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Bodleian Library From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916
Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be ‘the safest place’? These compelling eye-witness accounts convey what it was really like to experience the first two years of the war up until the fall of Asquith’s government, without the benefit of hindsight or the accumulated wisdom of a hundred years of discussion and writing. Using the rich manuscript resources of the Bodleian Libraries, the book features key extracts from letters and diaries of members of the Cabinet, academic and literary figures, student soldiers and a village rector. The letters of politicians reveal the strain of war leadership and throw light on the downfall of Asquith in 1916, while the experiences of the young Harold Macmillan in the trenches, vividly described in letters home, marked the beginning of his road to Downing Street. It was forbidden to record Cabinet discussions, but Lewis Harcourt’s unauthorised diary provides a window on Asquith’s government, complete with character sketches of some of the leading players, including Winston Churchill. Meanwhile, in one Essex village, the local rector compiled a diary to record the impact of war on his community. These fascinating contemporary papers paint a highly personal and immediate picture of the war as it happened. Fear, anger, death and sorrow are always present, but so too are idealism, excitement, humour, boredom and even beauty.
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Taschen GmbH Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.” — Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he found the singer and his vigilant entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather, not available, and not willing to be interviewed. Undeterred, Talese stayed, believing Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star and to interview his friends, associates, family members, and hangers-on. Sinatra never did grant the one-on-one, but Talese’s tenacity paid off: his profile Frank Sinatra Has a Cold went down in history as a tour de force of literary nonfiction and the advent of New Journalism. In this illustrated edition, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold is published with an introduction by Talese, reproductions of his manuscript pages, and correspondence. Interwoven are photographs from the legendary lens of Phil Stern, the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over four decades, as well as from top photojournalists of the ’60s, including John Bryson, John Dominis, and Terry O’Neill. The photographs complement Talese’s character study, painting an incisive portrait of Sinatra in the recording studio, on location, out on the town, and with the eponymous cold, which reveals as much about a singular star persona as it does about the Hollywood machine.
£45.00
Southeast Missouri State University Press The People's Field
With attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, The People’s Field reflects on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula. Of her selection, contest judge Jenny Yang Cropp writes, “Kwon’s manuscript contains a paradoxical experience of both movement and stillness, history and the eternal present. These poems, short and spare, carry the intensity of distillation but resist the epigrammatic as they show us a rich and complex landscape that asks for and earns reading after reading.”
£15.82
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG From Most Ancient Sources: The Nature and Text-Critical Use of the Greek Old Testament Text of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible
The Complutenser Polyglotte was a monument not only to its editors, but also to the culture and time in which it was created. Séamus OConnells study provides a focused view of Spanish science and early modern intellectual culture, showing how the Hellenists of Alcalá edited and compiled their manuscripts. By placing the Greek text of the Old Testament of the Complutenser Polyglot in the historical framework of the Greek text editions of the Old Testament, he is embarking on a new research direction that provides valuable impulses for further research in this area.
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Scarecrow Press A Bibliographic History of the Book: An Annotated Guide to the Literature
Rosenblum provides the student of the book with a selective guide to a growing discipline. Emphasis is on more recent works, though classics are included regardless of age. The four sections focus on, but are not restricted to, the book in the West. The first section covers reference works. The second section is devoted to technical aspects of the making of books and manuscripts, such as ink, printing, and binding. The third section is arranged by period, from the ancient world to the present. A final section deals with book collecting, bookselling, and private presses.
£150.00
British Library Publishing Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion
Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo's art and thought. Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo's handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo's ingenious, cutting-edge ideas about the art and physics of motion - the dynamics of motion in water; movement of the human form; and motion as a force in artistic composition - are explained in a clear and accessible form as never before.
£22.50
Arcturus Publishing The Art of War
Sun Tzu was an accomplished general and strategist in China who lived during the Spring and Autumn period (771 - 485BC). His treatise The Art of War is the most famous military text ever written and remains influential to this day.Lionel Giles (1875-1958) was a British sinologist, writer, and philosopher. Lionel Giles served as assistant curator at the British Museum and Keeper of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. He is most notable for his 1910 translations of The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Analects of Confucius.
