The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Hardcover - Stephen Greenblatt

Reducere. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with exci...

Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears. In this book, by reconnecting with this histo...

Reducere. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of ...

Paperback edition of the book which explains how the Renaissance was started by the discovery of a 1000 year old book, }On The Nature Of Things{ by...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Harold J. (Clarence Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy, Clarence Robinson Profes...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): M KoyamaNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 150 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Reducere. Through people-to-people encounters, we expand our sense of mutual understanding and respect.Welcome Back to Abuja Once Again: How I Became a Citiz...

Reducere. Laura Loomer is the most banned woman in America. An investigative journalist, activist, and truth-teller who has earned many powerful enemies in S...

Reducere. • Autor distins cu Premiul Pulitzer in 2012 •Autordistins cu National Book Award Putine povesti din istoria lumii au cucerit cu atata statornicie i...

Reducere. Stephen Greenblatt cerceteaza figurile marilor tirani din piesele lui Shakespeare - Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolan - pentru a raspunde la o i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest--and arguably bravest--dog of World War IIIn February 1944, as Japanese mi...

Reducere. A clever story about using your imagination, and a little duct tape, to create an EPIC adventure in your own backyard.Join this young adventurer as...

Reducere. DescriptionPraise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times ""Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood rep...

The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways--a hardcover volume for their...

DescriptionStephen Mansfield, the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author, has highlighted the growing popularity of Mormonism―a belief system...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Suebrenia CalhounNumber of pages: 43Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 7Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. Lacey's luxurious life as an only child changes the day Mom and Dad bring home a new baby. Although Lacey goes through all the confusion and upset ...

DescriptionThis compelling, timely, and empowering picture book introduces children to Maria Toorpakai Wazir, a Pakistani girl who braved threats f...

Reducere. Sir Romeo Beau is a sweet and unique basset hound service-work doggie. In recent years, basset hounds have increasingly been used as therapy dogs b...

The impressions Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance to ...

Reducere. 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. In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now ove...

A global history of the world's most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, writers and legislators, composers and entertainers,...

DescriptionThe most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major Authors...

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into b...

Reducere. "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, o...

Reducere. Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his origin story: how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx, chronicling his fascin...

Long ago when the world was very young, the birds did not get along. They were always fighting about who was better. Beaks pecking! Feathers flying...

Reducere. Pirates have green teeth--when they have any teeth at all. I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle an...

An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding ...

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has be...

A Times and Sunday Times book of the year for 2017, Greenblatt applies history, evolutionary biology and an engagement with world mythology to get ...

DescriptionOver the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability t...

Sir Romeo Beau is a sweet and special basset hound service-work doggie. It's time for him and his granny to visit Santa Claus at his magical mall w...

Reducere. From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our...

DescriptionA powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout mu...

Reducere. Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the current globalizat...

Reducere. A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from--for the first time--the point of view of the userIn a shockingly short amount of ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

Reducere. "Informative and entertaining...Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill." --Wall Street Journal A lively account...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Joseph HenrichNumber of pages: 704Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 44Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020A Human Behavior & Evoluti...

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DescriptionIn celebration of the Brady Bunch's 50th anniversary, TV writer Kimberly Potts writes a Seinfeldia-like definitive history of the show t...

Reducere. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Nethe...

Reducere. In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and hi...