Throughout history flowers have been an integral part of human survival and culture – as food, for medicine, to express feelings, as symbols, to commemorate and celebrate, and to decorate. Their shapes, colours, scents and textures have always attracted us, as they do animals and insects. Flowers are used as luxury spices (saffron), and as colouring and flavouring agents – marigolds fed to chickens make eggs more yellow and lavender was Elizabeth I’s favourite flavour of jam. Flowers are f...

The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1 provides an overview of the period between 1975 and 1990, during which the discipline first became established in the academy. Tracing critical positions, personnel, and institutions across this formative period, Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams examine a multitude of books and journal articles published in A...

The Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into existence. Identified with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.

A five-thousand-year-old dragon, a vampire enforcer, and a shocking revelation; their bonding will usher back the days of dragons.Krispin Adair has been alone for years. After his family was killed by his brother in the ultimate betrayal, Krispin accepted his lonely fate. Until a chance encounter brought him face to face with his fated mate…Ben Morgan, on the trail of a rogue gargoyle, finds himself in an ambush. Attacked and left for dead, he knows there’s no hope for him. B...

Ace & ColtonInspiré par l’enchantement de ses films de Noël préférés, Colton surprend son mari bien-aimé et leur nouvelle famille en les emmenant dans la captivante ville de montagne de Winterhaven.Cependant, sous les lumières scintillantes, des problèmes inattendus les attendent. Une erreur de communication laisse la ville dans une situation désespérée, menaçant de faire disparaître la magie de Noël. Déterminé à sauver la situation, Colton rassemble sa fam...

Oubliez le père Noël jovial et ses rennes. Le véritable héritier de Yule roule à moto, arbore des tatouages et préfère le cuir au velours. On m’appelle le roi Noël... et je m’en serais bien passé.Mes plaisirs ? La fête, la passion, l’ivresse des sens. Ma malédiction ? L’héritage d’une entreprise familiale qui m’enchaîne plus qu’elle ne me libère. Le pire est que je déteste les enfants !Puis elle est entrée dans ma vie. Une femme au charme brûlant, accompagnée d’une enfant i...

Travel back to 258 BCE and step into the Royal Council of King Ashoka, the powerful ruler of Magadha whose empire spanned most of India. Ashoka’s bold vision is to rule not by force but through dharma—a growing concept of universal order and ethical governance. As councillors, students join a diverse group of voices—Brahmin traditionalists, Jains, Ājīvikas, and Buddhists—each with unique beliefs about truth and leadership. Together they will debate crucial issues: whether to abolish animal...

This book is aimed at manufacturing and planning managers who struggle to bring a greater degree of stability and more effective use of assets to their operations, not realizing the degree to which production scheduling affects those objectives. It has been reported that 75% of the problems on the manufacturing floor are caused by activities outside the plant floor. Poor production scheduling strategies and systems are often the biggest contributors to the 75%.The book explains in ...

The only thing they had in common was their last name. Brian King was a small-time thief with a big-time attitude, whose protection was his gun, which he was not afraid to use. Sean King was an insurance salesman who could talk his way in, out, around, and through anything in order to make a sale. This time, he needed to sell a story to save his very own life. Brian had his gun pointed at Seans head behind an old building in downtown Port of Spain in the dead of night. He wanted moneysomet...

In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454–526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving "warrior nation" from the periphery of the Roma...

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great powerIn the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454–526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of t...