Why Homer Matters: A History, Paperback - Adam Nicolson

Reducere. "Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad...

Sissinghurst is one of the jewels of the National Trust, with Vita Sackville-West's garden drawing thousands of visitors a year. It is also the hom...

Having inherited his father's Outer Hebridean islands, known as the Shiants, Nicolson set about discovering the his own and the islands' story. The...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, many Christian theologians have been converted to the theory of evolution--a theory whose scientific tenability they ...

Reducere. As Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as...

This book addresses perhaps the most famous episode in Classical mythology: the Wooden Horse of Troy. Through analysis of words, images and wrecks,...

The life, thought and enduring importance of economist Adam Smith is taken stock of in this biography from the MP and author of biography }Edmund B...

Gives an account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In simple terms, this book describes the stages of Adolf Hitler's ruthless pursuit for po...

Reducere. ``Nicolson's chronicle is a fine book . . . Readers will be duly awed by his delicately layered story.`` -The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1937, Ad...

A fascinating tour of the latest genetic discoveries, Rutherford reveals what our genes tell us about human history and what history can now tell u...

Including a range of contemporary examples from Brexit to child sexual abuse to the impact of the internet, this is an important and practical intr...

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): C John (Author) CollinsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 214 x 139 x 15Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-tr...

Reducere. In the aftermath of Katrina and the disaster that followed, promises were made, forgotten, and renewed. Now what will become of New Orleans in the ...

In this book, teacher, education consultant and researcher Jon Tibke fact-checks prevailing 'neuromyths' by shining a light on what scientific rese...

Reducere. In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the ...

An important new primer on the significance and relevance of archaeology.

Reducere. A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot...

A celebration of the vital role of geography in our understanding of the big issues facing humanity and the planet today

A radical, literary and intimate insight into one of the twentieth century's most vital vocalists.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Karen TongsonN...

Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Caryn RoseN...

Does art really matter? Through word and image, artist Alastair Gordon shares God's call for us all to be creative

Reducere. When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is...

Publisher: Brandeis University PressAuthor(s): David Der-wei WangNumber of pages: 296Collection: The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities atPublicatio...

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catas...

DescriptionLearn about how Supreme Court Justices can change the course of U.S. history.A True Book: Why it Matters series introduces young readers...

A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(...

A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today "A must-read for those who've read nothing about ...

Reducere. From Land's End to Cape Clear, past Roaringwater Bay and Cod's Head, on past Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, up through the Hebrides, to Orkney ...

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From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socia...

Paperback edition of the thought-provoking meditation on the nature of work and craftmanship, and why it matters that we value the process of makin...

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Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is about the Vietnam War. It seeks to answer one specific question - why did the US fail to achieve its principal obj...

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