The Invention of Tradition (Canto Classics) (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback)

The Invention of Tradition (Canto Classics) (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback)

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the

The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback)

Erica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast erudition with a graceful prose style to re-create the epoch that laid the basis for the twentieth

Viva la Revolucion - Hobsbawm on Latin America (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback / softback)

Viva La Revolucion is Hobsbawm's magisterial work on Latin America, the fruit of forty years' writing about the

On Nationalism (Hobsbawm Eric)(Pevná vazba)

An insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawm's writing on the subject of

Age Of Revolution - 1789-1848 (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback / softback)

The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History

Age Of Extremes - 1914-1991 (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback / softback)

A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years and the influence of the Third

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Evans Sir Richard J.)(Paperback / softback)

The first biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected and accomplished

Age Of Empire - 1875-1914 (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback / softback)

Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History

Primitive Rebels (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback / softback)

Reissued with a new introduction by Owen Jones, Primitive Rebels is the perfect guide to the revolutions that shaped western civilisation, and the bandits, reformers and anarchists who have fought to change the

What is Life? (Canto Classics) (Schrodinger Erwin)(Paperback)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and

Age Of Capital - 1848-1875 (Hobsbawm Eric)(Paperback / softback)

Hobsbawm's brilliant history, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History

Fear of Flying: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Jong Erica)(Paperback)

A striking deluxe edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Erica Jong's groundbreaking classic Before Hannah from Girls, Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, there was Isadora Wing, the uninhibited, outspoken protagonist of Erica Jong's

Tender Bar - Now a Major Film (Moehringer J R)(Paperback / softback)

In the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, The Tender Bar is by turns riveting, moving, and achingly funny. An evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, it's also a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.JR Moehringer grew up listening for a

English Alliterative Verse (Weiskott Eric)(Paperback)

This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from Beowulf to Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and challenges the idea that the alliterative tradition falls into two halves divided by the Norman

Miami Noir: The Classics (Standiford Les)(Paperback)

The long-awaited sequel to 2006's best-selling Miami Noir highlights an outstanding tradition of legendary writers exploring the dark side of paradise.'The 19 stories featured in the superb Miami Noir: The Classics are solidly entertaining and a thoughtful history about life, crime and punishment

The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (Shiner Larry)(Paperback)

With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention-that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during

Madness: The Invention of an Idea (Foucault Michel)(Paperback)

The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates (Fox Robin Lane)(Pevná vazba)

A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and

An Experiment in Criticism (Canto Classics) (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of

The Cantos (Pound Ezra)(Paperback)

Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: 'They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry.' William Carlos WIlliams said '[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it--in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos. Make them.' Since the 1969 revised

Witcraft - The Invention of Philosophy in English (Ree Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism (Unterman Alan)(Paperback)

A comprehensive survey of the Jewish mystical tradition An indispensable guide to thousands of years of spiritual inquiry, The Kabbalistic Tradition features writings from a variety of literary forms-from the earliest biblical sources through twentieth-century studies-as well as practical

Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam (Ernst Carl W.)(Paperback)

The classic introduction to the philosophy and practice of the mystical tradition of Islam from one of the leading authorities on Islamic mysticism The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished--from Morocco to India to China--and as varied as their distinctive forms of art,

The Tradition (Brown Jericho)(Paperback)

The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous