The Night Spinner

Speeches Of The Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan V5 (1816)

&ldquo;An exquisitely gentle introduction to loss. . . . With only a feather to remember Poppy by, Robin is left lonely and alone. Yet after a dream of flying with Poppy, the child feels their friend in so many places. . . . The book&rsquo;s focus [is] fixated squarely on a meditative inner light. . . . Watercolors and colored pencils match tone and mood, page by page. A book built to comfort&mdash;not to confront&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews

The Light in Me Sees the Light in You

This book is a “master class” in exploring the historical culture of moviegoing in postwar Italy. Using an innovative suite of research methods drawn from the “New Cinema History,” and featuring fascinating ethnographic studies, the authors chart the vibrancy of film attendance as the cultural lynch-pin of Italy in the rapidly changing 1950s. They uncover the tensions pitting local against national and systems of film distribution, and gendered dialogues about differences and similarities between Italian and Hollywood star culture.  The Italian Cinema Audiences project expertly demonstrates how post-war Italy’s diverse publics were drawn together into complex communities of entertainment, at a time when discussion of who was allowed to attend the movies was being negotiated and challenged across the nation.

Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy

Italian Cinema Audiences

'This is an impressive piece of publishing worth anyone's time and money.'– History Teaching Review'This book should serve its intended audience well, stimulating rather than blunting whatever enthusiasm it may have for the subject'– Robin Seager, The Classical Review

The Fall of the Roman Republic

"an excellent reference source for its subject matter… 　well written, clear and concise but provides a lot of valuable and relevant information… this book is designed for frontline clinical care and prepared to offer alternatives in potential tricky situations… [it] is full of wisdom and advice and I am sure will be much sought after." -published by Glycosmedia

Handbook of Obstetric Medicine

"Cole liefert seit Jahrzehnten Bücher rund um das Internet ab und agiert dabei gerne als Mischung aus Wanderprediger und Bergführer. Cole will immer das zeigen, was andere gerne übersehen. Das gute alte Fachbuch ist aktueller und informativer denn je, vor allem, wenn der Autor gut vernetzt ist und mit Originalquellen reden kann, die nicht jedem zugänglich sind. Dies trifft auf Tim Cole zu, wie man schnell merkt. Er denkt von der Wirtschaftsseite her und geht das Thema pragmatisch an. [...] Es ist schon beeindruckend, zu lesen, wie viele Gewerke inzwischen mit KI in Berührung gekommen sind oder sehr bald in Berührung kommen werden. Der Autor verschweigt dabei durchaus nicht die möglichen Risiken einer unkontrollierten KI, sieht KI aber vor allem als große Chance für zahlreiche Wirtschaftsbereiche." Bernd Schöne, VDI Technik in Bayern, Januar 2021

"KI erspart Vertrieb und Kundendienst viel Zeit und sorgt für eine Win-Win-Situation [...] Für Unternehmen in der Finanzbranche ist besonders das Kapitel ,KI in Marketing und Vertrieb' aufschlussreich. Denn wie Cole feststellt, hat sich die Kundenbeziehung verändert. Fast familiäre Bindungen von Bankberatern zu Kunden werden seltener. Doch die Kundenerwartungen hinsichtlich Geschwindigkeit, Service und Convenience steigen." Laura Kracht, Bankingclub.de, 04.11.2020

"Die Frage nach dem Sinn künstlicher Intelligenz wird oft wolkig oder unzureichend beantwortet. Tim Coles Buch soll klären, wie man damit in wirtschaftlichen Zusammenhängen Sinnvolles bewirken kann. [...] Buchautoren beweisen manchmal viel Weitsicht bei der Voraussage von Themen - eine der gut zwölf Branchen, auf die Cole eingeht, ist das in Zeiten von Bilanzskandalen bei großen und kleinen Finanzunternehmen in seiner Bedeutung nicht zu unterschätzende Controlling. Auch hier zeigt er eine bunte Mischung häufiger und exotische Implementierungen diverser KI-Verfahren. [...] Trotz des nicht unbedingt technischen Ansatzes hält sich Cole an Fakten, ohne in Alarmismus oder moralische Panik zu verfallen." Annette Bosbach, iX, November 2020

"Tim Cole zeigt in diesem Buch gleichermaßen eindrucksvoll wie eingängig (Vorwissen ist nicht nötig), wie man KI-Potenziale in der Unternehmenspraxis erkennt und deren Grenzen und Gefahren richtig einschätzt. Und zwar mit konkreten Praxistipps und vielen Beispielen." IT-Finanzmagazin.de, 10.08.2020

KI in der Unternehmenspraxis: Potenziale erkennen – Entscheidungen treffen

Erfolgsfaktor Künstliche Intelligenz

&ldquo;There's never been a book quite like this. `Essential reading for anyone who cooks or gardens, and a reference book every vegetable lover will want to have on hand.&#160; If you care about food, you want this book.&rdquo; &mdash;Ruth Reichl&ldquo;Farmer Lee Jones&rsquo; delightful new cookbook is a testament not only to his love of land and soil, but also to his deeply generous spirit. Poring over its pages, you&rsquo;ll appreciate the author&rsquo;s reverence for alliums and share his everlasting fondness for Mr. Frye&rsquo;s rhubarb. More than anything, though, the recipes (the yuca pav&ecirc; is my favorite!) and the writing will bring optimism into your kitchen, and joy into your life.&ldquo; &mdash;Thomas Keller, chef and owner of The French Laundry&ldquo;The Chef&rsquo;s Garden encompasses so many unusual plants beyond the familiar ones plus the recipes look both utterly gorgeous and doable. This is a valuable book for anyone who wishes to garden and cook or simply to know where our food comes from and how to use it all&mdash;stems, leaves, pods, and roots. But what I loved most was the story of losing the farm to hail in the early l980s, having to auction off everything, the decision to work with chefs, good words worth repeating on sustainability, regenerative agriculture, farming farmers, and the myth of local. Congratulations!&rdquo; &mdash;Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and An Onion in My Pocket&#160;&ldquo;Farmer Lee Jones is a passionate gardener and perfectionist supplier to the finest chefs and food lovers in America. His vast knowledge, combined with the excellence of his harvest, have no boundaries, making the Chef&rsquo;s Garden the best university for vegetable study on earth.&rdquo; &mdash;Daniel Boulud, chef&#160;&#160;&ldquo;If you aren&rsquo;t familiar with Farmer Lee's work in shaping the way we appreciate vegetables in the culinary world then this book is a great introduction. For decades The Chef&rsquo;s Garden has been at the cusp of the vegetal kingdom and showcasing its bounty. From miraculous micro greens to bodacious brassicas, The Chef's Garden is an encyclopedia to all things sprouted from the earth and how delicious they can be.&rdquo; &mdash;Kwame Onwuachi, chef and author of Notes from a Young Black Chef&ldquo;Farmer Lee Jones is a vegetable Willy Wonka who heads up the wonderland that grows some of the most delicious ingredients on the planet. This extensive and thorough, yet completely approachable, ode to vegetables peels back the curtain on this magical farm, and will inspire cooks of all levels.&rdquo;&mdash;Molly Yeh, Food Network host and cookbook author&ldquo;Once you open The Chef&rsquo;s Garden, you&rsquo;ll never think about vegetables in the same way again. It&rsquo;ll have you itching to get creative with veggies you&rsquo;ve been cooking for years (Sweet Potato Ice Cream Cones, anyone?!) and introduce you to others you&rsquo;ve never heard of. Farmer Lee Jones&rsquo;s anecdotes and insights prove that well-grown vegetables are the secret to creating flavorful, nourishing, and sustainable food.&rdquo;&mdash;Jeanine Donofrio, author of The Love and Lemons Cookbook and Love and Lemons Every Day&#160;&ldquo;The Chef&rsquo;s Garden is the number-one reason I fell in love with vegetables. The farm produced varieties and sizes of vegetables, greens, and rare herbs I had never tasted before. This led me to pursue vegetable cookery and farming and ultimately write Six Seasons. It is incredible to be humbled, inspired, and excited yet again with this encyclopedia of knowledge.&rdquo;&mdash;Joshua McFadden, chef and author of Six Seasons&#160;&#160;&ldquo;I have waited a lifetime for this book. Lee&rsquo;s story echoes mine. I have been a customer, friend, guest, speaker, advocate and surrogate storyteller for the Chef&rsquo;s Garden farm since the 90s. There is no greater advocate for change, health, wellness, farming, eating, cooking, and living than Lee Jones. The future of our planet is vegetables and Lee is our vanguard. Superb stories, great recipes and a brilliant book that every chef, home cook and reader will treasure for a lifetime.&rdquo; &mdash;Andrew Zimmern, chef and TV personality&#160;&#160;&ldquo;Every chef needs to know about vegetables from a farmer's point of view, and there is no better place to learn than Farmer Lee's book. He and his dad were there at the beginning and all these years later they've still got more to teach us than we'll ever be able to learn."&mdash;Amanda Cohen, chef and owner of Dirt Candy&#160;&ldquo;Farmer Lee Jones taught me what I know best: cook with good-quality ingredients; farm the soil the right way; and lastly, be kind and of service to others. His family is like my own, and his veggies a reflection of his heart and craft.&rdquo; &mdash;Candice Kumai, chef, bestselling author, and journalist&#160;

