Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea, Hardcover - Alice Oswald

Reducere. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fi...

A book-length poem on the spectacle and symbol of the ocean, based on the }Odyssey{ and featuring key figures from Greek mythology.

Reducere. In 1906 the Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Giosuè Carducci of Italy for extraordinary lifelong accomplishment in the field of poetry. He...

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of ...

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - the vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches fo...

Reducere. In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in favor of attendi...

Reducere. Sometimes Tim feels invisible at school-until one day, when Tim meets Sam. But Sam isn't just any new friend: he's a blue whale, and he can't find ...

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and can...

The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and can...

Oswald's third collection of poems, following the success of her acclaimed river-poem Dart, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Written over several ye...

Reducere. So much more than a cookbook; it is a love song to a special place and its cuisine Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Ch...

Reducere. Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, ``give s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the ...

Reducere. One woman chosen by the God of the Sea. A king hellbent on saving his mysterious island home. And a forbidden romance that could destroy them all.F...

Reducere. The Hymn to Kali is a famous Hindu verse wherein the religious monarch Daksha initiates a prayer to the Goddess Kali, shortly after he experiences ...

3rd edition. Facilitates the reader's understanding of underlying mathematical and theoretical models by presenting a mixture of theory and applica...

Reducere. When bullies pick on Ray--a boy at school--a classmate is afraid, but decides that he must do something, and with adult help, the children and Ray ...

Reducere. For centuries, dating back to the time of the Native Americans, the fertile soils and the bountiful bays and salt marshes of the Delmarva Peninsula...

Reducere. In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler's classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than eighty...

The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. It is also our greatest graveyard. Resting in its depths lay the lost ships of war spanning the totali...

Reducere. These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playful...

DescriptionSince its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make Ameri...

Reducere. In this redesigned edition of Scott O'Dell's classic novel, a young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experie...

Reducere. The African world has not healed from its traumatic past. The current clashes between black anger and white populism are symptoms of America's long...

Reducere. Neruda's epic hymn against fascism, ``Spain in Our Hearts, `` now available in this pocket Bibelot edition. In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consu...

A sassy tale of two elderly French ladies in their nineties, who take their first-ever vacation. They are off to Trouville on the Normandy coast an...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller ``If you are a real soccer player--then this is the book for you to read . . . Inspiring and uplifting. ``--GoalNation ...

The 30 coolest ways to wear a headscarf step by step - for holidays, festivals and bad hair days.

Reducere. DescriptionDuring his long life, the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley knew just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Winston Churchi...

Description"The sea is as near as we come to another world." --Anne Stevenson This book celebrates oceans, coasts and shorelines the world over. Br...

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes and acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon comes an adventurous bath time story....