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The Millennium Hotel: The Rider Quintet, vol. 2 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Mark RudmanIn this captivating sequel to his award-winning Rider, Mark Rudman reclaims a sacred space for poetry. The Millennium Hotel is a world of dazzling imitations, a vast casino where personal narrative is recognized as a fiction and death always holds the winning hand. Rudman asks, "How not to be seduced by the new?" as he illustrates the intimate ways in which facade, gender, and memory inform both our private and public realms.Here the interlocutor's voice shifts and freely crosses gender lines, especially in poems about early erotic experience. Mothers, daughters, lovers, and wives are passionately engaged. Its inclusiveness and wide range of tonal registers enable The Millennium Hotel to blend seamlessly the intimate, the social, the comic, and the apocalyptic. The book moves like a series of sonatas, melding childhood, the diaspora, and eros.
Millennium Iii, Century Xxi: A Retrospective On The Future
by Peter N StearnsThis book is intended as a survivor's guide to turn-of-the-century and millennial furor. It offers data about events and relevant cultural traditions in the past and a framework within which to consider how we will interpret the waning age and how we can sensibly look ahead.
The Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813 (Poldark #9)
by Winston GrahamThe ninth novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1812At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising - and worrying - news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London triumphs, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings not only happiness but heartache.As the armies battle in Spain, and the political situation at home becomes daily more obscure, the Poldark and Warleggan families find themselves thrust into a turbulent new era as complex and changing as the patterns of the Miller's Dance . . .In his Poldark series, Winston Graham explores the complications of love lost and the class struggle of early 19th-century England with a light comic touch. The Miller's Dance is followed by the tenth book in the series, The Loving Cup.
Millie and the Fugitive
by Liz IrelandThe long arm of the law couldn't stretch far enough to catch Sam Winter. But a pair of shapely legs attached to a Texas heiress had stopped him in his tracks. And the last thing he needed was sassy Millie Lively with outrageous notions about "helping" him escape! But the participants in this escapade soon realized they had been captured....LOVE ON THE RUN!
The Millionaire and the Cowgirl: A Classic Romance Novella (Fortune's Children)
by Lisa JacksonA fan-favorite by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, originally published in 1996. Ten years ago, an innocent Samantha Rawlings had surrendered herself to a man whose blue-eyed gaze promised forever. But when the summer sun faded, Kyle Fortune was gone, and Samantha was left to raise their child alone and in secret. But now, the restless millionaire has returned to Wyoming’s wide-open spaces. Suddenly, he’s face-to-face with the willful beauty he’s never forgotten—and a blue-eyed daughter he’s never known. Originally published in 1996.
The Millionaire's Secrets: Life Lessons in Wisdom and Wealth
by Mark FisherMark Fisher, author of The Instant Millionaire and an instant millionaire himself, returns to share more of his simple wisdom in this powerful parable about a struggling advertising executive who encounters an eccentric but wise millionaire whose mysterious words and probing questions open the door to financial prosperity and a rich, fulfilling life.
Milton: Poems
by John MiltonThe Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Milton contains selections from Milton's work, including sonnets, occasional poems, portions of Comus, Samson Agonistes, as well as Books I--XII of Paradise Lost.
Milton: Everyman's Poetry
by John MiltonBest known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subtle lyric harmony. He is one of the greatest writers of the 17th century, and of all time.
Milton in American
by Peter AckroydJohn Milton, aging, blind, fleeing the restoration of English monarchy and all the vain trappings that go with it ("misrule" in his estimation), comes to New England, where he is adopted by a community of fellow puritans as their leader. With his enormous powers of intellect, his command of language, and the awe the townspeople hold him in, Milton takes on absolute power. Insisting on strict and merciless application of puritan justice, he soon becomes, in his attempt at regaining paradise, as much a tyrant as the despots from whom he and his comrades have sought refuge, more brutal than the "savage" native Americans.
