The only edition in print, Man and Wife combines the fast pace and sensational plot of Collins's most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian Britain.
The Man of Feeling (1771) is the foremost novel of sentiment in which the hero, Harley demonstrates his sensiblity in a series of episodes as he is tested against an uncaring world. This edition reprints Brian Vickers's authoritative text with a new introduction and notes discussing the work in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.
Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes.
The Management of Acute Pain provides guidelines for those who prescribe and administer drugs for acute pain relief, particularly junior medical and nursing staff. The edition has been revised to take account of drug developments. The book will be valuable for House officers, SHO's, physiotherapists, and palliative care nurses.
In this Very Short Introduction, John Hendry provides a lively introduction to the nature and principles of management. Tracing its development over the past century, Hendry looks not only at the jobs managers do today and their place in the culture of work, but also provides an insight into modern management theory.
Intended for intermediate and final year undergraduate, first year graduate and MBA programmes in managerial economics and applied microeconomic analysis, this work covers the areas of managerial economics courses, and complements theoretical concepts with practical applications. It includes lists of key terms and chapter summaries.