"Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet New York City Limited Edition Guide is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand and applaud a razzle-dazzle Broadway show, take in the iconic skyline during a ferry ride toward Lady Liberty's beckoning torch, or stroll along Central Park's elm-lined walkways; all with your ..."
"Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet Discover New York City is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand and applaud a razzle-dazzle Broadway show, take in the iconic skyline during a ferry ride toward Lady Liberty's beckoning torch, or stroll along Central Park's elm-lined walkways; all with your trusted trave ..."
"Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction Jean Anderson,, Carolina Miranda,
Barbara Pezzotti. from 1894 until well into the twentieth century. The end-matter
... Where recipes are intratextual, they are related in the third person: Alixe prit
dans la réserve deux onces de chocolat qu'elle prépara comme lui avait
enseigné Audiger: du cacao d'Espagne, de la vanille, des clous de girofle, de la
cannelle, du macis et du sucre. Elle ..."
"Gadda or Sciascia – they hasten to specify that the particular author is not in fact
a crime author, but a literary writer who, far from writing crime novels, '
appropriates' or 'extrapolates' crime fiction conventions in order to write more
meaningful novels (Barbolini 1994, 8–9; Past 2012, 19).4 As Cannon puts it:
From Fruttero and Lucentini to Camillo [sic] Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Loriano
Machiavelli [sic], Renato Olivieri, M ..."
"Transcultural Representations Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara
Pezzotti ... Barbara Pezzotti The urge to define a national identity in the face of
the growing presence of foreign migrants is a highly topical subject in Italy. The
reason is twofold: first, Italy is a ... By contrast, a new and very successful wave of
crime fiction published in the 1990s has addressed this important issue, reflecting
the political and social ..."
"Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th and 21st century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Talbo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues, such as the provision of intra ..."
"Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. As a whole the book argues that, far from being limited and repetitive, serial crime fiction exploits a seemingly infinite variety of permutations to explore major social issues. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, perceptions and marketing of the series, this book also offers livel ..."
"‘The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal ‘other'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Writing examines these popular works as ‘transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as nation ..."
"'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Fiction examines these popular works as 'transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as nation ..."
"An aesthetic appraisal of an author whose work possessed a trenchant social realism fused with fantasy. Arlt was an early precursor to Latin America's greatest literary accomplishment, "Magical Realism". Robert Arlt (1900-1942) became one of the leading and uniquely different novelists dramatists and journalists not only of Argentina, but also of the River Plate and the rest of Latin America. His influence is so strong that critics such ..."
"EUSA documents American-themed places in Europe and European-themed places in America. Primarily portraiture, the photos are sentimental and idealized, a reaction to the homogenized, indistinguishable common world community, a direct result of globalization. In »Olde-World« towns in California, Wisconsin or Iowa the respective Danish, Swiss, or Dutch heritage being celebrated is ostensibly that of a significant segment of the local popu ..."
"Paperback in slipcase: Architectural structures create the environment in which they are situated, while at the same time describing that environment. Complex forms, such as the twist, offer the architect a tool to shape an environment with a visible smoothness that disguises the space s complexity and precision. But twisted structures present a double-challenge for architects and builders. To create such structures, it is necessary not ..."