The book provides not only an insightful overview of McGrath's persistent and highly varied engagement with the Gothic, it also situates his work in terms of the evolving critical and theoretical discourses with which the Gothic has become imbricated. The introduction states that a "contextualization of the fiction in relation to literary traditions, the contemporary cultural and social context and McGrath's own sense of a writing identity all inform this book" (6), and this is a balance that is maintained throughout.

Michelangelo's life was so long, his projects--pictorial, sculptural and architectural --on so large a scale, his work so imbricated with the political, religious and social worlds of his day, in which his position was as central as that of an artist could be, that one can read several biographies with little sense of repetition: each writer will select and recompose the elements of Michelangelo's life, art and world differently.

Rifkin brings Driskill's landmark theory of a "sovereign erotic," which recognizes the imbricated nature of sovereignty and sexuality, into play as a counterpoint to such damaging logics.

The catheterizable channel, approximately 10 cm of ileum, was then imbricated. A 12-French silicone catheter was passed through the 10 cm segment, through the ileocecal valve and into the right colon.

Cywes also holds certifications in LAP-BAND[R] Bariatric Surgery, Imbricated LapBand, Gastric Sleeve Surgery and Covidien Masters Bariatric Surgery.

Implicit in the framework of the book is the new historiography of Jewish-Christian relations and the mutually imbricated history of Judaism and Christian now taken for granted by many scholars.

The Study area is a part of the Kot-Pranghar Melange Zone, which is comprised of rocks of ophiolitic sequence and is located at the northern tip of the Indian plate in the vicinity of Indus Suture Zone (ISZ) or Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) along which a thick imbricated melange zone of greenschist, blueschist, and serpentinite intervenes between the Kohistan Arc and the Indian Plate.

Their position was further imbricated by the communal inclusion of Eurafrican Jews who, under specific conditions, could secure white status for their grandchildren.

They reflected attitudes and procedures which were deeply imbricated in the local culture: codes of silence and vendetta; popular justice: intimidation, ridicule, public humiliation, mutilation and lynching.

The detailed structure of the easternmost syncline, the La Rovira syncline, involving both the imbricated Silurian and Devonian rocks and the Ordovician rocks, is well constrained because it was drilled during the construction of the La Rovira road tunnel (Fig.

Joyce Lowrie's study unites French texts from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries around the thematic and structural device of the mirror, largely through an analysis of chiasmus and "imbricated structures" (a-b--a-b) at both macro- and microtextual levels, along with consideration of techniques such as ekphrasis and mise-en-abyme.

Arguing that being Caucasian is not the same as being white, the first a scientific and genealogical rather than social term which is easily "overwhelmed by a constellation of cultural values placed on blackness and whiteness" throughout the novels he studies, Duvall prefaces his study with a wish to explore a "metaphysics of class privilege" (60) predicated on "a series of imbricated relations between racial and other forms of otherness, particularly that of gender/sexuality and class" (2).