Carolingian Portraits

Eleanor Shipley Duckett

• Paperback | Engels | Ann Arbor Paperbacks
• Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age Lees meer

Period Piece

Gwen Raverat

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• At the close of 1952, Bettrand Russell wrote to Gwen Raverat that he had been reading Period Piece "with the very greatest delight." Raverat's memorie... Lees meer

Matthew Arnold and the Classical Tradition

Warren D Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Ann Arbor Paperbacks | nr. 177
• To be born into the middle or upper classes of Matthew Arnold's England was in a sense to be born into the classical tradition. The precise contour an... Lees meer

The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism?

Rosa Luxemburg

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• Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), one of the most remarkable and controversial personalities in the Marxist movement, opposes in this book not the Bolshevik... Lees meer

Season of Adventure

George Lamming

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• First published in 1960, Season of Adventure details the story of Fola, a light-skinned middle-class girl who has been tipped out of her easy hammock ... Lees meer

The Key to the Name of the Rose

Adele J Haft, Jane G White, Robert J White

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• Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a brilliant mystery set in a fictitious medieval monastery. The text is rich with literary, historical, and theo... Lees meer

You Alone Are Dancing

Brenda Flanagan

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• Rape, the devastation of hurricane Flora, a child's tragic death, and an indifferent and corrupt government are some of the numerous problems challeng... Lees meer

Image

Kenneth E Boulding

• Paperback | Engels | Ann Arbor Paperbacks | nr. 47
• Behavior depends on the image--the sum of what we think we know and what makes us act the way we do. The image lies behind the actions of every indivi... Lees meer

The Nature of True Virtue

Jonathan Edwards

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• A major work in moral philosophy by the noted Puritan divine Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System

Jeffrey Mirel

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• Detroit's public school system, lauded as a model for the nation in the 1920s and 1930s, has become one of the city's most conspicuous failures. Jeffr... Lees meer

The Emigrants

George Lamming

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• The Emigrants is an elaborately conceived novel, dense with dynamic characters and evocative details. First published in 1954, it focuses initially on... Lees meer

Manifestoes of Surrealism

André Breton

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• Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism Lees meer

The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles

Hesiod

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• Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian Lees meer

Early Medieval Italy

Chris Wickham

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• This book presents a picture of the history of Italy between 400 and 1000, probably the six centuries least known in all Italian history. Early mediev... Lees meer

The Conjure-Man Dies

Rudolph Fisher

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• The first known mystery written by an African-American, set in 1930s Harlem Lees meer

Joan of Arc

Jules Michelet

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• The holy mission of the Maid of Orleans is recreated in this, one of the greatest of the books on Joan. Jules Michelet captures the hardships of battl... Lees meer

The Albigensian Crusades

Joseph Strayer

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• Interprets thirteenth-century crusades in terms of the development of Europe, especially France Lees meer

The Gateway to the Middle Ages

Eleanor Shipley Duckett

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• In an era when the sounds of monasticism's interior life speak to a new generation, Eleanor Shipley Duckett offers an illuminated description of its d... Lees meer

The Life of Charlemagne

Einhard

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• A vivid life of Charlemagne, written ca A.D. 830 by a member of his court Lees meer

Aristotle's Poetics

Aristotle

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• Aristotle's Poetics is a work of transcendent importance, both for the history of literary criticism and in its own right. In his masterful translatio... Lees meer

Voices of the Industrial Revolution

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• Studies social and economic issues through the writings of great thinkers of the age Lees meer

Evolution and Culture

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• A unified interpretation of the evolution of species, humanity, and society Lees meer

Multiparty Government

Michael Laver, Norman Schofield

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• The politics of coalition--the very heart of the political process in most European countries--can be analyzed either theoretically or empirically. Mu... Lees meer

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

John Donne

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• Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, together with Death's Duel, by John Donne, is a profound collection of meditations and sermons that reflect on the ... Lees meer