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Packed with practical tips, guidelines and techniques that really work in order to reach more effective and speedier negotiation agreements. Divides negotiation into 3 categories--strategy, tactics and gamesmanship--with a chapter on each. Offers in-depth explanations on how to open negotiations, evaluating your opponent and negotiation for salespeople. Also includes a self-evaluation test.

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This new book is ideal for practicing health information management professionals as a reference for meeting customer needs, forming organizational teams, and managing new informational technologies in health care today...

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In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well—one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain scientific thought, became a tool for persuading a skeptical public of the superiority of the Copernican system.

Moss describes the nature of dialectical and rhetorical discourse in the period of the Copernican debate to shed new light on the argumentative strategies used by the participants. Against the background of Ptolemy's Almagest, she analyzes the gradual increase of rhetoric beginning with Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Galileo's Siderius nuncius, through Galileo's debates with the Jesuits Scheiner and Grassi, to the most persuasive work of all, Galileo's Dialogue. The arguments of the Dominicans Bruno and Campanella, the testimony of Johannes Kepler, and the pleas of Scriptural exegetes and the speculations of John Wilkins furnish a counterpoint to the writings of Galileo, the centerpiece of this study.

The author places the controversy within its historical frame, creating a coherent narrative movement. She illuminates the reactions of key ecclesiastical and academic figures figures and the general public to the issues.

Blending history and rhetorical analysis, this first study to look at rhetoric as defined by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century participants is an original contribution to our understanding of the use of persuasion as an instrument of scientific debate.

Novelties in the Heavens : Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy

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Novelties in the Heavens : Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy
Jean Dietz Moss
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Novelties in the heavens: rhetoric and science in the Copernican controversy.
Jean Dietz. Moss
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Scattering methods as important tools for the characterization of the structure and dynamics of polymers provided the theme for the 60th meeting in the series of the Prague Meetings on Macromolecules held in July, 2001. Highlights included discussion of the following topics:

Light, X-ray, and neutron scattering techniques
Applications of these methods to a variety of polymeric materials and systems.

Papers based on the main lectures, special lectures, and panel discussions presenting recent research on these topics have been collected and are available in this volume.

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Contains papers by leading authorities on several of the major extinction events of the geological record. The book brings together new data on a wide range of floral and faunal groups. The papers are grouped as general, Palaeozoic events, Mesozoic events and Cenozoic events. Several of the papers describe the recovery and recolonization processes following the extinction events while others discuss the problems of 'survivor taxa', 'disaster taxa' and 'progenitor species'. The examples chosen come from geological successions in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.

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`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: `permanently avant-garde' in Terry Castle's words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho: real and imagined.......2007-04-20

On one level, this novel defies categorisation. Yes, the Gothic web of mystery and intrigue is obvious. And so too are the beautiful descriptions of nature, the struggle between good and evil, the noble acts of heroism and the ignoble acts of greed.

Anne Radcliffe has taken all of these components and distilled an imaginative creation that still, some 213 years after publication, catches the imagination of the reader. If you do choose to read this glorious novel, make sure that you are prepared for a pace which relies more on descriptive prose and less on implied actions. Set aside the time to immerse yourself in the setting and enjoy the journey.

This is not a novel to be rushed, it is a novel to be savoured.

Ann Radcliffe was 30 years old the year this novel was published. What an accomplished and imaginative young woman she must have been.

Highly recommended.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

pleasantly surprised.......2006-11-21

I read this because of a reference in one of Jane Austen's novels. I never thought I'd like it as much as I did. The beginning does seem boring and overdrawn, but I'm glad I continued to read because this book is a gem. There is continuous action, intriguing coincidences, and a sweet love story besides. If you have any interest in Gothic novels or love stories you will like this book.

Radcliffe: The Magic Still Works.......2006-08-21

THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO by Ann Radcliffe is an important transition work between an age that prized reason over emotion and a succeeding age that believed in the reverse. Radcliffe's book is not much read today and that is a shame since the feelings of dread that it raised at the end the 18th century can still be felt by contemporary readers. This book is a Gothic thriller, the literary ancestor of Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, of Poe's Tales of Terror, and of today just about anything by Steven King.

When THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO was first published in 1794, the Age of Reason was slowly coming to a creaking end. An English populace that was becoming increasingly mercantile and literate was growing tired of a relentless urging to approach life with the clinical detachment of Star Trek's Mr. Spock. They began to demand a literature that in the words of Jane Austen would provide a sensibility over sense. The initial glimmerings of this discontent were met by the writers of sensibility who insisted that their heroines, usually well-born females, would swoon, cry, and weep at the drop of a hat. Radcliffe carried this to the next logical level. She was one of the first writers of the Gothic genre. Here, the female swooner of the novel of sensibility would place herself in a gloomy castle with creaking doors, clanking chains, and secret rooms of a mad monk who would hold her captive for reasons that were then only delicately hinted at as sensual but today we recognize as pretty weird psycho-sexual matters.

