A remarkable discovery, an extraordinary literary event: the never-before translated Unfinished Poems of the great Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, published for the first time in English alongside a revelatory new rendering of the Collected...

High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In...

Reprint of the 1977 edition (New York: Schocken Books), with a brief new foreword. Chronicles the complex nature of Poland's Jewish community of 3 million--the oldest continuous Jewish community in a European country--in the years before it was virtually...

A small gem from the great treasure chest: The Zohar, The book of splendor, act

HARDBACK. Ex-library book. No rips or tears.Binding perfectly tight. No markings whatsoever. Great overall shape.

A collection of 6 essays by leading scholars attempt to construct rudimentary chronologies of the fundamental shifts in the modes of expression and content of various national consciousnesses in Europe int eh period 1500-1800.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered purple cloth (top edge lightly spotted - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 269 (no inscriptions).

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin Mersenne, Peiresc played an important...

The "defeat" of the Spanish Armada by the Royal Navy in 1588 is a story every schoolchild knows. Linked in British history with the beginning of England's naval supremacy, it has been presented for years as a David-and-Goliath showdown in which the...

The French historian takes an anti-ethnocentric look at the broad, continuing sweep of the history of civilization since the eighth century. By the author of The Structures of Everyday Life.

Study in British customs, folkways, and family structure for the stated 300 year history 1500-1800.