Vanessa Ratcliffe is just sixteen daughter of one of the towns richest men. & in spite of her social standing & convent education Vanessas provocative manner often draws envious eyes in her direction. Angus Cotton is a rough diamond living in filthy Ryders Row but as engineer at Affleck & Tate hes worth his weight in gold. Angus has ambitious plans for his future plans that had never included Vanessa
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Who is the Roundabout Man? He doesn't look like a tramp yet he lives on a roundabout in a caravan & survives on the leftovers from a nearby motorway service station. He calls himself Quinn the name of a boy in a world-famous series of children's books but he's nearer retirement than childhood. What he hopes no one will discover is that he's the real Quinn immortalised as a child by his mother in her entrancing tales about a little boy's adventures with his triplet sisters. It is this inheritance he has successfully run away from
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He began swimming in slow broad strokes. The sea smelled harsh stinging his nostrils like champagne & he nearly got drunk on it... In a fraction of a second Montalbano realized hed struck a human foot. Somebody else was floating right beside him & he hadnt noticed. Excuse me he said hastily flipping back onto his belly & looking over at the other. The person beside him didnt answer because he wasnt doing the dead mans float. He was actually dead. & to judge from the way he looked hed been so for quite a while. Increasingly disillusioned with his government & the world in general Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age & even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried.. . ...

The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseaus political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as The Social Contract & a selection of Rousseaus letters on important aspects of his thought. The Social Contract has become Rousseaus most famous single work but on publication was condemned by both the civil & the ecclesiastical authorities in France & Geneva. Rousseau fled & it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works as well as political essays such as On the Government of Pol&. This 1997 volume like its predecessor contains a comprehensive introduction chronology & guide to further reading & will enable students to obtain a full understanding of the writings of one of the worlds greatest thinkers. ...

Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles Route 66 was the countrys first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers & travellers alike & in 1939 it became known as The Mother Road thanks to John Steinbecks classic The Grapes of Wrath". Over the years hundreds of thousands of Americans travelled this great road
- from those heading west during the Great Depression to postwar families taking road trips across the country
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What is theatre? What is performance? What are their connections & differences? What events people practices & ideas have shaped theatre & performance in the twentieth century & importantly where are they heading next? Proposing answers to these big questions The Routledge Companion to Theatre & Performance" provides an informative & engaging introduction to the significant people events concepts & practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre & performance studies. Including over 120 entries in three easy-to-use alphabetical sections this fascinating text presents a wide range of individuals & topics such as: performance artist Marina Abramovic; directors Vsevolod Meyerhold & Robert Wilson; The Living Theatres " Paradise Now"; the haka; multimedia performance; political protest; visual theatre. With each entry containing crucial historical & contextual information extensive cross-referencing detailed analysis & an annotated bibliography " The Routledge Companion to Theatre & Performance" is undoubtedly a perfect reference guide for the keen student & passionate theatre-goer alike." ...