Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Bethencourt Francisco)(Paperback)

Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Bethencourt Francisco)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking history of racismRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the

Introducing Major Theologians - From The Apostolic Fathers To The Twentieth Century (Reeves Dr Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Viking at School (Strong Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Sigurd, the Viking from the tenth century, is still stuck in the twentieth century. He lives with his friends the Ellis family in a seaside hotel and constantly causes chaos. When Tim and Zoe Ellis take him to school with them, a series of seriously funny disasters

The Japanese Empire (Paine S. C. M.)(Paperback)

The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland

Ethics (Bonhoeffer Dietrich)(Paperback)

From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence,

Jesus the Magician (Smith Morton)(Paperback)

A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned.--from the foreword by Bart EhrmanThis book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth

Contemporary Painting (Hudson Suzanne)(Paperback)

The twentieth century brought radical changes in art--including the shift from modernism to postmodernism--which were accompanied by fierce debates regarding the place of painting in contemporary culture. Contemporary Painting argues that the medium has not only persisted in the twenty-first

The Twentieth Century Performance Reader (Brayshaw Teresa)(Paperback)

The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students,

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. 'One of the funniest serious novels I have ever read.' --Atlantic MonthlyAwe and

Meditations (Krishnamurti J.)(Paperback)

A classic collection of excerpts from one of the great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century--now in the newly designed Shambhala Pocket Library series. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (Galeotti Mark)(Paperback)

The notorious Russian mafia, the Vory, sprung from the gulags early in the twentieth century. Based on two decades of on-the-ground research, this first English-language study details their journey to power, from their early days through Stalinism and the Soviet experiment to their adaptation to

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present: State of Modernity (Corbally John C.)(Paperback)

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to five distinct historical themes in 20th century history - politics, economics, religion, technology and the environment. Each of these themes is set in a social and cultural history framework that emphasizes the commonalities

Moments of Reprieve (Levi Primo)(Paperback / softback)

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales

From the Mysteries: Genesis - Zarathustra (Beckh Hermann)(Paperback)

During the early part of the twentieth century, Professor Hermann Beckh began a search to discover the truth about the mystery wisdom of antiquity. As a recognized specialist in the field of Buddhist texts, he knew that complete knowledge of such mysteries could not be found within the limitations

The Purple Cloud (Shiel M. P.)(Paperback)

The first great science fiction novel of the twentieth century--now available from Penguin Classics Strange, macabre, and, fantastical, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is a landmark work that heralded the genre of apocalyptic fiction. It tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson--the first man

Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi (Jamal Mahmood)(Paperback)

Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Lovecraft H. P.)(Paperback)

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches

Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect. To Max Brod, his

Twentieth-Century Design (Woodham Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians,

Three Letters from the Andes (Fermor Patrick Leigh)(Paperback / softback)

The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of

War With The Newts (Capek Karel)(Paperback / softback)

One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge

American Web Equipment 1967-1991 (Monroe C.)(Paperback)

From the beginning of the twentieth century, United States military individual load-carrying equipments were fabricated mainly of cotton duck and cotton webbing. Throughout the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Korean War, cotton-based load-carrying equipments served the infantryman with

The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments (Baggott Jim)(Paperback)

The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (Turner James)(Paperback)

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but 'philology' was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also