51 results for 'nekvapil kemp'

The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440)...

"This book is a miraculous event." –Elizabeth Gilbert, from the forewordA transformative path for women to reclaim their power in a world all too eager to strip it awayWomen know what it’s like to...

• A uniquely personal visual journey through Asia by photographer Hans Kemp• Stunning images accompanied by wonderfully descriptive text, bring the people and places of this fascinating continent...

Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the world’s most famous artistA personal memoir interwoven...

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century...

"Burmese light : impressions of the Golden Land" is a photographic introduction to Myanmar, the country behind the Bamboo Curtain. Stunning images by award-winning photographer Hans Kemp, paired with...

Though critics traditionally have paid homage to Robert Frost's New England identity by labeling him a regionalist, John Kemp is the first to investigate what was in fact a highly complex...

“Here, at last, is someone doing something new.” —The New York Times “The style is George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh.” —The Guardian “The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest.”...

LONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDDeer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.Animals are strange testing grounds for...

Based on the authoritative Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, this comprehensive illustrated guide offers concise entries on more than 1,275 international terms used in yachting and...

An account of the famous campaign that marked the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination, told from both the Allied and German points of view

How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favored such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And,...

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal...

In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about.Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin...

Sacred rituals from all over Asia appear for the first time in book formAn intense look at an Asia hiding in plain sightMagnificent color photography by highly acclaimed photographerBackground...

This a broad-ranging anthology of critical essays spanning the last ten years, drawn from literature, linguistics, semiotics, history, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Contributing to a dialogue with...

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This volume represents an important tool for getting to know every aspect of Leonardo da Vinci's work: his pictorial technique, his scientific and technological investigation, his study on anatomy,...