Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs.
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography.
Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.
A curated collection of the New York Times'' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring iconic authors'' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby’s sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F.
Twentieth-century existential thinkers, critical of traditional, overly rationalistic approaches to ethics, sought to provide a better account of what it means to be human in the world.
À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins.
À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins.
The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature.
Arranged in a handy A-Z format, A Dictionary of Tolkien explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands.
Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clich s with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train.
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With this collection of reviews, fans of western movies can enjoy taking another special look at some of our favorites with western author Chuck Lewis as he offers us insight and a unique view of the films we like or even those we don't like.
Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades.
El mundo visto a los ochenta años es un libro introspectivo y reflexivo en el que Santiago Ramón y Cajal, el eminente científico español y padre de la neurociencia moderna, contempla la vida y sus cambios desde la perspectiva de un octogenario.
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES'This accessible illustrated guide is a great introduction to the story, its origins and its enduring legacy' BBC HISTORY- Which is more terrifying - a monster or its mother?
The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.
A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.
The study of religious education is of great interest in analyzing how schools and educational authorities address the demands of multicultural and multi-religious societies and states.
The study of religious education is of great interest in analyzing how schools and educational authorities address the demands of multicultural and multi-religious societies and states.
First published in 1999, this is a guide which provides easy access to a fairly complete range of the long poetry written in the Romantic and Victorian periods: epics, narrative poems, verse-novels and other work of over a certain length.
First published in 1999, this is a guide which provides easy access to a fairly complete range of the long poetry written in the Romantic and Victorian periods: epics, narrative poems, verse-novels and other work of over a certain length.
This book highlights the model of contemplative Catholic school leadership as an influence on faith-formation cultures within the Catholic school, and it demonstrates the impact of cultural factors on Catholic identity formation.
This book highlights the model of contemplative Catholic school leadership as an influence on faith-formation cultures within the Catholic school, and it demonstrates the impact of cultural factors on Catholic identity formation.
Published in 1996: The Book the author produced, A Journall or Diary of a Thankfull Christian is essentially a manual, a how-to book about how to write a spiritual diary; moreover, it is the only one of its kind written in seventeenth-century England.
Published in 1996: The Book the author produced, A Journall or Diary of a Thankfull Christian is essentially a manual, a how-to book about how to write a spiritual diary; moreover, it is the only one of its kind written in seventeenth-century England.
A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist'Blistering' Glamour'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The Times'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' ObserverLydia is hungry.
