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WW Norton & Co Melville's Short Novels: A Norton Critical Edition
Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt. A Selected Bibliography is included.
£15.65
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine`s Euromaidan – Analyses of a Civil Revolution
The papers presented in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych opted not to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, and continued over the following months. The topics include the motivations and expectations of protesters, organized crime, nationalism, gender issues, mass media, the Russian language, and the impact of Euromaidan on Ukrainian politics as well as on the EU, Russia, and Belarus. An epilogue to the book looks at the aftermath, including the Russian annexation of Crimea and the creation of breakaway republics in the east, leading to full-scale conflict. The goal of the book is less to offer a definitive account than one that represents a variety of aspects of a mass movement that captivated world attention and led to the downfall of the Yanukovych presidency.
£40.49
ACC Art Books International Realism: 14th International ARC Salon
With determination to restore the universal language of realism in the visual arts, a group of fine artists and experts banded together to celebrate and propagate 21st Century Representational Art. They founded the Art Renewal Center in 1999. Since their genesis, this non-profit educational foundation has dedicated itself to encouraging rigorous skill-based training in the methods of the Old Masters, bestowing the title of 'ARC Approved' on ateliers who share their core values and demonstrate technical mastery. The International ARC Salon Competition is the largest and most prestigious for realist based art in the world, receiving this year over 4,300 entries from 73 countries and spanning six continents. The 1,525 works featured here represent over 35% of the total. This year's winners demonstrate the great breadth and originality that can be found in all facets of fine art. Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Landscape, Plein Air, Fully from Life, Animals, Sculpture, Drawing, Still Life, and the Da Vinci Initiative Award for the Young Aspiring Artist.
£44.96
Nova Science Publishers Inc Organized Crime: Aspects & Globalized Elements
£175.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Soil Organic Matter: Ecology, Environmental Impact & Management
£179.99
Liberty Fund Inc Pennsylvania & Federal Constitution, 1787-1788
£24.95
Marsilio Tintoretto in Venice: A Guide
Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (1519–94) alone was born in Venice and he left his mark there more than either artist. His paintings can still be found everywhere in the city: not only in museums, but as part of the original decorative cycles in public buildings such as the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, the Doge's Palace and the Liberia Marciana, and serving as altarpieces or chapel decorations in Venetian churches. Over one hundred and twenty of Tintoretto's breathtaking paintings spill out of the pages, divided into sections that correspond to the Venetian Sestieri or districts. Each painting is accompanied by entries written by an international team of art historians covering major issues and placing them in their artistic and cultural context.
£17.50
Mantra Lingua Hansel and Gretel
£11.43
Greenleaf Book Group LLC The Gillespie County Fair: A Novel
In Marc Hess's new novel, The Gillespie County Fair, the oldest continuously running fair in Texas, which maintains the strong, traditionally rural roots of the German farming community around Fredericksburg in the Hill Country of Texas, serves as the backdrop for two intermarried families and a land development scheme that exposes the vicious underbelly of this pastoral community, leads to the demise of two pioneer families, and culminates the triumph of one hard-headed young girl. The book delves into the turmoil of poverty in rural areas trying to adapt to a changing world. In a short period of time, the town of Fredericksburg, Texas morphed from a rock-rimmed farming community into the chic tourist destination that it is today. While many of the old German families prosper in this transition this is the story about a family that destroys itself.
£12.50
Alma Books Ltd The Prince
At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago.
£7.78
Cornerstone The Fourth Protocol
**The chilling thriller from an international bestselling phenomenon.**'A triumph of plot, construction and research' THE TIMES____________Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. MI5 investigator John Preston, working against the most urgent of deadlines, leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous destruction aimed at tumbling Britain into revolution...____________Readers love The Fourth Protocol ...***** 'One of the best spy books around.'***** 'The Fourth Protocol is my favourite spy novel of all time.'***** 'Trust a master story teller to write an epic!'***** 'I have probably read this book cover-to-cover a dozen times, and have read selected chapters many more.'***** 'Have read this book several time but a re-visit every so often seems to be inevitable and worth my time.'