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Genesis Publications Photograph
From behind the drums to behind the lens, in PHOTOGRAPH Ringo Starr opens his archives to share memories of his childhood, The Beatles and beyond.Rare and unseen photographs taken by Ringo, with others reproduced from his family albums, are showcased here for fans of The Beatles and anyone passionate about modern music. Accompanied by Ringo''s original manuscript of over 15,000 words, PHOTOGRAPH gives unprecedented insight into the life of one of the world''s greatest musicians.From Pwllheli to Delhi, obscurity to superstardom, join Ringo on his travels in his photographic memoir.
£31.50
Little, Brown Book Group RCP 9: Simples and Rarities Suitable and Honourable to the College
The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years. Some of the people, ideas, objects and manuscripts featured are directly connected to the College, while others have had an influence that can still be felt in its work. This, the ninth book in the series looks at the libraries and archive of the Royal College.
£10.80
Scarecrow Press Literary Research and the British Romantic Era: Strategies and Sources
The British Romantic era (ca. 1775-1830) was a time of contradictions, of growth, and of diversity in all aspects of English life. "Romanticism" originally referred to the works of six male poets: Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, and Byron. However, current scholarly attempts to demonstrate that the period encompasses a rich and varied range of poets, essayists, and novelists of both genders have caused the definition to come under debate. Not limiting itself to these six figures, Literary Research and the British Romantic Era discusses English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh resources for both primary and secondary research within the Romantic Era, including general literary research guides; union library catalogs; print and online bibliographies; manuscripts and archives; microfilm and digitization projects; eighteenth and nineteenth century journals and newspapers; contemporary reviews; and electronic texts, journals, and Web resources. Each chapter addresses the best methods to extract relevant information from the research tools employed, enabling scholars to find relevant materials. The strengths and weakness of core and specialized electronic and print research tools and standard search techniques are also examined.
£94.00
Scottish Text Society The EneadosGavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid.: Volume I: Introduction and Commentary
First volume in a new edition of Douglas's "Eneados", providing a comprehensive introduction and commentary. Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book.D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision. This new edition will provide a corrected version of Coldwell's text and variants in subsequent volumes. The first volume, here, the Introduction and Commentary, offers a wealth of new scholarship, comparing Douglas's text to his exact Latin source (first identified by Professor Bawcutt in a 1973 essay reprinted here); vastly expanding the Commentary; offering detailed new analysis of the manuscript and print witnesses to the text and its early reception and circulation; and surveying modern Douglas criticism. There is also a new Bibliography.
£60.00
Harvard University Press Tusculan Disputations
Philosophical dialogues of a grieving statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.
£24.95
University of Illinois Press English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton
English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton examines the history of early English books, exploring the concept of putting the English language into print with close study of the texts, the formats, the audiences, and the functions of English books. Lavishly illustrated with more than 130 full-color images of stunning rare books, this volume investigates a full range of issues regarding the dissemination of English language and culture through printed works, including the standardization of typography, grammar, and spelling; the appearance of popular literature; and the development of school grammars and dictionaries. Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson provide engaging descriptions of more than a hundred early English books drawn from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Elizabethan Club of Yale University. The study nearly mirrors the chronological coverage of Pollard and Redgrave's famous Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), beginning with William Caxton, England's first printer, and ending with John Milton, the English language's most eloquent defender of the freedom of the press in his Areopagitica of 1644. William Shakespeare, neither a printer nor a writer much concerned with publishing his own plays, nonetheless deserves his central place in this study because Shakespeare imprints, and Renaissance drama in general, provide a fascinating window on the world of English printing in the period between Caxton and Milton.
£31.00
Harvard University Press The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals—an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk—an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson—1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem—usually the latest version of the entire poem—rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.
£25.95
Peeters Publishers The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Seventy years after their discovery, the Dead Sea Scrolls continue to shed light on the Samaritan Pentateuch. The textual features, orthography, script, variant readings and even theology of the Samaritan Pentateuch have parallels in various manuscripts found in the Judaean desert and copied during the Second Temple period. The fertile encounter of Samaritan and Dead Sea Scrolls studies has yielded this exceptional volume, featuring twelve contributions by some of the most respected scholars gathered at the University of Strasbourg on May 26–27, 2016. They cover such issues as scribal and editorial practices, political and religious history, textual editions and versions, palaeography and linguistics—with provocative studies challenging classical theories on the origin of the Gerizim tenth commandment or the date of the earliest Dead Sea Scrolls.
