This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Douglas Gray, editor of the groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. The essays provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature, stressing its importance, interest, and richness.

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of...

The Basic Guide to How to Read Musicwill teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your memory. It contains all the terms and symbols you are likely to come across when studying music and explains them fully. Helen Cooper explains the written language of music in greater detail than you might get from your teacher. This book is ideal for the classroom, private lessons, and the home."

What would you do if the hottest man on earth made you an offer you couldn't refuse? What if it was the offer of a lifetime? The sort of offer that would make you blush as he offered you whatever you wanted to make you accept. What if the offers were so spicy, so naughty, so scandalous that you wouldn't even want to tell your best friend? If you were me, you would say yes. There are three things you should know. His name is TJ Walker. He's 28, hot as can be and he's my brother's best friend. TJ asked me to be his fiance for four weeks. I'm hoping to make the engagement real. I know. I can't...

This work includes foreword by Ian Botham, OBE, former England Cricket Captain and father of a daughter with Type 1 Diabetes. This groundbreaking book reveals how science and medicine have traditionally tried to make diabetes simple and orderly, despite its obvious messiness and complexity. The result has left patients, carers and health professionals confused and frustrated. Using complexity science, "Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster" provides a radical new approach to understanding and managing diabetes that embraces its uncertainties and challenges. From a complexity perspective, the...

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Sophie and Max have been in love with each other for years. But Max thought she was off limits because she was his sisters best friend and much younger than him. When they both realize that they want to be together and are in love, they finally get together to start their new life, happy and excited for their new baby to join them. Ella Van Harkel is Max's sister and Sophie's best friend and she has relationship issues of her own. When she decides to join an online dating service, she has no idea that she is being manipulated by people from Max's past. The path of true love never goes...

Meg had no idea what she was getting herself into when she accepted a job at the Private Club. She also hadn't planned on meeting a man like, Greyson Twining. A man who's handsome devilish looks made her forget her principals and her mind. When Meg realizes that there is a lot more going on at the Private Club then she had ever imagined, she decides to stick around to try and figure out exactly what's going on. Only she never imagined that the truth could be so deadly and worrying. Eventually, Meg finds herself stuck between her attraction to Greyson and the stark facts telling her that,...

It was only supposed to be one night We met at a wedding. He was hot. And I'd been in a year's drought. He smiled. We got drunk.We flirted. We hooked up. I left early the next morning without saying goodbye. It was only meant to be a one night stand. I didn't want the awkward morning after moment. Not at all. Then I went home for the weekend. And he was there. Sitting on the couch chatting to my dad. Turns out he was more than just a stranger. Turns out that my one night stand was about to cause a whole heap of trouble. Turns out that it never just stops with one night.

This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.