A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables--with Recipes: A Cookbook

The Chef's Garden

'Books that make the familiar over are comfy. Books that make the familiar new are exciting. The Intellectual Property of Nations is a book of the latter kind. It shows that the roots of intellectual property law are to be found in the Roman law of privilege - the status of being protected from others' interference with one's activities - as developed over more than two thousand years, shaped by Christian through liberal thought, monarchical through democratic government, and agricultural though digital economies. The story is both surprising and wondrous. Read and enjoy.' John Henry Schlegel, UB Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, University at Buffalo School of Law

Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution

The Intellectual Property of Nations

Un libro de teoría del color para artistas jóvenes

El Valentia Requiere Práctica

Praise for Wedding Bush Road:  

"Francis’s prose is urgent and at times breathless, packed with sense-rich descriptions. Poetic images swirl off the page . . . Wedding Bush Road envelopes us in a strange world where nothing can be taken for granted. This is a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there." —Los Angeles Review of Books  

"Francis proves that this reckless landscape also has a darkly seductive pull...Domestic drama with an offbeat, rural flavor." &#151;Kirkus

"In prose as severely beautiful as the land depicted, Francis takes us into the bleeding heart of family. Well recommended for many readers." —Library Journal 


"A rich and moving and resonant story about the debts we owe to the people and places of our past, with writing so evocative that it feels like burying your face in the Australian soil. David Francis has given us a masterpiece, a novel for anyone who’s ever left their hometown." —Nathan Hill, author of The Nix  

&#147;David Francis writes with precision and sensitivity about that most complicated of subjects: Home. Amid unforgettable landscapes and characters that are both beautiful and violent, Wedding Bush Road grapples with discontent and restlessness. Francis turns a sharp but generous eye on those who won't leave and those who can't stay, reminding us that family can be the most dangerous place of all.&#8221; &#151;Mark Sarvas, author of Harry, Revised

"The miracle of Wedding Bush Road is that each deeply flawed character is also right. In the end we come to feel that beneath so much fury, the troubled and idiosyncratic life of each character is driven by a logic that is emotional and likely also moral. That this is the human condition.. Compelling and honest, this is the novel's greatest gift. This is the masterful feat achieved here in these pages."&#151;Mary Rakow, author of This Is Why I Came

&#147;Here&#8217;s an Australia so tactile that the page itself begins to feel textured. Francis ably tells a story of a man&#8217;s internal struggle as expressed through conflicts as rooted and primal as the soil. A dynamic and inviting read.&#8221; &#151;Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master