£89.28
Peeters Publishers Commentum medium super libro Porphyrii. Translatio Wilhelmo de Luna adscripta: Averrois Opera Series B
Ce volume porte sur la traduction arabo-latine attribuée à Guillaume de Luna du commentaire moyen d’Averroès sur l’Isagoge. Peu citée semble-t-il au Moyen ge, un peu plus à la Renaissance, cette traduction est conservée par quatre manuscrits; s’y ajoutent douze éditions des XVe et XVIe siècles. L’original arabe de la traduction étant perdu, l’édition n’a pu être accompagnée ni d’un apparat comparatif latino-arabe ni de lexiques rendant compte des équivalences arabo-latines ou latino-arabes. Mais dans les notes complétant l’apparat des variantes, fréquents sont les renvois: 1. à la version arabe de l’Isagoge due à Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqī; 2. à la traduction arabo-hébraïque du même commentaire d’Averroès par Jacob Anatoli. Grâce à cette traduction de Jacob Anatoli et à la version arabe de l’Isagoge, il est souvent possible de supposer ce qu’a dû être le texte arabe du commentaire d’Averroès traduit par Guillaume de Luna.
£145.50
PRH Grupo Editorial La dama del Prado The Lady of The Prado Museum
¿Puede un asesinato convertirse en una obra de arte?Tras El desafío de Florencia, Alejandro Corral vuelve con un thriller que no defraudará a los amantes del arte y la historia.Cuanto más se acerca la fecha de entrega del manuscrito, menos inspirado se siente Óliver Brun, un joven escritor e investigador de Historia del arte que, tras ganar un importante premio literario, teme no estar a la altura de las expectativas con su segunda novela. Nada consigue sacarle de su bloqueo hasta que un día, en casa de su profesor y maestro David Sender, descubre un secreto: las enigmáticas fotografías de una joven y un retrato de la misma posando como la Mona Lisa.Unos días después, en el pueblo de la sierra madrileña donde vive David Sender, aparecen unos huesos en el lago. Las pruebas confirman que son de Melisa Nierga, la joven de las fotografías, y el profesor es inmedi
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Adversus Haereses Biblioteca Cubana
Siglo II DC. Lugdunum, Las Galias (actual Lyon, Francia). El Obispo Policarpo de Esmirna envía a su discípulo Ireneo a dicha ciudad con una misión secreta: destruir hasta el último ejemplar de un manuscrito cuyo contenido los cristianos ortodoxos no están dispuestos a que se difunda. Pero, cuando llega, Ireneo se percata de que su arribo no ha pasado desapercibido. Un enemigo que rivaliza con él en astucia y fe, y que lo supera en fuerza física, intenta detenerlo. Aunque para ello deba recurrir al asesinato. Al mismo tiempo Lugdunum se convierte en el vórtice de la lucha por el poder en el Imperio Romano y se incrementa la persecución contra los cristianos. En medio de estos conflictos, el joven Ireneo llega a la conclusión de que un enemigo no es siempre quien proyecta una doctrina distinta. Una novela que es, ante todo, un homenaje a la tolerancia. Una apología de la concordia, tan necesaria para la humanidad en épocas pasadas. Y aún más en tiempos modernos.
£19.18
Les Presses de l'Universite Laval La Sagesse De Jesus-Christ
Cet ouvrage presente l'edition des deux textes coptes et du fragment grec de la Sagesse de Jesus-Christ, chacun accompagne de sa traduction francaise. Une introduction et un commentaire approfondi fournissent des precisions d'ordre doctrinal et philologique. Des index du vocabulaire copte et greco-copte propre a chacun des manuscrits completent le volume. Ce traite est le cas le plus celebre de reecriture dans la Bibliotheque gnostique de Nag Hammadi, car son contenu doctrinal recoupe pour une bonne part celui d'un autre ecrit, Eugnoste le Bienheureux. A cet egard, le volume propose une interpretation de la reecriture qui se demarque nettement des etudes qui l'ont precede; le lecteur y trouvera un temoignage de la maturation de certains themes chers a la gnose, maturation imputable a la circulation des textes, aux echanges avec les tenants d'autres doctrines, ou encore a l'evolution des idees de l'epoque.
