Doctor Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag (BBC Radio Collection)
A dramatisation of the stories by A J Cronin - six episodes:
1. "The Resolution that went Wrong" 2. "Who Laughs Last" 3. "The Day Dandini Came to Town" 4. "Wee Robertson" 5. "The Wife of a Hero" 6. "The Sisters Scobie"
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.44 | Fiction literature | 19 August 2010
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Stories: All-New Tales
This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan.
Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk Two is a collection of 12 designs for women. This new collection introduces a new yarn - Alpaca Silk DK. This collection includes a delicate lace sweater and empire line cardigan, whilst a frill edged jacked and a poncho show how perfectly the yarn folds and falls. Also includes designs using the original aran weight Baby Alpaca yarn!
The Ultimate Book of Puzzles, Mathematical Diversions, and Brainteasers: A Definitive Collection of the Best Puzzles
Long-time puzzle buffs have yearned for a one-volume collection of the best brain-twisters ever devised. Here are 360 carefully constructed exercises that use words, numbers, and diagrams to test logic, numeracy geometry, physics, intuition, common sense, and imagination.
This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. A comprehensive introduction shows how these writings on religion, skin color, sexual and marital practices, geography, and the human body are crucial for understanding the pre-Enlightenment lineages of racial categories. A terrific supplement to research and teaching on race. Assembling a range of difficult to find materials from early modern English writing and changes the conversation about early modern ideas of race.