The plot of THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO is a hook upon which Radcliffe wrote a harrowing tale that was an instant best-seller. Young Emily St. Aubert and her mother are made prisoners in the castle of the evil Italian Montoni, who married her mother solely to inherit her money and then killed her and planned to force her to marry another. The English reading public flocked to buy this novel because of its novel use of the fear that was engendered by the very thought of a proper English lady being imprisoned in a creepy and sinister castle by a mad Italian. They were further intrigued by the lavish descriptions of natural scenery, all of which were larded with a sense of panorama that was lacking in their restricted lives. Finally, when Emily had her startling dreams, Radcliffe's readers responded to their subtle sexual symbolism that they found endlessly intriguing.

THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO has its faults that seem more egregious to modern audiences. Her style varies little from chapter to chapter. Her use of scenery as an overused prop can pall. Finally, Radcliffe has been accused with some accuracy as selling a sizzle without the steak in that at the story's end, she has contrived a perfectly natural and rational explanation for each of the book's spooky events. Still, the power of the tale to drag the reader into the deepest recesses of a dark and dank cage that is matched only by the equally grim recesses of the human mind is yet quite sufficient to raise the hackles on the back of that reader's neck. Only the best scary books can continue to do that century after century.

well written but dull, dull, dull.......2006-08-16

The Mysteries of Udolpho is beautifully written. Ann Radcliffe writes page after page, after page...of picturesque descriptions of Italy and France's countryside.
That being said, I found The Mysteries of Udolpho to be long winded and drawn out. The first two volumes are rather mind-numbing and I skimmed over much of it. I never felt a connection towards Emily and felt rather indifferent towards her well being. I found her to be rather insipid and became tired of her constant fits of weeping and fainting. Her servant, Annette, was more intriguing than Emily and her pathetic weakness.
I would personally recommend skipping The Mysteries of Udolpho to read Sheridan Le Fanu's novel Uncle Silas. Young Maud finds herself in similiar circumstances but approaches them with not only grace and sweetnss but a strength that she "finds from a place unknown" to herself. You will cheer for Maud in a way that seems impossible to do for Emily.

between the uncanny and the sublime.......2006-08-04

Emily St Aubert is a young woman of sensibility and deep love for the sublimity in nature. The chateau of the St Auberts in Southern France is a place where to take refuge from disappointment in mankind. Yet after the death of Mrs St Aubert, Emily and her father resolve to set out on a journey that takes them through the Alps, where they can further rejoyce in sublime landscapes. "These scenes", says one character, "soften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no person , who had felt it once, would resign for the gayest of pleasures. They waken our best and purest feelings, disposing us to benevolence, pity, and friendship."

It is from the perils of an excess of sensibility that St Aubert tries to warn his daughter on his deathbed: "Above all do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling." Emily soon learns that if we value the works of God (Nature), then it is only fit that we should love and accept the results of God's will (history and destiny). Can it be true that, as her father assured her, a mind can be trained to triumph over affliction?

Castle Udolpho does not upset our expectations: the towers are high, the walls tall and cold, the staircases marbled, and the rooms full of secrets. Between these walls, Emily must learn to conform to Montoni's ideal of womanhood: sincerity, uniformity of conduct and obedience. Yet at Udolpho Emily's susceptible femininity is made to witness and confront teh arousal of "those mysterious workings, that rouse the elements of man's nature into a tempest." Emily discovers that not all is chivalrous in intersexual relations. Yet she is resolved not to fall into error: the problem of self-reproach.

While experience has taught her that male conceptions of ideal womanhood are not always healthy, probably or safe, Emily grows up under Montoni's gaze. While she relinquishes her aunt's properties, she proves him wrong. By what further strategy will he continue to exert his usurpation of authority over her? Would it be imprudent for her to despise the will of Montoni? What is the implication of her surrendering herself to the protection of men who commit such fool deeds?

The castle is therefore the site of psychic suffering, where Emily must fortify her senses against continuous fears and adversities. In teh midst of mental turmoil there lurks innocence and hope in the future with Valancourt. Is this hope to be ultimately relinquished too? Why does the Castle seem to be mysteriously connected with her fate? Can there be hope after imprisonment and suffering? After Valancourt is truly fallen from her own steem, Emily wonders about the real merit behind the sacrifice of their separation. The Count the Villeroi advises Emily not to give way to sadness, which may lead to madness. Is the convent to prove her only ultimate refuge or can Valancourt be reinstated as a worthy human being in her own mind? After many tears, it is not the same Emily that returns to La Vallée at the end of the novel. Her soul has risen in sulphureous circles and she is now capable not only of loe and admiration, but also of compassion, of a deeper understanding of human folly and vice, and perhaps, capable of forgiveness.

