The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "U...

Reducere. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" tells a tale of a man in his 40s who has spent his entire life climbing the social ladder in Russia. Barely tolerant of ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded...

Reducere. Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface appearances and lay bar...

The Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature exercises his capacity for darkness, intellectual inquiry and humour across these reissued ...

`Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian gove...

Reducere. Jack Vance's early work contains the same elements of originality, wit and style which would become hallmarks of his oeuvre. This collection center...

Presents essays on the giants of world literature that explore the links between literature, history and politics. This title discusses common them...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryRegional BookThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering ...

Reducere. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

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 ...

Reducere. Convinced that Christ's crucifixion cannot be interpreted in isolation from his resurrection, Morna Hooker here gives a comprehensive and inspiring...

Reducere. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronologica...

Reducere. "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, " said philosopher Frederic Jameson. In Jordan A. Rothacker's The Death of...

Revised expanded edition of a best-selling exposition of the cross of Christ

Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author, " argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical c...

The US dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of the Second World War. If the dollar fails the entire international monetary sys...

Reducere. History tells us that early God of the Game Christy Mathewson, a volunteer in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, was exposed to poiso...

Reducere. Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.

Reducere. A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How ...

Reducere. "Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to l...

Reducere. The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo -- contemporary Ame...

Published in two volumes in 1845 and 1850, Fasti Romani, Henry Fynes Clinton's chronological history of the Roman Empire, made an important contrib...

Reducere. This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to t...

Reducere. This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism an...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barry LintonArguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on the modern world. The...

Reducere. A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again....

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays - James Wood

Reducere. If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this bo...

Reducere. The Death of Caesar. The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC-the...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Reducere. In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether r...

Reducere. 'The Rediscovery of Meaning' is a collection of essays about language, imagination, the human being, society and God. In each, Barfield points to s...

Reducere. Defence Against Disaster - in accurately determining the positions of the Companions after the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him, by Qadi Abu...

Reducere. First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers,...

Reducere. This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'T...

Reducere. New edition with an introduction by Roger Garrison and an index. Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of ...

Reducere. Un nou film animat, inspirat din celebrele benzi desenate, este gata sa ne tintuiasca in fata ecranului! Cea mai mare batalie din viata lui Superma...

Reducere. Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold: th...

Here, presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of Octave Mirbeau's darkest works: a fictionalized accou...

DescriptionVelazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remar...