This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual at least for correspondents in the twenty-first century is that Frederic Raphael & Joseph Epstein have never met nor even spoken to each other. But what is most rare about this book is the authors abundant talent for entertaining their readers as much when the topic is grave as when it is droll. Raphael & Epstein agree to embark on a year-long correspondence but other rules are few. As the weeks progress their friendship grows & each inspires the other. Almost any topic large or small is considered: they write of schooling parents wives children literary tastes enmities delights & beliefs. They discuss their professional lives as writers their skills or want of them respective experiences with editors producers & actors & in priceless passages scattered throughout the letters they assess such celebrated figures as Gore Vidal Christopher Hitchens Sontag/ Leibowitz Malcolm Gladwell Harold Bloom George Steiner Harold Pinter Isaiah Berlin George Weidenfeld & Robert Gottlieb among many others. Epstein & Raphael capture a year in their letters but more they invite us into an intimate world where literature cinema & art are keys to self-discovery & friendship. ...

In September 1914 as the fate of Europe was being decided along the banks of the Marne thousands of young men across Britain continued to flock to the recruiting stations. One of these was Matthew Richardson who joined the 1/7th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. But their destination was not Flanders or France but Egypt Sudan & ultimately Gallipoli where the fighting was as bitter as any on the Western Front. Twice Matthew Richardson was plunged into a major battle. On the first occasion an act of reckless bravery earned him the DCM; on the second he was severely wounded. But through all these events he kept up a steady correspondence with his family back home. These letters published here for the first time form a continuous narrative which tells the story of this remarkable odyssey from peace to war & of its hero's return. ...

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores principal component analysis & clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new & often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory the theoretical influences over his work & explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of Modern European Literature " through the geo-cultural insights of " Conjectures of World Literature" & " Planet Hollywood " to the quantitative findings of " Style inc." & the abstract patterns of " Network Theory Plot Analysis " the book follows two decades of conceptual development organizing them around the metaphor of "distant reading " that has come to define
- well beyond the wildest expectations of its author
- a growing field of unorthodox literary studies."

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This is a collection of 30 stories by Barbara Erskine: most contemporary a few historical some spooky or humorous many of them love stories. This is the second volume of stories created for the womens magazine market over recent years including a number written especially for this volume. ...

Britains leading contemporary historian revisits & exounds upon the grand themes that have run throughout twentieth & twenty first century Britain including the abiding trends of the postwar era
- Britains persistent impulse to punch well above its weight in the world; the sustenance of a nuclear weapons policy which has accompanied that impulse & the secrecy that has too often concealed it; the contrasting styles & achievements of post-war prime ministers from Attlee to Cameron; the successes & failures of major constitutional reform. As importantly in Distilling the Frenzy a genuine heavyweight of British scholarship lays bear the contemporary historians art for all to see exposing the fine line between observation & felt experience whilst incorporating elements of autobiography that gives the book a poignancy thaat is lacking in other grand historial works. This is the story of Britains century through the eyes of its most celebrated chronicler. A major work of our time.
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Seamus Heaneys new collection starts in an age of bare hands & cast iron & ends as the automatic lock/clunks shut in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted almost visionary clarity the poems assay the weight & worth of what has been held in the hand & in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II
- railway sleepers a sledgehammer the heavyweight silence of cattle out in rain
- are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that anything can happen & other images from the dangerous present
- a journey on the underground a melting glacier
- are fraught with this same anxiety. But District & Circle" which

Includes:: a number of prose poems & translations offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers & stands his ground in the hiding places of love & excited language. In a sequence like " The Tollund Man in Springtime" & in several poems which do the rounds of the district
- its known roads & rivers & trees its familiar & unfamiliar ghosts
- the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish & conviction than ever Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities & the mystery of everyday renewals."







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Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands & cast iron' & ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted almost visionary clarity the poems assay the weight & worth of what has been held in the hand & in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II
- railway sleepers a sledgehammer the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain
- are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' & other images from the dangerous present
- a journey on the underground a melting glacier
- are fraught with this same anxiety. But District & Circle" which

Includes:: a number of prose poems & translations offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers & stands his ground in the hiding places of love & excited language. In a sequence like ' The Tollund Man in Springtime' & in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district'
- its known roads & rivers & trees its familiar & unfamiliar ghosts
- the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish & conviction than ever Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities & the mystery of everyday renewals."







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Born in Belfast Patricia Jordan left for England to train as a nurse in the 1940s & DISTRICT NURSE is her moving & humorous account of life as a visiting nurse in a small English town. She leaves behind a close-knit family & a failed romance in Ireland to begin training in Barnet & Middlesex. She early on treats a patient who eventually becomes her husband & means that she accepts a job in the north of England that takes her first by bicycle & then in an unreliable little car into the homes of the people who need her care. In DISTRICT NURSE she brings to life everyone she encounters from the doctors & other nurses to the diverse & always compelling patients. It is a captivating personal account of a life spent helping others. ...

For 150 years district nurses have been taking care of the sick in their own homes providing health care moral support & wise advice to people of all ages & classes in rural areas towns & cities the length & breadth of the country. Begun in 1860s Liverpool by philanthropist William Rathbone the District Nursing Movement was founded to care for the poor who had no access to medical care. This illuminating book shows how the role of the district nurse has moved on greatly since Queen Victorias Jubilee expanding & developing to provide a broad range of invaluable health care services in the community. ...

More than ninety case studies shed new light on power system phenomena & power system disturbances Based on the authors four decades of experience this book enables readers to implement systems in order to monitor & perform comprehensive analyses of power system disturbances. Most importantly readers will discover the latest strategies & techniques needed to detect & resolve problems that could lead to blackouts to ensure the smooth operation & reliability of any power system. Logically organized Disturbance Analysis for Power Systems begins with an introduction to the power system disturbance analysis function & its implementation. The book then guides readers through the causes & modes of clearing of phase & ground faults occurring within power systems as well as power system phenomena & their impact on relay system performance. The next series of chapters presents more than ninety actual case studies that demonstrate how protection systems have performed in detecting & isolating power system disturbances in: Generators Transformers Overhead transmission lines Cable transmission line feeders Circuit breaker failures Throughout these case studies actual digital fault recording (DFR) records oscillograms & numerical relay fault records are presented & analyzed to demonstrate why power system disturbances happen & how the sequence of events are deduced. The final chapter of the book is dedicated to practice problems encouraging readers to apply what theyve learned to perform their own system disturbance analyses. This book makes it possible for engineers technicians & power system operators to perform expert power system disturbance analyses using the latest tested & proven methods. Moreover the books many cases studies & practice problems make it ideal for students studying power systems. ...