The Mysteries of Udolpho (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)

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Castles, and Dungeons and Darkness, Oh my!
Secret Passages, Veiled Portraits, Ruled Passions

The Mysteries of Udolpho (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)
Ann Radcliffe
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Trapped in a gloomy medieval fortress, an orphaned heroine battles the devious schemes of her guardians as well as her own pensive visions and melancholy fancies. Generations of readers have thrilled to this famous Gothic tale from 1794 and its hypnotic pre-Freudian exploration of the psyche.

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Castles, and Dungeons and Darkness, Oh my!.......2007-01-17

This is a true late eighteenth century book in the sense that it has a leisurely (very leisurely) opening, a great deal of waxing eloquent on the beauties of nature--which are well written, but so frequent that one becomes inured to them--and enough pages to fill up the four volumes that the book originally was published as (over 600 of them).

But there's more--castles, and dungeons and darkness, Oh my! In true Gothic fashion, the book does not disappoint in the gloom and suspense department, and is replete with all the trappings that make for some fun reading. There are plenty of scares and false alarms, and a couple of true horrors, and all is told with taste and style. There are certainly flaws, in the modern sense, of the drawn-out plot, and the fainting heroine routine gets a bit tired; but all in all, a fascinating study of an early novel, and a hero and heroine you root for.

The high moral tone is refreshing though a little too strained; And surprisingly, the sense of being in the late sixteenth century is not as pronounced as one could wish for. (Aside from the castles and the absence of law and order in the land, that is.) More attention could have been given to costume, for instance, instead of just landscape, but the book earns five stars in my opinion for being an immense work that is very readable, even page-turning to a remarkable degree, and has a satisfying denouement. (There are a few elements that stretch plausability, but this is certainly nothing new in fiction; and, given what the author needed to explain at the end, she does a fine job.)

Fans of the novel, of Austen and other nineteenth century authors, will find this book interesting in other ways, too. There are whispers of later works in many of the pages; one can hardly miss that Radcliffe influenced the later writers. In addition, any Regency reader worth her salt should read this book, if only because so many Regency heroines did. This Dover edition is unabridged from the original 1794, and my only niggle with it is that I waited in vain to come upon the scene on the cover of the book, but to no avail. (There are tapestries and curtains hiding fearful discoveries, for sure, but none that exactly correspond to the otherwise fitting and intriguing cover illustration.)

Notwithstanding, my advice is to get the book, and read it. You won't be sorry.

Secret Passages, Veiled Portraits, Ruled Passions.......2006-08-01

Accomplished, refined, and beautiful, our heroine Emily St. Aubert finds herself orphaned, her finances in doubt, and surrounded by uncaring, vacuous, and social climbing relatives. Refusing to marry her true love Valancourt, she accompanies her aunt to Italy. There, they both become the prisoners of the sinister Count Montoni.

His Castle Udolpho has all the stock trappings of the Gothic: the medieval architecture, the heavy tapesteries, the veiled and oddly familiar portraits, requisite secret passages, horrible sights in the dungeons, mysterious apparitions, hinted murders, and ghostly voices. Through it all, Emily finds time to write a fair amount of poetry. (It's not for nothing the novel's subtitle is "A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry".)

Radcliffe was one of the most influential Gothic writers, and this 1794 work is generally regarded as her best.

Is it worth reading today solely on its own merits? Not quite. Radcliffe's story is too long, her reveries over landscape wearisome. There is a flavor of earnest moral instruction as Emily not only struggles to master her emotions, but Radcliffe, in her contrived solutions to supernatural mysteries, is intent on stamping out the unreasonableness of superstition.

Yet, there is not just great sentiment but psychological insight too. And the ending is surprising despite the inevitable familiarity of many of the stories trappings.

Matthew Lewis _The Monk_ is much more fun, a distillation of much of Radcliffe's images and tropes into a delightfully lurid and supernatural plot. (To extend Stephen King's metaphor that the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole's _The Castle of Otranto_ was the genre's Elvis Presley and Lewis' novel its Sex Pistols, one is tempted to say this is its prog rock.) But students of the genre and the novel in general will want to read one of the most popular Gothics and study Radcliffe's technique -- including her somewhat clumsy backstory passages.

Finally, it would be a mistake to leave the impression this is just a novel of fear and anxiety. The love between Valancourt and Emily makes this a romance in every sense of the word.

Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford English Novels)

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Clarissa Meets Wuthering Heights

Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford English Novels)
Ann Radcliffe
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0192553062

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Clarissa Meets Wuthering Heights.......2007-02-12

Though assigned to read for a Gothic Lit. class, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the story moved along quite quickly. It's an extremely easy read, even though the book is rather thick. The beginning of the plot may be thought to be a bit slow since Radcliffe is setting the scene and characters are being introduced. But after the first few hundred pages it really picks up. Some have claimed that Radcliffe was a sensational writer, using plot events to shock readers and keep them reading. Though an argument can be made, it is entirely a Gothic novel and displays all the elements that Edmund Burke elaborated on in his "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful". Radcliffe constantly refers to the Burkeian theme of finding the sublime in nature and not in the Parisian social circles which can only display a false sense of gandeur. Also the requisite Gothic castles(sometimes bordering the sea, or other "sublime" places like the mountains or wilderness, are included). There's also an underlying message of morality weaved throughout the text, and various acceptable forms of behavior are often postulated by the characters. Superstition is also explored and shown to be both dangerous and foolish.

Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic Romance: A Psychoanalytic Approach (Gothic Studies and Dissertations Series)

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Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic Romance: A Psychoanalytic Approach (Gothic Studies and Dissertations Series)
Leona F. Sherman
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THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO(hORACE WALPOLE)/THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO(ANN RADCLIFFE)/NORTHANGER ABBEY(JANE AUSTEN)

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THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO(hORACE WALPOLE)/THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO(ANN RADCLIFFE)/NORTHANGER ABBEY(JANE AUSTEN)

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole-The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (Abridged) - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole-The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (Abridged) - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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The Castle Of Ontario The Mysteries Of Udolpho And Northanger Abbey

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The Castle Of Ontario The Mysteries Of Udolpho And Northanger Abbey
Walpole Radcliffe And Austen
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The Castle of Otranto The Mysteries of Udolpho Northanger Abbey

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The Castle of Otranto The Mysteries of Udolpho Northanger Abbey
Horace, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen Walpole
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The Classics of Mystery
Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels: The Italian, The Romance Of The Forest, The Mysteries Of Udolpho

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Mrs. Radcliffe's Novels: The Italian, The Romance Of The Forest, The Mysteries Of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Incredibly imaginitive...

Beautiful, intriguing and enchanting!

A truly unique set

Worth a hundred smiles

Beautiful & Inspiring

The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean
Nick Bantock
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Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence

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Few books are more romantic than this trilogy, nor more surreal. Griffin Moss is a rather doleful, lonesome, gaunt, and haunted postcard designer in London. Sabine Strohem is an illustrator of stamps living on an island in the South Pacific. One day Griffin gets an extraordinary letter from Sabine revealing that she knows all kinds of things about his life and work--somehow, she can share his soul from afar. They start exchanging love letters, yet it remains an open question whether Griffin and Sabine are two hearts that mystically beat as one, or simply illusory. "You're a figment of my imagination," Griffin accuses Sabine. "You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened," Sabine replies. Phantom or soul mate, Sabine is pursued across the globe by Griffin in an increasingly impassioned fashion, and the mysteries deepen.

The legendarily popular trilogy of books containing the Griffin-Sabine correspondence literally contains the correspondence: postcards, front and back, and letters in envelopes pasted into the book, which the reader must open and read--a temptation few can resist. Nick Bantock's story was way ahead of the computer game Myst, with which it shares a moody allure. Bantock designed hundreds of book covers (for Philip Roth, John Updike, and others) before he fled London for a lovely island off the west coast of Canada with his rather Sabine-like artist wife and became improbably famous by dreaming up this trilogy. His artwork is gorgeous, and countless romances have been intensified by exposure to that of Griffin and Sabine. --Tim Appelo

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Incredibly imaginitive..........2007-10-04

This story takes you on a wildly unexpected journey between Griffin and Sabine. Just when you think you know where it's headed... you are taken to a completely different place! Incredibly imaginitive... beautifully designed artwork... Loved it!

Beautiful, intriguing and enchanting!.......2007-08-06

There is something incredibly exhilirating about reading other people's correspondence; that is essentially what you do when you read this trilogy. But there is more... it is a lovely and engaging love story with sufficient intrigue and mystery to keep you going from book to book. The illustrations are superb and are basically a feast for the eye.

A truly unique set.......2007-06-08

These are just beautiful books...a thin but intriguing story line but extraordinary presentation with wonderful art. Read the letters in the envelopes or the postcards... They're unlike anything I've ever seen. We're giving each of our kids a set as gifts.

Worth a hundred smiles.......2007-05-12

I give this book an "All the Stars in the Sky."

Beautiful & Inspiring.......2007-02-21

I first stumbled upon Griffin & Sabine in a tiny bookshop on my college campus. Years later I still re-read it and think about it often. The story is enchanting and the format of reading the correspondence through letters and postcards is very engaging. The artwork is creative and lovely as well, and I find myself returning to the books for inspiration again and again. Owning the boxed-set is a dream come true, as you'll want to read the other books as soon as you finish the first!

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