13 December A Reader R E

Contributed articles on the attemped terrorist attack on the Parliament of India committed on December 13, 2001, and the trial proceedings related to the incident.

Enjoy reading this treasure box filled with entertaining and inspiring stories on living life, loving and having fun times. From Australian Authors, Bev Dowdell’s stories will make you laugh and Graham Dowdell’s a "moment in time" photos capture an inside view of life through his “lens” of the beauty and magic around us every day which makes life worth living. A sequel to A Work in Progress Life Love Living in Australia, read about snorkelling in early morning high tides flying in azure blue water; David's story ... the life of a wealthy and famous man; Secrets to being ageless; Running down a dream ... lift your head up, take a breath; Don't try climbing Mount Everest when you are having a "pausal" moment; Throw off the limits ... all things are possible; Never give up ... timing is everything and dreams can come true; Are you having conflict ... maybe someone is trying to give you their problems? Bev out feeding the cows being "manually deficient" plunging a Ute down the hill; Vineyard Days a city girl marries a farmer & standing in gum boots freezing getting slapped by grape stems or how to you are not a good grape snipper at Vintage time until you have snipped yourself instead of the grape stalks; Christmas duo of stories; How do you stop a man in his tracks bridging the gap between men and women.

Gathering reviews and essays which examine Rich's poetry and prose, this text also looks at how critical opinion about her works has changed.

These hitherto uncollected book reviews of Shaw--his first journalistic efforts--reveal much not only about the writer but also the culture of the time in which he lived. Between 1885 and 1888, Bernard Shaw published 111 book reviews in the Pall Mall Gazette. In spite of their importance as the first regular journalism Shaw wrote and the fact that the books (fiction, nonfiction, plays, and poetry) he read during these years must have formed the nucleus of his permanent library, the reviews have never before been analyzed in connection with Shaw's work. Brian Tyson has assembled the book reviews, complete with the books' titles, authors, and a brief biography of each author, including any comments Shaw made about the review, and has placed them in historical context, elucidating any interesting, difficult, or obscure references. Tyson's critical introduction places the reviews in the context of Shaw's work and Victorian society. The reviews are often characterized by the wit and brilliance that we associate with the later Shaw, shedding light on his development as a writer at his most formative stage. Regardless of the merits of the material Shaw was reviewing, it is amusing and enlightening to follow him down to the wandering tributaries of Late Victorian fiction and poetry, which reveal as much about Shaw as they do about the preoccupations and prejudices of the average reader of the day.

This review of Switzerland's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation.

This collection provides the first comprehensive account of eResearch and the new empiricism as they are transforming the field of Australian literary studies in the twenty-first century.

Revealing the road as an icon of American culture - always under construction.

The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls and the commercial environment in which consumers made their purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture circulating in this reading space― the series. Rooney examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter. Many of the period’s principal authors and literary genres featured in their lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic methodological framework combining cultural studies and book history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.