Mina Tonight!
by H. W. Robertson Jr.Comedy \ 5 m., 4 f. \ Int. \ Mina Tonight! is a raucous comedy that takes place on the set of a cable access talk show in South Carolina. Show host Mina Dean Beasely is a sarcastic firebrand whose guests personify supermarket tabloid headlines. A hairdresser who reveals she is carrying an alien love child, a country music performer whose near death electrocution left her with psychic powers, and a janitor who may be a supposedly dead celebrity are just some of the folks Mina serves up to her audience. However, Mina has a problem believing the fantastic tales she hears and it is only when the janitor reveals his true identity that she realizes "you can have the eyes of a hawk and still be blind as a bat." Set against a background of aluminum condominiums (trailers) and those who live in them, Mina Tonight! is a campy look at extraordinary events happening to incredibly ordinary people. It features wonderful roles for women ages 20-50 and is filled with ideal monologues for character and scene work.
Mind and World
by John McdowellModern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore. John McDowell amply illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy--the insidious persistence of dualism--in his discussion of empirical thought. Much as we would like to conceive empirical thought as rationally grounded in experience, pitfalls await anyone who tries to articulate this position, and McDowell exposes these traps by exploiting the work of contemporary philosophers from Wilfrid Sellars to Donald Davidson. These difficulties, he contends, reflect an understandable--but surmountable--failure to see how we might integrate what Sellars calls the logical space of reasons" into the natural world. What underlies this impasse is a conception of nature that has certain attractions for the modern age, a conception that McDowell proposes to put aside, thus circumventing these philosophical difficulties. By returning to a pre-modern conception of nature but retaining the intellectual advance of modernity that has mistakenly been viewed as dislodging it, he makes room for a fully satisfying conception of experience as a rational openness to independent reality. This approach also overcomes other obstacles that impede a generally satisfying understanding of how we are placed in the world.
Mind Matters: A Tribute To Allen Newell (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series)
by David Steier Tom M. MitchellBased on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architectures -- this volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity that characterizes current research on computers and cognition. The subject matter includes: * an overview of cognitive and computer science by leading researchers in the field; * a comprehensive description of Allen Newell's "Soar" -- a computational architecture he developed as a unified theory of cognition; * commentary on how the Soar theory of cognition relates to important issues in cognitive and computer science; * rigorous treatments of controversial issues in cognition -- methodology of cognitive science, hybrid approaches to machine learning, word-sense disambiguation in understanding material language, and the role of capability processing constraints in architectural theory; * comprehensive and systematic methods for studying architectural evolution in both hardware and software; * a thorough discussion of the use of analytic models in human computer interaction; * extensive reviews of important experiments in the study of scientific discovery and deduction; and * an updated analysis of the role of symbols in information processing by Herbert Simon. Incorporating the research of top scientists inspired by Newell's work, this volume will be of strong interest to a large variety of scientific communities including psychologists, computational linguists, computer scientists and engineers, and interface designers. It will also be valuable to those who study the scientific process itself, as it chronicles the impact of Newell's approach to research, simultaneously delving into each scientific discipline and producing results that transcend the boundaries of those disciplines.
Mineral and Metal Neurotoxicology
by Masayuki Yasui M. Anthony VerityTrace minerals and metals such as zinc, copper, and magnesium are accepted as a "natural" part of the human system. Interactions of some elements and/or disturbances in trace-metal or mineral homeostasis can, however, be toxic to the central nervous system (CNS). Mineral and Metal Neurotoxicology describes a wide range of basic and clinical issues
The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
by Mildred BeikIn 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle.Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American.Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
by Eric RentschlerGerman cinema of the Third Reich, even a half-century after Hitler's demise, still provokes extreme reactions. "Never before and in no other country," observes director Wim Wenders, "have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies." More than a thousand German feature films that premiered during the reign of National Socialism survive as mementoes of what many regard as film history's darkest hour. As Eric Rentschler argues, however, cinema in the Third Reich emanated from a Ministry of Illusion and not from a Ministry of Fear. Party vehicles such as Hitler Youth Quex and anti-Semitic hate films such as Jew Süss may warrant the epithet "Nazi propaganda," but they amount to a mere fraction of the productions from this era. The vast majority of the epoch's films seemed to be "unpolitical"--melodramas, biopix, and frothy entertainments set in cozy urbane surroundings, places where one rarely sees a swastika or hears a "Sieg Heil." Minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Rentschler shows, endeavored to maximize film's seductive potential, to cloak party priorities in alluring cinematic shapes. Hitler and Goebbels were master showmen enamored of their media images, the Third Reich was a grand production, the Second World War a continuing movie of the week. The Nazis were movie mad, and the Third Reich was movie made. Rentschler's analysis of the sophisticated media culture of this period demonstrates in an unprecedented way the potent and destructive powers of fascination and fantasy. Nazi feature films--both as entities that unreeled in moviehouses during the regime and as productions that continue to enjoy wide attention today--show that entertainment is often much more than innocent pleasure.
