Search results for ""Author Robert Grant""
Little Island The Philosophy Resistance Squad
Milo is thrilled to be starting at the country’s fanciest, shiniest, most prestigious school. But it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on. The headmaster, Dr Pummelcrush, is bent on brainwashing the students and turning them into mindless, unthinking human robots. When Milo stumbles across a bright and colourful secret garden and meets its joyous gardener, he and his friends begin to open their minds to a whole new way of thinking: philosophy. Can the Philosophy Resistance Squad use their new questioning skills to resist Pummelcrush’s evil project and save their classmates from being zombified?
£7.99
La montaña viva
Entre 1928 y 1933, Nan Shepherd escribió tres novelas magníficas, sus primeras tres novelas, que la hicieron famosa. Muy famosa. Entonces tenía apenas treinta años, pero la acogida de aquellos libros terminaría por llevar su efigie al billete de cinco libras del Royal Bank of Scotland. Después de aquello, como una suerte de Salinger de las Highlands, pasó mucho tiempo sin poder o querer escribir. Nadie sabe muy bien qué ocurrió. Ella tampoco lo supo explicar. Se dedicó a caminar y a escalar montañas. Al cabo de más de una década escribió una obra sobre aquellos diez años que había pasado recorriendo cada rincón de la cordillera de los Cairngorms, una zona con clima polar en el norte de Escocia. Pero no la publicó, no. La dejó en un cajón durante casi medio siglo. Hoy en día, La montaña viva se ha traducido a múltiples lenguas y está considerada una obra de culto, un clásico perdido entre las grietas del canon y un referente de la nature writing. Se trata de un volumen lleno de vida, mu
£18.88
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A History of Persia: From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1858
Robert Grant Watson was a British diplomat attached to the British Legation in Persia. His A History of Persia, published in 1866, is a detailed account of events in the country in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the foundations of the Qajar dynasty were being laid. Watson uses both European and Persian sources to detail the circumstances of the Qajar rise to rule and recount the tumultuous events of Persia affairs – both foreign and domestic – between 1800 and 1860. This was one of the first books to be written on this specific period and details Persia’s entanglements with European powers, including the war between Persia and Russia, her internal ructions, and the complex dealings of the various treaties and their upsets. The hard-to-find volume is now re-published with a new introduction by the leading scholar of Iranian History, Ali Ansari, who is Professor at St Andrews University in the U.K.
£85.00
