History And Literacy – alle Bücher, CDs und DVDs, Seite 9

Ciudadanos Por Tratado

Texts that highlight the cultural and literary legacy of Hispanic New MexicansThis volume gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treat…

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Citizens by Treaty

"An anthology of works originally in Spanish published in newspapers and produced by US citizens whose immediate and distant ancestors lived in the Republic of Mexico before 1846. Topics include the …

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David Parry
The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

Allegory has been variously defined as a literary genre, a mode of interpretation, and a symbolic dimension to all language. Although 'allegory' historically escapes easy definition, it can be broadly def…

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Teaching Politically

Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and students, and what we want to bring to and take from the site of…

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Kristen Lopez
But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the enduring love stories that served as their heart-tugging inspiration.What makes …

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Robin Smith
Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philoso…

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Kendra Strand
An Unfamiliar Place

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the second…

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Karl Kerényi,
Zeus and Hera

A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and mythWhat did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human co…

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Steve Courtney
Bewitching Place

A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the author's home, literary legacy, and…

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Anne Hillerman,
Tony Hillerman's Landscape

A photographic journey through the landscape immortalized in bestselling author Tony Hillerman' s beloved mystery series featuring the legendary Navajo police officers Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant…

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Paula Byrne
Hardy Women

A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'Thomas Hardy is one of the most belove…

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Taha Hussein,
The Days

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature"It is difficu…

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Karl Kerényi,
Dionysos

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In…

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Karl Kerényi,
Asklepios

A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetypeTo the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mytho…

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Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever …

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Nigel Farndale
The Times Lives Behind the Music

A must-read collection for all music fans.Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times.

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From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg

"Wars change the course of history and touch in intensely personal ways the lives of everyone involved. Thankfully, surviving firsthand accounts offer modern readers a deeply personal window into ear…

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Karl Kerényi,
Eleusis

A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth centuryThe Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly tw…

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Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever …

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John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

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