(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824899646)
Whispers from a Storm is a collection of political writing by the Japanese human rights activist and Esperantist Hasegawa Teru (19121947). In 1937, the twenty-five-year-old Hasegawa sailed from her home in Nara for Shanghai to join the resistance mo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009745963)
This is the first full-length critical study of Keatss letters. Featuring insightful close readings and developing a unique theory of literary contingency, it accounts for the letters unique power and rhetorical brilliance while also developing a...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length critical study of Keatss letters. Featuring insightful close readings and developing a unique theory of literary contingency, it accounts for the letters unique power and rhetorical brilliance while also developing a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9780748616473)
The Life of Thomas Reid paints a vivid picture of Reid and his circle of friends and family, as well as his activities as a clergyman in the north-east of Scotland, a regent at Kings College, Aberdeen, and as Adam Smiths successor as Professor of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Catholic University of America Press, ISBN-13: 9780813240411)
A Witness of the Silent Church is a first-hand personal witness to the life of one of the outstanding religious leaders in the Catholic Church and the confessor of faith. It presents the autobiography of Cardinal Josyf Slipyj (1892-1984), who served...Loe edasi...
Artist Charles Willson Peale was making detailed drawings of fossilized bones when a relative’s off-hand comment sparked an idea in his mind—why not turn his art gallery into a museum of the natural world? People would come. People might even pay! Hi...Loe edasi...
In the early hours of 7 August 1985, 24-year-old Jeremy Bamber claims to have received a chilling phone call from his father. Your sisters gone berserk, and shes got a gun When the line went dead, Jeremy called the police. ...Loe edasi...
These startling memoirs offer a rare insight into the experiences of a prisoner of war within the brutal Russian camp system. The book begins with the capture of Austrian infantryman Wolfram ‘Wolfie’ Redler amid the chaos following the fall of Stalin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: White Owl, ISBN-13: 9781036126636)
One dark and stormy night in 1816, Mary Shelley started the story that was to become the first science-fiction novel, Frankenstein. She was on holiday in Geneva and Lord Byron, a poet with rock-star status, had challenged his friends to write a ghos...Loe edasi...
Stored away and forgotten for 200 years, the private journals of Elizabeth Hervey (1749–1820) vividly describe her life and times. Her teenage years were spent in luxury at Fonthill Splendens, home of her stepfather, Alderman William Beckford. She ma...Loe edasi...
Winston Churchill: The Making of a Warlord offers a vivid, immersive journey through the extraordinary early life of one of history’s most iconic leaders. In this beautifully curated volume, acclaimed military historian and former intelligence offic...Loe edasi...
A truly trailblazing pilot, Helen Marcelle Harrison soared above societal norms and became the first female military flying instructor in the world when she taught pupil pilots in the South African Air Forces 1,000-Pilot Plan and the British Commonw...Loe edasi...
Princess Ileana of Romania (19091991), known later in life as Mother Alexandra, was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his consort, Queen Marie. Kind, intelligent, and beautiful, she was exalted among the royal courts of Europe...Loe edasi...
Born of private means, educated and eloquent, Robert Rose was once a fixture in the literary circles of 19th-century Manchester and Liverpool, but now nearly erased from history. Rose wrote poetry tinged with longing, loss, and quiet resistance. ...Loe edasi...
On a bleak January morning in 1972, a frightened fifteen-year-old stepped off a train at North Camp railway station and into a life he never wanted. Forced into the Junior Guardsman’s Wing with no say in his future, he arrived at the Guards Depot, Pi...Loe edasi...
While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that regio...Loe edasi...
Richard Marsden Pankhurst is an obscure figure, forgotten by history because he has been overshadowed by his dazzling wife, Emmeline, the great leader of the Suffragettes. Yet their partnership as campaigners was a critical element in her developmen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: White Owl, ISBN-13: 9781399043175)
Mary Poppins is a publishing phenomenon of eight books written across 55 years, translated into 20 languages, including Swahili. The 1964 Disney film starring Julie Andrews remains one of the most popular children’s movies of all time. Yet the author...Loe edasi...
Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. Like Abraham, he moved from place to place and remained a stranger everywhere. But he neve...Loe edasi...
At the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across t...Loe edasi...
Olga of Kyiv, the first female ruler of the Rus, was a leader unlike any other. Best remembered for her ruthless revenge against the Derevlians—the tribe that murdered her husband—Olga’s calculated brutality secured her grip on power and cemented her...Loe edasi...
A thorough and illuminating biography of the infamous Wallis Simpson, who was one American half of the biggest scandals to hit royalty and the greatest love affair known for centuries.This book will be a holistic portrayal of the real Wallis Simpson,...Loe edasi...
He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost completely opposite in character, together...Loe edasi...
The Hammersmith Nude Murders is the name of a series of six murders in West London, England, in 1964 and 1965. The victims, all sex workers, were found undressed in or near the River Thames. Two earlier murders, committed in West London in 1959 and...Loe edasi...
This is the first biography of Michael Ward (19252005): mountaineer, surgeon, scientist, explorer and writer. Amongst his many accomplishments, it describes from his unique perspective the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, when he was expedit...Loe edasi...
