In Praise of Sleep: Selected Poems of Lucian Blaga (Blaga Lucian)(Paperback)

In Praise of Sleep: Selected Poems of Lucian Blaga (Blaga Lucian)(Paperback)

The present volume includes the majority of Lucian Blaga's poetry written before the Communist era. Missing are only the posthumous poems. The genius of any poetry is fragile because it does not reside in any of its analytically identifiable components. Blaga's postwar poetry appears to have all

Zalmoxis: Obscure Pagan (Blaga Lucian)(Paperback)

Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania's most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are well-aware of their importance, his writings have remained, until now, little known in the English-speaking world

The Gardens of Luciano Giubbilei (Wilson Andrew)(Paperback)

Since 1997 Luciano Giubbilei has been creating serenely beautiful gardens in locations on three continents. Giubbilei is known for the understated elegance of his designs, but is constantly evolving his style and approach, both in response to individual clients and as his ideas develop. His work

Selected Poems (Baudelaire Charles-Pierre)(Paperback / softback)

'I have sought forgetful sleep in love; but love is nothing but a mattress of needles'The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the

My World (Pavarotti Luciano)(Paperback / softback)

The operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti has reached a level of superstardom usually only reached by film and pop stars. His concerts are attended by thousands, his records selling millions. This is a portrait of this extraordinary artist, covering the major events of his public and private

Lucian: Selected Dialogues (Costa C. D. N.)(Paperback)

The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only on the Greek world, but on later European writers such as Rabelais and Swift. His dialogues puncture the pretensions of pompous

Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Clay Diskin)(Paperback)

Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially describe the genre or genres he wrote in. Of

The Ethics of Information (Floridi Luciano)(Paperback)

Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial

New Selected Poems (Levine Philip)(Paperback)

Philip Levine's New Selected Poems replaces Selected Poems (1984) by adding to it a generous choice of major work from each of the two volumes that followed it: Sweet Will (1985) and A Walk With Tom Jefferson

Relativistic Hydrodynamics (Rezzolla Luciano)(Paperback)

Relativistic hydrodynamics is a very successful theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of matter from scales as small as those of colliding elementary particles, up to the largest scales in the universe. This book provides an up-to-date, lively, and approachable introduction to the

Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore (Tagore Rabindranath)(Paperback)

The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the

Selected Poems (Byron Lord)(Paperback / softback)

The selected poems of a legendary romantic. Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual

Taken-Down God - Selected Poems 1997-2008 (Graham Jorie)(Paperback / softback)

The Selected Poems of one of America's most eminent

Selected Poems of William Blake (Blake William)(Paperback)

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth, or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings

Information: A Very Short Introduction (Floridi Luciano)(Paperback)

We live in a society that is awash with information, but few of us really understand what information is. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the world's leading authorities on the philosophy of information and on information ethics, Luciano Floridi, offers an illuminating exploration of

Lives of Lucian Freud - YOUTH 1922 - 1968 (Feaver William)(Pevná vazba)

Lives of Lucian Freud - FAME 1968 - 2011 (Feaver William)(Pevná vazba)

Dark Legend - Number 8 in series (Feehan Christine)(Paperback / softback)

For two thousand years, Gabriel and Lucian were vampire hunters. But then, Lucian turned vampire, forcing Gabriel to hunt him. They battled each other for centuries until Gabriel sacrificed his freedom, trapping Lucian and himself in the earth of a cemetery. Now, modern construction work within the

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Neruda Pablo)(Paperback)

This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems is indispensable.Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes.An impressive group of

William Blake: Selected Poems (Blake William)(Paperback)

'To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour' William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged

New Selected Poems of W. S. Graham (Graham W.S.)(Paperback / softback)

Graham's New Collected Poems (2004) marked a crucial point in the growth of his reputation, bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in

New Selected Poems: Douglas Dunn (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

A generous selection of poems from 'one of the most talented and interesting poets writing in English today' (Robert Nye). In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the

Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath (Plath Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback)