News from the Raven. Essays from Sam Houston State University on Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Unabridged ed, Hardback - ***

This volume, edited from the proceedings of a unique conference held at Sam Houston State University, offers the reader an independent Texas-style ...

Reducere. This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters--with Daniel B...

The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying the...

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin's first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide mul...

Reducere. Named for Herman Daly, the champion of steady-state economics, The Daly News was published online by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady S...

This collection of provocative new essays, mainly by French scholars, on Shakespeare's great tragedy, focuses on linguistic, aesthetic and philosop...

Set in Wessex countryside, this is a story of a young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayw...

Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. This wide-ranging work...

Reducere. Writer, activist, and indefatigable community leader in the American West, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1876-1941) offers a remarkable, well-researched...

The primary role played by religion in the development of the Spanish nation in the Iberian Peninsula and its subsequent role in the Spanish conque...

This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close...

On California explores this world-class wine region with some of the most respected writers to have written about it. A beautiful volume for all wi...

Reducere. Why aren't more women at the top of the ivory tower?The academy claims to be a meritocracy, in which the best and brightest graduate students gain ...

DescriptionRenaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has ...

This richly illustrated book presents the fascinating results from a major project to examine the heritage of Finzel's Reach, the site of the forme...

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A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity

Reducere. The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment ...

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

This volume brings together a range of prominent and emerging voices within American and European Islamic studies to share the latest developments ...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Carole HillenbrandIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 416Collection: Edinburgh...

Pathological mind games. Covert and overt put-downs. Triangulation. Gaslighting. Projection. These are the manipulative tactics survivors of malign...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

Ethics has become a particularly relevant topic for discussion and a subject for serious study. It has a very long tradition, of course; but nowada...

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Reducere. Author Rory Raven has collected stories and tales drawn from the history and folklore of one of the oldest cities in the nation. From restless spir...

A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the flu...

Reducere. For far too long, horror has been considered a male genre, made by men, marketed to men, and enjoyed by men. But in the last decade, we have seen a...

From Villain to Hero explores the reception of Odysseus in philosophy from the Socratics to the Middle Platonists.Publisher: The University of Mich...

Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of r...

Reducere. Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant dur...

As one of the many by-products of Moore's Law, personal computers have, in recent decades, become powerful enough to record real-time eye movements...