Marcus\'s Rolling Stone piece on Dylan\'s album Self Portrait - often referred to as the most famous record review ever written - began with \'What is this shit?\' and led to his departure from the magazine for five

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation\'s history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation\'s hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This book presents their

Grant Morrison\'s classic misfit team--the Doom Patrol--is reintroduced by Eisner Award-winning writer and rock star Gerard Way! The Doom Patrol will go on an epic road trip around the solar system, facing off against the unusual and bizarre including the fanatical fitness fiends of planet Orbius and the Marathon Eternal. Big changes are coming for these unusual heroes, including Robotman coming to

Geoff Merrick turned down a host of top teams to sign for Bristol City. At 18, he became their youngest captain and led them to the top flight. But his life and career were thrown into turmoil when he and seven other players were asked to rip up their contracts to save the club from bankruptcy. Local Hero is the ultimate story of not giving

Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies: Educational Research for Social Justice examines oral history methodological processes involved in the doing of oral history as well as the theoretical, historical, and knowledge implications of using oral history for social justice projects. Oral history in qualitative research is an umbrella term that integrates history, life history, and testimony accounts.

Are you happy with your horse\'s hooves? Sometimes, blind faith in diagnoses, traditional methods and treatments for hoof irregularities in horses is simply not enough. An informative and educational change in perspective can illustrate the principle of cause and effect and the right solution becomes visible.Nadine Caban, trained at the Institute for Hoof Orthopedics in Germany, presents within this

Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the \"madness\" of our relationships with animals intersects with the \"madness\" of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that \"animaladies\"

The chronicles of Jean le Bel, written around 1352-61, are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years\' War. They were only rediscovered and published at the beginning of the twentieth century, though Froissart begins his much more famous work by acknowledging his great debt to the \"true chronicles\" which Jean le Bel had written. Many of the great pages of Froissart

A Women\'s Guide to Hormonal Harmony gives women the knowledge, tools, and confidence to rebalance their hormones, master their metabolism, and become the boss of their own body. From thyroid disorders, hormonal imbalances, gut disorders, to navigating the best \"diet\" plan-- this guide serves as the one book you need to feel your best and reclaim your hormones, health, and body.Lacey Dunn, MS, RD,

Exciting activities develop pupils\' thinking skills with clear lesson objectives so pupils know what, and how they are going to learn. Assessment pages with mark schemes based on the 8-level scale help pupils understand exactly what is required at each level. Regular peer and self assessment features support Assessment for Learning.

The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as \'O\', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is initiated into an elite secret society, where she must learn to serve the sexual fantasies of Rene and his fellow

If you think your immune system is just a simple thing that only helps you fight off colds and flus, think again. It is, in fact, a highly complex, protective, and intelligent system that can bolster health and healing from head to toe. A number of factors--from your diet, lifestyle, and the illnesses you\'ve had to the medications you take or the toxins and people you interact with on a daily basis--can

The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS- and A-level history students. The new editions combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design and features that allow all students access to the content and study skills needed to achieve exam success. This new edition is revised and updated for the new 2008 AS and A2 specifications for AQA and Edexcel.

\'A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America\'s nervous breakdown after 9/11.\' Publishers Weekly starred boxed review From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the international bestselller Backlash - an unflinchingly critical and strikingly original dissection of the mind and soul of America since

The worlds of nursery rhymes and Singapore hawker food collide in this book. Dive into fractured nursery rhymes with a local twist, featuring Singapore hawker food.Imagine Humpty Dumpty enjoying kaya toast, Jack and Jill grilling satay on a hill, and the three blind mice eating chicken rice at the hawker centre. Cheeky illustrations highlight aspects of Singapore hawker culture that children will relate

Far from the image of an apolitical, \"clean\" Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study demonstrates that a key factor in the criminalization of the Wehrmacht was the intense political indoctrination imposed on its members. At the instigation

Cinema has undergone huge changes in the last decade: Asian filmmaking has been making the running; the ne\'er do well genre, documentary, has broken through; digitalization and DVD has revived film history and is revolutionizing projection; world cinema has shifted in the direction of the real and the visually grainy; and animation has become more dominant that any time since Disney. Month by month,

Full of real-world case studies and practical advice, Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R, Second Edition focuses on four fundamental methods of multivariate exploratory data analysis that are most suitable for applications. It covers principal component analysis (PCA) when variables are quantitative, correspondence analysis (CA) and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) when variables

Clover Press and The Library of American Comics prove that size does matter as we fulfill fans\' long-standing requests to produce new editions of the first six volumes of Chester Gould\'s The Complete Dick Tracy. This is no simple reprinting - these volumes have been reformatted to be the same larger size as Volumes 7 through 29. In this premiere offering, we return again to those hardscrabble days