&#147;I have known David Francis and his work for a long time, and I think Wedding Bush Road is his best book yet!&#8221; &#151;Jane Smiley

&#147;With an eye for the transcendent detail, and a pitch perfect ear, David Francis gorgeously summons a farm in rural Australia. The wonderfully complex relationships among its inhabitants reflect nothing less than the tensions wrought by the country&#8217;s fractious history of colonialism. Who belongs to the land and to whom does the land belong? These are the uneasy questions raised by this searching, lovely novel.&#8221; &#151;Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin

&#147;A psychologically acute tale of the decline of a patrician Australian family and the forces arrayed against them. Class, sex and land knit together in this compellingly modern take on a timeless struggle. Gorgeous, dangerous and utterly captivating. &#8221; &#151;Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black

&#147;Who hasn't packed a bag and headed home? Wedding Bush Road is a beautiful, intelligent book about love, loss, and the unforgettable landscapes that made us who we are.&#8221; &#151;David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife


Praise for The Great Inland Sea:

&#147;Beautiful and moving.&#8221; &#151;Times Literary Supplement

&#147;As unforgiving and seductive as Riverina itself.&#8221; &#151;Los Angeles Times

&#147;Magically lyrical&#133;a truly rewarding literary find.&#8221; &#151;Denver Post

"...gracefully [and] affecting first novel." - Washington Post

"David Francis may not be a poet, but he sure writes like one. His prose is lean but dreamy, full of sensual detail...It's all done with skill and elegance." - San Francisco Chronicle

&#147;Francis&#8217;s language confirms and compliments the plot&#133;The guiding insight of the book [is] that there is something deep, something meaningful, about the process by which humanity is achieved even when so much has been stripped away.&#8221; &#151;The Believer

&#147;An elegant first novel..the author&#8217;s evocative images of Australia &#151;the harsh yet compelling landscape, the searing heat, the inescapable dust, the ever present insects &#151; and his spare, elegiac style set this novel apart from most coming of age stories as Day&#8217;s innocence is refreshed with maturity and hopefulness.&#8221; &#151; Booklist, starred review

&#147;As spare as the outback, this is a quietly evocative and at times even poetic first novel.&#8221; &#151;Library Journal

&#147;Spare prose, startling images, and an emotional landscape as harsh as the setting.&#8221; &#151;Kirkus Reviews

&#147;Arresting and mysterious.&#8221; &#151;Jane Smiley

&#147;Loneliness and loss well up like groundwater in this spare, haunting novel. David Francis is a master of elegant understatement.&#8221; &#151;Janet Fitch

&#147;A compelling dance across a stark and evocative landscape. Each step reveals a new perspective on the characters&#8217; humanity and, at times, their brutality.&#8221; &#151;Manil Suri&#147;A truly amazing novel.&#8221; &#151;Susan Straight


"A spare, dark, brilliant book. Clear the day to read it." - Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park

Praise for Stray Dog Winter:

Best Book of the Year (The Advocate)

Winner Audiophile Award 2008

Best Australian novel of the year (Australian Literary Review)

LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist



&#147;Francis&#8217;s prose has the sparse elegance of a Xeriscape. Every detail holds water.&#8221; &#150; Los Angeles Magazine

&#147;Truly extraordinary&#133;.the tension builds unrelentingly&#133;.sensuous, musical, a joy to read.&#8221; &#151;LAMBDA Literary Journal

"unstoppable inevitable momentum...a haunting KGB tale" —Time Out Chicago


&#147;A stylish new literary thriller&#133;Francis does a brilliant job of building and sustaining tension.&#8221; &#151;The Advocate

"A stylish thriller." —WBUR Boston, Best Reads of 2008

&#147;Filled with suspense, intrigue, and a good deal of sexiness, Stray Dog Winter is a novel of breathless moments, passion, politics, and atmosphere so thick you can feel it." —IndieBound: Indie Favorites

&#147;Vibrant with the discordant images of political repression and smoldering sexuality, Francis ethereally transports readers to a preternatural time where nothing and no one are what they seem.&#8221; &#150; Booklist