£84.38
Thomas Nelson Publishers NET Bible, Thinline Large Print, Leathersoft, Stone, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
Portable? Or readable? How about both. Even with its large, easy-to-read 10.5-point print size, the NET Thinline Large Print Bible is still slim enough to tuck into a backpack, a briefcase, or most purses.Featuring the New English Translation—the newest translation of the biblical languages into English, based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and research—the NET Thinline Large Print is a Bible you can bring along wherever your day takes you.Features include: Complete text of the transparent and accurate New English Translation Abbreviated set of NET translators’ notes Durable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk Lightweight for easy travel Full-color maps Exceptionally readable 10.5-point print size in Thomas Nelson NET Comfort Print® typeface
£44.99
Springer International Publishing AG Reshaping Convex Polyhedra
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Springer International Publishing AG Psychiatry and the Human Condition: A Scientific Biography of Silvano Arieti (1914–1981)
This book is the result of extensive archival research conducted on the Collection “Silvano Arieti Papers” held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. It offers readers the first scientific biography of the renowned Italian-born psychiatrist Silvano Arieti, who in 1939 emigrated to the United States, where he gained fame and recognition for his work on schizophrenia. In 1975, the second edition of his book, Interpretation of Schizophrenia, received the National Book Award in Science. The book has been cast as a twofold journey: an exploration of the life of a psychiatrist and scientist and an overview of twentieth century psychiatry and its significant issues, debates, and transformations. Readers will find useful insights for a better understanding of psychiatry as a discipline capable of portraying the complexity of human nature.
£59.99
Faber & Faber The Syme Papers
Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b 1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). After years of frustration, Pitt finally stumbles into the good fortune he hopes will make his name: he uncovers a manuscript written by a fledgling scientist which recounts a year in the company of the irrespresible Syme.Teeming with comic detail and fierce intelligence, The Syme Papers recreates a time when to question the world and the origin of creation was the greatest project a scientist could undertake. It is a novel of genius and failure; of a man who thought he could prove the world was hollow, and in the glorious process of discover, broke his own heart.
£7.99
Lockwood Press Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association Volume 6 (2021)
The Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association (JIQSA) is a peer reviewed annual journal published on behalf of the International Qur'anic Studies Association, a non-profit learned society for scholars of the Qur'an. JIQSA welcomes article submissions that explore the Qur'an's origins in the religious, cultural, social, and political contexts of Late Antiquity; its connections to various literary precursors, especially the scriptural and parascriptural traditions of older religious communities; the historical reception of the Qur'an in the West; the hermeneutics and methodology of qur'anic exegesis and translation (both traditional and modern); the transmission and evolution of the textus receptus; Qur'an manuscripts and material culture; and the application of various literary and philological modes of investigation into qur'anic style, compositional structure, and rhetoric.
£35.12
University College Dublin Press John Berryman's Public Vision: Relocating the Scene of Disorder
Drawing on published and previously unpublished manuscript sources in poetry and prose, John Berryman's Public Vision offers an original reappraisal of an important twentieth-century American poet's work. Challenging the confessional labelling of him that has dominated his critical reception and popular perception for decades, the book argues that Berryman (1914-72) had a far greater concern for developments in the public sphere than has previously been acknowledged. It reassesses the poet's engagements with W.B. Yeats and Robert Bhain Campbell in the 1940s and offers radical re- contexualisations of Berryman's work from every stage of his career. Concluding with an account of Berryman's influence on contemporary writing on both sides of the Atlantic, John Berryman's Public Vision provides a detailed and comprehensive reconsideration of the poet's achievement in his centenary year.
£42.50
Granta Books Hawthorn and Child
Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives nearby, swears he was shot by a ghost car. While Hawthorn battles with fatigue and strange dreams, the crime and the narrative slip from his grasp and the stories of other Londoners take over: a young pickpocket on the run from his boss; an editor in possession of a disturbing manuscript; a teenage girl who spends her days at the Tate Modern; and a madman who has been infected by former Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Haunting these disparate lives is the shadowy figure of Mishazzo, an elusive crime magnate who may be running the city, or may not exist at all.
