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Praise for The Screaming Chef 

"In a stylish world of midcentury modern décor, a boy screams nonstop. His parents are out of ideas. Realizing he never shrieks when he eats, they cook him amazing food, but he grows huge. Soon he’s cooking himself and opens a fancy restaurant. The customers flock, but his frustration rises. The screaming starts again, until he adds singing to his repertoire. Ackerman and Dalton (The Lonely Phone Booth) have cooked up something witty and, as an example of the parental art of redirecting, perhaps inadvertently wise."— The New York Times

"The duo behind The Lonely Phone Booth and The Lonely Typewriter returns with a drily funny story about an unnamed boy who is prone to screaming. Ackerman’s story will have readers of all ages laughing, especially over diners’ reactions to the boy’s food: 'A man drank soup straight from the bowl so he could clap.' Dalton’s illustrations create a chic 1950s-retro atmosphere, and just when it seems like the boy is just another Gordon Ramsay in the making, he finds another outlet for his anger. Kids (and chefs) take note."— Publishers Weekly

The Screaming Chef

»Was für eine schöne Neu-Ausgabe eines Romans, der zeitgeschichtlich aktuell geblieben ist.«

Das Vorbild

Untersuchungen über das Rückenmark des Igels

The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words

Praise for Andre Dubus and the three-volume, Collected Short Stories & Novellas

"The three volumes reaffirm Dubus’s status as a master, as an unparalleled excavator of the heart and its pains, its longings, its errors, its thumping against the constant threat of grief, despair, and loneliness."—Nina MacLaughlin, The Paris Review

”Dubus has been compared to Chekhov, and there is much that is apt in that. His collection restores faith in the survival of the short story.”—The Los Angeles Times

”All his work is informed by a quality rare in fiction: compassion.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“Dubus is a patient, resourceful and profound writer who never gives in to convention—although his situations are our situations, and imminently recognizable. The great, addictive pleasure of reading him arises from our anticipation that he is always going to say something interesting.”— Richard Ford

“Andre Dubus’s brilliant stories are so full of compassion and humor, heartache and desire, violence and tenderness, that, reading them, it’s impossible not to see the most secret and shameful parts of our own lives reflected back at us. I can think of few writers whose stories are so profoundly moving that I find myself responding to them both viscerally and intellectually—sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page. These beautiful new editions triumphantly showcase stories by one of the greatest writers America has ever produced.”— Molly Antopol, National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award winner

"…the language of [Dubus’s] stories is at the service of something outside itself … often we forget we are reading sentences but are put rather into more direct connection with the character’s thoughts and feelings."—William Pritchard, The Boston Globe

“To enter the work of Dubus is to be hurtled inside a world so deeply that one knows these people immediately. He always delivers; bam! Story after story will blow you away; his honesty is terrifying and liberating. There is no one like him; he is inimitable.”— Elizabeth Strout

“That Andre Dubus is up there with the short story immortals now—Welty, Hemingway, Gallant—is indisputable. But read a Dubus story and you don’t think much about the brilliance of the craft because you’re too busy becoming immersed in the lives of his characters and you come to know them as you might your sister or your brother, your son or your daughter. He goes that deep into the souls of his people, and just when you think he can’t go deeper, a sentence will leave you shattered. Love was his great subject and to my mind few have explored love’s mysteries with as much generosity. Can one writer’s words make us more human? The words of Andre Dubus can—and do.”— Peter Orner, National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist

"He is the greater master of meaningful compression, in which a whole novel is packed into a couple of sentences…"—Kirkus Reviews "For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observation, he is among the best short-story writers in America."—Judith Levine, The Village Voice

"In each surprising tale, Dubus, equally empathic in portraying women and men, tackles with supreme candor precision, artistry, and valor the full emotional and moral weight of love, marriage adultery, friendship, parenthood, ambition, selfishness, and loneliness, subtly critiquing the social mores versus questions of self and faith."—Booklist, starred review

"Dubus is interested in essential things—in the shadowy powers that circle our lives and the slender resources of faith and love with which we try to keep them at bay."—Tobias Wolff

”Dubus is good — so good in fact that if [this is] your introduction to his work, you’re apt to wonder where he’s been hiding.”—Washington Post

”…the appearance of these stories in book form is an event . . . you will certainly want to keep it and read it again."—Chicago Tribune

The Winter Father

This book is packed with detailed analysis. It is a valuable resource for students of ancient history and Latin literature. Anyone with an interest in the classics who is reading Sallust will find this a helpful companion.

Sallust

Lehrbuch zur Einarbeitung in die Gebiete der Kostenrechnung - Kostenartenrechnung, Kostenstellenrechnung, Kostenträgerrechnung - sowie in das operative Controlling

Kostenrechnung und Kostenanalyse

Cartref o Liw

This is a very fine book which will have a broad appeal ranging from gender studies and mythological research to the larger Classical audience and anyone interested in ancient Rome, especially its theological beliefs.

