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18 produkter
Antiquity Matters
Inbunden, 2017
265 kr
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A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering PrizesThis book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of …
Jew Among Romans
The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
E-bok, 2013
173 kr
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From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into …
Great Philosophers
Häftad, 2001
248 kr
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The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from our hugely successful series: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates; …
Darling
E-bok, 2012
183 kr
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First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is "The Happiness Girl" in ads plastered all over the country, and she''s hunting happiness in more ways than she''s care to confess. She''s the darling of the rich and powerful: of Prince …
California Time
E-bok, 2012
193 kr
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Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a substantial debt of gratitude and whose top executives are top friends of his. Why, then, is he left to …
Coast to Coast
E-bok, 2012
197 kr
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Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their …
Darling
Häftad, 2013
219 kr
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First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is "The Happiness Girl" in ads plastered all over the country, and she's hunting happiness in more ways than she's care to confess. She's the darling of the rich and powerful: of Prince Cesare …
Coast to Coast
Häftad, 2013
237 kr
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Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage Jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their …
California Time
Häftad, 2013
237 kr
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Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a substantial debt of gratitude and whose top executives are top friends of his. Why, then, is he left to …
Great Philosophers: Popper
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Karl Popper 1902-1994 The political history of the twentieth century has been full of savage ''certainties''. A similar idea of history warranted the callous savageries of both Marxism and Fascism. They shared a faith in what Karl Popper called ''Historicism'': the belief that the future could be …
Last Post
Häftad, 2023
344 kr
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A The Tablet Book of the Year Last Post has a double life; it both sounds for the gallant fallen and recalls what spurred freelance journalists, in all those yesterdays before e-mail, to get their copy in the pillar-box by deadline time. Frederic Raphael's compendium, written in the lively …
World's Game
Reflections on Western Culture
E-bok, 2025
169 kr
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In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: ''The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world''s game.'' Yet history has proven to be much more complex. In this epic narrative, Frederic Raphael explores the most significant moments, ideas and figures that have shaped the world''s …
World's Game
Reflections on Western Culture
Inbunden, 2025
370 kr
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In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: ‘The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world’s game.’ History, however, had other winners in mind.In this epic narrative, Frederic Raphael explores the most significant moments, ideas and figures that have shaped the world as we …
World's Game
Reflections on Western Culture
Häftad, 2026
162 kr
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In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: ‘The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world’s game.’ History, however, had other winners in mind.In this epic narrative, Frederic Raphael explores the most significant moments, ideas and figures that have shaped the world as we …
Great Philosophers
Inbunden, 2000
1578 kr
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Brief, accessible, and affordable, these pocket-sized volumes offer the essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition-from Plato to Wittgenstein.
Where Were We? – The Conversation Continues
Av Frederic Raphael, Joseph Epstein
Inbunden, 2018
325 kr
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Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary critic, exchanged e-mails sporadically over the years, usually commenting on each other’s various writings. Then one day in 2009, Raphael wrote to …
Personal Terms
Personal Terms V
Häftad, 2011
415 kr
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June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play Something's Wrong, and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to vanities and foibles. Ifs and Buts continues the sharply stylish extracts from the journal of time spent, in the words of the Sunday Times, …
