'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'.
"e;One Green Field"e; contains a collection of essays on nature and its appreciation by a variety of notable authors including John Burroughs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more.
Der Psychologieprofessor Barry Schwartz findet in seinem TED-Book ›Warum wir arbeiten‹ eine ganz überraschende, komplexe und eindringliche Antwort auf diese auf den ersten Blick so simple Frage.
A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and moreFrom the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St.
This book contains volume II of "e;The World's Great Sermons"e;, a collection of historic Christian sermons by notable figures, compiled by Grenville Kleiser and first published in 1908.
Estados Unidos es el país de las máscaras y de la doble personalidad del superhéroe de la cultura popular: la obsesión de la 'unión' enmascara sus profundas divisiones, así como el discurso sobre la expansión de la 'libertad' acompañó la permanente expansión del sistema esclavista en cada una de sus conquistas territoriales.
This book contains volume III of "e;The World's Great Sermons"e;, a collection of historic Christian sermons by notable figures, compiled by Grenville Kleiser and first published in 1908.
La memoria y la historia, el pasado y los recuerdos, inundan nuestra conciencia individual y colectiva, hasta el punto de hablarse hoy en día de una obsesión memorialista que se impone en paralelo a la inquietud y la desconfianza que suscita el futuro.
Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravensof Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and othersfunction in Jamison's essay collection: they are tools to interpret and make meaning of their world, rent as it is between the rural and urban, the romantic and abusive, where language is both surfeit and dearth.
This book contains volume VI of "e;The World's Great Sermons"e;, a collection of historic Christian sermons by notable figures, compiled by Grenville Kleiser and first published in 1908.
Esta historia sobre la temprana colonización de Virginia (siglos XVI-XVII) describe la evolución de estos territorios desde su concepción como un nuevo paraíso ultramarino, poniendo en relación las expectativas imperiales y la dinámica histórica del primer asentamiento inglés en el espacio norteamericano, hasta su transformación en un infierno colonial a causa de la resistencia de los nativos.
First published in 1879, "e;Marriage - As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be"e; is a short pamphlet written by British writer and activist Annie Besant on the subject of marriage and women's marital rights.
La premio Pulitzer y candidata al Nobel Annie Dillard ha dedicado su vida a examinar el mundo a su alrededor con los ojos bien abiertos, bebiendo la vida de manera intensa e implacable.
Unglaubliche Betrachtungen unserer Gegenwart vom Autor des Bestsellers Der Mann, der durch das Jahrhundert fielMoritz Rinke kauft sich einen Hochzeitsanzug und macht in Istanbul Revolution.
Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W.
Im Wintersemester 1995/96 hielt Marlene Streeruwitz als erste Tübinger Poetikdozentin drei Vorlesungen über die Voraussetzungen ihres Schreibens und schuf damit eine Streitschrift zur feministischen Literaturtheorie und Sprachkritik.
This book contains volume X of "e;The World's Great Sermons"e;, a collection of historic Christian sermons by notable figures, compiled by Grenville Kleiser and first published in 1908.
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing' is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah.
This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Un nuevo reino imaginado examina el entramado discursivo del proyecto político de las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (1589-1601), una historia de la conquista del Caribe y lo que es hoy Colombia, Panamá y Venezuela, escrita por el erudito literato, riguroso historiador y clérigo, Juan de Castellanos (Alanis, España 1522- Tunja 1607).
This book contains volume V of "e;The World's Great Sermons"e;, a collection of historic Christian sermons by notable figures, compiled by Grenville Kleiser and first published in 1908.
This book contains volume IX of "e;The World's Great Sermons"e;, a collection of historic Christian sermons by notable figures, compiled by Grenville Kleiser.
En las últimas décadas hemos asistido a una proliferación tan considerable de novelas sobre la Guerra Civil española quem sin duda, podemos claificar este fenómeno como una suerte de moda literaria.
