In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.[...]
The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish a major American literary movement. The Trans[...]
AXIS tie-in Our wall-crawling hero is stalked by a classic Spider-Slayer Wait. This isn't a Spider-Man book. So what is a Spider-Slayer doing here? Deadpool had better find out before it mistakes one red-clad, wisecracking hero for another, and mashes DP into spider-paste And if that isn't enough[...]
Written to celebrate the bicentennial of Hawthorne's birth, this fascinating chronicle of the author's most fertile years reconstructs his love affair with the town of Concord--a Massachusetts village that hosted more than its share of literary legends, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David [...]
This is the first major effort in twenty years to reassess the relationship between Melville and Hawthorne.Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist st[...]
The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its hightly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast the established conclusions and[...]
"Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture" bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopedias. Leading landscaper Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from a designer's perspective (where color is often a secondary consideration) and emphasizes the important roles of plant shape[...]
Gathers all of Hawthorne's stories, including his retellings of classical myths for children
Travellers can drink in all the atmosphere, history, and beer that Munich has to offer with this updated guide to the best watering holes in the beer-drinking capital of the world. Over 70 of Munich's best beer gardens, beer halls, pubs, and late-night hot spots are listed in detail. The colourful h[...]
Helen Hawthorne investigates how norms impact on negotiations in international organisations.
An innovative assortment of dozens of unusual, irreverent, and useful projects explains how to create a variety of fun objects from everyday household items, including a woven rug made of shopping bags or an ottoman constructed of old phone books, and includes detailed, step-by-step instructions and[...]
Presents the Centenary Edition text of Hawthorne's classic 1851 novel, along with critical essays that read it from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, feminist and historicist perspectives. This book includes biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies and a glossary of cri[...]
In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteen leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of the most cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics. * Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysics in a series of eighteen original essays - 16 of whi[...]