&#147;An impressive political thriller, beautifully crafted with a spectacular climax.&#8221; - Australian Book Review

"[An] excellent thriller....original and unconventional....Francis is masterly at building suspense and a palpable sense of intrigue." &#150; Sydney Morning Herald

&#147;Evocative and mysterious...full of a menacing beauty.&#8221; - Curledup.com

&#147;A dark, chilly thriller&#133;Francis makes you feel every dropping degree&#133;Don&#8217;t ask how it ends&#133;&#8221; - Lavender Magazine

&#147;Taut, suspenseful&#133;.elegantly written and perfectly executed&#133;original, gripping and chilling, by one of Australia&#8217;s most promising young writers&#8221; - Tucson Citizen

&#147;Stray Dog Winter is a remarkable achievement on many levels, from the poetic elegance of the prose to the atmospheric setting of the Russian capital in winter&#133;David Francis is a writer of considerable skill&#133;he combines a literary style with a compelling narrative about love passion and betrayal.&#8221; &#151;The Canberra Times

&#147;Stray Dog Winter is a disquietingly well-crafted thriller&#133;.indicative of the author&#8217;s range and authority.&#8221; —The Melbourne Age

&#147;astute, beautiful prose&#133;poetic.&#8221; &#151;Sarah Weinman, author of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

&#147;Elegantly written and grippingly suspenseful, David Francis's Stray Dog Winter takes readers right into the heart of Graham Greene country.&#8221;&#150; Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black

&#147;David Francis has pulled off that most difficult of feats&#151;the elegantly-written, lyrical thriller. This is a novel with intensity, a formidable landscape, and a plot that kept me reading all night. Impressive and compulsively readable.&#8221; &#150; Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales and Highwire Moon, finalist for the National Book Award

&#147;If Alan Furst and Edmund White were ever to collaborate, the result would be something as wonderful as Stray Dog Winter. Written with beautiful style and frightening intrigue, David Francis&#8217;s new novel is a genuine cold war thriller, and a work of art.&#8221; &#151;David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife and The Danish Girl

&#147;Mysterious, intense and passionate, Stray Dog Winter is a chilling snapshot of a lost era, a political thriller, and a book of rare beauty. Like Out Stealing Horses, this story is as stunning word by word as it is in its rich entirety. Not to be missed.&#8221; &#151;Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli

&#147;This is a wonderful book, the work of a full-fledged talent who deserves to be read widely and well.&#8221; &#151;Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You and Chang & Eng

&#147;A literary thriller that melds cold war suspense with startling sexual intrigue, Stray Dog Winter is a fascinating, genre-bending m&#233;lange of dark state conspiracies and darker family secrets. Superbly written and profoundly original, Stray Dog Winter is a smart, provocative page-turner.&#8221; &#151;Darren Star, writer/producer, creator of Sex and the City"This haunting literary thriller moves through a KGB winter dreamscape with elegance and charged sexuality. Francis is a master at evoking paranoia, dislocation, sexual longing, a past that haunts us, and ties that connect and blind us. Shades of Robert Stone and Graham Greene yet Francis's spare lyric voice is uniquely his own." - Denise Hamilton, author of The Last Embrace and the Eve Diamond crime novels

"Stray Dog Winter is the season in which bad things happen to innocent Australians abroad. This thriller, resonating with deep emotion, is one of the great finds in Australian literature. David Francis is a wonderful writer and one to watch closely. His careful attention to language marks him out as a superb prose stylist and lyrical storyteller." - Brian Castro, award-winning author of Birds of Passage and Shanghai Dancing

&#147;In beautiful, exacting strokes, David Francis restores to life a lost landscape from our recent past, luminously and terrifyingly evoking a time and place of mistrust, deception and fear. A novel that combines high literary art with a riveting narrative, Stray Dog Winter reminds us that there is no more dangerous game than the search for love.&#8221;&#150; Mark Sarvas, author of Harry, Revised, host and editor of The Elegant Variation



&#147;David Francis has a surgeon's cold eye and a poet's heart; his prose is powerful, masterful.&#8221;&#150; Samantha Dunn, author of Not by Accident

&#147;Francis' gorgeous prose is passionate and pressure filled. His masterful writing delivers a rare kind of delicious suspense, the kind that's only found in the most riveting of novels.&#8221;&#150; Yannick Murphy, author of Signed, Matahari and Here They Come

&#147;Moscow, with its icy splendor and bald brutality, is seductively evoked in the pages of Stray Dog Winter. David Francis has created a credible, parallel universe in which nobody, particularly those with whom his protagonist is the most intimate, is what he or she seems. His hero, Darcy, is vulnerable and unfailingly sympathetic; an antipodean answer to Arkady Renko.&#8221; &#150; Gaby Naher, author of The Truth About My Fathers

&#147;Permeated with a brooding unease, powerfully matched by the palpable cold of winter in Moscow...sinister, suspenseful and beautifully written.&#8221;&#150; Debra Adelaide, author of The Household Guide to Dying

&#147;A story that creeps up around you and won&#8217;t let you go. Hauntingly original and totally compelling. I couldn&#8217;t put it down.&#8221; &#150; Jane Turner, writer and actor

A Novel

WEDDING BUSH ROAD

The Practical Media Dictionary

The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 Edition

The Quarterly Journal Of The London Branch Of The Wagner Society (1892)

The Meister V5-6

Abridged Edition

Penguin Readers Level 1: Little Women (ELT Graded Reader)

L'Austrasie (1866)

Revue De L'Est V3

Cardiovascular Regeneration Therapies Using Tissue Engineering Approaches

Rocket's Leaf Pile

The mysterious connection between magic and the tithes is spun out with excellent suspense, which, along with the assured writing and wealth of fantasy invention, will keep readers avidly turning pages

The epic LGBTQ romantic fantasy

The Midnight Lie

Praise for DEACON KING KONG: &#160;&ldquo;A mystery story, a crime novel, an urban farce, a sociological portrait of late-1960s Brooklyn: McBride&rsquo;s novel contains multitudes&hellip; He conducts his antic symphony with deep feeling, never losing sight of the suffering and inequity within the merriment.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times, Top 10 Books of 2020 &#160; "Shouldn&rsquo;t we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade&rsquo;s Great American Novelist?...McBride has a way of inflating reality to comical sizes, the better for us to see every tiny mechanism that holds unjust systems in place." &mdash;Los Angeles Times  &#160; &ldquo;A raucous, poignant, humanity-embracing novel.&rdquo; &mdash;O, The Oprah Magazine, Top 20 Books of 2020 &#160; &ldquo;A story of comedy and compassion.&rdquo; &mdash;TIME, Top 10 Books of 2020 &#160; &ldquo;A boisterous, imaginative, tender foray into late- 1960&rsquo;s Brooklyn.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Books of 2020

Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club)

Containing Useful Information As Well For The Vintner As For The Brewer, Distiller And Merchant (1825)

The Vintner's Guide

In simple, lilting text, our protagonist discusses Mom&#8217;s and Dad&#8217;s superlative traits and describes special time spent with each of them...Patricelli&#8217;s recognizable colorsaturated and textured art, with thick black outlines and rosy-cheeked characters, is always welcome, and now, especially, pandemic-weary parents may appreciate the boost.&#8212;The Horn Book

Mommy

Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth

One Midsummer's Day

"Just the right mix of gentle humor, unconditional love, and Elfie&rsquo;s own compelling brand of heart." &mdash;Kirkus Reviews"Mahoney leaves her star with a new resilience and friendships to help her meet [uncertainties] head-on." &mdash;Bulletin"The many vivid characters and Elfie&rsquo;s spot-on conversations with both kids and&#160;adults will draw readers into her involving story of turmoil, discovery, and change." &mdash;Booklist"A sure pick for booksmart readers who might need a boost making friends, and an excellent candidate for illustrating social-emotional learning skills." &mdash; School Library Journal

The Night Spinner

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