Böcker av David Ellis

A provocative and timely book that questions current thinking about diet, health and the environment. It challenges the ideas that meat is bad and five-a-day is good, and that livestock farming is causing climate change. This book comes at a time of health and environmental crises, when the public has never been more interested in these issues, yet never more confused.

I "Huset" har vi samlat alla delar av den nervkittlande thrillerserien om New York-polisen Jenna Murphy. Mord, sex och skandaler vävs samman till en rödtråd genom denna samling, där varje sida bär på en känsla av olust och förväntan.När New York-polisen Jenna Murphy återvänder till sina hemtrakter i Hamptons är hon väl medveten om platsens rykte. Beläget precis vid havet på en av världens vackraste platser, är detta en tillflyktsort dit rika människor söker fristad från det hektiska storstadslivet. Men mitt i denna idyll ligger Mordhuset – ett gammalt slitet ruckel med ett fruktansvärt förflutet. Flera ouppklarade mord har inträffat där och lokalbefolkningen håller ett försiktigt avstånd till den ökända platsen. När Mordhuset slukar två nya mordoffer kastas Jenna omedelbart in i fallet, och snart blottläggs en historia som är smutsigare än allt hon tidigare stött på under sina år som polis i New York. I samlingen ingår: Huset del 1–5.James Patterson (född 1947) är en av världens bäst säljande spänningsförfattare. Hans popularitet beror bland annat på hans förmåga att skapa komplexa intriger och halsbrytande spänningsscener och han känd för att skriva böcker som är omöjliga att lägga ifrån sig.

A detailed study of sulphur bacteria, their properties and functions, and their importance in ecological systems and biochemical processes.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family's closet. He's also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a ruthless drug dealer is found dead and Leo's fingerprints show up on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI's only shot at taking down the dealer's brutal syndicate. Risk his life going undercover for the Feds or head straight to prison for murder? Leo accepts the FBI's offer - but it comes with a price, including a collision course with his ex, Andi Piotrowski, a former cop and "the one who got away." Forced to walk a tightrope between an ambitious FBI agent and a cruel, calculating crime boss, Leo's trapped in a corner. But he has more secrets than anyone realizes, and a few more cards left to play ..."--

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a literary background have tackled the subject, they have largely done so through what are known as period studies. In Blasted with Antiquity, David Ellis provides an alternative. Skipping nimbly from Cicero to Shakespeare, and from Wordsworth to Dickens and beyond, he discusses various aspects of old age with the help of writers across European history who have usually been regarded as worth listening to. Eschewing extended literary analyses, Ellis addresses retirement, physical decay, sex in old age, the importance of family, legacy, wills and nostalgia, as well of course as dying itself. While remaining alert to current trends, his approach is consciously that of the old way of teaching English rather than the new. Whether ¿blasted with antiquity¿ like Falstaff in Henry IV Part Two, or with the ¿shining morning face¿ of an unwilling student, his accessible and witty style will appeal to young and old alike.

Featured in the New York Times for his haiku poetry that he paints on driftwood and first poetry book Beach in City Island, David Ellis has been working in Harlem as a teacher for almost two decades. David fell in love with Harlem the moment he entered. "I feel the souls of those that were here before I was born, especially when I walk down Lenox Avenue." Most of the poems written in this poetry book are on display at many restaurants and cafes in Harlem, hand painted on canvas and written in frames.

"In this book, David Ellis traces Lord Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen and the crumbling splendors of Newstead Abbey to his final grand tour of Asia. Describing his exile from England as well as his subsequent travels in Italy and Greece, Ellis shows just how completely Byron's experiences colored both his serious and comic writings, such as Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and The Corsair. This is a fresh, concise, and clear-eyed account of the flamboyant poet's life and work."--

Long before there were books, there were spirits, demons, djinns. Many were of no consequence, idle beings with no interest in humanity, some, kindly, eager to help, visiting anxious souls in their final sleep to provide reassurance.A few were different from any of these. A few were angry and full of hate.At some point, one of these deadly fragments of consciousness passed into a book. This Book had been one of the very earliest books, and was for this reason, an important Book. However, it was also an ordinary Book, tribune of the everyday, diary of earth, a Book of interest only to our museums and historians.Now there are new stories in the old Book, stories written by the spirit.In David Ellis's A Book of Life, the stories come alive in the pages for the story is the Book itself, and the words within are solely for the eyes of the chosen. The privileged reader then has a choice...to ignore, or to believe...to walk on through life, alone, or to follow the old laws, to follow the Book...

Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all biographies offer is an understanding of their subjects and an explanation of their behaviour. In this book David Ellis, author of the acclaimed third volume of the Cambridge biography of D H Lawrence, meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. Packed with examples and written in a lively, engrossing style, the aim of the book is to uncover the principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of others' lives whilst at the same time ensuring that their own narratives remain coherent.In exploring the methods of literary biographers and the ways in which they interpret the material they accumulate - from Dr Johnson to Jean-Paul Sartre - David Ellis is able to make challenging and highly valuable comments on biography in general. Although he chiefly draws on recent lives of writers such as Dickens, Henry James, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Graham Greene, George Orwell, W B Yeats and Hemingway, Professor Ellis also considers the biographies of such compelling, non-literary figures as Mozart, Picasso and Cezanne.With their focus on the understanding of other people as the main feature of biography, the informed and often humorous discussions in this book provide the ideal context for appreciating this fascinating literary form.

