But Kora sat unmoving, in great magic.The walls, her home, faded about her. Warmthwent; all alone and on a freezing plain,dressed in a tunic, sharp knife in her belt,bow on her shoulder, arrows in a quiverbehind. Her eyes gleamed; a pale cold light,ˈlɪmpɪd ɪn ˈdʌlnəsShe looked around. Away, at vision's limit,a dark shape rose above the plain: a Tower,the only thing in all this barren place:no bird flew, no grass grew. D...

From its origins in the poetic tradition and its refinement in the southern salons of the 16th century, to its 18th**-century theatrical heyday and patriotic revival in modern times, this book introduces Kunqu and its enduring role in shaping cultural life. As China's classical musical and theatrical tradition, Kunqu is essential to understanding the country's artistic heritage.**The rich body of drama and poetry associated with Kunqu has often been studied indepen...

This book examines conventional time series in the context of stationary data prior to a discussion of cointegration, with a focus on multivariate models. The authors provide a detailed and extensive study of impulse responses and forecasting in the stationary and non-stationary context, considering small sample correction, volatility and the impact of different orders of integration. Models with expectations are considered along with alternate methods such as Singular Spectrum Analysis (S...

This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the use of individual sections relevant to period literature courses, the book offers students and teachers a set o...

Full-cast productions of five plays by the celebrated Russian author, plus a reading of one of his most famous short stories'stellar performances from some of the best actors of their generation' - Entertainment FocusAlexei Maximovich Peshkov, known under his pseudonym Maxim Gorky, was one of Russia's greatest Soviet writers and the founder of the ‘socialist realism’ literary movement. Nominated for the Nobel Prize five times, his best-known works ...

Stephen Hunter has chosen the backdrop of the chaotic and cruel Spanish Civil War to weave a classic tale of espionage and counterespionage. Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was a...

Stephen Hunter has chosen the backdrop of the chaotic and cruel Spanish Civil War to weave a classic tale of espionage and counterespionage. Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was a...

Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity—and overwhelming melancholy. Now he’s about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet.It is the summer of 1946, organized crime’s garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this more true than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, t...

“A harsh, visceral, novel of conspiracy and betrayal . . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.”—Chicago TribuneThe inspiration for the USA Network series ShooterHe was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the k...

A World in Decay. A Boy with a Terrible Destiny. A Man Who Must Decide the Future.In a realm where the land itself is dying, Mathen Cutter, a skilled businessman and reluctant hero, embarks on what should have been a simple journey to secure stone for his factories. Instead, he finds himself entangled in the mysterious and ominous town of Aguares, a place where hope is scarce, and secrets lurk behind every corner.Mathen's journey takes an unexpected turn wh...

A young girl finds out that a glow in her eye is much more than she expects. Now she is being groomed to become a member of a specialized fraternity where only the best and brightest minds can belong. Her experience through her teenage years are recounted in Gryphon.

In the peaceful medieval farming village of Emmonk, seventeen-year-old Daniel is preparing to ask a beautiful young woman to marry him when Emmonk is suddenly overrun by brutal Savok warriors. As the Savok begin their evil rampage, Daniel’s happy life is thrown into turmoil. After Daniel and his sister, June, squeeze into a cubby inside their house and hide, the Savok murder the father before their eyes and kidnap the mother and Anna, the woman Daniel plans to marry. Helped by their uncle,...