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GebondenEngels9781788494144
21-10-2024
A fresh and entertaining introduction to many of the weirdest creatures from Irish lore as seen through the eyes of Fantasius Farrelly, perfect for anyone who has ever wondered about the things lurking in the dark. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788496650
9-3-2026
A fresh and entertaining introduction to many of the weirdest creatures from Irish lore as seen through the eyes of Fantasius Farrelly, perfect for anyone who has ever wondered about the things lurking in the dark. Meer
GebondenEngels9781032431574
31-3-2023
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781032431581
4-10-2024
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. Meer
paperbackEngels9783319840598
20-7-2018
This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. Meer
GebondenEngels9780801444104
2-12-2005
PaperbackEngels9780801474064
4-10-2007
PaperbackEngels9781788491037
2-3-2020
Nobody was more DEADLY than the Vikings who attacked Ireland in the 8th century: DEADLY Viking warriors! DEADLY Viking ships! DEADLY Viking weapons!But were they really just marauding, murdering maniacs? Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788492874
7-3-2022
Jam-packed with all kinds fun facts and madcap stories about the Normans. From Strongbow and the Norman invasion to the broad sweep of medieval life in Ireland, laugh as you learn about how the people lived, what they played what they worked at: anyone fancy working as a professional farter? Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788491303
14-9-2020
The Celts arrived in Ireland around 700BCE and dominated the bronze and iron ages. Even after Christianity, Irish Celts retained much of their unique culture. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521181327
17-2-2011
It is generally agreed that in the early eighteenth century people began to be interested in landscape as something to have a 'taste' for; that they saw landscape through the eyes of the great painters, and that later pictures, poetry and landscape gardening all reflect that taste. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521276559
29-9-1983
The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of classical or theatrical pastoral, landscape painters attempted to offer a portrayal of what life was really like, or was thought to be like, in England; and this inevitably involved a distinct approach to the depiction of the rural poor. Meer
GebondenEngels9780708325667
30-3-2013
This book is the first to explore the work of the nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh (1763-1813), a fascinating painter of the landscapes of North Wales and a brilliant observer of Welsh rural life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780708325674
30-3-2013
This book is the first to explore the work of the nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh (1763-1813), a fascinating painter of the landscapes of North Wales and a brilliant observer of Welsh rural life. Meer
GebondenEngels9781041047582
1-8-2025
First published in 1983, English Literature in History examines how an economic theory of society was developed out of an earlier political view of society as an area of conflicting interests which could be regulated by disinterested statesmen and gentlemen. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781849393874
2-2-2012
When Louis gets eaten up by a Gulper, his big sister Sarah knows she has to act fast, and sets off in hot pursuit. But rescuing a boy from a Gulper's tummy isn't so simple - especially when other strange and scary creatures are looking for their dinner too. Meer
paperbackEngels9781851968114
1-5-2007
The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man", the government moved swiftly to prevent French republican ideas taking hold in Britain, beginning with the prosecution of Paine himself in absentia. Meer