£8.99
The Crowood Press Ltd Bayeux Stitch
The term ‘Bayeux stitch’ often describes the laid and couched work that was used across Europe in the middle ages. This practical book of techniques and projects demonstrates the simple style of the Bayeux tapestry, before showing variations based on both surviving examples and adaptations of medieval manuscripts. It explains the narrow range of stitches used in laid and couched work and introduces the limited colour palette in medieval embroidery and the rhythmic use of colour. There are twelve projects with step-by-step sequences that illustrate how to stitch subjects ranging from knights to trees, and from dragons to bishops. By introducing subtle variations of techniques and materials, Tanya Bentham illustrates the endless potential of this beautiful embroidery, and brings it alive for today’s embroiderers.
£20.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd From Journey's End to the Dam Busters
Kingston playwright R.C. Sherriff came to fame with his First World War drama Journey's End, which was based on his own experiences as a young officer on the Western Front. Its success made him a household name and opened the door to a highly lucrative career as a novelist, playwright and screenwriter in Hollywood and in Britain. Many of his movies - The Invisible Man, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Four Feathers Odd Man Out, Quartet, and, of course, The Dam Busters - are still well known, but the man behind them much less so. This book rediscovers Sherriff using his own words - his letters, diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts - to shed light on a man who ironically gained his greatest success from the trench warfare he found so difficult to bear.
£22.50
Oxford University Press European Sacred Music
European Sacred Music is a collection of over 50 of the finest examples of sacred choral music from continental Europe, ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century items, going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscript or printed sources. New English singing translations are provided for most pieces, and playable keyboard reductions. Orchestrations are available for hire for the eight accompanied items (Bach: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht; Buxtehude: Magnificat; Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine; Franck: Panis angelicus; Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo; Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden; Monteverdi: Beatus vir; Mozart: Ave verum Corpus) Some items from this volume are available separately as leaflets in the Oxford Choral Classics Octavo series.
£22.50
Penguin Books Ltd The Autobiography and Other Writings
Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work.
£8.42
Princeton University Press History of Modern Psychology: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 1, 1933-1934
Jung’s lectures on the history of psychology—in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to yoga and meditation. Here for the first time in English are Jung’s lectures on the history of modern psychology from the Enlightenment to his own time, delivered in the fall and winter of 1933–34.In these inaugural lectures, Jung emphasizes the development of concepts of the unconscious and offers a comparative study of movements in French, German, British, and American thought. He also gives detailed analyses of Justinus Kerner’s The Seeress of Prevorst and Théodore Flournoy’s From India to the Planet Mars. These lectures present the history of psychology from the perspective of one of the field’s most legendary figures. They provide a unique opportunity to encounter Jung speaking for specialists and nonspecialists alike and are the primary source for understanding his late work.Featuring cross-references to the Jung canon and explanations of concepts and terminology, History of Modern Psychology painstakingly reconstructs and translates these lectures from manuscripts, summaries, and recently recovered shorthand notes of attendees. It is the first volume of a series that will make the ETH lectures available in their entirety to English readers.
£17.99
Bodleian Library The Romance of the Middle Ages
From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great’s global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This book provides an engaging, scholarly and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Romance’s conjunctions of chivalric violence, love and piety, and its openness to the miraculous, monstrous or bizarre mark it out as the most fertile narrative form of the Western Middle Ages. This book examines the development of romance as a literary genre, its place in medieval culture, and the scribes and readers who copied, owned and commented on romance books – from magnificent illuminated manuscripts to personal notebooks and chance survivals. It also explores the complex anatomy of human desire in romance, as portrayed by writers including Dante, Chaucer and Thomas Malory. Medieval romance was hugely popular after the Middle Ages. Shakespeare, Spenser and Walter Scott imbibed its motifs, Mark Twain parodied them, and the Pre-Raphaelites based an aesthetic movement around them. The Romance of the Middle Ages traces the influence of the genre to the twentieth century and beyond, encompassing the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, the Jedi knights of Star Wars and Monty Python’s Knights who say ‘Ni!’.
