Literatura obcojęzyczna79 produktów szukasz: × literature and merginality Producent: × Yale University Press

This book--the first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present--is an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works aby...

A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure 'Part of the fun of the book is the way in which Eagleton prompts, provokes...

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the...

This "little history" takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Canterbury Tales to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly...

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Pour la première fois, explorez la fascination de John Singer Sargent pour l'Espagne à travers des paysages époustouflants, des vues architecturales, des études de personnages et des scènes de...

What is the origin of the universe? How did life appear on Earth and why was much of that life destroyed at various times in Earth's history? In this book, four scientists propose answers to...

In this incisive book, leaders from international fashion research and artistic practices probe the nuanced relationship between fashion and politics.

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African...

What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the peoples of the Muslim world

This book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of "making." Beautiful and poignant, it offers the perspective of, in Christian...

What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E....

For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities...

Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to...

In this book, Dr. Jung, who has been the author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in the unconscious...

Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past that is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal...

This sweeping, multidisciplinary exploration of the major epidemics since the Black Death reveals the impact of diseases ranging from bubonic plague to Ebola on both medical and social history and...

A fascinating exploration of our reality through the eyes of a physicist and a dancer-and an engaging introduction to both disciplines From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the...

John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time,...

Encompasses the history of the Papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the election of Francis I.

L'étude récemment révisée et élargie de la société de design finlandaise de renommée mondiale ArtekMieux connue pour la production des célèbres meubles en bois courbé d'Aalto, Artek était...

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization...

A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain’s right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture - "one of the few contemporary works deserving...