Oxford Book of Death, Paperback - ***

'Reading for this anthology, ' says D. J. Enright in his introduction, 'I was moved to the thought that on no theme have writers shown themselves m...

A Matter of Life and Death investigates famous explorers and sailors who became stranded or lost and had to fight for their survival in extreme con...

Throughout the 19th century fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyon...

Reducere. A dangerous book. A hidden secret. A deadly betrayal.The Oxford Literary Festival is in full swing, but Detective Inspector Bridget Hart isn't ther...

Reducere. A dangerous book. A hidden secret. A deadly betrayal.The Oxford Literary Festival is in full swing, but Detective Inspector Bridget Hart isn't ther...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the l...

Reducere. Surprised by Jack follows the journey of C. S. Lewis from atheism to belief. The book recounts the people, books, and events that helped in molding...

Stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide. This fully-updated new edition provides clear facts and practical advice as to why strok...

Reducere. The Egyptian Amduat, "Book of the Hidden Chamber", is a fascinating text from ancient Egypt that describes the journey of the deceased. It tells of...

In 1919 the distinguished scholar Walter Evans-Wentz visited an Indian monastery, where he encountered the source of this famous volume. Derived fr...

Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. Thi...

Reducere. The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda. Already legal in five states, it is the subject of intense publi...

'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. Fo...

Reducere. DescriptionPublication is planned to time with the canonization of Newman on October 13, 2019 Newman's Meditations and Devotions was first publishe...

"A secretive magician s death becomes the catalyst for his partner s journey self-discovery in this enchanting book ("San Francisco Chronicle") " t...

Reducere. When children lose someone they love, they lose part of their very identity. Life, as they knew it, will never be quite the same. The world that on...

Reducere. It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are. The Road to Wigan...

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1...

Reducere. It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are. The Road to Wigan...

A SELECTION OF THE LOST BOOKS CLUB An exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book, The Furies confronts the claims of family and the...

The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully ...

John Guy here provides the most complete narrative history of Tudor England in more than 30 years. A compelling account of political and religious ...

Reducere. The ancient Egyptians created some of the world's most beautiful art and architecture. To this day, this ancient civilization--which produced the g...

Reducere. Richard Hillary's book The Last Enemy was first published in the UK in 1942 just seven months before his untimely death. It is an extraordinary fir...

Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fiction...

hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. ...

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have wit...

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our ...

Reducere. Experience the Primal Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt The spiritual traditions of Ancient Egypt are well documented and are at the forefront of the...

Reducere. Who invited Death to the wedding?When an ancient beam falls on one of the guests at Charlie and Alice's wedding, it looks like the work of the deat...

Reducere. This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, monum...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert ConquestThe Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th ce...

Reducere. This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology's essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source ...

The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a virtuoso performa...

Reducere. This set of sermons was delivered by St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407), when, most likely, he was a priest in Antioch, which at the time was under th...

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-cent...

Reducere. Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meani...

In Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan engages in deep conversations-some spanning the course of yea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different form...

In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995), on...

Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of de...

DescriptionIn Natural Theology, William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world....

Reducere. On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's cou...

Reducere. Rodrigo Diaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is remembered today as the Christian hero of the Spanish cr...

The publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear wo...

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1563, John Foxe published an account of the life of Christian martyrs, beginning with Stephen, the first to die for the cause of Chri...

As more of us live longer, the fear of an old age devastated by brain diseases like dementia is growing. Many people are already facing the challen...

Reducere. It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our ...

Reducere. To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight....

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Reducere. This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the ...

Reducere. This hilarious Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice tells the story of two hard-headed Civil war historians who find that first ...

Reducere. DescriptionBertha von Suttner was a pioneer in the peace movement at the end of the 19th century, while Alfred Nobel earned his fortune on the inve...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in d...

Reducere. HE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO EVEN TALK TO A HUMAN... MUCH LESS FALL IN LOVE WITH ONE.Sixteen-year-old Ryann Carroll has just run into the guy who saved her...