Private History of Happiness

A moving and compelling anthology of quiet yet powerful moments of everyday bliss, drawn not from grand literary works but from private letters, jo...

Reducere. DescriptionRenowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautiful...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Alchemy of Happiness' was written by Al-Ghazzali-a Persian theologian and philosopher. Upon its release, 'The Alchemy of Happiness' ...

Publisher: Private Tour ScotlandAuthor(s): James JohnstoneNumber of pages: 130Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 25Cover type: Paperback...

Even more scurrilous than 'Rome', A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors tells the true story of toga parties, banquets, and th...

What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. And where did all these normal activities take ...

The author was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what hi...

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition In this provocative and now-classic ...

Friedrich Engels' treatise on family economics and its connection with human history and development is published here in full. Engels examines the...

Reducere. Friedrich Engels takes you on a tour around the evolution of the human society into the current establishment we take for granted as the ever-exist...

Edward's private world is revealed in this exciting new work by John Ashdown-Hill, author of The Mythology of Richard III

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors Award for Nonfiction New Jersey's land records and deeds are unlikely sources for a thri...

The author of }The January Man{ crosses Britain, visiting its storied cathedrals and considering the history of these buildings, encountering belie...

The memoirs of the Girondist Manon Roland were written in prison and smuggled out to a friend, the botanist Louis Augustin Bosc, who published them...

Reducere. In this book, readers are given a rare glimpse into the life of Hungary's most controversial noblewoman, Countess Erzs bet (Elizabeth) B thory. Ove...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (German: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an ...

A revelatory history of one of the UK's much-loved rivers which runs through the world's best-known city, and how it evolved through time to quench...

In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution - and the potential twenty first century death of - the diary, mourning what...

DescriptionJohn Howard's name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire ...

A step-by-step, comprehensive approach to private equity and private debt Private Capital Investing: The Handbook of Private Debt and Private Equit...

A newly updated biography of life behind the Palace doors - a celebration of the 60 year reign of Elizabeth II.

Reducere. A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practica...

A look inside the hidden world of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. If we think of these clubs as p...

DescriptionA cultural history of the modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames ...

This book, rather than looking at what Cromwell did and wrote for the king, and what he did in the royal court, will look at who he was as an indiv...

As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally importan...

Reducere. DescriptionWorld War One is the event that set the stage for the modern world and transformed the United States from an isolationist promised land ...

A humorous follow-up to Wellness Syndrome offering a lively critique of neoliberal appropriation of the idea of happiness, taking aim at our increa...

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyo...

This volume offers a comprehensive collection of studies on social engineering by the state in Nazi Germany. It examines the concept of Volksgemein...

Reducere. Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent T...

The first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president's private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception.Never before have ...

Reducere. Description1861: as America erupts into civil war, Emma Edmonds is roused to such intense patriotism that she joins the Union army...as a man. Rais...

Reducere. In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgensteina s analysis of the notion of following a rule.

New in B-format paperback - A fresh perspective on Churchill and life in wartime by the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister.Publish...

The first-hand account of a Private in Wellington's Army - vividly portrayed through his own letters. 'Simply marvellous' TESPublisher: Orion Publi...