Bandolier's book reviews
Effectiveness and Efficiency. Random Reflections on Health Services. British Medical Journal & Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, Cambridge University Press 1989. [ISBN 0 7279 0282 2]. Rod Smith, Shaun Brogan, Richard Stephenson, Janet ... [... more]
Uni of Oxford Clinical School |
Joel Rotenberg
The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives ... [... more]
Random House |
Gemini 3 Light Ceiling Fitting - Cream/Gold
 The aged cream/gold finish and leaf detail gives a French provincial feel.Clear crystal droppers.Hand finished.Height 43cm.Diameter 40cm.Adjustable chain length 29cm max. Requires 3 x SES candle bulb max 60W.The price shown includes our latest in store [... more]
£34.99
Homebase |
Canadian Rockies 2009 Wall Calendar
This wall calendar features a dozen spectacular view of the Canadian Rockies. Scenes featured include Castle Mountain, Alberta; Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia; Three Sisters Mountain, Alberta; Blaeberry Valley, British Columbia; and Pilot [... more]
Calendar Club CA |
David Spalding
David Spalding's first dinosaur discovery was a Lambeosaurus, which he found in three separate packing cases in a museum basement. In 1967, he assumed the position of Head Curator of National History at the Provincial Museum of Alberta. There, he ... [... more]
Random House |
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado-novelist, journalist, lawyer-was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, clavo y canela. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was nineteen. It was an ... [... more]
Random House |
Idwal Jones
The chef's towering white toque, the high bonnet, is the mark of achievement to which every young sauce-stirrer aspires. Idwal Jones's urbane novel follows the young provincial Jean as he attempts to master culinary art at the hands of Paris's ... [... more]
Random House |
Shadi Bartsch
Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to ... [... more]
Random House |
Gregor von Rezzori
Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine-a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of ... [... more]
Random House |
Charles Simic
In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic re?ects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance ... [... more]
Random House |
Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a ... [... more]
Random House |
H. F. Broch De Rothermann
Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine-a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of ... [... more]
Random House |
