Historic Heart of Oxford University, The, Hardback - Geoffrey Tyack

This book tells the story of the growth of the 'forum universitatis' and relates it to the broader history of the University and the city. Accessib...

Chronicles the architectural development of Oxford - both University and City - from its origins to the late twentieth century, explaining the idio...

At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthu...

Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until ...

Attempting to bring Chaucer back to life, four medieval alchemists invite a group of Chaucer's best-known pilgrims - the Knight, the Wife of Bath, ...

North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectu...

Fascinating and insightful in its coverage, this is essential reading for anyone who has ever been curious about the law. First Steps in the Law lo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. W...

This book explores the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable en...

The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later seventh c...

Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep hum...

Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious and original survey of war's nature, character, and future. He presents a unique theoretical framewor...

The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the ...

Presents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geo...

From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes an historical thriller that will take your breath away

Stronghold Scotland is your passport (or should that be pastport?) to a land 2, 000 or more years ago. Welcome to the Iron Age.Publisher: Riverside...

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An exploration of the later work of Geoffrey Hill, often described as 'the greatest living poet' in his lifetime. This book reads, interprets, eval...

Covering Geoffrey Chaucer's life and work, David Wallace considers the influence and enduring appeal of his body of writing, explores the wide rang...

We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork an...

The diary of David Watson, who rose through the officer ranks to command one of the four divisions in the Great War, is an exceptional document tha...

An edited volume mapping the history of the book, from the Ancient World through to the rapidly changing world of the book in the second decade of ...

Reducere. The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from ...

The Cell: A Molecular Approach is the only one-semester introduction to cell biology text built around learning objectives, and the only text to in...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Geoffrey ChaucerNumber of pages: 56Collection: DominoesPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 5...

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 ...

Written by a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars, a deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising examination of who has Firs...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infur...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Maria HeimNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 225 x 35Cover type: HardbackR...

The only critical edition of Morrison's searing tale of life in the slums of London's East End.

In 1870, 17-year-old apprentice bookbinder Etienne Bonin travels from revolutionary Lyon to even more revolutionary Paris seeking excitement and pr...

An exciting, lyrical new retelling of the trojan war stories from Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) an...

Russia's sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especially given its harsh climate, vast and vulnerable ...

Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the ...

Reducere. As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values i...

The Bloomsbury Girls is a compelling and heart-warming story of post-war London, a century-old bookshop and three women determined to find their wa...

Reducere. This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, is the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of...

This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox.

The first English translation of a classic of German tort theory, this book analyses the theoretical foundations of tort law in historical and comp...

Reducere. Offering a striking and reasonably priced alternative to expensive atlases that focus almost exclusively on military movements, Concise Historical ...

DescriptionThe image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Po...