For more than two centuries, Moscows Bolshoi Ballet has been a glittering showcase of Russian culture, a source of national prestige under tsars and communists alike. Yet the shocking acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin in 2015 was but the latest in a long line of scandals. Drawing on exclusive access to state papers and private sources, this compelling book charts a secret history of political manipulation, managerial intrigue, financial misconduct, artistic rivalry and sexual shenanigans.

BOLSHOI CONFIDENTIAL- HB

Morrison, S.

HARPER/COLLINS

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BOLSHOI CONFIDENTIAL- PB

HarperCollins, UK

Puzzles and exercises provide useful practice for the keen player.

Chess Tactics: Puzzles for Beginners

Humor & Entertainment

Wade, R. G.

Bott, R.

Puzzles & Games

Lutterworth Press

Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. If scholars can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.

The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter

Science & Math

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.

Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics (The New Middle Ages)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

British & Irish

* At the present stage of development of surface science, there has seemed to be a need for a book-length review spanning the disciplines of surface physics and surface chemistry-a review to summarize and show the con nection between the observations from each discipline. The various results and theories, derived on the one hand from studies of the physical, electronic, and optical properties of surfaces and on the other hand from studies of the chemical activity of surfaces, supplement each other in the search for a realistic model of the surface. The improved understanding possible with such an interdisciplinary approach has been confirmed by recent develop ments which cannot be classified as either surface chemistry or surface physics. Specifically, recent new experimental techniques and quantum mechanical models have provided a much more accurate picture of the nature of the electronic energy levels (bonding orbitals) present at a solid surface. With this more accurate picture we are now able to reconcile the various chemical and physical models that appeared in the early literature on surfaces. The objective of this work has therefore been to describe the results and current models of surface science spanning a broad gray area between surface physics and surface chemistry with some overlap into each of these disciplines. Relevant aspects of surface chemistry are discussed; we cover chemical interactions where bonding and electronic properties dominate, but stop short of specialized topics such as surfactants or liquid/liquid interfaces.

The Chemical Physics of Surfaces

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Springer

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