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wishful Thinking
£13.99
Assimil Perfectionnenment Italien Book MP3
Text in French: L'audio désormais en téléchargement. Litalien est une langue romane qui ne présente pas de difficultés majeures, mais elle comporte cependant de nombreuses subtilités, notamment pour ce qui est de sa conjugaison et ses expressions idiomatiques. Cette méthode, récemment mise á jour, permet dacquérir une maîtrise définitive de l'italien. Les enregistrements reprennent lintégralité des textes en italien des leçons et des exercices de traduction du livre. Ils sont interprétés par des locuteurs natifs professionnels. Expressions idiomatiques et subtilités de la langue. Un apport considérable en vocabulaire. Un choix de textes variés
£66.59
Assimil Coffret Italien débutants + faux débutants Collector
A limited edition of our classic box set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series. This box set comprises two highly practical yet playful exercise books to help learners as they progress from beginner to intermediate level. There are over 400 progressively challenging Italian exercises designed as games, along with answers and self-assessment.
£24.29
Regnery Publishing Inc Into the Cold Blue
One of the last great memoirs of World War II, Into the Cold Blue is a riveting account of the air war over Europe, when hell was four miles above the earth. A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions—chronicling deadly flights through skies of red-hot flak bursts and airmen bailing out with parachutes aflame—will leave readers staggered by the determination and grit of World War II aviators. Fighting a fierce enemy in the air seemed the perfect way for Homan to channel his restless, energetic spirit in wartime, but he could never have imagined the horrors that awaited him. During a vast operation over Nazi-occupied Holland in September 1944, his plane was punched full of holes, its left tail shot away, and a tire blown to bits. Homan wondered
£22.50
North Star Editions NFL's Greatest Players: Running Backs
This title introduces readers to some of the best running backs in the history of American football, covering who they are, their records, and what makes them great. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.
£10.99
Haymarket Books The Communist Manifesto
The definitive introduction to history’s most influential and controversial political document, updated for a new generation of readers.Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. All across the world—in countless places and idioms—it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned, burned, and even declared “dead.” But in an era of escalating political, economic, health, and environmental crises, Marx and Engels’ fierce indictment of capitalism is more relevant than ever, and their Manifesto remains required reading from the classroom to the picket line.Scholar Phil Gasper draws on his decades of teaching and organizing experience to produce a beautifully organized edition of the Manifesto that brings the text to life. By fully annotating the Man
£14.99
Rowman & Littlefield Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)
£45.00
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Speak What We Feel
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Brendan
£10.76
Plaza y Janes La Lista
£24.03
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Design with Nature Now
£61.20
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) History of Philosophy
£143.96
Random House USA Inc The Fist of God: A Novel
£7.99
MIT Press Ltd 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale
£19.79
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of Philosophy Volume 9: 19th and 20th Century French Philosophy
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
£25.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of Philosophy Volume 8: Utilitarianism to Early Analytic Philosophy
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
£25.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
£20.31
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of Philosophy Volume 6: The Enlightenment: Voltaire to Kant
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
£25.00
Transworld Publishers Ltd The Cobra
AN UNWINNABLE WARCocaine is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. It causes misery, poverty and death. And slowly its power is spreading...A MAN ON A MISSIONEx-CIA special ops, Paul Devereux, intellectual, dedicated and utterly ruthless, is given what seems like an impossible task: Stop the drug barons, whatever it costs. At his disposal, anything he wants - men, resources, money. He must assemble a team equal to the lawless men who control this deadly trade.AN UNTHINKABLE SOLUTIONUp to now the drug cartels have had it their way. Up to now, the forces of law and order have played by the rules. That is about to change. Those rules no longer apply... and a dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier...
£10.30
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co How Beautiful the World Could Be: Christian Reflections on the Everyday
£17.99
University of Texas Press Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
Features a collection of essays that explore the various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. This title shows how music, art, literature, and film work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected.
