The Writing Revolution

Andrei Codrescu s-a nascut in Romania, la Sibiu, iar actualmente traieste in Statele Unite ale Americii, la New Orleans. Cele mai recente carti ale...

"Deeply moving...A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history." -The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolut...

Reducere. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book Award of the American Revolu...

Reducere. In a story arc of loss, exile, and self-reliance, here a roadside view of a lost America never glimpsed by historians, journalists, or celebrities....

Reducere. A thrilling tale of the elusive Hope Diamond's journey across Europe during the French Revolution, with gorgeous, absorbing writing from Jeannie Mo...

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteen...

Reducere. Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flee Paris in the midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the Reign of Terror. F...

This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduc...

Reducere. Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap ...

Reducere. The post-digital publishing paradigm offers authors, readers, publishers, and scholars the opportunity to engage with the production and circulatio...

Reducere. The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 is Peter Kropotkin's most substantial historical work. In it he presents a people's history of the world-sha...

Reducere. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patri...

Reducere. Craig Odanovich laughingly refers to this book as a nonfiction novel. Craig's Record Factory is a coming-of-age journey through the 70's and 80's. ...

Reducere. Once in a blue moon, a love like this comes along This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With h...

Reducere. Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Tr...

Reducere. The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural h...

After World War II and the Communist Revolution in China, Mark's father, H. Thomas Luke, a graduate of Yenching University in Beijing, escaped with...

Reducere. Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) is the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. Published in 1874, shortly after the bloody upheaval of the P...

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career...

Predictions for each year of life go back to the earliest times of Hellenistic astrology. Elaborated by Persian and Arabic astrologers who emphasiz...

Reducere. Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a compelling addition to the long...

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's yo...

On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Gr...

Reducere. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winn...

A fascinating historical biography of the man who brought fame, grandeur and revolution back to the Palace of Versailles. Henri de Nolhac grew up w...

Reducere. The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about jus...

Reducere. At age twenty-two, General Henry Lee commanded the elite Lee's Legion and earned an enviable record: capturing the fort at Paulus Hook; distinguish...

Reducere. An audacious "biography" of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto...

Reducere. The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the le...

Reducere. Make small changes to your surroundings and create extraordinary happiness in your life with groundbreaking research from designer and TED star Ing...

Reducere. In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery,...

Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurre...

Reducere. Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling...

Reducere. A king without a crown seeks the meaning of a world troubled by war. A silver princess entrusts her life to a red captain in the chaos of an unknow...

Reducere. Two pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation's revolutionary insights for today When Betty Friedan publishe...

The Eisner Award winning series concludes! Just when the crew of the Sundog thought they'd made it through the most dangerous edge of space--they a...

Reducere. If you read one book about writing every week for a year, what would you learn?Thanks to the self-publishing revolution and events like National No...

Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

Reducere. Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flea Paris in the midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the Reign of Terror. F...

Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in co...

Description"A fascinating book."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewA Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award for...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIsaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our c...

Reducere. Description"This book offers the reader the best example of how a great idea can, eventually, create a revolution and change a whole community. I m...

Reducere. This important period of our country's history will come to life when students create the exciting projects presented in The American Revolution. Y...

Reducere. It is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and t...

Reducere. In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer id...

Reducere. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction....

Reducere. The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the heigh...

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist best known for his lyric poetry. In this vividly imagined e...

Reducere. The year's top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of ou...

Reducere. Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the c...

Reducere. The Jewish Question is foundational to the demographic transformation of the West, the revolution in its sexual and ethical mores, and to the traje...

DescriptionAdrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant transformation for hundr...

Reducere. "Someday girls like us will be able to wear whatever we want. People will call us by the names we choose. They'll respect that we are women. The co...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776, a time when America was a hotbed of revolution. The pamphlet, which called for America's po...

Reducere. Twelve years after it was first published, The Joy of Writing Sex remains the classic writer's resource on creating compelling sex scenes. Elizabet...

Reducere. A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the ...

Reducere. Tal Howard, a disillusioned Korean War veteran, breaks away from his old life, looking for answers. He's convinced he's going to find them in the s...

Reducere. The 160-year history of the saxophone comes to brilliant life in Michael Segell's wonderfully researched, beautifully told The Devil's Horn. Beginn...

- For the first time, a lavishly illustrated book shows how traditional handmade rugs and carpets have become vehicles for contemporary trends and ...

Reducere. The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her nearest neighbor, General Seamus Ogilvy, finally com...

Reducere. The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural h...

King of the Rising is the searing conclusion to an unflinching and powerful Caribbean-inspired fantasy series about colonialism, resilience and def...

Reducere. *** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE...

Reducere. Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanitiesMultidisciplinary approach to digital cultureCross-fertilization...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

DescriptionA fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of scien...

DescriptionMay 1937 saw the defeat of one of the most advanced revolutions in modern history. In Insurrection, Agust n Guillam n explains how and w...

Reducere. Description#5 on Billboard Magazine's list of the Top Ten Music Books of 2018New York, NY, January 1, 2019 - Celebrated music producer John Simon h...

Reducere. Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardShort-listed for Physics World's Book of the YearThe Sunday Times (UK) Best S...