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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the same in the aftermathboth a thrilling whodunit …
View book details for Die Dorotheenstadt im 19. Jahrhundert
Vom vorstadtischen Wohnviertel barocker Pragung zu einem Teil der modernen Berliner City
De Gruyter
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Celebrating rich, buttery, over-the-top treats, award-winning baker and author Judy Rosenberg shares 150 inspired but easy-to-make cookie recipes that never stint on the good stuff. Think chocolate chips and chocolate chunks, mounds of jam and heaps of nuts, the butter …
A wonderfully transporting tale of love in the Old West (People Magazine) and a brilliant, beautiful page-turner (Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Double Blind) about a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman …
Discover stories that inspire a "great capacity for wonder" (New York Times) from the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time: named one of the spring's most anticipated books (Good Housekeeping), this collection transcends generational divides to highlight the power …
Discover the legendary story of Adidas, where three signature stripes took the globe by storm. In this compact guide, style writer Josh Sims delves into the incredible journey of one of the most iconic brands in the world today. From …
The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) first …
View book details for Old English Medievalism
Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the …
View book details for Radical Nostalgia:
Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America
A detailed history of the commemorations of US activist involvement in the Spanish Civil War, based on a combination of archival and ethnographic evidence.Nostalgia can serve as a vital tool in the emotional reconstitution and preservation of suppressed histories, rather …
A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars.Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some …
An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as …
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2004. Studies in Medieval History
The 2006 volume of the Haskins Society features another impressive array of academics addressing the period from Anglo-Saxon to Angevin.This latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the …
View book details for E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Serapiontic Principle
Critique and Creativity
A comprehensive investigation of Hoffmann's "Serapiontic Principle" and what it implies for his oeuvre.Critics have long sought to elucidate the multilayered texts of E. T. A. Hoffmann by applying to them a particular set of theories and ideas that Hoffmann …
The nature of political prophecy in the middle ages analysed, confirming its importance in the discussion of public affairs.In this first general survey of political prophecy in medieval England for almost a hundred years, Lesley Coote examines the nature of …
View book details for Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England
Texts, Hierarchies, Economies
New study of the complexities of how power operates in a number of Anglo-Saxon texts.A work of fine and nuanced intelligence... Skilled and learned readings of a number of important texts. Fluent, polished, and beautifully written. Dr Katy Cubitt, University …
View book details for Trees in Anglo-Saxon England
Literature, Lore and Landscape
A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a …
New light is shed on the motives and objectives for the compiling of the still-mysterious Domesday Book, revolutionising our understanding of the period.The Domesday Book is one of our major sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it …
Madre Ana's account of her life gives insight into the nature of female monasticism at the turn of the seventeenth century.In two relaciones of her life, Madre Ana de San Agustin, a member of the Discalced Carmelite reform under Santa …
Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could …
Detailed overview of Handel's final 22 operas - including major masterpieces such as Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina and the brilliant lighter works Partenope, Serse and Imeneo - by the world's leading authority.Handel ranks with Monteverdi, Mozart and Verdi among the …
A full and accessibly-written survey of Bede and his works, including a chapter on his legacy for subsequent history.The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international …
The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.Eleventh-century England suffered two devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, …
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious institutions worked to recover (or create) originary narratives that could guarantee, they hoped, their political …
View book details for The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Volume 2
The Political Process
Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that …
The Cartulary of Newnham PrioryA cartulary of the deeds and charters of Newnham Priory in Bedford was compiled in the early fifteenth century. It contains the Priorys deeds and charters from 1166 to 1409. The Latin transcriptions have been explained …
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