Minx (Blydon #3)
by Julia QuinnIt takes a minx to tempt a rogue...Beautiful and feisty Henrietta Barrett has never followed the dictates of society. She manages her elderly guardian's estate, prefers to wear breeches rather than dresses, and answers to the unlikely name of Henry. But when her guardian passes away, her beloved home falls into the hands of a distant cousin. And it takes a rogue to tame her...William Dunford, London's most elusive bachelor, is stunned to learn that he's inherited property, a title...and a ward bent on making his first visit his last. Henry is determined to continue running the Cornwall estate without help from the handsome new lord, but Dunford is just as sure he can change things...starting with his wild young ward. But turning Henry into a lady makes her not only the darling of the town, but an irresistible attraction to the man who thought he could never be tempted.
Miracle on the 17th Green: A Novel
by James Patterson Peter De JongeTravis McKinley's life has drifted sideways. His job, his marriage, even his children all feel disconnected and distant. Has he really accomplished nothing of consequence in his life? One Christmas Day, Travis plays a round of golf and finds himself for the first time in the zone--playing like a pro. In astonishingly short order, Travis is catapulted into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach, where he advances to the final round. And while his wife, his children, and a live television audience watch, a miracle takes place that changes Travis, and his family, forever.
Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryoiki of the Monk Kyokai
by Kyoko Motomuchi NakamuraThis is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, "By editing these stories of miraculous events I want to pull the people forward by the ears, offer my hand to lead them to good, and show them how to cleanse their feet of evil" (p.222).Nakamura's book is actually two works in one: first an introduction to the Nihon ryoiki, and then an annotated translation. The introduction analyzes the life of the author and the influence of earlier writings, and provides a valuable synthesis of the world view reflected in the work.The annotated translation renders the more than one hundred stories into English narrative, with copious notes. Difficult terms are identified in the text with the original Chinese characters, while historical matters and Buddhist technical terms are explained in the footnotes.
The Mirror Bride
by Robyn DonaldTHE MARRIAGE MAKER"A mirror marriage, picture perfect but insubstantial, a mere reflection of the real thing."In marrying Drake Arundell, Olivia Nicholls will secure Simon's future...and condemn her own! Though she yearns for a "real" marriage with Drake, too many secrets, too many lies stand between them and the love, the passion, the substance she longs for in their relationship-but then, perhaps she has a guardian angel on her side!THE MARRIAGE MAKER-Can a picture from the past bring love to the present?
