Books published by Maney Publishing

Reappraises the correspondence between the French novelist and his literary lover, the Polish countess Evelina Hanska. Suitable for biographical and critical studies, this volume approaches the letters as a literary text in their own right.

This pack is designed as an aid to teachers to teach materials aspects in an 'A' level physics, chemistry, design and technology. It provides suggestions for experiments to accompany course material. It covers materials and structure, mechanical properties, processing and materials selection.

This book is an extensively revised and expanded version of the second edition published in 1981. The book aims to provide an introduction to the subject of ternary phase diagrams, commencing with fundamental principles followed by discussion of simple systems and proceeding to examples of increasing complexity.

Making the Personal Political is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. While Dutch women had apparently retreated into domesticity after gaining the vote in 1919, women writers were out there in the market place selling the inside story of women's lives.

With an insight into the rich cultural canvas of the Middle Ages is granted by a host of texts: liturgical manuals; manuscripts of epic poetry, vernacular lyric, and music; paintings, and many more, this title reveals the two-fold performative nature of such texts: they document, mediate, or prefigure acts of performance.

This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the divine to a very explicit upholding of a sense of dichotomy between literary text and sacred scripture.

Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work.

The definitive record of the monuments in Leeds Parish Church, dating from medieval times to the present day. Set out in near-facsimilie of the original manuscript, and illustrated with line drawings and photographs, this book contains an historical introduction, detailed notes on individual memorials, and a comprehensive index.

The poetic is an abiding yet elusive qualification within the discursive system of twentieth-century French literature. No longer amenable to formal assignment, its recurrences delimit a shifting, multi-layered practice of artistic and intellectual (self-) invention.

Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre.

The latter part of the 3rd millennium BC witnessed severe dislocations in the social, economic and political structures of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea - the Levant.

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004.

The Association's 2004 conference focused mainly on the architecture and archaeology of the medieval diocese of Llandaff, comprising much of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Contributors consider Roman and early medieval south-east Wales, including surviving Christian monuments and the early history of Cardiff.

Of the three Cistercian houses in north Staffordshure, Hulton Abbey is the only one to have been properly investigated. Founded in 1219, it was a poor monastic house which was dissolved in 1538.

Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) e uno dei maggiori drammaturghi del novecento. Nel suo teatro, la famiglia rappresenta il punto nevralgico della societa.

This book is based on the comprehensive investigations of the literary forms of philosophy around 1800 conducted within research project 'Heuristics between Science and Poetry'. It presents new research on the debates on the concept of the symbol from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century.

Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884-1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as 'The Hidden One', is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range from mystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic.

Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the "establishment" to mainstream mutual exchange and appreciation.

This book is an outcome of the conference on preserving archaeological remains in situ in Denmark. The conference focuses on long-term studies of degradation and monitoring of archaeological sites preserved in situ in urban, rural, and marine environments.

This book reflects the three major emphases of Nicholas Boyle's intellectual life - literature, philosophical theology, and social and cultural criticism - and the distinctive emphasis of his approach to all three.