Stella Pevsner's Books

Just as Nina begins to accept her parents' divorce, she discovers her father's new wife is to be her seventh grade math teacher.

Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a reappraisal of the 1940s films of Powell and Pressburger focusing on their use of landscape. Questioning the established notion that the two film-makers, owing to their non-British personal roots, are located as un-British and ‘other’, Stella Hockenhull draws a correlation between the two media of film and painting to suggest otherwise. Emphasising the spiritual aspects of landscape and nature at a time when the experience and imagery of the war years generated a particular kind of ‘affect’ arising from the aftermath of destruction, she locates Powell and Pressburger’s wartime films in their historical and cultural context, notably Neo-Romanticism. By offering a close analysis of films such as A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I’m Going!, Black Narcissus and Gone to Earth she finds similar aesthetic qualities in a number of British landscape paintings executed contemporaneously. Drawing on press reviews for contemporary spectator response, Neo-Romantic Landscapes offers a redirection of Film Studies, foregrounding the aesthetic pleasures of cinema in excess of narrative plausibility, thus resituating Powell and Pressburger in the British cultural traditions of the visual arts.

Organization students and scholars are able to trace the rise of aesthetics in management studies through the papers presented in this volume. The papers are arranged for individual review or thematic explorations of aesthetic thinking; including review papers and articles that focus on fashion, narrative, theatre, music and craft. This volume is a major contribution for those seeking alternatives to rational and positivist perspectives on management and who are willing to explore those alternatives beyond the usual disciplinary bases.

Doug and his friends keep their pet goat a secret from their families, but before long, sightings of the high-spirited animal occur at very inappropriate places.

Eleven-year-old Dan, whose artist parents have kept him moving around all his life, fears he will lose the friends he has made at his new school, until the class sleepover coincides with a bad winter storm.

Thirteen-year-old Natalie's life undergoes chaotic changes when her stepmother has quintuplets and their roomy Chicago home becomes a huge nursery.

At a tracking station in Virginia, U.S. Navy officers watch in horror as one of their communications satellites plummets into the Indian Ocean and panic spreads through the British and American intelligence services. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the cyber sabotage, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and how is he connected to Liz? Is this a Russian plot to disable the West's defenses? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team search for a mole inside the Ministry of Defense, the trail takes them from Geneva, to Marseilles, and to Korea in a race against time to stop the Cold War from heating up.

Fran's best friend leaves for summer camp and now Fran does not know how she'll ever get through two long months without Debbie.

Young Heller debates how to handle the intrusion of an aunt into her family life and activities in the summer of 1927.

Five books in the outstanding Liz Carlyle espionage series, written by the former Head of MI5. Rip Tide When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast, MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could have ended up onboard, armed with a Kalashnikov. The Geneva Trap When a rogue spy warns her of a plot to hack into the West's military satellite systems, MI5's Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her. Close Call Liz Carlyle and the Counter Terrorism Unit must investigate the undercover arms trade and prevent a possible attack on Europe, with Liz caught up in a manhunt that leads her to Paris, to Berlin and into her own long-forgotten past. Breaking Cover Recovering from a grueling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle is soon on the hunt for a Russian spy whose work threatens to plunge Britain back into a new Cold War. The Moscow Sleepers Liz Carlyle investigates a sinister plot concerning a European sleeper agent who is beginning to question his role while suspicions have been roused about a boarding school in Suffolk that has recently changed hands in mysterious circumstances.

While recovering from rheumatic fever and a move from Chicago to a small southern town, fourteen-year-old Jon becomes involved with a troubled young girl's recreation of an ancient druid ceremony.

Starved for attention, middle child Hannah goes back and forth between living with her mother and her father and becomes determined to be an individual in a family that seems to barely notice her, in a humorous, heartwarming story.

Recalls the events in a North Vietnamese village that forever changed the lives of the youngest daughter of a prosperous trader and her family.

Andrea feels her parents unfairly focus most of their attention on her trouble-making older sister.

Young Heller debates how to handle the intrusion of an aunt into her family life and activities in the summer of 1927.

Thirteen-year-old Emma, one of a set of quintuplets, struggles to maintain her individuality as she attends acting class, prepares for her half-sister's wedding, and auditions for a movie.

Twelve-year-old Richard struggles to achieve independence in spite of a learning disability while his great-grandfather defies the family's plans to curtail his own independent lifestyle.

While recovering from rheumatic fever and a move from Chicago to a small southern town, fourteen-year-old Jon becomes involved with a troubled young girl's recreation of an ancient druid ceremony.

Teen-aged Lindsay, after spending most of her life in India and other faraway places with her businessman father, is perplexed and unhappy when she is suddenly sent to live with her aunt Meg in the United States.

7B by Stella Cameron released on Feb 22, 2001 is available now for purchase.

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