Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 1979
ISBN 10: 1903436605 ISBN 13: 9781903436608
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2nd revised. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Nights Dream provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2008
ISBN 10: 159990232X ISBN 13: 9781599902326
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Taylor, Eleanor Ilustrador. First Edition. Louis and his family have just moved into their new house, full of big empty rooms and dusty corners to play in. But on Louis' first night, he hears a strange noise coming from under his bed, and is shocked to find a monster! Fortunately, this monster isn't scary, and when Louis takes him to the park the next day, he helps Louis make friends with the other kids in his new neighborhood. Featuring an adorable family of foxes and one very large, very green one-eyed monster, this is a great story about new places and learning to make friends.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA, 2001
ISBN 10: 1582341400 ISBN 13: 9781582341408
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal.The only thing Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling, and A Cook's Tour is the shotgun marriage of his two greatest passions. Inspired by the question, 'What would be the perfect meal?', Anthony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail.Our adventurous chef starts out in Japan, where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish which can be prepared only by specially licensed chefs. He then travels to Cambodia, up the mine-studded road to Pailin into autonomous Khmer Rouge territory and to Phnom Penh's Gun Club, where local fare is served up alongside a menu of available firearms. In Saigon, he's treated to a sustaining meal of live Cobra heart before moving on to savor a snack with the Viet Cong in the Mecong Delta. Further west, Kitchen Confidential fans will recognize the Gironde of Tony's youth, the first stop on his European itinerary. And from France, it's on to Portugal, where an entire village has been fattening a pig for months in anticipation of his arrival. And we're only halfway around the globe. . .A Cook's Tour recounts, in Bourdain's inimitable style, the adventures and misadventures of America's favorite chef.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 1582348316 ISBN 13: 9781582348315
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 0. The explorer Bartlett and his sidekicks, the young Gozo and Jacques le Grand emerge from the Margoulis Caverns only to be captured by guards from the City of the Sun. But when city's leader, the Pasha, lays eyes on Gozo, he is convinced that the young boy is actually his own son, who has been captured by the mysterious Underground people. In order to get Gozo back, Bartlett must get the Pasha's real son back from the underground City of Flames, where the "Ahsap" will only release him if Bartlett brings him his greatest desire, the sun. By using Ingenuity, Perseverance and Desperation, Bartlett and Jacques save the day once again.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 1997
ISBN 10: 1903436486 ISBN 13: 9781903436486
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2nd. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Macbeth provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747558191 ISBN 13: 9780747558194
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrolls at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!<br />(back cover).
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2003
ISBN 10: 158234762X ISBN 13: 9781582347622
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hellard, Sue Ilustrador. 1. Bored just sitting around their garden over breakfast, three princesses decide to swap "jobs" with their servants. The housekeeper gives them a long list of chores to keep them busy for the day: sweeping, dusting, polishing, tending to the gardens, and many other tedious tasks. The next morning, when the princesses find themselves appreciating the fruits of their own labors they decide that a proclamation is in order: "Rest when you are tired. Eat when you are hungry." and many other necessary and wonderful rules. Will life ever be the same again in this princessdom by the sea?.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury UK, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747575886 ISBN 13: 9780747575887
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. It's 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire's seen. It's the kind of woozy heat you lose your mind in. Mona is 15 years old. She's a drinker, a thief, and a fruit machine addict. Things are already going badly in the pub where she lives with her obese step-brother PorkChop, but when Mona meets posh Tamsin Fakenham, a sassy girl with beautiful breasts, an actress mother, and a sister who's died of starvation, things very quickly get much worse. Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2002, this novel was made into a 2005 film starring Emily Blunt and Nathalie Press.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 1582340447 ISBN 13: 9781582340449
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A radical new exploration of the human need for meaning and values.At the beginning of the 20th century, as psychologists discovered ways and means to measure intelligence, Aristotle's definition of man as "a rational animal" developed into an obsession with IQ. In the mid 1990's, Daniel Goleman popularized research into emotional intelligence, EQ. Now, in the twenty-first century, there is growing evidence that a third "Q" exists-"SQ," or Spiritual Intelligence.SQ is our most fundamental intelligence. It is what we use to develop our capacity for meaning, vision and value. It allows us to dream and to strive. It underlies the things we believe in and the role our beliefs and values play in the actions that we take. Spiritual Intelligence explores how accessing our SQ helps us to live up to our potential for better, more satisfying lives.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 0747535590 ISBN 13: 9780747535591