£19.99
Liverpool University Press The Arthurian Texts of the Percy Folio
The ‘Percy Folio’ (BL MS Add. 27879), a seventeenth-century miscellany of ballads, romances and songs is a highly significant document in English poetry. It was crucial to the success and credibility of Bishop Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). A best-seller that inspired many including Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott, the Reliques made ballads a subject worthy of study and respect, in no small part due to the supposed antiquity of the Folio’s contents, Percy even claiming that one Arthurian piece was known to Chaucer. For the first time ever this volume publishes critical editions of all eleven Arthurian texts in the Percy Folio, with transcriptions taken directly from BL MS Add. 27879. The book opens with a discussion of the manuscript’s history and ownership, the place of these Arthurian texts within a ballad tradition, attitudes to King Arthur up to the early eighteenth century, and Percy’s interest in and knowledge of Arthurian legend. A particular focus has been the role played by performance in the evolution of the Arthurian material. Each text is prefaced by a Headnote with endnotes, references to previous editions, and suggestions for further reading. The texts themselves are complemented by Explanatory Notes for the reader, and Textual Notes which include transcripts of Percy’s own annotations. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography. Contributors: John Withrington, Gillian Rogers, Elizabeth Darovic, Maldwyn Mills, Raluca Radulescu, Diane Speed, Marion Trudgill and Elizabeth Williams.
£120.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara: Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 29, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments
The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene.Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs, sediments and palaeosoils and their specific morphological, chemical and mineralogical properties. The project’s focus is to ascertain new and established data on climate variations and associated palaeoenvironmental changes within the Central Sahara and to systematically collate and correlate them to results obtained from the Afro-Asian dry land belt and adjacent areas. The joint analysis of Late Quaternary landscape development and present environmental conditions in the Central Sahara will result in the modelling of Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironments, emphasising various aspects. This book will be of interest to all concerned with environmental changes in desert ecosystems in the past and at present and related development problems of Saharan countries, especially Ecologists, Botanists, Earth scientists and Climatologists. It will be valuable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as well as a source of information for new original manuscripts on the topic of Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution in the lower latitudes of Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists, Geomorphologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition useful for their work.
£175.00
Columbia University Press Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture largely unknown today outside of Japan.These stories, called otogizōshi, or Muromachi tales (named after the Muromachi period, 1337 to 1573), date from approximately the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Often richly illustrated in a painted-scroll format, these vernacular stories frequently express Buddhist beliefs and provide the practical knowledge and moral education required to navigate medieval Japanese society. The otogizōshi represent a major turning point in the history of Japanese literature. They bring together many earlier types of narrative—court tales, military accounts, anecdotes, and stories about the divine origins of shrines and temples––joining book genres with parlor arts and the culture of itinerant storytellers and performers. The works presented here are organized into three thematically overlapping sections titled, “Monsters, Warriors, and Journeys to Other Worlds,” “Buddhist Tales,” and “Interspecies Affairs.” Each translation is prefaced by a short introduction, and the book features images from the original scroll paintings, illustrated manuscripts, and printed books.
£101.70
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Hidden Treasures at the Gennadius Library
The New Griffon volume 12 seeks to highlight several discoveries in a variety of areas and time periods: Father Konstantinos Terzopoulos explores 16 manuscripts of Byzantine chant; Leonora Navari presents the published works of Cardinal Bessarion, one of the heroes of Joannes Gennadius because of his active role in promoting the study of Hellenism in Italy; Cristina Pallini dissects an early hand-drawn map of Smyrna; Massimo Pinto considers the works of the 19th-century forger Constantinos Simonidis, a complete set of which was eagerly sought by Gennadius; Stephen Duckworth follows Edward Lear's wanderings on Crete through a careful study of his watercolors; American School Director Jack Davis analyzes topographical drawings connected with the presence of the French in the Peloponnesus in the early 19th century; Aliki Asvesta presents a wealth of information from the archive of cartographer Barbié du Bocage; Maria-Christina Chatziioannou explores the personal archive of Joannes Gennadius to paint a portrait of the Gennadeion's founder in the context of British society; and Eleftheria Daleziou examines the archives of Greek politician Ion Dragoumis, focusing on his exile on Corsica in the early 20th century. The volume is not all-inclusive, as the unique holdings of the Gennadeion could not possibly fit within the pages of a single issue of a journal. Our hope is that readers will be tempted to browse the Library's catalogue in person or online (www.gennadius.gr) in order to find their very own hidden treasures.
£19.25
University of Exeter Press The Letters Of Sir Walter Ralegh
This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, many never before published. All are extensively annotated, many have been newly dated and corrected; there is a substantial Introduction by Joyce Youings. The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than when at home on his estate in the West Country, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlement. They show him drawn both towards his native West Country, where he was not universally admired, and towards the Court at Westminster where lay the determination of the success or failure of his enterprises. Never before have we been able to get as near to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of one of the best-known figures of English history, the man who was both patriot and European; courtier and failed politician; soldier and poet; owner of ships and organiser of privateering ventures yet a reluctant sailor; greedy for personal wealth and social status but apparently ready to plead the case of the poor and disadvantaged.
£75.00
GEDISA Cardenio Entre Cervantes y Shakespeare
Cómo leer un texto que no existe, representar una obra cuyo manuscrito se perdió y de la que no se sabe con certeza quién fue su autor? Éste es el enigma que plantea Cardenio una obra representada en Inglaterra por primera vez en 1612 o 1613 y atribuida, cuarenta años más tarde, a Shakespeare (y Fletcher). Tiene como trama una novela inserta en Don Quijote, obra que circuló en los grandes países europeos, donde fue traducida y adaptada para el teatro; en Inglaterra, la novela de Cervantes era conocida y citada aun antes de ser traducida en 1612 y de inspirar Cardenio. Pero este enigma tiene otros desafíos. Era un tiempo en el que, principalmente gracias a la invención de la imprenta, los discursos proliferaban; el temor de su exceso a menudo conducía a enrarecerlos. No todos los escritos tenían la vocación de subsistir y, en particular, las obras de teatro que, muy a menudo, no eran impresas (el género, situado en lo más bajo de la jerarquía literaria, se adaptaba muy bien a la existen
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UAM Ediciones Geografía elemental
En 1895, la Dirección General de Instrucción Pública encargó a la Sociedad Geográficade Madrid (hoy Real Sociedad Geográfica) la redacción de un manual que sirvierade modelo para la enseñanza de la Geografía en las Enseñanza Primaria. El encargo recayó en el Secretario General de la Sociedad, Martín Ferreiro que redactó un interesante libro de texto, con unas excelentes ilustraciones. Pero por diversas circunstancias el libro no llegó a publicarse.La historia de las razones que impidieron la publicación del libro hace más 115 añostienen hoy día tanto interés como el mismo texto en sí, por lo que hemos creído que es el momento no sólo de dar conocer este capítulo inédito de la enseñanza de la Geografía, sino también de los problemas que impidieron su publicación en aquel turbulento fin de siglo. Por eso, junto a la publicación del manuscrito original, conservado en la BNE, se ha realizado un estudio histórico de las causas del encargoministerial de hace 120 años y de
£17.30
Los ratones de Dios los secretos del robo del Códice Calixtino de la catedral de Santiago
En julio del 2011, los canónigos de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela se dieron cuenta de que faltaba el Códice Calixtino, el manuscrito iluminado del siglo XII considerado como la primera guía de viajes del mundo y referente para millones de peregrinos cuando realizan el Camino de Santiago.El robo del Códice Calixtino, una obra rodeada de misterio, leyendas y controversia desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días ?y de valor incalculable?, conmocionó a toda la sociedad española e internacional.Para recuperar la famosa reliquia, se puso en marcha un operativo liderado por la Brigada de Patrimonio Histórico. Para su investigación, los policías tuvieron que viajar a Santiago ?y también en el tiempo?, al entrar en un mundo gobernado por las leyes de Dios, ejecutadas por el deán, jefe del templo, y sus colaboradores, los canónigos.Inevitablemente, las pesquisas que el inspector jefe Tenorio y el juez Vázquez Taín hicieron abarcaron todos los rincones más oscuros de la catedral
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Picador Memoirs
A complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life.Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell's lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell's mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell's reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell's expansive gifts as
£25.20
Thomas Nelson Publishers NET Bible, Thinline, Leathersoft, Black, Thumb Indexed, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
The NET Thinline Bible is ready to go when you are. Easy to carry and thin enough to tuck into a backpack, briefcase, or purse, this portable edition of the Holy Bible remains exceptionally readable, thanks to Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print® typeface.Featuring the New English Translation—the newest translation of the biblical languages into English, based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and research—the NET Thinline is a Bible you can bring along, wherever your day takes you.Features include: Complete text of the transparent and accurate New English Translation Abbreviated set of NET translators’ notes Lightweight for easy travel Durable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk Full-color maps 8.75-point print size in Thomas Nelson NET Comfort Print® typeface
