Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (Nersessian Anahid)(Pevná vazba)

Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (Nersessian Anahid)(Pevná vazba)

'When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it.' In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them--'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'To Autumn'--are among the most

Implicitness - From lexis to discourse(Pevná vazba)

Odes to Common Things (Krabbenhoft Ken)(Pevná vazba)

A bilingual collection of 25 newly translated odes by the century's greatest Spanish-language poet, each accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil drawings. From bread and soap to a bed and a box of tea, the -odes to common things- collected here conjure up the essence of their subjects clearly and

Lovers and Enemies (Herries Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments (Pindar)(Pevná vazba)

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BCE) was by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him sure to win Apollo's laurels. The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the

Art and Artists (Fragos Emily)(Pevná vazba)

well-known poems such as Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Auden's 'Musee de Beaux-Arts', Homer's immortal account of the forging of the Shield of Achilles and Garcia Lorca's breathtaking ode to the surreal paintings of Salvador

In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience (Brusaca Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalisation, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the context of past and present times. The book

Tool Book - A Tool-Lover's Guide to Over 200 Hand Tools (Davy Phil)(Pevná vazba)

From Barley to Blarney: A Whiskey Lover's Guide to Ireland (Muldoon Sean)(Pevná vazba)

From medieval monks to recent renaissance, From Barley to Blarney: A Whiskey Lover's Guide to Ireland includes everything you need to understand, appreciate, and mix one of the world's fastest-growing (and most delicious ) spirits. An Irish whiskey guru, two bartender behemoths, and an adept writer

Metaphor and Discourse (Musolff A.)(Pevná vazba)

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic

My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals - For Little Animal Lovers Who Want to Know Everything (DK)(Pevná vazba)

My Encyclopedia of Very Important Dinosaurs - For Little Dinosaur Lovers Who Want to Know Everything (DK)(Pevná vazba)

On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (Amery Jean)(Pevná vazba)

' . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . ' --Kirkus ReviewsJean Am ry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany (Book for Writers, Book Lovers Miscellany with Booklist) (Mount Jane)(Pevná vazba)

Searching for perfect book lovers gifts? Rejoice Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, is a love letter to all things bookish. Author Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. It's a must-have for every book collection, and

Hardcore Carnivore - Cook meat like you mean it (Pryles Jess)(Pevná vazba)

A full throttled cookbook for meat lovers

Ketchup Lover's Cookbook - Over 60 Spectacularly Saucy Recipes (Thomas Heather)(Pevná vazba)

WE ALL KNOW SOMEBODY WHO PUTS KETCHUP ON

Speaking for Buddhas: Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism (Nance Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Buddhist intellectual discourse owes its development to a dynamic interplay between primary source materials and subsequent interpretation, yet scholarship on Indian Buddhism has long neglected to privilege one crucial series of texts. Commentaries on Buddhist scriptures, particularly the sutras,

Discourses, Books 1-2 (Epictetus)(Pevná vazba)

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54-68 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called

Discourse and Truth and Parresia (Foucault Michel)(Pevná vazba)

This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled 'Discourse and Truth,' given at the University

Contemporary Boat Migration: Data, Geopolitics, and Discourses (Burroughs Elaine)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and

Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers (Ikin Ed)(Pevná vazba)

A verdantly illustrated gift book for wildflower lovers. This lush pocketbook from Kew celebrates nature's uncultivated bounty, spotlighting familiar and beloved plants from our meadows, prairies, hedgerows, and woodlands with even a few from urban settings. Forty paintings of these free-roving

Come Again (Powell Nate)(Pevná vazba)

A lover's dream becomes a parent's nightmare in the astonishing new graphic novel from Nate Powell, National Book Award-winning artist of the March trilogy. As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers in one 'intentional community' high in the Ozarks. But what's

Light at the End of the Day (Wasserberg Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them

The Little Cocktail Box (Spruce)(Pevná vazba)

A fabulous cocktail collection, beautifully packaged The perfect gift for cocktail lovers and would-be mixologists is this set of four mini paperback books - Little Book of Gin Cocktails, Little Book of Tequila Cocktails, Little Book of Rum Cocktails and Little Book of Vodka Cocktails - beautifully