Jupiter in Augustan Poetry

The God of Rome

A highly engaging book that explains the basic process of how genes work and the impact that current advances in DNA research has had on medicine, agriculture, and law, in simple and elegant terms. This wonderful book is designed for those who want to understand what DNA is and how it is changing our lives, with much promise and peril along the way. I found reading Alan McHughen's book a delightful and informative journey into the world of DNA.

Unravelling the Double Helix

DNA Demystified

This book is comprehensive, yet concise.  The tone is accessible, creating a feeling that the book is genuinely working to meet the needs of students and instructors.  The book provides a wealth of sample documents from the workplace."

A Practical Guide

Writing in the Technical Fields

Das maßlose Leben des Hans Henny Jahnn

Der gestrandete Wal

Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB Theory of Knowledge Course Book

The chapters examine how industrial latecomers have crafted strategic and pragmatic policy frameworks to unleash the universal passion for learning into business organizational practices that drive production capability development and foster innovation dynamics. The transformational experiences described in the book offer a multitude of ways in which learning is organized and applied to advance a nation's productive structures and build competitive advantage in the
global economy

Technological Learning, Industrial Policy, and Catch-up

How Nations Learn

XXI Veterum Et Clarorum Medicorum Graecorum Varia Opuscula: Primo Nunc Impensis Anastasii, Nicolaï, Zoës Et Michaëlis, Fratrum Zosimadarum, Nobilissim

Voyages From Montreal: Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 With an Account of the Rise a

Praise for the Godine edition of The Prelude 

 "A marvelous book — the great poem magnificently illustrated with 130 full-color paintings, drawing, maps and other visual aids contemporaneous with its writing."—Lloyd Schwartz, WBUR & NPR’s The ARTery

"The Prelude is the greatest and most original of English autobiographies."—Sir Frank Kermode

"With startled joy I encountered the glorious new edition of The Prelude by my Harvard colleague James Engell, working in collaboration with the independent scholar Michael D. Raymond (who sought out the invaluable illustrations). Handsomely produced by Godine in a broad horizontal format (twelve by nine and a half inches), the volume is illustrated on almost every other page by paintings or drawings contemporaneous with the poem itself. These offer to the American reader’s eye an array of scenes indispensable to an understanding of Wordsworth’s world—lakes, crags, nocturnes, ships at sea, the Alps, Stonehenge, Revolutionary France, Cambridge, London. At last—with Engell’s eloquent and succinct introduction, helpful marginal glosses, notes, a chronology, and maps—American readers and students have a Prelude of their own."—Helen Vendler, The New York Review of Books

"Set in a handsome, hardbound edition that equally fits in a coffee table display or upon a scholar's desk, this new edition is appropriate for the amateur and expert alike…There are no faults to be had with this book. It is aesthetically pleasing, intellectually rigorous, and completely satisfying."

—The News and Times

Newly Edited from the Manuscripts and Fully Illustrated in Color

The Prelude

Felicia McCarren writes a much-needed political history of the Paris Opera Ballet as a distinct regime of knowledge in Modern France. Through her sophisticated intertwining of dance history, ecofeminism, new materialism, and postcolonial theory, McCarren's timely meditation on La Source offers vital insights into choreography's hybrid ecology of practices.

La Source 1866-2014

One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet

As Though We Were Dreaming

"I was moved and often startled by And Then, a brown study of the hold the dead maintain over the living, of yearning, memory and regret. The writing is vivid, direct, clear; always surprising, always a pleasure to read." —Christopher Sorrentino

"In this crisp, fragmented novel, Breckenridge captures the dwelling of lost souls in living minds…introducing the supernatural into his compact, propulsive tales." —Publishers Weekly

"And Then is an exciting and wholly inventive read." — Necessary Fiction

And Then

"This book provides a 'breath of fresh air' in an otherwise complicated area of Immunology.  In conclusion the authors have managed to produce a concise, well researched and well organised book, which lives up to its aims, in doing so it provides a useful review of research efforts in cytokine pharmacology, as such the book is suitable for clinicians, research scientists and students of Immunology interested in cytokine pharmacology." Immunology
News

Pharmacology of Cytokines

From the reviews: „…[This is the only book] that deals with the engineering aspects of guitars. Thus it serves a real need for scientifically-oriented guitar makers and aficionados as well as those interested in a broad overview of the world of guitars… The overall broad view of the book makes good reading for those interested in the myriad details involve in constructing a string instrument and then evaluating it scientifically, as the author’s personal building experience and knowledge of a wide variety of guitar construction techniques are put to good use… a significant, commendable addition to the guitar literature in a very broad-ranging book on a very important string instrument."George Bissinger, East Carolina University, EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES (May-June 2009)“French discusses whether the math models are … sufficient to capture the features of acoustic responses that are highly correlated with good sound quality. In conclusion … this book will help luthiers at all levels think more clearly about how to successfully manufacture guitars of high sound quality. The book … particularly valuable to students of guitar construction and repair. For the rest of us, this book makes interesting reading.” (Leo Beranek, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 14 (2), 2009)“Why do guitars sound like they do, and how do you set about making one? These are central questions addressed … in this attractive new book. … The book is well written, and generously illustrated with interesting … graphs. … a unique and special addition to the literature, and it deserves to be widely read. For anyone contemplating construction of a guitar it will surely be indispensible. Physicists and engineers with musical inclinations, as well as guitar players … are likely to be fascinated.” (Peter V. E. McClintock, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 51 (6), 2010)