"What to make of the British?" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work, which is both a biography and an exercise in cultural history, David Ellis brings to bear on the issues it raises much new and unfamiliar information. Italy is the foreign country with which Stendhal is most commonly associated. The multiplicity of his Italian connections makes it less surprising that so much has been written about them, and so comparatively little about his consuming interest in British culture. Yet this book makes a strong case for believing that Britain mattered just as much to him, if not often more, than Italy, especially as far as his interest in literature and politics is concerned. In these days when Anglo-French relations are about to enter a new phase, much of what is discussed here remains surprisingly relevant. After the fall of Napoleon, and the restoration of British links with the European continent, Stendhal was by no means the only French writer who was anxious to know more about this comparatively small island which had emerged victorious from more than twenty years of warfare. How had the wealth that had financed so many alliances against the French Empire been generated and what were the consequences of rapid industrialisation on the country's social fabric? More importantly, how had it managed to be so effective and influential when power was not in the hands of a single authority but divided between a king and two houses of parliament? These were questions which Stendhal felt were highly relevant, not only to the political future of his own country but also to Europe in general. As a writer, he was however also fascinated by Britain's literature, both of the past and present. From the beginning of his literary education, Shakespeare struck him as the most impressive dramatist he had ever read and when he himself made a modest entry on the literary scene, after Waterloo, the most famous poet in Europe was Byron. Among many other matters, Ellis examines the significance of Stendhal's meeting with Byron and the impact on him of the novels of Scott, at a time when these two writers were dominating the European scene. He describes the efforts Stendhal made to learn enough English to be able to read in the original, not only both of these contemporary writers but Shakespeare, Fielding as well as many other British authors from the past. He shows how the political ideas about Britain which Stendhal had developed during the years of separation were modified by personal contacts, new reading and the three trips he made across the Channel in the 1820s. That was the decade when he was also writing hundreds of articles for publication in London journals and it is in these years especially that Stendhal's own literary development is intertwined with his numerous British contacts (who include Hazlitt). At the end of his book, Ellis reflects on how far the relationship was reciprocal. That is to say that it is one thing to investigate what Stendhal thought of the British as well as what he might have gained from them, which is the major part of this study; and another to wonder what they could gain from him.

A Traditional Irish Cookery book, written by David Ellis, owner and operator of The Shack Restaurant, the Traditional Irish Restaurant located next-door to the famous Temple Bar Pub. Over the past 25 years, The Shack Restaurant has served almost 2 Million guests. The recipe book contains Traditional, Classic and Modern recipes from our menu and specials board. This book takes us on a time Journey through the old Temple Bar district of Dublin, Ireland, right through to the present-day where the area has become one of the busiest tourist and cultural areas in Dublin City. We will also 'Journey through the History of Irish Food and the Irish Famine' providing the reader with an insight into what shaped our traditional fares, and this journey could not be complete without the personal experience of food and cooking of the author.

Following God's call to cross cultural mission, Ellis' experience from riots, political upheaval, physical hardship, and burn out, to caring for his wife, Adèle, through her Alzheimer's, he would have been unable to hold fast without a robust biblical understanding of God's providence and sovereignty. With feeling and honesty Ellis weaves anecdote with biblical meditation, allowing scripture (especially the pivotal Psalm 2) to form the lens through which the world, in all its frightening chaos, is viewed. A personal, pastoral, faith building read, it offers scriptural reflection not trite answers - robust biblical wisdom for guidance, encouragement and challenge for Christians of all ages and stages.

This final 1998 volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. He is revealed as a man both more complex and more humorous than is usually allowed, and exemplary in his resolute grappling with the central problems of his age.

This volume provides a study of the literary form of the biography.

David Ellis and Howard Mills challenge the automatic relegation to secondary status suffered by the works included here and suggest a radical reassessment of Lawrence's literary profile of how his writings relate to one another and of where his greatest power and originality lie.

David Ellis sets out to resolve the meaning behind the 'spots of time' in the Prelude. Since the passages which concern him deal with very private moments in Wordsworth's life and have an interest which is largely psychological, he considers how far a knowledge of Freud might be relevant to their understanding.

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of informationHow is it that biographies of Shakespeare can continue to appear when so little is known about him, and what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why is it that a majority of the biographies published in the last decade have been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? This book attempts to solve this puzzle by examining the methods the biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of animal biography really is and how it should be written.Key Features:From this book, the reader can learn all that is directly known about ShakespeareAn expos of the Shakespeare biography industry showing that books which are marketed as biographies of Shakespeare are nothing of the kindAsks the reader to think about how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what we ought therefore to expect of biographies