'Formerly, he thinks to himself, an artist took real people and transformed them into painted ones: how much finer and more satisfying is the modern method of assuming that people are not real at all, only self-painted, and of proceeding to make them real by giving them new selves based on the best-available theories of human nature...'In Nigel Dennis's 1955 novel - instantly acclaimed as a satirical masterpiece - a long-empty country house is reopened by Captain Mallet, his wife, ...

'Everyone who now remembers Nigel Dennis thinks that his first novel was Cards of Identity (1955). But in fact he had already written Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1949)... what I recall liking so much about it was first the story of a young man's emergence from the dark tunnel of his childhood, with the discovery that there are drugs to control the epilepsy that has kept him imprisoned, and then the account of his first glorious summer of freedom... in an unnamed but...

A House in Order was Nigel Dennis's third and final novel, first published in 1966.'A quizzical pleasure... This civilized conundrum is about a nameless man captured in a timeless war in an anonymous country who manages to survive in a greenhouse, where he is most protected as well as most exposed... An antiseptic little man, a cartographer by profession, a horticulturist by avocation, he spends a first night in an abandoned, mucky greenhouse and is very happy to be permitt...

Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than with the interest and importance of his written work. This book represents the first attempt to come to terms with that work.Professor Dennis's study focuses on the period 1920-1936, the so-called silver age of Spanish literature, during which Be...

Beanotown - for the first time in Dennis's life - has become boring. All Dennis's pranks are backfiring and he seems to have lost his awesomeness. Even his faithful hound, Gnasher, seems fed up with him these days. If only there was some way to bring the fun back to Beanotown...When Dennis hears about the legendary Golden Pea-shooter of Everlasting Fun, it sounds like the only thing that can solve his problems and return his hometown to its former glory. With the help of his cousin...

Beanotown is in trouble again and this time the threat is Jurassic!The Mayor is determined to capture some of the pre-historic inhabitants of Duck Island for display in the zoo and will stop at nothing to get his way. Together, Dennis and Gnasher set out to thwart the Mayor's horrible plan and save the day.Minnie, on hearing the news that an island of dinosaurs is situated so close to home, sees an opportunity that can not be missed. She wants a pet and what could ...

Con el propósito de destacar la importancia de las aportaciones de José Díaz Fernández a la literatura de los años veinte del siglo pasado, Nigel Dennis — catedrático de Literatura Contemporánea Española en la Universidad de St. Andrews del Reino Unido— rescata el núcleo esencial de sus escritos. La antología recoge sus mejores novelas ( El blocao, La Venus mecánica y Octubre rojo en Asturias), el ensayo El nuevo romanticismo y lo más selecto de su obra ...

Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. His philosophy is extraordinarily wide-ranging and his influence has been pervasive throughout eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century thought, in particular in the work of the German Idealists, and also in both Analytic and Continental philosophy today.Now available as a new and expanded edition in paperback, this accessible companion to Kant featur...

This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.The highlight of the 50th Anniversary Meeting was an academic conference at Oxford University on the theme of “Higher Education in 2065.” Participants ...

This multidisciplinary book shows how to foster meaningful relationships between therapists and vulnerable children, through exploring the concept of communicative musicality and creating rhythms of connection.It includes broad and in-depth contributions from leading therapists from diverse backgrounds - including Peter A. Levine, Daniel Hughes, Stephen Porges, Dennis McCarthy and many more. Contributors reflect on their own experiences, providing insights from the fields of music ...

Can a group of ten year old mates (and one scruffy dog) really outwit the most fiendish, cunning teachers in the universe and, after millions of years, finally make school cool?!When mysterious new teachers arrive to lay down the law at notoriously naughty Bash Street School, Dennis, Gnasher and friends finally face a classroom test they simply can’t afford to fail …Dennis and Gnasher are back for another adventure.An adventure story, told with funny pictur...

Can Dennis, Gnasher and the crew catch Bea in time before Dennis’s parents get home and find out she’s missing?When Dennis’s parents are invited to an adult-only wedding, he and Harsha devise the perfect plan to avoid nagging babysitters: they’ll do it! However, when Dennis’s little sister Bea goes missing, they’ll start to realise that babysitting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!Join Dennis, Gnasher, Harsha and Rubi as they chase Bea across Beanotown, following the trail o...