Peter Mcdonald: 22 books
by Peter McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A collection of five books of poems by Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald, this book ranges wildly across subjects and forms and combines intense emotional perception with a historical and personal imagination. Ambitious and original, it meditates on place, belonging, loss, and love while exploring...
by Peter McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In this unique and finely-wrought collection, award-winning poet and scholar Peter McDonald gives us the first contemporary translation of the Homeric Hymns; a collection of 33 anonymous Ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. From Zeus to Aphrodite, Apollo to Hermes, each hymn tells a story...
by Peter McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
From award-winning poet and one of the most important Northern Irish writers and critics of his generation, Peter McDonald, comes an earthy and sensual new collection. Drawing from the landscape of his native Ireland and indebted to the works of Heaney, Yeats and the Ancient Greek classics, each poem...
by Peter McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this fifth poetry collection, Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald explores the haunting persistence of memories and the acts of remembrance that preserve and shape them. From Belfast in the troubled 1970s to contemporary England, from ancient myth to rock music, and from personal recollections to...
by Trevor Joyce, Aidan Mathews, Peter McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry brings lesser-known Irish voices to an American audience. In this fourth volume, editor David Wheatley, himself an established poet and critic, has selected poetry by Trevor Joyce, Aidan Mathews, Peter McDonald, Ailbhe Darcy, and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh. Each...
by Andrew Markus, James Jupp, Peter McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 2006 Australia's population was 20.7 million. It is projected to reach 23 million in 2014. What is driving this rapid population growth, and how is the Rudd government dealing with immigration at a time of recession?
The diversification of the immigration intake over the last 50 years, from...
The Fertility Transition in Iran
Revolution and Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births per woman in 2006. That this, the largest and fastest fall in fertility ever recorded, should have occurred in one of the world’s few Islamic...
Artefacts of Writing
Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and...
Valiant for Truth
The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous...
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
by Peter F. Hamilton, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Sixteen original stories of science fiction and wonder from sixteen talented authors, written to commemorate the first ten years of NewCon PressContents:1. Introduction by Ian Whates2. The Final Path – Genevieve Cogman3. Women’s Christmas – Ian McDonald4. Pyramid – Nancy Kress5. Liberty...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
The Literature Police
Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can sometimes be is compellingly exemplified...
Marketing Value Metrics
A New Metrics Model to Measure Marketing Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This second edition of Marketing Accountability, now transformed to Marketing Value Metrics, introduces and guides readers through a metrics model developed at the renowned Cranfield School of Management that not only shows how marketing systematically contributes to shareholder value, but also provides...
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