Coversations With Benedetto VecchiThis topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues th...9999903249931Zygmunt Bauman
Polity
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint EastwoodWhen first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded n...9999903249795Jim Kitses
Editors Varis
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
A BiographyThe most complete account yet of one of the most original and stimulating film-makers of the post-war years: Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, Lolita, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockw...9999903249696John Baxter
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue? Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them 'Do not go gentle into that ...9781840228465Dylan Thomas
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial BodyguardA riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make--or destroy--the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around ...9999903249436Guy De la Bédoyère
Yale University Press
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
Essential Readings for the NonbelieverDespite the mistaken use of the label "New Atheists," there is a lot of continuity over the past couple of centuries among atheist authors in their critiques of religion, theism, a...9999903247982Christopher Hitchens
Da Capo Press
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on...9999903247661Harold Bloom
Charles Scribner's Sons
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
DK brings you an all-encompassing knitting book jam-packed with pretty patterns, savvy stitches and more! With over 120 patterns to choose from for a variety of knitting stitches,...9999903246787Vikki Haffenden Frederica...
Penguin
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The Complete Guide to Decorating TechniquesThis is the comprehensive guide to decorating your doll's house, inside and out. Expert instruction is provided on practical decorating techniques, the tools and materials required...9999903246602William Davis Caroline Li...
Little, Brown and Company
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
Oxford School ShakespeareMacbeth is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) ...9999903245698William Shakespeare
Oxford University Press
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"As soon as they became recognizably human, men and women--in their hunger to understand their own presence on earth and the mysteries within and around them--began to worship gods...9999903245353by Karen Armstrong
New York : Ballantine Books, 1994.
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
From the Gramophone to the IPhone : 125 Years of Pop MusicAmbitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twe...9999903245391Peter Doggett
Bodley Head
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The Grey Fox of HollywoodHoward Hawks is the first major biography of one of Hollywood's greatest directors, a filmmaker of incomparable versatility whose body of work includes the landmark gangster film S...9999903245384Todd McCarthy
Grove Press
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey BogartHumphrey Bogart: it's hard to think of anyone who's had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ag...9999903245360Stefan Kanfer
Vintage
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Others, 1974-1981By 1970, the hippie dream of the 60s was dead ? the soundtrack of the revolution had become a multimillion-dollar industry. Glitter tried to save music's soul, but was too commerci...9999903241973Gary Valentine,
Thunder?s Mouth Press
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
Journeys into Fame and MadnessYou can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them. Join Neil Strauss, "The Mike Tyson of interviewers," (Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum)...9999903241997Neil Strauss
HarperCollins
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting). Though she loved ...9999903241911Alethea Hayter
Faber & Faber
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's '1984', one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ...9999903241898Dorian Lynskey
Picador
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985Much has been written about the "long Sixties," the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emerg...9999903241584Andrew Nette Iain McIntyr...
Editors Varis
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
William Shakespeare and the Year of LearThe sequel to James Shapiro's multi-award winning bestseller 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.9999903240495James Shapiro
Faber & Faber
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
Who I AmHe is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshen...9999903238997Pete Townshed
Editors Varis
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
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