Ruins and Fragments. Tales of Loss and Rediscovery, Hardback - Robert Harbison

Ruins and Fragments is a wide-ranging, elliptical, engaging view of the history of modernity through the lens of the ruined and fragmentary. It exp...

A fascinating and, until now, unknown story of a ship and her captain. The recent discovery of her wreck and salvage of her guns has propelled the ...

Reducere. Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this "useful, entertaining and informative" story of the first great epic (The W...

Reducere. Marty Barrett's gripping, poignant, and filthy collection of fifty limericks and fifty short stories, crafted to be read one a year over the next c...

Contributor(s): Author: Kathy EldonAuthor: Amy Eldon TurteltaubOver the past decade, this classic work has helped thousands find meaningful ways to...

Celebrated author Joanne Limburg's moving account of her brother's suicide. Touching on religion, family, art and science.

Reducere. You've heard the horror stories about drug addiction. Your eyes glaze over with half-hearted interest when you see the stats surrounding the "opioi...

Examines the theoretical framing of "nature" in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of cli...

Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and the...

In exquisitely detailed illustrations and engaging words, Stephen Conlin and Peter Harbison bring alive the story of Dublin - its architecture and ...

A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.

Reducere. Matt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of ...

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 ...

"Oaks and Ruins"? Smashed bricks and an acorn? What in the world is that is all about? The promises of God. Everyone experiences loss. It's not a m...

Reducere. The practice and celebration of storytelling is a touchstone of cultural survival for First Nation People right across Canada. With Taapoategl & Pa...

What do we say to a loved one who has just received a terminal diagnosis? How do we cope with the news that we have a life-threatening illness? How...

Reducere. In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual vi...

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Fascinating ruins across Ireland are brought to life by the writer on architecture, fine art and design Robert O'Byrne, arranged by Ireland's four ...

A fascinating exploration of how losing our sense of smell can shape our world, and how the global pandemic transformed our understanding of this m...

The core of this book shares editorial thoughts Janice wrote for a monthlySenior Adult newsletter at White Station Church of Christ in Memphis duri...

DescriptionWalking Through Shadows describes a winter walk in memory of the author's friend, Clive Dennier, a popular Inverness journalist, who die...

A suspense-filled masterclass of horror. A repulsive creature stalks the streets and he's becoming harder to control by the charming Dr Jekyll who ...

Contemporary educational practices and policies across the world are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatization, an...

Rediscovery of the Human Soul is the story of Ron's philosophic quest and his forging of the philosophy of Scientology. Various rare essays, select...

A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most promine...

Reducere. Now in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since Wild Swans "full of heart-rending tales....shocking, simply ...

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DescriptionWhen I had finished the old lady spoke softly: "It takes great strength to open such a heavy door." At the start of the twentieth centur...

The idea that conservatism amounts to little more than being in favour of free market capitalism and a small state - widely held for decades - is s...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Cammy BrothersIllustration(s): 211 color + 53 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022D...

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In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk and The Lonely City, The Fragments of my Father is a powe...

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included in the first six volum...

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A therapist explores grief and loss in this dual-narrative memoir, which blends the personal and the professional.

Americans have been fascinated by ruins as symbols of the past and now as symbols of the future. Empire of Ruins tells the story of what ruins have...