The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death, Paperback - Jill Lepore

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

In the Devonshire countryside, a masked stranger is preying on young women. At first he doesn't kill and his motive for terrifying the women seems ...

Maths underpins nearly everything we do, but few of us know that it is often a matter of life and death.Illustrations: 35 illustrations

Reducere. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR "Time" Magazine "The Washington Post" "Entertainment Weekly" "The Boston Globe" ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book the author of On Having No Head investigates the most poignant problem our life poses - what lies at the end of it. He asks...

Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without questio...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...

Reducere. -Bauer at her best . . . the true heir to the great Ruth Rendell.---Mail on Sunday (UK) Belinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fictio...

Climate Psychology illuminates and engages the life and death challenges that face terrestrial life. It offers ways to work with the emotionally un...

Reducere. In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account ...

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this ...

DescriptionThe challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has ...

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Written in elegiac prose, Lepore's groundbreaking investigation places truth itself--a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence--at the center of the...

Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the econ...

Reducere. Seek for the Ancient Paths"So, why is it so important to minister the Jewish roots to the Church?" I asked the Lord. "It's a matter of life and dea...

Reducere. In cea mai ambitioasa tentativa de a incapsula istoria Statelor Unite intr-un singur volum din ultimele decenii, Jill Lepore - reputat istoric, aut...

The world's most popular medium answers your spiritual questions.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Howard ThurmanDr. Howard Thurman explores how protest and resistance are expressed in spirituals as well as how these songs...

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...

Reducere. Awards🏆Honorable Mention (2010) - PROSE - (U.S. History)Contributor(s): Author: Jill LeporeAmericans have always put the past to political ends. Th...

Reducere. The approach to life-and-death problems used in this book is to emphasize the status of standard groups. Most life-and-death problems in books are ...

A personal and moving book from an experienced psychologist and professional counsellor. Full of thoughtful insights that introduce alternative way...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: 1. Different World - 4: 172. These Colours Don't Run - 6: 523. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - 8: 44Side B: 1. The Pilgrim - 5: 072....

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic e...

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. Description"A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination...

Reducere. Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished c...

Reducere. In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, de...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mos...

This illustrated collection documents Quarantine's large scale performance work, Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., together with a collection of wri...

On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for his role in an IRA raid that killed a British...

Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, w...

Reducere. Buried deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods, the ruined splendor of the Summerwind Mansion bares the bones of its legendary past. Robert Patterson Lamo...

DescriptionWhere do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in h...

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The bonds we share with our pets go beyond words and are often deeper than many of our human relationships. What is the nature of these close conne...

'A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism' New York TimesFrom the acclaimed historian comes this urgent manifesto o...

Reducere. When author Dawn DiRaimondo, PsyD, lost her brother in 2004, she found only one book on sibling loss. So, she wrote the book she wished she had the...

Reducere. The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand ye...

Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this ex...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian ChristieIllustration(s): 60 colour illusNumber of pages: 112Collection: BFI Film ClassicsPublica...

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