Theory and Practice

Engineering the Guitar

The Romantic Story Of The Early Pioneers Into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee And Kentucky 1740 to 1790

The Conquest Of The Old Southwest

The Politics of Varying Market Reforms

Making Markets in the Welfare State

The Invention of Printing: A Collection of Facts and Opinions Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-books of the Fifteenth Cen

Jesus Christ

Praise for Animal Fables from Aesop "The graceful full-color illustrations are both delicate and theatrical. . . . The whole feel of this book is in the tradition of La Fontaine: gay, witty, full of charm and foible."—The New York Times "McClintock proves herself a master. Her delicate line and exquisite watercolors suggest elegant Victorian hand-colored engravings in the grand tradition of J.J. Grandville, Charles Bennett, and Randolph Caldecott."—Washington Post Book World "McClintock’s wittily stylish illustrations have the charm and detail of 19th-century children’s books. Her human-like animals are marvelously lively and expressive."—Entertainment Weekly "As one would expect from Godine, the book is beautifully done. . . . McClintock’s vision and artistry make this new edition a joy to behold and to hold. . . . A stunning gift book for all ages, and one that should have a shelf life of generations."—Bloomsbury Review

Animal Fables from Aesop

A Paean

girls

Ein Vogel auf meiner Schulter

Praise for Andre Dubus and the three-volume, Collected Short Stories & Novellas "The three volumes reaffirm Dubus’s status as a master, as an unparalleled excavator of the heart and its pains, its longings, its errors, its thumping against the constant threat of grief, despair, and loneliness."—Nina MacLaughlin, The Paris Review ”Dubus has been compared to Chekhov, and there is much that is apt in that. His collection restores faith in the survival of the short story.”—The Los Angeles Times ”All his work is informed by a quality rare in fiction: compassion.”—Philadelphia Inquirer "Mr. Dubus is a shrewd student of people who come to accept pain as a fair price for pleasure, and to view right and wrong as a matter of degree; without moralizing, he suggests that their self-inflicted punishments are often worse that what a just court, or a just God, would decree."—John Updike, The New Yorker “Dubus is a patient, resourceful and profound writer who never gives in to convention—although his situations are our situations, and imminently recognizable. The great, addictive pleasure of reading him arises from our anticipation that he is always going to say something interesting.”— Richard Ford “Andre Dubus’s brilliant stories are so full of compassion and humor, heartache and desire, violence and tenderness, that, reading them, it’s impossible not to see the most secret and shameful parts of our own lives reflected back at us. I can think of few writers whose stories are so profoundly moving that I find myself responding to them both viscerally and intellectually—sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page. These beautiful new editions triumphantly showcase stories by one of the greatest writers America has ever produced.”— Molly Antopol, National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award winner "…the language of [Dubus’s] stories is at the service of something outside itself … often we forget we are reading sentences but are put rather into more direct connection with the character’s thoughts and feelings."—William Pritchard, The Boston Globe “To enter the work of Dubus is to be hurtled inside a world so deeply that one knows these people immediately. He always delivers; bam! Story after story will blow you away; his honesty is terrifying and liberating. There is no one like him; he is inimitable.”— Elizabeth Strout “That Andre Dubus is up there with the short story immortals now—Welty, Hemingway, Gallant—is indisputable. But read a Dubus story and you don’t think much about the brilliance of the craft because you’re too busy becoming immersed in the lives of his characters and you come to know them as you might your sister or your brother, your son or your daughter. He goes that deep into the souls of his people, and just when you think he can’t go deeper, a sentence will leave you shattered. Love was his great subject and to my mind few have explored love’s mysteries with as much generosity. Can one writer’s words make us more human? The words of Andre Dubus can—and do.”— Peter Orner, National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist "He is the greater master of meaningful compression, in which a whole novel is packed into a couple of sentences…"—Kirkus Reviews "For the lyricism and directness of his language, the richness and precision of his observation, he is among the best short-story writers in America."—Judith Levine, The Village Voice "In each surprising tale, Dubus, equally empathic in portraying women and men, tackles with supreme candor precision, artistry, and valor the full emotional and moral weight of love, marriage adultery, friendship, parenthood, ambition, selfishness, and loneliness, subtly critiquing the social mores versus questions of self and faith."—Booklist, starred review ”Dubus is good — so good in fact that if [this is] your introduction to his work, you’re apt to wonder where he’s been hiding.”—Washington Post ”…the appearance of these stories in book form is an event . . . you will certainly want to keep it and read it again."—Chicago Tribune

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