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GebondenEngels9780198184416
9-7-1998
Poetry and Revolution is a radical re-examination of the canon of mid-seventeenth-century verse. The author questions and discards the old description of the period as 'Cavalier Poetry' and advances instead a tumultuous, pluralistic canon rich in radical writing and poetry by those marginalized until recently in historical and literary accounts of the period. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199555307
28-5-2009
Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526195548
20-1-2026
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period. -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9781857549263
24-4-2008
Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781800172630
24-11-2022
The second Carcanet poetry collection from Peter Davidson is a book of elegies and consolations for dead friends, past times, and spiritual consolations. Meer
GebondenEngels9781851245147
5-11-2021
Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe and North America. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781847771551
27-6-2013
In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781620082874
1-3-2018
Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps, Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526126931
8-6-2018
A multi-disciplinary study of the notion of the baroque, using examples of music, art, visual culture, literature and architecture, revealing it to be a global phenomenon -- . Meer
GebondenEngels9781526169341
30-7-2024
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period. -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789180138
28-2-2019
As the veterinary nursing profession continues to develop beyond the traditional caring and support roles, more and more academic rigour is expected of veterinary nurses. Meer
gebondenEngels9780333280836
15-12-1982
paperbackEngels9781349051793
1-1-1982
PaperbackEngels9781107561977
22-8-2024
This book demonstrates the crucial role played by Homer as a philosophic thinker in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning the relation among politics, religion, and philosophy and in their debates concerning human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence, and the best way of life. Meer
gebondenEngels9783031156878
30-8-2022
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC15 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2022. Meer