Many English-speaking people who want to be educated try to read Dante, the 'best known, least read' of all the classical poets, and find him impossible. In my thirties I did just that: 'Where do I begin?' The library yielded a translation of 'The Divine Comedy' – a great fat epic in three volumes. Wading into the Inferno, I struggled through a couple of sections and decided this wasn't for me. Too gloomy, too stilted, too difficult to grasp – and above all – too many words. I gave up almo...

Creating TV Formats: From Inception to Pitch takes the reader through a step-by-step process of how to generate ideas, develop story lines and characters and hook an audience, whilst staying aware of the realities of the media landscape.Beginning with a discussion about what a TV format is, each chapter then introduces a key aspect of the development process, such as looking for ideas, shaping the underlying story and thinking about participants. Practical exercises guide ...

Environmental Nanotechnology is the first book to assist you in both understanding the properties of new nanomaterial-centered technology and assessing the potentially harmful effects these materials may have on the environment. The rapid pace of innovation in nanotechnology has posed a greater risk over health and environment demanding a need for responsible development, relevant policy framework and risk assessment guidelines. This book offers a comprehensive ovcerview of this challengin...

When a couple agrees to go to teach English in Turkey, they find themselves committed to work where communist advocates of the Great Road and followers of the Ataturk Tradition clash day and night in the streets of Istanbul. Kurdish insurgency spreads in the East and subversions by members of the Iranian Islamic revolution add further uncertainty to daily life among Turks. See our couple learn how to work safely, happily and effectively in an environment of constant conflict, raging inflat...

This book presents the first major release of findings from the Fourth International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD4), an ongoing, multi-national project examining young people's experiences with both victimization and offending. Covering 21 countries, this book reports responses from 58,000 young people aged 13 to 17, exploring their experiences with crime as victims, offenders, and offender-victims. The book provides in-depth analyses of cross-national crime patterns, the victim-off...

Che-Avana is gone, lost long to the Immortals who desperately seek him. Time sleets by, ever strengthening the hand of the Void, bringing ever closer the moment when the Song is broken forever. Far distant from the world that Che-Avana knew as home, Medea, Mother Earth, rages. Every bite of flame and pick axe is a torture to her, every man and woman who walks upon her is an abomination. She wreaks her hatred on those who struggle to survive, unwittingly condemning them to the hardest of li...

A razors edge upon which balances the fate of Everything. For Che-Avana, home seems further away than ever, drawn ever more into maintaining the delicate peace between Men and Elves. For Castanaea enemies are stalking her every footstep, eroding her power, stealing away her Empire and talking of war. But caught in the squabbles and politics of elves and men, none notice the growing shadow of the majik and the corruption it spreads. None see the dark minds manipulating events to their own e...

At the first there was the Song. The harmony, the crescendo of infinite complexity from which All came forth. At the second came the Immortals, thirteen in all. Amongst them, one stood different, one who tinkered, made, created. Cursed he was, for they were jealous and they stole. In revenge, he broke the Song, seeking to condemn them to endless death. The Twelve sought throughout Time and Creation for the moments where history might change course, sought make a being who could mend the So...