Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire, Hardcover - Bettany Hughes

Reducere. A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from ...

A vivid history of the ancient goddess Venus by the bestselling historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes

the pin-up of Romantic artists.Focusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany ...

Subtitled, }Socrates, Athens & The Search For The Good Life{. A lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates, from the author of the bes...

When thrusted back almost a century and a half, subsequent to being fragmented from his tribe, tracked down by tenacious bandits and then tragicall...

Reducere. Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city...

Reducere. She is the Foam-Born. The Myrtle and the Rose. Lover, Warrior, Mother, and Creatrix. Aphrodite and Venus are complex Goddesses. The same may be sai...

In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars ...

The }Sunday Times{ bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest cities. Hughes takes the reader on a dazzling journey through the history a...

Reducere. For 3, 000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.I...

DescriptionThis book shows you how to work magick using Aphrodite and Venus: the Greek and Roman goddesses of love. This magick is helpful to you a...

Meet the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece in this transporting tale of the classical world by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of th...

Reducere. With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black ...

Reducere. "I know it when I see it..." These words, famously spoken in 1964 by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, became the rallying cry of...

Anny. A Biography of Anny Thackeray Ritchie - Henrietta Garnett

Reducere. Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the interna...

Reducere. In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilog...

Reducere. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the expe...

Reducere. Virgil Erath is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But he gets a new beginning when he is mystically transported to a planet of hallucinato...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1835, at the age of 13, a young boy walked nearly 300 miles to Paris; he worked odd jobs and did whatever it took to survive. He even...

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a pro...

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. "There will be no better biography of Elizabeth II as a figure of state until her official one appears--and perhaps not even then." --The Independe...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient descriptions of the goddess and myths *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further rea...

Meet the MacKay Banshees...Katriona - Her last memory is of her violent death, and now she's screaming for vengeance. He's a Laird with enough sins...

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. Singer, bassist, and songwriter Glenn Hughes is a living, breathing embodiment of rock music. This is his story - the highs, the lows, and all poin...

Publisher: Blank Forms EditionsAuthor(s): Stephen HousewrightNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 198 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious ...

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivo...

A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ag...

Reducere. When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the "color line" and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent ye...

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the ...

Reducere. Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregard...

Reducere. For millennia, scientists thought women were inside-out versions of men, and male anxiety about female sexuality generated ludicrous ideas and perp...

Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel writing and real-life family m...

Reducere. In 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away...

Reducere. The unforgettable story of Gail Russell (1924-1961), Hollywood"s Forgotten Legend, who rose from high school obscurity to become one of Paramount S...

DescriptionJunior Library Guild Selection Just Like Beverly follows the life of beloved children's author Beverly Cleary from her early years in Or...