2970 results for '"Rob Poole'

Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thriving centre of culture and trade and one of the most...

Text: French

This book analyzes the significance of the heroic archetype in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford. The subtitle to the book is "Conrad, Ford and the Christian Myth"

The gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II's courtOne morning in May 1671, a man disguised as...

8vo large. Ex-library with usual stamps and marks, incl. withdrawn stamp and pos on ffep, otherwise a good tidy copy. Immediate despatch from the UK

Moving beyond a chronological survey of events to an analysis of the rivalries of groups, ideas, and interests that have shaped American diplomacy, Robert Schulzinger explains how and why policy is...

Product Description Lucien Rebatet (1902-1972) est notamment l'auteur du bestseller de l'Occupation, Les Décombres. Il donne une vision crépusculaire de l'homme qui s'inscrit parfaitement dans...

Traces the life of Heine, discusses the major themes of his writings, and looks at the influence of his Jewish heritage

Ce Dictionnaire est une véritable encyclopédie de la production littéraire du Ve au XVe siècle. Les quelque 2000 articles qui le composent - notices biographiques, analyses critiques ou études de...

An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernismIn the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to...

Text: German

Public Policy, Philosophy

A detailed list (4700 pages) of manuscripts of works by known authors from the Patristic and Byzantine periods. The printed fascicle lists all authors in the project database.

Discusses the experiences of immigrants from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia to the United States. Includes a chronology of U.S. immigration laws.

In an effort to determine the extent to which the United States contributes to the creation of a preferred system of world order, Robert Johansen considers the country's performance against a...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the...

“Full of moral and political urgency . . . Excellent.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The GuardianIn 1938 Paris, Pierre Pain, a lonely bachelor and a beleaguered mesmerist, receives a telegram from his friend...

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in...