Disknowledge. Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Paperback - Katherine Eggert

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alch...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Jonathan (University of Exeter, UK) HughesIllustration(s): 12 bw illusNumber of pages: 440Publica...

Stunning previously unpublished photographs of steam in the area. Offers a richly rewarding and nostalgic tribute to the final years of steam.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Jonathan (University of Exeter, UK) HughesIllustration(s): 12 bw illusNumber of pages: 440Publica...

This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-...

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As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English...

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An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eigh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

An illustrated history one of England's finest cities - London and its famous East End.

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Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, black people have ...

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Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Flor...

We Are All Weird is Seth Godin's cult classic on celebrating (and marketing to) the individual, now repackaged and relaunchedWorld of Warcrafters, ...

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A heartwarming and unforgettable middle-grade debut about one boy's journey to fix his family, with the help of some unexpected friends he meets al...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Mark (Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of Vienna) CoeckelberghIllustration(s): 4 b 8 ...

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The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells th...

Cuba: The Mob, Castro, and the End of the Embargo, explores Cuba's complicated history and emergence from an era of economic isolation from the US....

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Douglas MurphyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. DescriptionHow the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.European narratives of the Atlantic New Wo...

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Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...