Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Hardcover - Zena Hitz

Reducere. An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, techno...

Reducere. An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, techn...

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. Winner of the Medical Journalists' Association's Tony Thistlethwaite AwardA Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksRecipient ...

Reducere. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clie...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist...

52 overlooked small pleasures, for a life, from 'flirtation' to 'cyprus trees'. Short, enjoyable meditations on small pleasures - one for each week...

Reducere. DescriptionAs gardening columnist for the New York Times, Anne Raver is one of our foremost authorities on making things grow. Even non-gardeners w...

Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States ...

Reducere. Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a profe...

Publisher: Byrom ProjectsAuthor(s): Joy HancoxIllustration(s): charts, diagrams, photographs, 22 in colour, 27 b&wNumber of pages: 288Publication d...

Reducere. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clie...

Reducere. DescriptionA young girl's life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be b...

Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.Publisher: The School of Life PressAuthor(s): The School of LifeNumber of pages...

Reducere. With A New Epilogue by editor Barbara GrahamIn this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the cliches and tell the r...

DescriptionThough few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811-65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of h...

Publisher: Sounds True IncAuthor(s): Kristen WixtedNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Reducere. When one encounters a metaphor in the Humanities, the interpretation of that metaphor is dominated by either cognitive linguistics or post-Kantian ...

Reducere. Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world--so she sought out the best obits in the English langua...

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 ...

Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan Sun.

DescriptionIn 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called...

Reducere. I killed my Kiron.He was my everything and I killed him. He changed our plan too late for me to argue; too late for me to internalize and accept it...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Shaul MagidNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 173 x 242 x 30Cover type: Hardback...

Contributor(s): Author: Brittney C. CooperBeyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the ev...

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 "Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator." --The New York Times Book Revie...

An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyonc . Daphne A. Brooks explo...

A visually stunning journey into the diversity and wonders of forests.In his international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben ope...

This revolutionary book empowers its readers by exploring enduring, challenging, and timely philosophical issues in new essays written by expert wo...

The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Buildi...

Reducere. This entry in the popular Little Bit of series introduces the ancient practice of Zen Buddhism. What is Zen? It's an ancient spiritual system roote...

Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into in...

DescriptionPublished to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire Rydell ArcenasIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dim...

The first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the "spiritual father" of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextuali...

DescriptionAlex Hitz, "the very best host in the world" says the Wall Street Journal, shares more than 100 timeless, tried-and-true recipes for cla...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Russell MeansAuthor: Bayard JohnsonIllustrator: Russell MeansIn the last months before leaving to join the Ancestors, Russe...