£56.74
Blue River Press Ace Your First Year Teaching
£14.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Spending: A Riddle Wrapped up in an Enigma
£111.59
Nova Science Publishers Inc Home Schooling: Status & Bibliography
£41.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc A Class-Book of Old Testament History
A Class-Book of Old Testament History provides an overview of history as presented in the Bible, starting with the creation of the Earth and ending with the times of Ezra and Nehemiah.
£183.59
Profile Books Ltd Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
A seminal book that placed the study of human behaviour in a new perspective, demolished many schools of psychology and brought about a return to the dynamic view of human personality. It invites the reader to go on a course of self-therapy designed to develop an awareness of the self and a growth of the personality. Employing the wide-ranging techniques of the Gestalt approach to heighten sensory perception and motoric behaviour and to deepen the capacity to enjoy interpersonal relationships, it is a practical insight into one of the most important psychotherapeutic techniques. Starting with the premise that experience begins at the contact boundary it examines the nature of that experience and the various obstacles that can stand in the way of growth. Gestalt therapy is explained in detail, with its basis in the methods of psychotherapy from Freud to the present outlined. First published in 1951, Gestalt Therapy has remained constantly in print ever since and is regarded as one of the most important studies of self-awareness available.
£16.20
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Borders of Schengen
Currently, we are witnessing a «border game» with participants on a global scale. The massive movement of illegal immigrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe over the last few months has led political leaders, activists’ movements and anonymous citizens to rethink practices and discourses. The media have multiplied news stories about mobilization initiatives that go well beyond the sphere of the state and even operate on the fringes of the law. Nationalism and identity issues have found their way onto the EU and its member-states’ agenda while the international community argues about the urgency to collaborate to address one of the greatest problems seen in Europe since the Second World War. Schengen borders have been suffering reconfigurations on an almost daily basis and Schengen has even been temporarily suspended in some countries, with the ghost of the end of the Union hovering over Europe. The series of multidisciplinary texts collected in this book offer the reader a variety of perspectives on the understanding of the Schengen area. Broadly speaking, this volume includes reflections on subjects that embrace the debates on the concept and practices of the free movement of persons within Europe, the security dimension of the European Union, illegal immigration and migration management, human rights and the role of various players and interests. This is the book to read if you wish to understand the latest developments in the Schengen area on its 30th anniversary.
£37.70
Nova Science Publishers Inc Assessing the Hypoxia Threat in U.S. Coastal Waters
£175.49
Assimil Italiaans Leren
Italian learning method for Dutch speakers. Learning Italian has never been easier than with our new method, book and audio available on streaming platforms free of charge. Catering to real beginners in Italian who enjoy being on the move, it features some 30 very progressive lessons in the form of dialogues, teaching the necessary skills to reach level A2, also known as "survival level" . The dialogues, recorded by native speakers, have been designed specifically to meet a certain number of aims and address the basic notions. The first collection to base its pedagogy on the specifics of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages drawn up by the Council of Europe. The dialogues are available on most streaming platforms (Deezer, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Soundcloud), so anyone can learn anywhere, on any media. DIALOGUES AVAILABLE FOR FREE LISTENING.
£30.59
Abrams Monsters Come Out Tonight!
All of the monsters are getting ready for the big Halloween bash in this rhyming board book. Lift the flaps to reveal Dracula brushing his fangs, witches combing their hair, and more silly surprises! Quirky illustrations hold plenty of details that will be sure to tickle readers' funny bones.
£7.28
McGraw-Hill Education Introduction to Management Science ISE
£52.99
Helion & Company The Battle for the Swiepwald, 3rd July 1866: English Translation
£22.50
Bolinda Publishing Avenger
£14.38
Bolinda Publishing The Deceiver
£14.38
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment
There is growing popular fear over possible pesticide contamination of food and the microbiological safety of the food supply. This work explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, the book addresses the reasons for the expansion of hunger despite the increase of world food supplies, and points the way toward organic, sustainable solutions to the problems of food supply and distribution.
£18.99