Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage

by Prof John D. Lyons ...

This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally ... Read more

$85.49 USD

This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally
... Read more
Achieving sustainable management of boreal and temperate forests

by Dr John A. Stanturf, Dr Andrew D. Richardson, Dr Jan Pisek, Dr Kairi Adamson, Dr Russell T. Graham, Dr Cynthia F. Moser, Dr Tanja G. M. Sanders, Dr Peter Spathelf, Prof. Andreas Bolte, Dr Matthew J. McGrath0, Dr Anne Sofie Lansø1, Prof. Philip J. Burton2, Dr Guillaume Marie3, Dr Yi-Ying Chen4, Dr Tuomo Kalliokoski5, Dr Sebastiaan Luyssaert6, Dr Kim Naudts7, Dr Philippe Peylin8, Dr Aude Valade9, Dr Yamina Micaela Rosas0, Dr Pablo Luis Peri1, Dr Héctor Bahamonde2, Prof. Donato Chiatante3, Dr Juan Manuel Cellini4, Dr Marcelo Daniel Barrera5, Dr Alejandro Huertas Herrera6, Dr María Vanessa Lencinas7, Dr Guillermo Martínez Pastur8, Dr Anne Oxbrough9, Dr Jaime Pinzón0, Dr Patricia Butler-Leopold1, Dr Constance Hausman2, Dr Louis Iverson3, Dr Mattia Terzaghi4, Dr Todd Ontl5, Dr Leslie Brandt6, Dr Stephen Matthews7, Dr Matthew Peters8, Dr Anantha Prasad9, Prof. Donald Grebner0, Dr Pete Bettinger1, Dr Andrew Lister2, Prof. Hans Pretzsch3, Dr Christophe Orazio4, Dr Gabriella Stefania Scippa5, Dr Peter Freer-Smith6, Dr Tim Payn7, Dr Tom Fox8, Dr Daniel G. Neary9, Prof. Thomas J. Dean0, Prof. Woodam Chung1, Dr Kevin Lyons2, Dr Lucas Wells3, Dr Barbara Bentz4, Dr Pierluigi Bonello5, Dr Antonio Montagnoli6, Dr Horst Delb7, Dr Christopher Fettig8, Dr Therese Poland9, Dr Deepa Pureswaran0, Dr Steven Seybold1, Dr Tod Ramsfield2, Dr Kathy Lewis3, Dr Lee Frelich4, Dr Pablo J. Donoso5, Emeritus Prof. W. Keith Moser6, Dr Timo Kuuluvainen7, Dr David Nicholls8, Dr James L. Chamberlain9, Dr Christine J. Small0, Dr Michelle Baumflek1, Dr Tatjana Stevanovic2, Dr John Daigle3, Dr Adam P. Coble4, Dr Lea Hallik5 ...

Series Book 71 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Focuses on advances in understanding forest ecophysiology which underpin good management, including mechanisms of root and canopy development.Explores the key challenges in ensuring forest management is consistent with forest ecosystem services, particularly managing the transition from monocultures to complex standsHighlights ways of diversifying forest products, including novel uses of timber, ... Read more

$220.49 USD

Focuses on advances in understanding forest ecophysiology which underpin good management, including mechanisms of root and canopy development.Explores the key challenges in ensuring forest management is consistent with forest ecosystem services, particularly managing the transition from monocultures to complex standsHighlights ways of diversifying forest products, including novel uses of timber,
... Read more
Out of Place

German Realism, Displacement and Modernity

by Prof. John B. Lyon ...

Series series New Directions in German Studies
In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. Out of Place analyzes the works of three ... Read more

$42.89 USD

In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. Out of Place analyzes the works of three
... Read more
Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture

Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850

Edited by Prof. John B. Lyon, Prof. Laura Deiulio ...

Series series New Directions in German Studies
Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culturechallenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, ... Read more

$36.49 USD

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culturechallenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men,
... Read more

Monsieur Proust's Library

by Anka Muhlstein ...

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play
... Read more
Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services

Edited by Diana H. Wall, Richard D. Bardgett, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Jeffrey E. Herrick, T. Hefin Jones, Johan Six, Donald R. Strong, Wim H. van der Putten, Karl Ritz ...

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic ... Read more

$79.19 USD

This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of examining the ecosystem services produced by soil biota across different scales - from biotic
... Read more
Marguerite De Navarre

A Literary Queen

by Rouben Cholakian ...

This is a shortened reworking of the 2006 biography Marguerite de Navarre, made more accessible here without the scholarly trappings. ... Read more

$3.99 USD

This is a shortened reworking of the 2006 biography Marguerite de Navarre, made more accessible here without the scholarly trappings.
... Read more
Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

Edited by Francesco Ferrini, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Alessio Fini ...

Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, ... Read more

$70.99 USD

More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees,
... Read more
Writing with a Vengeance

The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

by Carol A. Mossman ...

Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute ... Read more

$49.69 USD

Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute
... Read more
Rangeland Systems

Processes, Management and Challenges

Edited by David D. Briske ...

Series series Springer Series on Environmental Management
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the ... Read more

Free

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the
... Read more
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

Seditious Frivolity

by Allison Stedman ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

$49.39 USD

Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and
... Read more
Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States

A Comprehensive Science Synthesis for the United States Forest Sector

Edited by Therese M. Poland, Toral Patel-Weynand, Deborah M. Finch, Chelcy Ford Miniat, Deborah C. Hayes, Vanessa M. Lopez ...

This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the ... Read more

Free

This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

New Directions in German Studies

Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage

Achieving sustainable management of boreal and temperate forests

Out of Place

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture

People who read these also enjoyed

Monsieur Proust's Library

Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services

Marguerite De Navarre

Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

Writing with a Vengeance

Rangeland Systems

Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

New Directions in German Studies

Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed