5149 results for '"Alan J. Bleasby'

This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem―Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. It makes a long trajectory, moving...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeAn extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living...

An account of Darwin's five-year expedition, as a naturalist on board HMS Beagle, illustrated from contemporary sources

This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of...

Considers the social and political climate of postwar Great Britain and its effect on the literary scene of the time

Discussing North American buildings, this book relates them to time and place, defining and identifying central characteristics, explaining social function and cultural expression. It integrates...

Cassels offers a novel perspective on the part played by ideology in international relations over the past two centuries. His treatment is not restricted to the familiar totalitarian ideologies of...

From the USA Today bestselling author of Churchill’s Secret Messenger comes a WWI novel based on little-known history, as four very different lives intertwine across Europe from Germany to France—a...

What if one day of rest could transform your entire life?One of the most important biblical mandates, so significant that it numbers among the Ten Commandments, is the directive to observe a weekly...

The first critical edition of a poem that named an eraWhen it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety—W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem—immediately struck a...

From the creators of The Assassin’s Cloak comes an anthology of powerful and sometimes surprising daily wartime diary entries from war fronts throughout history. The War Diaries brings together—in...

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the...