This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world’s best-selling novelist’s work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie’s stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these...

A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction.In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane ...

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective.This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions.Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the p...

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective.This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions.Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the p...

A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction.In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane ...

The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of exquisitely preserved fossils that record the early diversification of animal life. Since the discovery of the first specimens in 1984, many thousands of fossils have been collected, exceptionally preserving not just the shells and carapaces of the a...

Die Anthologie 'Die großen Klassiker der Antike' versammelt eine beeindruckende Bandbreite klassischer literarischer Werke, die sich über Jahrhunderte und Zivilisationen erstrecken. Von der dramatischen Tiefe Euripides' bis zur philosophischen Tiefe Aristoteles', von der lyrischen Erhabenheit Homers bis zur satirischen Schärfe Aristophanes' – diese Sammlung bietet eine reiche Vielfalt an literarischen Stilen und Ausdrucksformen. Ob Epen, Tragödien, Komödien oder philosophische Abhandlungen...

In "The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside," readers are introduced to a rich tapestry of verse that embodies the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason, nature, and the human condition. Akenside's literary style fuses classical influences with an innovative approach, characterized by his lucid diction, rhythmic precision, and moral earnestness. The collection features a range of poetic forms, from meditative lyrics to expansive philosophical odes, reflecting the sociopolitical climate of 18th-ce...

Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy constructs a theoretical frame through which critical intercultural communication pedagogy can be dreamed, envisioned, and realized as praxis. Its chapters provide answers to questions surrounding the relationship of intercultural communication pedagogy to critical race theory, queer theory, critical ethnography, and narrative methodology, among others. Utilizing a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches within criti...

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Literatur mit **'Die Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur'**, einer erlesenen Sammlung von Autoren, die die Kulturen und Epochen der Menschheitsgeschichte verbinden. Diese Anthologie vereint eine breite Palette literarischer Stile, von den revolutionären Schriften eines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bis zu den abenteuerlichen Erzählungen eines Jules Verne, und zeigt die zeitlose Relevanz und kulturelle Vielfalt dieser Meisterwerke auf. Ob es sich um die...