance Latinists like Descartes. It explores the joys of Latin poetry via Medieval lyrics & verse epitaphs. ...

The unusual love story between Mexican teenager Diego (Diego Catano) & 21-year-old American woman Molly (Eireann Harper) is told in an even more unusual medium as photographer/director Jonas Cuaron runs a voiceover script over a series of still photographs taken of people he knew over a couple of years in Mexico. Half in black & white & half in colour, the photographs tell the tender & often funny story of the tentative relationship that develops between the 'gringa' language student & the sex-obsessed fourteen-year-old whose home she lodges in. ...

Kenny Guinn was elected the governor of Nevada in a 1998 landslide. But the outcome was determined long before a single voter stepped into a polling booth. This title argues that the power & money of the casino industry render important Nevada elections a mere formality. ...

An anomaly is the failure of a classical symmetry to survive the process of quantization & regularization. The study of anomalies plays an important role in quantum field theory. This text presents the different aspects of the study of anomalies &

Includes:: chapters on abelian & nonabelian anomalies, & consistent & covariant anomalies.

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German drama set in Berlin in the final days of World War Two. The events of the film are based on the real diary of an anonymous woman who lived through the liberation of Berlin by Soviet troops in 1945, suffering shockingly brutal treatment by the city's captors. Living in the basement of her bombed-out apartment building with a handful of similarly destitute neighbours, the woman
- known only as ' Anonyma' (Nina Foss)
- endures repeated rape by Russian soldiers, & tries to wrestle a modicum of control over her destiny by using sex as a tool for survival, forging an uneasy sexual alliance with Russian leader Major Andrei Rybkin (Yevgeni Sidikhin).

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