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Homer's classic poem describing the horror and heroism of men and gods has been rewritten to be easily understandable by readers of all ages. Read ...

This book is a wonderful introduction to the story of Aeneas, legendary ancestor of Romulus, who escapes from the burning city of Troy and wanders ...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Alfred GrunenwaldIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsPublication date: 2011Dimensions: 192 x 257 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. "In his salutatory of the first issue of the weekly newspaper L'Eco del Rhode Island, editor Federico Curzio declares that the 'Italian Colony of P...

Reducere. One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was put on trial and sen...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Alfred Swaine TaylorIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 702Publication date: 2010Dimens...

Reducere. People have reported encounters with God since the beginning of recorded history. Visitations gave rise to every major religion, influencing the he...

Reducere. Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurdall owe ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred K. LamottePraise for SAVOR ETERNITY Alfred K. LaMotte is truly the rarest kind of alchemist. With each poem in this ...

Reducere. Count Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879- 1950), was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist most remembered for developing the theory of g...

Reducere. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the icons of American filmmaking. A perfect example of Hollywood cinema at its best, it is an engaging pie...

Reducere. Wouldn't it be great if all school teachers (from kindergarten through high school) would share the joy of mathematics with their students, rather ...

Reducere. Award NameOklahoma Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionThe 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty ...

Reducere. Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it ...

Reducere. Almost everyone has heard of the Nobel Prize, a collection of prizes awarded for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. But f...

This book is a wonderful introduction to the story of Aeneas, legendary ancestor of Romulus, who escapes from the burning city of Troy and wanders ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred North WhiteheadAlfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the co...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred R. MeleDoes free will exist? The question has fueled heated debates spanning from philosophy to psychology and relig...

Cohen argues that Hitchcock's films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends.Publisher: The University Press of Kentu...

The adventures of some sixty pilots and ground crewmen who flew or worked on the Spitfire during the Second World War.The Spitfire was perhaps the ...

Reducere. The eleven original essays presented here serve to enlarge the canvas upon which American history is to be portrayed so that it will allow--or more...

Reducere. This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explai...

Reducere. The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to all readers who are fa...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred North WhiteheadPresents the texts of a series of lectures delivered between 1912 and 1928 on the purposes and practi...

Reducere. The genocidal barbarism of the Nazi forces has been well documented. What is little known is the fate of fifteen million German civilians who found...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the world of Dominant/submissive and Master/slave relationships, new seekers often find an overriding ideal archetype of dominants, m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul FattigWhen Uncle Sam ordered Alfred and Charlie Fattig to answer the military draft during World War I, the brothers i...

Reducere. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowe...

Reducere. In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsib...

Reducere. Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the f...

Reducere. DescriptionIn erotic stories, consensual submissives and slaves are usually beautiful, perfect people who can endure any hardship while balancing a...

Reducere. Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precis...

Reducere. One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he del...

Reducere. This book is for the use of slaves who wish to perfect their life by daily, weekly and monthly written exercises. The assignments are thoughtful an...

Reducere. When the first edition of A Christian Natural Theology appeared in 1965, it was a groundbreaking work that incorporated Alfred North Whitehead's me...

Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as...

Reducere. What is it like to live a deliberate negotiated power dynamic -- a dominant/submissive, master/slave, or owner/property relationship -- as part of ...

Reducere. Originally published by Random House in 1951, Home Is an Island is an autobiographical novel about boyhood on the Azores during the early twentieth...

Reducere. Greenwich Village is a tourist's dream and a favorite weekend destination for New Yorkers. A part of Manhattan Island that holds its own amid the n...

Reducere. Created by Samuel Ruggles as a haven for wealthy New Yorkers, both Gramercy Park and Union Square have been among Manhattan's most desirable neighb...

Reducere. A democratic and equitable international order is possible. Humanity needs this enforceable rules-based order for sustainable development and the w...

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.

DescriptionThis volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new per...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story that could be written by somebody like Joseph Conrad...

Reducere. Power Circuits is an alliance between two alternative lifestyles: polyamory, or multiple open and honest romantic relationships; and power dynamics...

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation i...

Reducere. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), co-discoverer of natural selection, was second only to Charles Darwin as the 19th century's most noted English n...

Description"To win, we must endeavour to be the stronger of the two at the point of impact. Our only hope of this lies in making our own choice of ...

Reducere. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, "The Politics of Heroin" includes meticulous documentation o...

Reducere. People have reported encounters with God since the beginning of recorded history. Visitations gave rise to every major religion, influencing the he...

Reducere. Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek have compiled a collection of fairy tales that ranges from the Grimm brothers' inimitable recreations of arche...

Alfred Bunn published these memoirs of his theatrical career in 1840. His account is written with a verve which makes it very readable, and provide...

Alfred Bunn published these memoirs of his theatrical career in 1840. His account is written with a verve which makes it very readable, and provide...

Reducere. The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia during the Overland Campaign has...

Reducere. The undervalued force behind the Highwaymen phenomenon A long-awaited testament to the life and work of Alfred Hair, the driving force of the Flori...

Reducere. In this substantially revised and updated edition of his 1986 business classic, Creating Shareholder Value, Alfred Rappaport provides managers and ...

Reducere. DescriptionPresents a fascinating portrait of Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), whose music was inextricably linked to the strictures of...

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

The authors challenge widespread beliefs that business accounting practices are neutral and involve the mere reporting of objective data, revealing...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism (1850s-1920s) is delineat...

Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War Captain Alfred Scott Mc...

Reducere. The Structures of the Life-World is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 193...

Reducere. José Martí (1853-1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the "Great Liberator" Si...

Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6, 000...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings ...

DescriptionWhen published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a sci...

Reducere. DescriptionScale and Scope is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winning The Visible Hand. Representing ten years of resea...