History And Literacy – alle Bücher, CDs und DVDs, Seite 6

Ana Kinsella
Literary Landscapes: Dublin

A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish nat…

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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Megan O'Grady
How It Feels to Be Alive

A vital testament to how art makes us who we are-and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sh…

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Kirsten S Paige
Richard Wagner's Political Ecology

A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination.Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In Richard…

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Emanuele Severino,
War

The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's provocative analysis of the philosophy behind war in the West.Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Heraclitus to 20th-century grassroots movements…

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Jacob L Mackey
Belief and Cult

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Chr…

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Ruby Tandoh
All Consuming

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off . In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (aut…

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Eddie S Glaude
America, U.S.A.

The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America's unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.Celebrated public intellectual Eddie …

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Michael North
Making Common Sense

Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been dif…

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François-Réne Chateaubriand,
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in …

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

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Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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Whit Frazier Peterson
The Image and the Fire

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology---a small, outsider literary collection---as a key, yet understudied, instrument of litera…

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Stephen J May
Michener's South Pacific

James Michener's first novel, Tales of the South Pacific , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the Pulitzer-winning Broadway musical it inspired, South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

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Mary Dearborn
Ernest Hemingway

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most…

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Thomas Wright, Paul Kinsella
Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of hi…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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A Companion to Ancient Education

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices a…

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Curtis White
On Resistance

A hands-on, don't-lose-hope guide to resisting the oppressive autocracy and impoverished spirit of contemporary AmericaFrom a veteran writer and activist comes a concise yet potent guide to standing up to…

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