Victorian Miniature

Owen Chadwick

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's ... Lees meer

Tales of the Yanomami

Jacques Lizot

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The Yanomami Indians, living in the depths of the Venezuelan forest, are one of the most interesting of the world's tribal peoples. Jacques Lizot live... Lees meer

The Pastons and Their England

H S Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fif... Lees meer

The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century

Owen Chadwick

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society represents a major shift in Western life and thought. Owen Chadwick's acclaimed... Lees meer

The Byzantine Lady

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• This is a lively collection of ten short, annotated and illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the final years of the Byzantine empire. Som... Lees meer

The Path to Genocide

Christopher R Browning

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organized atrocity on a mass scale. ... Lees meer

Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future

John Dunn

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• John Dunn's Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future demonstrates that the major traditions of thought from which the political values of th... Lees meer

The Myth of the Magus

E M Butler

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The Magus, a legendary magician of superhuman powers, is an archetype central to myth and religion across many cultures. Identifying its anthropologic... Lees meer

MR Bligh's Bad Language

Greg Dening

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William B... Lees meer

The Arab Predicament

Fouad Ajami

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their we... Lees meer

The English Stage

John L Styan

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The English Stage tells the story of English drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. John Styan... Lees meer

Black Holes and the Universe

Igor D Novikov

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• Igor Novikov has been hailed as "Russia's answer to Stephen Hawking." In this popular account of the cosmic importance of black holes, he explores the... Lees meer

Authority and the Sacred

Peter Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive a... Lees meer

Feminist Literary Studies

K K Ruthven

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• The rise of feminism is undeniably one of the major events in the development of literary criticism this century. Feminist approaches have pushed forw... Lees meer

The Meanings of Death

John Bowker

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• In The Meanings of Death, John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern religi... Lees meer

Disraeli

Paul Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• In this fresh account of Benjamin Disraeli's life, Paul Smith looks at his unique character as a fusion of Jewishness and Anglicanism, outsider and in... Lees meer

Space, Time and Man

Grahame Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• Human understanding of time and space has been developing since the most primitive societies began to record an awareness of their history and environ... Lees meer

Richelieu and Olivares

J H Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Oliv... Lees meer

Beyond Science

John C Polkinghorne, John Polinghorne, John Polkinghorne

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• John Polkinghorne has had a distinguished career as a particle physicist and as an author of books exploring themes in science and religion. In Beyond... Lees meer

Myths of Modern Individualism

Ian Watt

• Hardcover | Engels | Canto Original
• In Myths of Modern Individualism, the renowned critic Ian Watt treats Don Juan, Don Quixote, Faust, and Robinson Crusoe as "individualists," pursuing ... Lees meer

Memories of Beethoven

Gerhard Von Breuning

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• These are the personal memories of an elderly man who, as a child, was closely acquainted with Beethoven. Gerhard von Breuning, the son of one of Beet... Lees meer

Marc Bloch

Carole Fink

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• This 1991 book was the first biography of Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was capture... Lees meer

Under This Blazing Light

Amos Oz

• Hardcover | Engels | Canto Original
• "Perhaps most of the essays in this book are substitutes for stories that I have not managed to write," says Amos Oz in the preface to Under This Blaz... Lees meer

In the Company of Animals

James Serpell

• Paperback | Engels | Canto Original
• In the Company of Animals is an original and very readable study of human attitudes to the natural world. It contrasts the way we love some animals wh... Lees meer