Mis rincones oscuros
by James EllroyLas desgarradoras memorias de la investigación de Ellroy sobre el asesinato de su madre. Mis rincones oscuros es el libro más intimista y el reflejo más oscuro del pasado del autor y de una experiencia que marcaría toda su obra. En junio de 1958, James Ellroy tenía diez años cuando recibió la terrible noticia del asesinato de su madre. El cadáver de Geneva Hilliker fue hallado cubierto de hiedra en una cuneta de las afueras de Los Ángeles, estrangulado con una cuerda y unas medias de nylon y con signos evidentes de violación. El caso no se resolvió, pero la brutal muerte marcó para siempre la vida del autor y fue el germen de toda su obra. En 1994, después de publicar el último volumen del «Cuarteto de los Ángeles», Ellroy decidió descubrir la verdad sobre el crimen. Para ello contrató los servicios de un veterano y experimentado «detective» llamado Bill Stoner. A medida que ambos avanzaban en este caso enterrado desde hacía treinta años, Ellroy descubría el misterio que en realidad fue su madre, cuáles fueron sus aspiraciones y por qué decidió salir de un pequeño pueblo de Wisconsin para empezar una nueva vida en Los Ángeles. Mis rincones oscuros relata esta investigación, en una mezcla de crónica negra y memorias confesionales, y se convierte en un libro fascinante que proporciona las claves autobiográficas de sus novelas y, a su vez, en la introducción perfecta a la perturbadora obra de este autor imprescindible de la novela del siglo XX. Críticas:«Un círculo obsesivo que se tensa hasta formar un nudo... amargo, retorcido, introspectivo.»New York Magazine «Una lectura para estómagos y mentes fuertes. No hay ninguna concesión al sentimentalismo. [...] [Ellroy] ha vuelto a elevar la novela negra [...] a la categoría que adquirió conDashiellHammett, Raymond Chandler y los que inauguraron el género hacia 1930.»Mariano Antolín Rato, El Mundo «Extraña y perversamente fascinante. Mitad thriller, mitad grito de dolor. [...] Una crónica sincera sobre el hecho de crecer sintiéndose un extraño, bajo la condena del dolinexpresado.»Newsday «Mis rincones oscuros rompe con las fronteras entre géneros, dando como resultado un clásico singular.»Newsweek
Mischief
by Amanda QuickA sparkling Regency mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick, this is the perfect escape for the summer . . . Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she is faced with an enemy she can't take on alone. She needs a man; one skilled at seduction, yet who possesses an implacable will and nerves of iron to equal her own. That's why she invites Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap? Yet in all of her plotting, Imogene never anticipates Colchester's sizzling reaction to their pretence or her own electrifying reaction to him. Neither does she expect that a malevolent threat would emerge from the labyrinth of London - sinister enough to endanger her and Colchester's lives . . .'What fun!' Lisa Gardner'Krentz's fans are always ensured of plenty of wit and romance and heapings of suspense when they dive into her novels!' Romantic Times
Mischief: A Novel
by Amanda QuickImogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That's why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap? Her scheme is simple, really: She plans to let it be known that when she inherited her uncle's collection of antiquities, she also inherited a map to a fabulous ancient treasure. She's sure that her enemy would risk financial ruin in pursuit of the mythical artifact. And to make doubly sure the scoundrel took the bait, she wants Colchester to pretend that he's out to seduce Imogene so that he, too, could get his hands on her map. Yet in all of her plotting, Imogene never anticipates Colchester's violent reaction to her request or her own electrifying reaction to him. Neither does she expect that a malevolent threat would emerge from the labyrinth of London--sinister enough to endanger her and Colchester's lives.From the Paperback edition.
Mischief and Marriage
by Emma DarcyWhen Ashley met Harry...Mischief was what Harry Clifton intended when he traveled to Australia in search of an heir.Marriage was the last thing on Ashley Harcourt's mind when she met Harry.But William, Ashley's enterprising young son, had other ideas! He saw Harry and decided he'd make a perfect father. To his surprise, Harry found he liked the idea of an instant family, But he'd need more than young William's help to persuade Ashley to trust in love again....
Misleading Engagement
by Marjorie LewtyVery good friends...Getting a fledgling wedding video business off the ground just when people were buying their own camcorders was not easy, so Anne Grey was pleased to stand in for a friend recording an interview in Cornwall with crime writer Francis Gardiner. It was a shock to discover that the writer was really Mark Rayne, the man she had only recently crossed swords with at a wedding!As they continued to work together, Anne knew she was falling in love. Meeting Mark's young son, Matthew, was a delight. But Mark thought she was engaged to someone else, and Anne found it almost impossible to tell him the truth....
Mismatched Mommy?
by Mary Anne WilsonReggie Clark* craves order* likes kids-if they're someone else's* Motto: "Everything in its place."Dr. Ben Grant* survives on chaos* being "Daddy" is number-one job* Motto: "Go with the flow."You couldn't get truer opposites than Reggie and Ben. In fact, she was about to marry another man, her "Mr. Perfect" (a.k.a. "Mr. Wrong"), while he wrestled with a toddler and listened to the ticking of his biological clock!Into this comes Reg's fairy godmother.... Up to now she's batted 1.000-but how could she convince Reggie and Ben they were a perfect match? And she had only five days to do it-before Reggie said "I do" to the wrong man!