The Middle Ages are known as a god-fearing time, a time of hard work and of squalid living conditions for the majority of the population – or as a time of opulence that graced only the courts and halls of the reigning monarch. In The Secret Middle Ages, Malcolm Jones presents a completely fresh view of the medieval world that will blow all stereotypes out of the water.Using a wealth of little-known and recently discovered artefacts, and drawing particularl...

For Malcolm Jones, his parents’ disintegrating marriage was at the center of life in North Carolina in the 1950s and 60s. His father, charming but careless, was often drunk and away from home; his mother, a schoolteacher and faded Southern belle, clung to the past and hungered for respectability. In Little Boy Lost, Jones—one of our most admired cultural observers—recalls a childhood in which this relationship played out against the larger cracks of society: the convulsions of des...

Le origini del mito, la prima avventura dedicata a Sandman, il Re dei Sogni. Chi ha catturato Sogno degli Eterni? E chi lo aiuterà a liberarsi dalla sua prigionia? Una delle graphic novel più amate dal pubblico e dalla critica di tutti i tempi, Sandman è il capolavoro di Neil Gaiman, e con la sua maturità e il suo lirismo ha ridefinito il fumetto fantastico moderno. Illustrata da alcuni tra i più talentuosi disegnatori al mondo, Sandman è una serie sfolgorante che fonde mitologia antica e ...

Casa di bambola raccoglie il secondo arco narrativo della serie Sandman e racconta la sorprendente vicenda di Rose Walker, una ragazza che sta per scoprire qualcosa di straordinario su se stessa. Rose non sa che il re dei sogni la sta sorvegliando e la considera al tempo stesso un mistero affascinante e una minaccia mortale.

Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.

Diecimila anni or sono, il re dei sogni ha condannato una donna che lo amava alla dannazione eterna. In Stagione delle nebbie, i suoi fratelli immortali lo convincono di aver commesso un’ingiustizia. Per riparare al suo errore, Morfeo decide di recarsi all’Inferno e salvare la donna da lui imprigionata. Ma Lucifer, il sovrano degli Inferi, ha giurato di distruggerlo e i suoi piani sono molto sofisticati…

Quattro storie di Sandman che ci conducono nei meandri più inesplorati delle Terre del Sogno. Cosa succede quando uno scrittore perde l'ispirazione? Cosa sognano i gatti? Quale destino per un'ex supereroina oppressa dalla solitudine? Inoltre: la storia Sogno di una notte di mezza estate. Prefazione di Steve Erickson. Introduzione di Paul Dini.

Delivering fundamental insights into the most popular methods of molecular analysis, this text is an invaluable resource for students and researchers. It encompasses an extensive range of spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques used for molecular analysis in the life sciences, especially in the elucidation of the structure and function of biological molecules. Covering the range of up-to-date methodologies from everyday mass spectrometry and centrifugation to the more probing X-ray crys...

Manufacturing managers are still focused on the short-term tactical issues related to their business. Strategic issues tend to receive less attention. However, manufacturing can play an important strategic role. This book helps managers consider the strategic roles their operations can play and to provide guidance as to what actions can be taken.

When Charlotte Mullen, a fortyish flinty Irish spinster, takes in her orphaned cousin, the beautiful nineteen-year-old Francie Fitzgerald who had been living in Dublin with poor relatives, life in a small Irish village is dramatically upended. As Charlotte plots to marry Francie to a local squire's son, events build to a shocking crescendo with dire effects. Originally published in three volumes, this Warbler Classics edition is based on the combined 1895 publication and includes an afterw...

One of America's most renowned and controversial photographers, Sally Mann, whose photos inspired the feature film What Remains, discusses her beautiful and revealing new memoir Hold Still. In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel. Introduction by Malcolm Jones (culture and book critic for the Daily Beast). In conversation with Ann Patchett (Bel Canto).

Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween m...