Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese writer (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the very first order … The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in "poetic prose"; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking.

Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every literate being and yet for most of its history it has conformed to the old adage that 'good typography should be invisible', it should not distract with its own personality. It was only at the end of the nineteenth century that designers slowly realised that they could say as much with their lettering as writers could with their words. Form, of course, carries as much meaning as content.

The QuickStudy Spanish guide gives you all the basics of sentence construction, pronunciation, and language that you need to speak or write the language correctly. Some of the topics included are: Rules of Stress, Syllabification, Capitalization, Nouns, Articles, Adverbs, Comparatives and Superlatives, Adjectives, Prepositions, Pronouns, Verbs, Stem Changing Verbs, Irregular Verbs and Verb Tenses. Excellent for the student and vacationer abroad alike.

The Happiness Passport takes the reader on a journey around the world seeking out the secrets of wellbeing from cultures far and wide.

From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. This comparative investigation examines the nature of violence, its impact on society and culture, especially as reflected from the perspective of the survivors. The survivors include not only actual combatants, but those with whom they interact: their comrades, their wives and children, families and society as a whole.