Allan K Cameron

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema, as evidenced by the successes of such films as Pulp Fiction, Memento and Run Lola Run.Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema looks at the way a number of these films play with time and narrative. Alla...

The Oxford Italian Desk Dictionary

More up-to-date and useful than any other Italian dictionary of this size, the Oxford Italian Desk Dictionary offers full coverage of contemporary idiomatic Italian and English. It boasts a host of features, including wide-ranging coverage, with over 80,000 words and phrases and more than 100,000 tr...

Europe at Home

In this fascinating guide to European homes, families, and possessions of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Raffaella Sarti invites us to return to earlier times and observe the daily lives of masters and servants, parents and children, husbands and wives. 'This vivid book takes readers th...

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography

What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe, becoming an internatio...

Old Age and Other Essays

This book by one of Italya s oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Amery, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times. Born in 1909, Bobbio has live...

A Political Life: Norberto Bobbio

A Political Life is the compelling autobiography of Norberto Bobbio, one of the foremost political thinkers in postwar Italy. In dramatic and lively prose, Bobbio guides us through some of the most significant events of the twentieth century, charting their influence on his life and work. Born in 19...

Things Written Randomly in Doubt (Vagabonds)

A work in three parts, which starts with aphorisms in ""How Not to Be a Ruminant,"" shifts to essays in ""Weights and Counterweights,"" and concludes with poetry in ""By the Metre."" Some arguments appear in more than one section, and include nationalism, class, free will, religion, literature, and ...

Charlemagne: Father of a Continent

The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great—Charlemagne—reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d. 814. At the time if his death, his empire stretched across Eur...

Allan Camer (author)

Allan Cameron (born 1952) is a Scottish author and translator. Contents. [hide]. 1 Early life; 2 Career. 2.1 Novels; 2.2 Short Stories; 2.3 Non-fiction titles.

The Wild Red Deer of Scotland: Notes from an Island Forest on Deer, Deer Stalking, And Deer Forests in the Scottish Highlands

The Wild Red Deer of Scotland: Notes from an Island Forest on Deer, Deer Stalking, and Deer Forests in the Scottish Highlands

Viet-Nam Crisis

Indochina, Prospects after the End

Food Science

Food Science

A Chemical Approach to Food and Nutrition

Food Science:a Chemical Approach: A Chemical Approach