In a Harbour Green: Essays in Honour of Benedict Kiely (O'Brien George)(Pevná vazba)

In a Harbour Green: Essays in Honour of Benedict Kiely (O'Brien George)(Pevná vazba)

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its

Of Modernism: Essays in Honour of Christopher Green (Brockington Grace)(Pevná vazba)

A fascinating cross-section of current research in modernist art history, at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, with essays by pupils of the renowned scholar Professor Christopher Green. Of Modernism brings together twelve original essays by leading scholars in modernist art history,

Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development - Essays in honour of Bencie Woll(Pevná vazba)

Best of Benedict Kiely - A Selection of Stories (Kiely Benedict)(Pevná vazba)

The Best of Benedict Kiely is a treasure trove of his best and most acclaimed stories, published to mark the centenary of the birth of this great twentieth-century Irish writer. Many of these stories were originally published in The New Yorker before appearing in four collections over a 24-year

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (Johnson George M.)(Pevná vazba)

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature

The Rule of Saint Benedict (Benedict of Nursia)(Pevná vazba)

One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has features of interest for first-time readers of the Rule as

Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology (O'Brien Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings (O'Brien Glenn)(Pevná vazba)

'Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader's life.' --Michael Chabon A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a

Dad's Maybe Book (O'Brien Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons. 'We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until

Old English Lives of Saints (Aelfric)(Pevná vazba)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops--for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time

Old English Lives of Saints (Aelfric)(Pevná vazba)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops--for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time

Old English Lives of Saints (Aelfric)(Pevná vazba)

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric in his distinctive alliterative prose, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, married virgins, aristocrats, kings, soldiers, and bishops--for a late Anglo-Saxon audience. At a turbulent time

All in Good Time: Reflections of a Watchmaker (Daniels George)(Pevná vazba)

This book is the autobiography of George Daniels, acclaimed horologist and author of Watchmaking. In it, he discusses his humble upbringing and background, his first encounters with watches and time pieces, his passionate and persistent love of automobiles, and his technical contributions to modern

Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading (Deans-Smith Susan)(Paperback)

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century

In Sinu Jesu: When Heart Speaks to Heart-The Journal of a Priest at Prayer (A. Benedictine Monk)(Pevná vazba)

In the Footsteps of Joseph Dalton Hooker (O'Brien Seamus)(Pevná vazba)

In 1847 Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) embarked on an expedition to Sikkim in the eastern Himalaya, a region where he would discover a huge number of botanical treasures previouslyunknown to the

Glitter in the Green - In Search of Hummingbirds (Dunn Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Blood in the Water (Flynn Jack)(Pevná vazba)

Blood in the Water is a gripping Boston thriller set on the icy waters of the Boston harbour, with international terrorism at its core and a family at its

George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life (Jones Tom)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity

Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton (Hoppit Julian)(Paperback)

Money and Markets celebrates Martin Daunton's distinguished career by bringing together essays from leading economic, financial, social and cultural historians, many being colleagues and former students. Throughout his career, Daunton has focused on the relationship between structure and agency,

Flann O'Brien The Complete Novels (O'Brien Flann)(Pevná vazba)

In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and the surreal logic of The Third

Ques of Identity in Detective (Higgie Anita)(Pevná vazba)

With essays by an international group of scholars, Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction delves into the ways in which this genre, given its status as popular yet marginalized literature, allows for the exploration of a wide range of meanings. Contributors examine how the genre both mirrors

Trumplandia: Populist Nationalism in America (Dianu Tiberiu)(Pevná vazba)

Trumplandia: Populist Nationalism in America is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever under the presidency of Donald Trump. Some pundits predict that if things don't change another civil war could occur. Have

Modernism in the Streets: A Life and Times in Essays (Berman Marshall)(Pevná vazba)

Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a