Gustave Doré, der Meister des Lichts und der Schatten, hat mit seinen atemberaubenden Illustrationen Klassiker der Weltliteratur wie Dantes Göttliche Komödie, Miltons Paradise Lost und Cervantes' Don Quijote auf unvergessliche Weise zum Leben erweckt.
A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture.
Love across cultures is tested when Antonio, a penniless university student, and Evelyn, a strong-willed Peace Corps volunteer, succumb to their attraction to one another at the end of her two-year commitment in Peru and Evelyn gets pregnant.
Amidst the turmoil of religious wars and political discord, Henry IV rose from a Protestant prince in Navarre to become one of Europe's most iconic monarchs.
The strength of Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, which immortalized him as a proof for Islam, was that he was able to stand on those flowing currents of philosophical dialogues, dialectical debates, and jurisprudential disputes, and to make the Islamic force opposing that whirlwind concentrated in him and represented in his teachings and shouts derived from the Qur'an and Sunnah.
El libro recorre la desconocida historia de la religiosa francesa Odile Loubet y de las mujeres de la Iglesia Popular que, luego del golpe de Estado contra el gobierno de Salvador Allende, se hicieron parte de la resistencia a la dictadura.
The fifth volume of Mikhail Vostryshev's series is dedicated to the time of industrialization, when the main values were labor and personnel capable of solving key problems in the construction of a socialist state.
In this compelling tale, Judy Foreman reveals the terror she felt every night as a girl as she lay in bed frozen in dread, listening for her father's footsteps coming down the hall.
Wer später stirbt, ist trotzdem totAls die Nachricht kommt, die Hannes Ringlstetter seit Jahren befürchtet, weiß er, was zu tun ist: Einen Steinpilz will er suchen und seinem Vater auf die »letzte Reise« mitgeben.
Reveals the provocative and irreverent life of Dorman-Smith through his private letters and war diary, highlighting his military brilliance and conflicts with Churchill.
For fans of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H-Mart and Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings comes a coming-of-age memoir about a daughter of immigrants discovering her Korean American identity while finding it in her heart to forgive her Tiger Mom.
