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När jag var grabb fanns få moderna hjälpmedel för det jaktliga bruket. Det var hunden, bössan och e[...]
Thomas Ekberg, en av Sveriges mest publika jägare med massor av tv-filmer om jakt, har levt med och för jakten redan innan han klev ur kortbyxorna. En av hans deviser är att vilt ska vårdas hela vägen från skogen till köket. Att ta hand om vilt efter skottet är inte bara ett intresse, det ä[...]
In February 1952, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings on a new record label called Caedmon. Now, gathered together for the first time in a stunning boxed set, "Dylan Thomas: A Caedmon Collection" contains those original Caedmon recording sessions, as well as re[...]
Thomas Ades is feted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more than any other living composer to connect contemporary music with wider audiences. This title offers insight into the crucible of his composition.[...]
Acclaimed historian of revolution introduces the manifesto that inspired the American Revolution, on the 200th anniversary of its author's death. Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Thomas Paine's death, these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for liberty in politica[...]
Alcohol is not only big business. It is an essential part of social relations in so many cultures that its global importance may be outdistancing its critics. What does sake tell us about Japan or burgundy about France? How does consuming or indeed abstaining from alcohol tie in with self-presentati[...]
This work is a new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.[...]
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's major work[...]
Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. He was the creator of one of the most distinctive and exciting of literary styles - sensuous, playful, rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical, and full of memorable lines. 'Do not go gentle [...]
This text is designed for a three-semester or four-quarter calculus course (math, engineering, and science majors).
Calculus hasnât changed, but your students have. Todayâs students have been raised on immediacy and the desire for relevance, and they come to calculus with varied mathema[...]
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In "That Used to Be Us," Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges--[...]
"Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality,
and embraced in his view the whole future of man."
--Henry Adams
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