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Grand Home Furnishings, formerly Grand Piano & Furniture, got its start as a piano and musical instrument store in Roanoke, Virginia. Several decades later, the company sells mattresses and home furnishings through more than 15 stores in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The company stocks furniture from such manufacturers as Hooker, La-Z-Boy, Klaussner, Vaughan-Bassett, Meadowcraft, and Thomasville, and the mattresses come from Tempur Sealy, to name a few. Grand Home Furnishings was founded in 1910, and acquired in 1945 by the current owners, the Cartledge family. George Cartledge Jr. is the company's CEO.

The present article considers one example, among many possible ones, in which tragic spectacle is likely to lead spectators neither to a sense of reconciliation nor to a recognition of transcendent albeit harsh justice. Alexandre Hardy's early seventeenth-century Scedase, ou l'Hospitalite violee (Scedase, or Violated Hospitality) serves as an example of the tragic representation of horrible actions and allows us to infer the emotional experience of the theatrical and reading public. The emotional spectrum of early modern French tragedy proposed here will include audience reactions different from that majestic sadness that constitutes all the pleasure of tragedy, as Racine writes in his preface to Berenice. Yet, even as the authors consider that the type of emotions both represented and provoked in their plays differs, they recall that seventeenth-century French tragic dramatists explicitly intended to awaken passionate feeling in the audience.

I am 47 years old and was in a management role for an IT firm until it was taken over four months ago. Since my redundancy, I have applied for numerous jobs and been interviewed for a couple, but had no luck. I don't think that I am alone in believing that I'm in my prime, and with years of experience in this industry. People say anti- ageism policies exist in the workplace, but there is no proof that I am less flexible than my younger peers nor slower to learn. What can I do to get around the perception that I'm only fit for early retirement?

Tucci explores the scholarly works of military historians who produced excellent books of ancient military history. These historians of the ancient world have produced works ranging chronologically from early Mesopotamia to classical Greece to the decline of the Roman Empire, and categorically from detailed campaign histories of individual battles to biographies of famous ancient generals to broad surveys of ancient warfare. Among other things, Paul Cartledge's Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World sets the stage of the story with broad chapters on the two opponents, Achaemenid Persia and classical Sparta. Cartledge's use of well-placed plates, depicting archaeological relics and artwork, and his translations of key ancient literary passages are particularly effective in making his description of the early fifth century B.C. more vivid. As a military history, the narrowing tramework with which the author opens the book also helps to explain the strategic setting of the Persian Empire and the peculiar Spartan social system.

David Pellegrini, Book Review Editor, Performing Arts Department, Shafer 12, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226, or via electronic mail: pellegrinid@eastemct. edu. Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance. Prentiss, Craig R. Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theatre from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.

Standards Australia has released a revised Australian Standard for General Conditions of Contract for Consultants (AS 4122).Industry body Consult Australia welcomes the release, recognising the importance of and critical need for an up to date, contemporary, and relevant standard agreement for the engagement of consultants.Consult Australia along with Association of Consulting Architects Australia, Australasian Procurement andConstruction Council, Australian Constructors Association, Australian Institute of...

David Pellegrini, Book Review Editor, Performing Arts Department, Shafer 14, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226, or via electronic mail: pellegrinid@easternct. edu. Please indicate areas of expertise and specify which title(s) you are interested in reviewing; an updated list of available books will be provided upon request. Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in DePion-Era African American Performance.

David Pellegrini, Book Review Editor, Performing Arts Department, Shafer 12, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226; or by email: pellegrinid@easternct.edu. Please indicate areas of expertise and specify which title(s) you are interested in reviewing; an updated list of available books will be provided upon request. Publishers and/or authors interested in having their titles listed for review should forward books to the above address.