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Birkbeck, Paul Ilustrador. An emperor learns that the natural voice of the nightingale is more beautiful than the song of an artificial one.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2005
ISBN 10: 1582349746 ISBN 13: 9781582349749
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. McGrory, Anik Ilustrador. Kidogo is sure he's the tiniest creature on earth. All the other animals are so much bigger than he is. Kidogo sets out on a journey-through the woodlands, over the plains, down to the river-to see if he can find an animal smaller than he is. Is it possible that Kidogo is exactly the right size after all? Heartwarming illustrations and a gentle story will inspire and reassure young children who are just starting to find their own way in a big world.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003
ISBN 10: 0826468500 ISBN 13: 9780826468505
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2. The year 2001 began as the United Nations Year of Dialogue between Civilizations. By its end, the phrase that came most readily to mind was 'the clash of civilizations.' The tragedy of September 11 intensified the danger caused by religious differences around the world. As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace?The Dignity of Difference is Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's radical proposal for reconciling hatreds. The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it also marks a paradigm shift in the approach to religious coexistence. Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our differences.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA, 2011
ISBN 10: 1608192172 ISBN 13: 9781608192175
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the American Marines, and he sought to better understand ethnic violence - something he would likely face later in uniform. He learned Swahili, asked questions, and listened to young people talk about how they survived in poverty he had never imagined. Anxious to help but unsure what to do, he stumbled into friendship with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a community organiser, Salim Mohamed. Together, this unlikely trio built a non-governmental organization that would develop a new generation of leaders from within one of Africa's largest slums. Their organization, Carolina for Kibera (CFK), is now a global pioneer of the movement called Participatory Development, and washonored by Time magazine as a 'Hero of Global Health.' CFK's greatest lesson may be that with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create breathtaking change. Engaged in two seemingly contradictory forms of public service at the same time, Barcott continued his leadership in CFK while serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa. Struggling with the intense stress of leading Marines in dangerous places, he took the tools he learned building a community in one of the most fractured parts of Kenya and became a more effective counterinsurgent and peacekeeper. It Happened on the Way to War is a true story of sacrifice and courage and the powerful melding of military and humanitarian service. It's a story of what America's role in the world could be.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2002
ISBN 10: 1582347786 ISBN 13: 9781582347783
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Cockcroft, Jason Ilustrador. 1st Ed. This gorgeous, lavishly illustrated picture book tells the tale of Billywise, the newborn owl, as he wonders, "Do I dare?" After first creeping out of his shell, Billywise meets Moth, who is amused by the flightless ball of fluff, and says to him, "It doesn't look as if you'll ever fly!" But all the while Billywise listens to his mother's encouraging refrain:You will grow, you will prowl,You will slide through the air;You will swoop, loop-the-loop,You will stare, you will glare.As silently as moonlight,You'll glide through the midnight air.And finally, one moonlit night, he spreads his wings. With beautiful illustrations and a sophisticated, poetic text, this book captures perfectly a child's hesitation to leave the nest and the glorious moment of a first step.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Academic, 1990
ISBN 10: 0826410596 ISBN 13: 9780826410597
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. "[O]ffers a thourough, non-clinical reference for anyone who companions or is companioned on the spiritual way. Its concrete examples and clear style make its message accessible to readers whether or not they have previously heard of the enneagram." -Suzanne Zuercher.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 1582341001 ISBN 13: 9781582341002
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Har/Map. An illustrated guide to the most adventurous journey there is: Life.Human beings have long been addicted to maps: they tell us where we are, how we got where we are, and where we are going next. But The Atlas of Experience is no ordinary book of maps.While adhering to the conventions of cartography, this atlas invites the traveler to follow routes through familiar-looking topography into hitherto uncharted realms of imagination, ideas, feelings and experience.Cradled by the Ocean of Possibilities, the Sea of Plenty and Still Waters, this strangely familiar place has its capital Boom, its airports Escape and Freedom. It encompasses beautiful regions like the Peninsular of Pleasure as well as desolate wastes such as the Swamps of Boredom and the Bay of Melancholy. Then again there are the well-known Mountains of Work and the Safe Harbour of Home. And what about the Volcanoes of Passion and the border towns of Challenge and Doubt? That's The Atlas of Experience the very special travel book that takes you on the long journey to where you are.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA, 2002
ISBN 10: 1582342466 ISBN 13: 9781582342467
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. A charming fairy tale for adults in the tradition of The Little Prince and The Snowman."For some time now, I've been getting visits, every now and again, from December II, the little pot-bellied king. He's about three inches tall and so fat that he can't button up his tiny red velvet coat with the magnificent ermine collar."Little King December comes from a place where, the day you are born, you wake up fully-grown and fully clothed. That very first day of your life you go into your office, make some deals, sell a few books, or, in his case, rule a kingdom. And every day you get a little bit smaller and you forget a little bit more, so that at the end of your life you are tiny, and you spend your days forgetting things, eating brightly colored gummy bears, and chasing shadows in the garden. But don't let size fool you. Little King December is full of big questions that require big answers. What do you know already when you are born? Why do you feel small when you look at something big? With an upside-down logic and a knack at finding the funny truth of things, the little pot bellied king teaches the narrator-and the reader-what life and dreams are all about.Beautifully illustrated by Michael Sowa, Little King December is an enchanting and moving fable sure to become a classic.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747587639 ISBN 13: 9780747587637
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. paperback / softback. 1st Bloomsbury 2008 trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1596917024 ISBN 13: 9781596917026
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death.The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated slavery as a divisive force in the Union. The victorious North became synonymous with America as a land of innovation and industrialization, whose teeming cities offered squalor and opportunity in equal measure. Religion was supplanted by science and a gospel of progress, and the South was left behind.Goldfield's panoramic narrative, sweeping from the 1840s to the end of Reconstruction, is studded with memorable details and luminaries such as HarrietBeecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. There are lesser known yet equally compelling characters, too, including Carl Schurz-a German immigrant, warhero, and postwar reformer-and Alexander Stephens, the urbane and intellectual vice president of the Confederacy. America Aflame is a vivid portrait of the "fiery trial"that transformed the country we live in.David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of many works on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War; Black, White, and Southern; and Promised Land.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 1967
ISBN 10: 1903436230 ISBN 13: 9781903436233
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 2. The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of All's Well That Ends Well provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747598231 ISBN 13: 9780747598237
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 0. In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's place in the world and putting down roots.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury UK, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747586136 ISBN 13: 9780747586135
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Vayssiere, Frederique Ilustrador. About the Author Mary Hooper is the author of Amy, Holly, and the Megan series, as well as young adult historical fiction such as At the Sign of the Sugared Plum and The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose. Product Description Hooper, Mary.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747571635 ISBN 13: 9780747571636
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. A man is shot dead before the eyes of his young son as they work together in the fields near their home - another victim of the violence in Northern Ireland. In the city, a confused and frightened old man grieves for his own loss and for the shattered world around him. When the young boy's mother moves them both from their country home to Belfast, the old man's life becomes entwined with that of the boy. Fascinated by the silent child, the old man believes he has at last found the instrument of healing.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747532265 ISBN 13: 9780747532262
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Eastwood, John Ilustrador. Gathers stories about a walking snowman, a stray dog who rescues a little boy, a cackling goose who stops burglars, and other tales selected for six-year-olds.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2024
ISBN 10: 1408832186 ISBN 13: 9781408832189
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Geneva, 2012. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and what is his connection to the British agent? <br /><br />At a tracking station in Nevada, US Navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky, and panic spreads through the British and American Intelligence services. Is this a Russian plot to disable the West's defences? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team hunt for a mole inside the MOD, the trail leads them from Geneva, to Marseilles and into a labyrinth of international intrigue, in a race against time to stop the Cold War heating up once again.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury UK, 2024
ISBN 10: 0747577730 ISBN 13: 9780747577737
