Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel... through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska.Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories—the remnants—of those around her and she begins to tell her own story.

This book for A and AS level history looks at the politics and policies of Gladstone and Disraeli through a wide range of primary sources. These include... written sources (reports, letters, parliamentary papers, newspapers extracts, etc.) as well as posters, drawings and cartoons.

A major new edition of this introductory survey of the two main political parties, from the rise of the Liberal Party under Gladstone until the period... of Conservative domination under Salisbury in the late nineteenth century. As well as assessing the impact of major political landmarks such as the Great Reform Acts, it also describes the nineteenth century political scene.

The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.  In... his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially.Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs who exists in magazines and gossip columns and whose life resembles an ultra-hip movie, is living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another.  And then it's time to move on to the next stage.  But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.

Interactive and user-friendly, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure uses explanatory text and multiple-choice questions to review course content and... show the reader how to correctly analyze and answer multiple-choice exam questions. Developed and written by the author of Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations, this text offers another highly effective approach to content mastery and exam preparation. The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure features: multiple-choice questions that are integrated into a comprehensive review of the first-year Civil Procedure course lucid and informative text that prepares students to successfully analyze and answer multiple-choice questions follow-up explanations of correct and incorrect answers that clarify murky or ambiguous points of law a realistic level of difficulty that is reasonable and fair, not simplistic or esoteric the Closer, a sophisticated final question at the end of each chapter to challenge the student, build confidence, and ensure exam readiness the Closing Closers, questions in the final chapter that provide practice and review for students and require them to apply several concepts from different topics covered in the course valuable exam-taking pointers interspersed within the substantive text Thoroughly updated throughout, the Second Edition features: a timely revision that reflects the restyled rules from the 2007 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure additional material on e-discovery new multiple-choice questions, including those dealing with subject matter jurisdiction new material on supplemental jurisdiction and federal question jurisdiction more beginning-of-chapter limericks to help students remember key concepts With its balance of explanatory introductions and self-testing questions, The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure provides a thorough and up-to-date course review that emphasizes multiple-choice questions and test-taking strategies.

Interactive and user-friendly, The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law uses explanatory text and multiple-choice questions to review course content and show... the reader how to correctly analyze and answer multiple-choice exam questions. A useful review for any student taking Criminal Law, this complete approach to content mastery and exam preparation includes: multiple-choice questions that are integrated into a comprehensive review of the Criminal Law course lucid and informative text that prepares students to successfully analyze and answer multiple-choice questions follow-up explanations of correct and incorrect answers that clarify murky or ambiguous points of law a realistic level of difficulty that is reasonable and fair, not simplistic or esoteric, and which includes a sophisticated final question in each chapter to challenge the student, build confidence, and ensure exam readiness the Closer, a final question at the end of each chapter that provides practice and review for students as they apply concepts covered in that chapter the Closing Closers, questions in the final chapter that provide practice and review for students as they apply concepts covered in earlier chapters valuable exam-taking pointers interspersed within the substantive text Revised and enhanced, the Second Edition features: significant recent Supreme Court cases new Closers, based on recent cases and events an expanded discussion of the Model Penal Code With its balance of explanatory introductions and self-testing questions, The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law provides a thorough and up-to-date course review that emphasizes multiple-choice questions and test-taking strategies.

A concise, clear, effective review of Tort law topics organized around the theme of multiple-choice questions. The basic format follows the same... structure established by the first title in the series, Joseph Glannon's The Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure. The book includes brief explanatory text about the topic under discussion, followed by one or two multiple-choice questions. After each question, the author explains how the correct choice was chosen. Thus the student reviews course content and also learns how to analyze exam questions. Features: Integrates multiple-choice questions into a full-fledged review of the first-year Torts course Lead-up discussion of law in the text prepares students to learn effectively from subsequent questions Clear explanations of correct and incorrect answers help to clarify nuances in the law Multiple-choice questions are sophisticated but fair, neither too difficult nor unrealistically straightforward Equally useful to all students, regardless of whether they will be tested by multiple-choice questions on their exams Embodies a far more user-friendly and interactive approach than other exam preparation aids A more challenging final question in each chapter (the "Closer") illustrates a more sophisticated problem in the area under discussion "Closing Closer"questions in the last chapter provide practice and helpful review of concepts in earlier chapters, meant to test knowledge across the range of Torts issues Valuable exam-taking pointers interspersed within the substantive text New to the Second Edition: New material on "cybertrespass" and other Internet-related intentional tort Updated material on Supreme Court cases governing the preemption of state tort law claims Incorporation of material from the newly approved portions of the Restatement Third of Torts, Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm, including detailed treatment of the Third Restatement's new approach to Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Updated material on the Supreme Court's treatment of constitutional questions concerning the award of punitive damages Additional Closing Closers

Learn the versatility of glass and how it can be inspired by art. Methods for cutting, fusing, and cold working glass are provided, with reference maps... for fusing and simple shapes. 292 beautiful color photos and an engaging text present a vast collection of information to aid the artist forming glass in a kiln. Includes kiln selection and instruction on developing firing schedules for working with glass. Works of art from museum collections and those created by contemporary international artists are displayed. This detailed work provides a contact list of artists and suppliers that anyone with a passion for glass art will treasure.

When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers,... an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy, a professional economist and an anthropologist, respectively, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the so-called mommy wars. They wondered what really inspired women to opt out, and they wanted to gauge the phenomenon's genuine repercussions. Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples is the fruit of their investigation--a rigorous, accessible, and sympathetic reckoning with this hot-button issue in contemporary life.Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around the country, original survey research, and national labor force data, Moe and Shandy refocus the discussion of women who opt out from one where they are the object of scrutiny to one where their aspirations and struggles tell us about the far broader swath of American women who continue to juggle paid work and family. Moe and Shandy examine the many pressures that influence a woman's decision to resign, reduce, or reorient her career. These include the mismatch between child-care options and workplace demands, the fact that these women married men with demanding careers, the professionalization of stay-at-home motherhood, and broad failures in public policy. But Moe and Shandy are equally attentive to the resilience of women in the face of life decisions that might otherwise threaten their sense of self-worth. Moe and Shandy find, for instance, that women who have downsized their careers stress the value of social networks--of "running with a pack of smart women" who've also chosen to emphasize motherhood over paid work.

While members of the House and Senate confront the public's changing attitudes toward money, sex, and power, they are also forced to raise... ever-escalating sums to finance their campaigns. Practices tolerated a decade ago now may cost lawmakers their seats or land them in jail. Lawmakers often don't know if they live in Salem or Gomorrah. Using new information culled from dozens of Capitol Hill interviews, Susan and Martin Tolchin show how ethics in Washington have changed over two centuries while offering new interpretations of past ethics cases. The first book to analyze the politicization of the ethics process, Glass Houses reveals in wicked and telling detail the forces that drive the modern lawmaker into a maelstrom of fierce corruption battles.

Anne Carson's poetry—characterized by various reviewers as "short talks," "essays," or "verse narratives"—combines the confessional and the critical... in a voice all her own.Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Brontë sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.