861 results for '"Alfred, Brian'

"A lonely fish finds an object that sparks his curiosity and imagination and leads to communication, community, and a celebration of storytelling"-- Provided by publisher.

"Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side."--Publishers Weekly Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most...

This survey, which centres mainly on Greek sculpture and vase-painting from 600 to 300 BC, examines research over the past twenty years. Organised chronologically in terms of media (free-standing...

"From the author of Dancing at Lughnasa comes a new play." "Gathered together in the remote County Donegal home of novelist Tom Connolly and his alcoholic wife, Daisy, are David Knight, a visiting...

This book provides a contextual study of the development of Alfred Marshall's thinking during the early years of his apprenticeship in the Cambridge moral sciences. Marshall's thought is situated in...

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics black spine edition   “. . . as when iron is drawn...

The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be...

The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equaled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our...

Interweaving science and storytelling, spirituality and art, a neuroscientist and an artist guide us toward a deeper understanding of how radically interconnected all of life is. A Kirkus Reviews...

What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history: the...

En 37-årig kvinde skal træffe et valg mellem sin mand gennem 16 år, barn og hele vante tilværelse, og en ny lidenskabelig forelskelse

Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim CrowJim Crow was not a regional sickness, it was a national cancer...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them...