The Odyssey

DescriptionDuring the Pacific War between the U.S. and Imperial Japanese navies, the author's father, Francis Gelzheiser, deployed with Motor Torpe...

American cultural historian, literary and social critic and college professor Paul Fussell (1924-2012) wrote and edited 21 books on a wide variety ...

DescriptionWinner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that...

An epic exploration of the artist internationally renowned for his unique gunpowder artThis is the first publication to synthesize the fundamental ...

Reducere. This collection includes both of the greatest Greek stories ever told and numbers amongst the most important works of Western literature. "The Illi...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...

Andrea Catanzaro's new theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes' lesser known works against the wider development of Western ...

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. Filled with more than 800 recipes from around the world that cover all Jewish traditions.About author(s): Claudia Roden was born and raised in Cair...

Reducere. This handsome boxed set of Homer's epics -- powerfully retold by Gillian Cross and strikingly illustrated by Neil Packer -- belongs on every reader...

DescriptionTake a globetrotting journey all over the world--and beyond --with this companion art book to the hit video game for the Nintendo Switch...

Reducere. DescriptionA classic grand tour of Southern folk art, from Howard Finster to Lonnie HolleyWalks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manu...

In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Marty Stuart's tenth studio album, The Pilgrim, was released 1999. The risky and ambitious concept project--based on true events that transpired in...

DescriptionIn The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the frau...

The twelfth-century Byzantine scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes composed the verse commentary Allegories of the Odyssey to explain Odysseus's...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter Jones provides a line-by-line commentary on Homer's Odyssey that explains the factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric...

Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes ...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): John C. McmanusNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 56Cover type: HardbackRede...

Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes ...

Reducere. Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the sou...

DescriptionAn elaborately illustrated A to Z of the face, from historical mugshots to Instagram posts.By turns alarming and awe-inspiring, Face off...

DescriptionIn 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over ...

An evocative and gracefully written reflection on cultural encounters between Aboriginals and Indians in the Outback, from the nineteenth century.

Publisher: DragonRisingAuthor(s): Elena EvtimovaIllustration(s): 271 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 301Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 232 x 1...

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Reducere. In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and...

The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and pow...

Concept art, sketches, final paintings and 3D renders giving an insight on the development of the latest Assassin's Creed game.

Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cart...

The 353rd Fighter Group, the `Slybirds', participated in the major WWII aerial battles. 450 photographs provide a unique window on this historic gr...

DescriptionThe Katurran Odyssey is an epic tale of faith, hope, and selfless heroism of a courageous young lemur named Katook, illuminated by the s...

Reducere. DescriptionTo save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Claudia RodenNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 196 x 254 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Peter BellwoodIllustration(s): 25 b/w illus. 6 tables. 21 maps.Number of pages: 384Publication date...

Reducere. Faithless clergyman Simeon Cole is spirited into the psyche of acomatose, dying criminal. His task is to awaken the criminal andcombat the legions ...

Reducere. The first-ever Samaritan Cookbook takes you on an adventure into this little-known world of Israelite food and drink. We journey to both halves of ...

DescriptionThe epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountai...

Reducere. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the hig...

Sing to me of the resourceful man, O Muse, who wandered far after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. He sawthe cities of many men and he learne...

This handy guide will introduce students to a text that has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. It gives readers a summary of The...

This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries. First -- the 'biblical' age: how was the date of Cr...

Hopi traditional elder Thomas Banyacya once described the American Southwest as the spiritual center of our continent." Author, photographer, and a...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Chris KopczynskiIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & W...

Reducere. George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist ...

"There is one thing that can be said about A Fool and His Money that cannot be said about any other colume of investment advice: You will never mak...

Reducere. Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy...

Reducere. A collective biography of the Americans who volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war that provides the first comprehensive, objective, and dee...

Reducere. K-Pop is bigger than it has ever been. Many new artists debut each year and the industry is at an all-time international high. But how did we get h...

Reducere. One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseu...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Gregory NoblesIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimension...

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An int...

Records the Gurkhas' 200 years of loyal and gallant service to the British Crown - the author is one of the most senior and respected British Gurkh...

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took sh...

An excellent overview and guide to the Trojan War and its Aftermath in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Jan Par...

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment--the definitive police state...

DescriptionIn the early twentieth century, a teenage Greek girl in Constantinople loses both her parents and, together with her younger sister, get...

Offers an account of more than five decades of success as a performer, concert promoter, songwriter, music publisher, engineer, and record producer...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Eva Cristina Hoffman JedruchIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

"Sons of Atreus, " he cried, "and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your home...

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took sh...

Reducere. Morgan Llywelyn's Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

James Callahan entered Texas armed, a quixotic young man enlisted in the Georgia Battalion for the cause of independence. He barely survived the 18...

Reducere. "Sing, Goddess, sing..." Homer's two epic poems have formed the basis of Western education since antiquity and survive today as enthralling tales o...

Reducere. DescriptionAs subjective individual beings, we strive to understand Our place within the objective Universe. The historical narrative of Mankind re...

Reducere. From the Author: This is a book that's not about one thing, such as old stories, or spirituality, or how to think, or how to feel better. This is m...

Publisher: Editions FlammarionAuthor(s): Eric NebotIllustration(s): 120Number of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 262 x 23Cover ty...

Reducere. The only life Santha Lathagin has ever known has become her prison. Vicious gossip is everywhere. Whispers of a scandal have turned to accusations ...