21 results for 'joll ankrd20'

A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple...

James Joll's study is an analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914 and the very different way in which historians view them. Professor Joll has re-worked the text to take...

An ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of...

This reference work includes details for 550 Turner paintings including history, collection details, etc. A separate second volume includes colour plates of the paintings.

A new collection of poetry from the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. . . we are fixed to perpetrate the species—I meant perpetuate—as if our dutywere coupled with our terror. As if...

Vera and Mr. George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices that echo in the mind like music. In The Georges'...

In the forests of Madagascar, about nine-tenths of the plant and animal species are unique to the island. Their natural habitats range from true rainforest to the lunar landscape of the spiny desert,...

From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itselfEarthly Delights begins with an...

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their styles!  The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon...

Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the author's devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary...

This absorbing study of the first—and decisive—phase of World War II tells not only how events happened but why they happened as they did. Eminent historian John Lukacs presents an extraordinary...

In April 1892 the first art Secession in the German-speaking countries came into being in Munich, Central Europe's undisputed capital of the visual arts. Featuring the work of German painters,...