£30.00
Thomas Nelson Publishers NET Bible, Thinline, Leathersoft, Brown, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
The NET Thinline Bible is ready to go when you are. Easy to carry and thin enough to tuck into a backpack, briefcase, or purse, this portable edition of the Holy Bible remains exceptionally readable, thanks to Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print® typeface.Featuring the New English Translation—the newest translation of the biblical languages into English, based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and research—the NET Thinline is a Bible you can bring along, wherever your day takes you.Features include: Complete text of the transparent and accurate New English Translation Abbreviated set of NET translators’ notes Lightweight for easy travel Durable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk Full-color maps 8.75-point print size in Thomas Nelson NET Comfort Print® typeface
£23.00
Thomas Nelson Publishers NET Bible, Thinline, Cloth over Board, Gray, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
The NET Thinline Bible is ready to go when you are. Easy to carry and thin enough to tuck into a backpack, briefcase, or purse, this portable edition of the Holy Bible remains exceptionally readable, thanks to Thomas Nelson’s exclusive NET Comfort Print® typeface.Featuring the New English Translation—the newest translation of the biblical languages into English, based on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and research—the NET Thinline is a Bible you can bring along, wherever your day takes you.Features include: Complete text of the transparent and accurate New English Translation Abbreviated set of NET translators’ notes Lightweight for easy travel Durable Smyth-sewn binding lays flat in your hand or on your desk Full-color maps 8.75-point print size in Thomas Nelson NET Comfort Print® typeface
£23.24
September Publishing Ten Things About Writing: Build Your Story, One Word at a Time
One-time teacher and bestselling novelist Joanne Harris has been advising and corresponding with aspirational writers for over six years. This collection of pithy and funny lists of advice provides both hard-won wisdom and insider industry help. All aspects of the writing process and story development are covered - as is the thorny issue of how and where to find readers. From Workspaces and Habits to Plot and Dialogue, these are motivating, problem-solving lists from an experienced and widely respected writer. Uniquely, Ten Things About Writing also takes the reader beyond the stage of finished manuscripts and editorial changes - into the territories of rights, publicity and marketing. Whether you have the urge to write crime fiction or a fantasy novel, literary short stories or blockbuster thrillers Joanne's lists will speak to you.
£14.99
Manchester University Press The Gentlewoman's Remembrance: Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England
A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639. The autobiography is unmatched in providing an inside view of her family relations, her religious beliefs, her reading habits and, most sensationally, the reasons why she chose never to marry despite desires to the contrary held by her male kin, particularly Sir John Isham, her father. Based on the autobiography, combined with extensive research of the Isham family papers now housed at the county record office in Northampton, this book restores our historical memory of Elizabeth and her female relations, expanding our understanding and knowledge about patriarchy, piety and singlehood in early modern England.
£85.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The High Deck: A New Universe of Symbols
The High Deck brings to life and explains a whole new deck of cards, with new games and a new take on symbolism and psychology. Included here are a beautifully conceived and illustrated card deck, explanatory manuscript containing wonderful games to play with the deck, an explanation of the fully formed symbolism of the deck with its far-reaching implications for users' lives, creating an archetypal mirror for personal use. The thirty-eight cards of the deck feature thirty-two characters divided into red and black houses and eight individual persons, including the Knight, Priest, Father, Lover, Vassal, Sinner, Child, and Maid. Together these cards form the mirror, with which users may peer deeply into themselves by creating "The Motley Player," a symbolic being in one's own image.Includes cards and book.Card dimensions: 2 3/8" x 3 3/8"
£28.79
Birlinn General Healing Threads: Traditional Medicines of the Highlands and Islands
The Gaelic pharmacy was rich, the sources of which lay almost entirely in nature and were subject to the minimum of preparation. Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to modern medicine. In addition to a general historical background, which traces the story of Highland folk tradition from earliest times, Mary Beith describes a whole variety of traditional remedies, cures and practices, from the healing properties of stone and metal, animals and insects, to rituals, charms and incantations. Her book also includes a list of the most commonly used herbs. Clearly written with extensive source notes, Healing Threads is a unique introduction to a subject that has fascinated generation after generation.
£13.60
