A Little History of Literature

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A great deal of research and literature has been produced on repairing concrete structures, but very little aimed at conserving the character or ap...

This book explores the representations of militarisim and masculinity in Charlotte and Branwell Bront 's youthful writings. It offers insight into ...

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

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DescriptionThe narration of lives (bioi) is pervasive in ancient written texts, but there has been comparatively little recent research into the ge...

An unsurpassed surge of humanityIn words and images this book seeks to capture both the glory days and haunting reminders of 21 Victorian Gold Rush...

Reducere. A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history. BAR...

Reducere. The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensivel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy,...

Reducere. Harlan and Anna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Harlan is an a...

Reducere. Although we are learning a lot from historians about the lives of slaves in the United States, we still know little about slavery in the Caribbean....

Reducere. Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proxim...

DescriptionJennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as ...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish t...

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our mod...

Contributor(s): Author: Josette ElayiThe history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious pe...

Contributor(s): Editor: Gregory ClaeysEditor: Lyman Tower SargentThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements i...

Reducere. John Muir's Story about a Dog and Glacier Exploration in AlaskaThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1909 book-form version...

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of wea...

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monot...

Reducere. ... a most illuminating and readable general survey.... This book is well organized, well produced, and well written. It belongs among the ten most...

Reducere. Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriag...

DescriptionWith gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flower...

Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only ...

Reducere. Why do the words "little house" go straight to the heart, as Sir John Summerson observed? Clearly, something beyond economy is at work. For centuri...

Reducere. As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, ...

Reducere. Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on t...

Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, origin...

Reducere. Anyone Can Read the Great Books . . . with a Little Help "An illuminating, learned, well-written, and entertaining survey of the giants of world li...

Reducere. "The Brehon Laws" explores early Irish--or "Brehon"--law, which shaped everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. It looks at the history, influences...

Reducere. The mythology of "gifted land" is strong in the National Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were "gifted" by people who had little if any...

Reducere. In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Reducere. He journeyed farther than his near contemporary Marco Polo, though Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta (1304-c. 1377) is barely remembered at all compared t...

Reducere. To discover the full story of Rome's rise to become the mightiest empire the world has known and the astounding little-known facts about how it fel...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern It...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James BoyceAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty a...

Reducere. When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had i...

Reducere. Shilappadikaram or the Ankle Bracelet is one of the five major epics of Tamil literature. It was composed as a verse romance in Tamil by Ilango Adi...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

DescriptionA comprehensive examination of the intertwined mythology, folklore, and literary history of the little people - Explores the pagan roots...

DescriptionA lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people t...

DescriptionA vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatu...

Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult ...

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITE...

DescriptionCarnivorous plants are a unique botanical group, possessing modified leaves to trap, kill, and consume small creatures. As a result they...

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Reducere. Winner of the National Book Award" Clark's] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and li...

Reducere. My story finds me a somewhat frustrated genealogist, simply because of the meager success I experienced in my search for the origins of my family n...

Reducere. Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-y...

Reducere. To discover the full story of Rome's rise to become the mightiest empire the world has known and the astounding little-known facts about how it fel...

Reducere. - A fascinating, illustrated exploration of the integral roles cats have played in our myths, legends, and history. - By the highly acclaimed autho...

Reducere. YUNUS EMRE: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a ...

Reducere. Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses...

Reducere. Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs...

Reducere. This is the earliest record of Breaker Morant s exploits and reprinted for the first time since 1902. Written under the pseudonym of Frank Renar by...

Reducere. A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society - serf, provinci...

This is a story about four real-life girls, with real-life joys and problems. A story about "Little Women" who became four of the most beloved hero...

DescriptionThree plays by Racine For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking ...

DescriptionA journey of discovery through the nocturnal forest While mother wolf is on the hunt, her four little wolves venture out of their burrow...

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of wea...

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature

Reducere. A classic work of Christian literature commissioned by the Franciscan Order in the year 1250, The Life of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure--the Tusca...

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populat...

A blend of literary history, memoir, and self-help that shows how French literature can bring humor, happiness, and romance to our lives Like many ...

Reducere. Greeks were history's great men of thought. John Haaren has collected stories from the lives of thirty famous Greek men, detailing the rise, Golden...

This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to...