Warren Roberts's Bibliography has long been established as the preeminent research tool for students and scholars of Lawrence, as well as an indispensable reference guide for book collectors and booksellers worldwide. This third edition, initially prepared by Warren Roberts before his death in 1998, has been extensively revised, updated and expanded by Paul Poplawski. Overall the volume, which also includes twelve color pictures of dust-jackets of early Lawrence editions, offers up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of bibliographical information for one of the greatest writers of the...

This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using the techniques of the historian, and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, La gazza ladra/, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the composer experienced. Roberts shows that Rossini made probing commentaries on politics and religion in a time of...

In the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the accelerated impacts of Global Climate Change have expanded the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to epic proportions. Brent Brodie was an oil and gas engineer until he suffered catastrophic mental and physical injuries during an oil rig explosion. After years of recovery, he focuses his unique skills to lead the development of a floating, plastic recycling plant which grows into a star-shaped, two-mile wide, rotating island. Utilizing the gyre's powerful ocean currents, Plasticity Island generates massive amounts of hydroelectricity which powers the...