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. paperback / softback. In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died, and survived, is related with candor and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of his companions, and he captures the atmosphere of everyday life on the ground in wartime Britain, as well as the air battles.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2002
ISBN 10: 1582347840 ISBN 13: 9781582347844
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Benson, Patrick Ilustrador. 1. Mole finds and lovingly cares for a wounded baby bird. As the bird recovers, Mole's mother explains that soon the bird will fly. But Mole wants to keep the bird, so he builds it a cage. Then, one beautifully clear day, Grandad takes Mole for a walk to the top of a high hill where Mole can feel the wind whipping around him. "I'm flying!" he says. When Mole returns home, he looks at the caged baby bird, finally understands that birds are meant to fly, and sets his baby bird free.The extraordinary team of author Marjorie Newman and illustrator Patrick Benson has created a book that speaks to the delicate nature of love and freedom. This is a book for the ages, and one to treasure for a lifetime.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 1996
ISBN 10: 1903436451 ISBN 13: 9781903436455
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 3rd. In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series of tragedies that established him, by universal consent, in the front rank of the world's dramatists. Critics have praised either Hamlet or King Lear as the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not Othello? The third of the mature tragedies, it contains, as Honigmann persuasively demonstrates, perhaps the best plot, two of Shakespeare's most original characters, the most powerful scene in any of the plays, and poetry second to none. Honigmann's cogent and closely argued introduction outlines the reasons both for a reluctance to recognize the greatness of Othello and for the case against the play. This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Honigmann examines the thematic portrayal of feminism, morality, and otherness. He provides a general character criticism, but delves more deeply into Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Emilia in individual sections. He discusses the play in performance and the relationship between reading it and seeing it. He also explores topics such as its date, sources, and the conundrum of "double time" Appendices cover date, details about and possible explanations for the textual inconsistencies, the principal and minor sources for the play, Edward Pudsey's extracts, and musical settings, reproduced from F.W. Sternfeld's Music in Shakespearean Tragedy. Finally, a reference section provides a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeares works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of his work, and other related reading. The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.
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Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007
ISBN 10: 1845204700 ISBN 13: 9781845204709
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. The study of animals - and the relationship between humans and other animals - is now one of the most fiercely debated topics in contemporary science and culture. Animals have a long history in human society, providing food, labour, sport and companionship as well as becoming objects for exhibit. More contemporary uses extend to animals as therapy and in scientific testing. As natural habitats continue to be destroyed, the rights of animals to co-exist on the planet - and their symbolic power as a connection between humans and the natural world - are ever more hotly contested. The Animals Reader brings together the key classic and contemporary writings from Philosophy, Ethics, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, History, Law and Science. As the first book of its kind, The Animals Reader provides a framework for understanding the current state of the multidisciplinary field of animal studies. This anthology will be invaluable for students across the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as for general readers.
Publicado por Brand: Bloomsbury USA, 2013
ISBN 10: 1620402807 ISBN 13: 9781620402801
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago-yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato-himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency-explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors.A recent Gallup poll gave JFK the highest job approval rating of any of those successors, and millions remain captivated by his one thousand days in the White House. For all of them, and for those who feel he would not be judged so highly if he hadn't died tragically in office, The Kennedy Half-Century will be particularly revealing. Sabato reexamines JFK's assassination using heretofore unseen information to which he has had unique access, then documents the extraordinary effect the assassination has had on Americans of every modern generation through the most extensive survey ever undertaken on the public's view of a historical figure. The full and fascinating results, gathered by the accomplished pollsters Peter Hart and Geoff Garin, paint a compelling portrait of the country a half-century after the epochal killing. Just as significantly, Sabato shows how JFK's presidency has strongly influenced the policies and decisions-often in surprising ways-of every president since.Among the hundreds of books devoted to JFK, The Kennedy Half-Century stands apart for its rich insight and original perspective. Anyone who reads it will appreciate in new ways the profound impact JFK's short presidency has had on our national psyche.
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