'A Steroid Hit The Earth' is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre.
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'.
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be British is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Great Britain a nation worth celebrating every day of the year.
Boasting countless benefits and applications, hand made felt is a chunky,durable and non-fraying fabric that can be used for fashion and home projects.
*; Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America*; Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time*; Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest DestinyWhile Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North Americaor Turtle Islandstretch back millennia.
Páginas escritas por un pensamiento lúcido y honesto, cuyos párrafos llegaron a influir de manera muy importante en la consolidación del México independiente.
Kunst zu sehen, zu hören und zu fühlen, ist das eine – zu wissen wie Kunst vertrieben, gehandelt und geschätzt wird, ist die andere Seite der Medaille.
A stunning collection of over 200 essential and influential album covers of the decadeA visual reflection of psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti- design - from Pink Floyd to the Sex PistolsIndispensable purchase for the dedicated follower of music and artThe seventies are often regarded as a mean, dark and turbulent decade, full of discontent and pessimism.
The next book in the successful Style Me Vintage series is designed to inspire re-enactors and all those vintage aficionados who admire the classic looks of the 1940s.
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Scottish is a year-long scenic route of jollyness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Scotland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An Economist Best Book of 2024 *; A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024 Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th centuryincluding Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plathfinally gets her due in this ';surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography' (Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem).
p>It's a well-observed fact that human beings (well, men) can be a grumpy old bunch, always choosing to see that infamous metaphorical glass as constantly half empty rather than half full.
Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.
Entre los muchos temas que ocuparon el elevado intelecto de Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959), llaman la atención estas páginas en donde esboza un delicioso recorrido gastronómico.
*; Examines the esoteric side of texts and tales from the Middle Ages, including the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places and the roles of witches, house spirits, rune priests, shapeshifters, and the undead*; Discusses the dividing line between magic and deviltry, as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, storm callers, and more*; Serves as a guide to a still-present magical and imaginal realm, pointing readers to the borderlands and liminal thresholds that enable access to the other worldIn this new collection of his writings, scholar and Sorbonne professor Claude Lecouteux reveals that the magical world of the distant past is real and still very presentif you know where to look.
Michael Hunklinger, Experte für Queer Politics, analysiert aktuelle Debatten um LGBTQ+ Themen und räumt mithilfe wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse so manches Vorurteil aus dem Weg.
'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening and thrilling.
Max Schelers Werk 'Die Ursachen des Deutschenhasses' ist eine tiefgreifende Analyse der sozialen und politischen Dynamik, die zur Entstehung von Hass gegen Deutsche führen kann.
In 'Die römische Agrargeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht' von Max Weber wird die bedeutende Rolle der römischen Landwirtschaftsgeschichte für die Entwicklung des Staats- und Privatrechts untersucht.
Die "Gesammelten Beiträge von Max Weber" bieten einen tiefen Einblick in die Gedankenwelt und den wissenschaftlichen Ansatz des einflussreichen Soziologen.
