Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humor

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Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion among the tight-knit community immediately falls on the outsider, Carl Logan, who recently moved in with his family and his troubled son Roger. What Carl doesn\'t realize is that there are plenty of people

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Featuring specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this study charts the SVD Dragunov rifle\'s development, combat use and lasting legacy, from Vietnam to Syria. Developed as a medium-range sniping rifle in the Soviet Union during the 1960s, the Dragunov stood out against most Western sniping rifle types by being semi-automatic, a configuration that marginally lowers accuracy

Annie Baker\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for

Fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this special commemorative book by royal biographer Brian Hoey--who had the privilege of meeting Diana on several occasions--pays tribute to the life of this remarkable young woman. Diana, Princess of Wales, was admired throughout the world for her vitality, compassion, determination, and beauty. When she first came on the scene, she brought a new dimension

Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde (b. 1930) is one of Europe\'s foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany\'s Federal Constitutional Court (December 1983 - May 1996), Bockenforde has been a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested

From the Wall Street Journal\'s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants--Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO--and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his \"spiritual partner at Apple.\" The London-born genius was

The Landscape Painter\'s Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting. Written by celebrated landscape artist and experienced instructor Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying

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The Alex Cross series proves it.\' LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series_________________________________The legendary thriller that launched the international Alex Cross phenomenonTwo children have been kidnapped from an elite Washington

This bestselling book that birthed the Divine Mercy movement, one of the fastest growing movements in world today. This amazing narrrative will stir your heart and soul while it chronicles the experience of a simple Polish

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you

Breathe the blues into your harmonica Blues harmonica is the most popular and influential style of harmonica playing, and it forms the basis for playing harmonica in other styles such as rock and country. Blues Harmonica for Dummies gives you a wealth of content devoted to the blues approach--specific techniques and applications, including bending and making your notes sound richer and fuller with

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which \"progress\" has perverted the way we live--how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die--in this \"engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking\" (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending--balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced

- Chronicles for the first time Ganesh Haloi\'s decades-long artistic and pedagogic practice - Featuring nearly 250 works with previously unpublished folios of illustrations and sketches from artist\'s life - Documents Haloi\'s unique vocabulary of abstraction and landscape - Comprehensive study of Haloi\'s lifework deeply attentive always to the unfolding present Ganesh Haloi, born in Jamalpur, Mymensingh