Playboy of the Western World (Synge John M)(Paperback / softback)

Playboy of the Western World (Synge John M)(Paperback / softback)

Synge's masterpiece about a father, a son, a woman in love and a

The Playboy of the Western World (Synge John Millington)(Paperback)

This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic devices; production history; critical

The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Hobson John M.)(Paperback)

John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the 'Rise of the West' that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander. Describing the rise of what he calls the 'Oriental West', Hobson argues that Europe first

Wings Over the Western Front - The First World War Diaries of Collingwood Ingram(Paperback / softback)

Island That Disappeared - Old Providence and the Making of the Western World (Feiling Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Count to a Trillion: Book One of the Eschaton Sequence (Wright John C.)(Paperback)

Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius--and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife - The World of the Foreign Correspondent (Simpson John)(Paperback / softback)

Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the

J.M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism (Hewitt Sean)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a complete re-assessment of the works of J.M. Synge, one of Ireland's major playwrights. The book offers the first complete consideration of all of Synge's major plays and prose works in nearly 30 years, drawing on extensive archival research to offer innovative new readings. Much work

Attila The Hun (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless devastation, and brought an end to Rome's pre-eminence in Europe. Attila was coarse, capricious, arrogant, ruthless and

How the World Works: Religion - The rich history of the world's major faiths (Hawkins John)(Paperback / softback)

Lie About My Father (Burnside John)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. This book examines the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding in order

Silk Roads - A New History of the World (Frankopan Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west in the New World of the

Second World War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and

Way Back (Remarque Erich Maria)(Paperback / softback)

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century

Massacre - The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 (Merriman John M.)(Paperback / softback)

Modelling the Western Region (Emerson John)(Paperback)

The Western Region of British Railways has always held a special appeal for railway modellers. Formed in 1948, the WR carried on the traditions of The Great Western Railway more or less unchallenged until the regions were abolished in the 1990s. Modelling the Western Region provides all the advice

Amazons - The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children

Western Philosophy: An Anthology (Cottingham John G.)(Paperback)

The new edition of this celebrated anthology surveys the Western philosophical tradition from its origins in ancient Greece to the work of today's leading philosophers Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides an authoritative guided tour through the great tradition of Western philosophical

The Puzzle of Non-Western Democracy (Youngs Richard)(Paperback)

Western democracy is being questioned around the world. At the same time, Western aid groups are quick to say that they are not trying to impose a particular style of democracy on others and that they are open to supporting local, alternative forms of democracy. This book examines what it is about

Great Influenza - The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Barry John M)(Paperback / softback)

Genghis Khan (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's

Reformation in the Western World: An Introduction (Peterson Paul Silas)(Paperback)

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a catalyst for the transformation of Western culture. In Reformation in the Western World, Paul Silas

New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - How America really took over the world (Perkins John)(Paperback / softback)