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11 produkter
11 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
280 kr
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George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO's Game of Thrones series depict a medieval world at war. But how accurate are they? The author, an historian and medieval martial arts expert, examines in detail how authentically Martin's fictional world reflects the arms and armor, fighting techniques and siege warfare of the Middle Ages. Along the way, he explores the concept of "medievalism"--modern pop culture's idea of the Middle Ages.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
210 kr
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From baker to winemaker, this work helps you navigate your way to a new career. ""Food and Culinary Arts"" helps those interested in exploring new careers in these innovative professions. This helpful new guide examines various job possibilities and provides readers with useful self-assessment questions and interviews with professionals in the field to get them started on their career path. Featuring useful advice on mapping out ways to reach career goals, this resource also offers a list of further reading and trade organizations as well as specific advice tailored to readers of all ages. Careers profiled include: baker; bartender; dietician/nutritionist; food stylist; restaurant chef; restaurant manager; restaurant reviewer; and, winemaker/brewer.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
304 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
472 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2020153 kr
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This volume features eighty-five of Obama’s most impactful speeches, spanning more than a decade from his time in the Senate to his final day in the presidency. Hailed as one of the greatest orators of modern times, former President Barack Obama has inspired millions through his speeches. This collection provides a comprehensive look at how his message of hope and change evolved from his rise to the presidency to his last day in office. These speeches resonate with optimism and keen insights that people of all political viewpoints can appreciate and learn from. This volume includes: Obama’s most influential pre-presidential speeches.Speeches from some of the most important events of his presidency.His first and second inaugural addresses, all of his State of the Union addresses, and his moving 2017 farewell speech. Dozens of other addresses covering the greatest issues facing the United States, and the world.
E-bok
Engelska, 2021170 kr
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Eleven classic whodunits starring master sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Father Brown. A superstar lineup of detectives—including Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin, and Hercule Poirot—headlines this elegant leather-bound edition of classic mystery stories. Short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and G. K. Chesterton’s “The Blue Cross” are ideal for a cozy evening by the fire, while novels like Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links and Jules Verne’s An Antarctic Mystery will keep you engrossed for days. The eleven works in this volume are preceded by a scholarly introduction that explores the origins of the genre, as well as the development of the modern mystery story and the contributions made by each author. Works IncludedShort stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe "The Adventure of the Creeping Man," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Blue Cross," G. K. Chesterton "The Coin of Dionysius," Ernest Bramah "The Anthropologist at Large," R. Austin Freeman "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard ConnellNovels:The Murder on the Links, Agatha ChristieWhose Body?, Dorothy SayersThe Thirty-nine Steps, John BuchanAn Antarctic Mystery, Jules VerneRoom 13, Edgar Wallace
E-bok
Engelska, 2023170 kr
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Celebrate the joy of Christmas with these classic holiday stories and poems.This collection features more than 20 stories and poems celebrating Christmas, including works from esteemed authors such as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, and Hans Christian Andersen. With favorites such as O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” and L. Frank Baum’s The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, this elegant volume will hold a special place in your collection, sure to be enjoyed during the Christmas season, or at any time of the year.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018175 kr
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"Philosophy begins in wonder." —PlatoHave you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days of Ancient Greece? This collection of thoughts from Plato, Aristotle, and other masters of philosophy will lead your mind on a journey of enlightened exploration into ethics, morality, law, medicine, and more. With an introduction by a distinguished scholar of classic literature, this Canterbury Classics volume is sure to be a favorite.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
295 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
369 kr
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Understanding the past takes more forms than historiography. Since 2005, professional and amateur scholars have come together at the annual International Medieval Congress in Western Michigan University to discuss the role re-construction, re-enactment and re-creation can play in 'breathing life into these dry bones' to deepen our knowledge of the past. Under the sponsorship of the Higgins Armory Museum and the Oakeshott Institute, presenters have looked at subjects ranging from ore smelting to equitation to the use of recreation and reenactment in the classroom.A special focus of these sessions has always been the critical examination of European fencing books, or Fechtbucher - not only for the sake of reconstructing the arts found therein, but also for what these sources can tell us about intellectual, cultural and social history. Thanks in part to editors' Mondschein and Cramer's work, the study of fencing books has rapidly become a recognized field of academic study.This volume brings together eight papers examining the study and reconstruction of medieval and early modern fight-books and related subjects. The subjects covered range from manuscript studies to philology, from Aristotelian physics to martial musicality, from medieval textuality to women and warfare. It will be of interest not only to professional historians, musicologists, literary scholars and art historians, but also to the vast army of impassioned and enthusiastic practitioners who endeavor, as a labour of love, to make the past come to life.
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Flowers of Battle The Complete Martial Works of Fiore dei Liberi Vol III
Florius de Arte Luctandi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 502 kr
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The warriors of medieval Italy practised a complex and complete martial art, which included the wielding of sword, axe and spear with wrestling, knife-fighting and mounted combat. In the waning years of the 14th century, Fiore dei Liberi was a famed master of this art, whose students included some of the most renowned and dangerous fighting men of his day. Credited by fencing historians as the father of Italian swordmanship, toward the end of his life, Master Fiore preserved his teachings in a series of illustrated manuscripts, four of which have survived to the present day, and have become the basis of a worldwide effort to reconstruct this lost martial art. This magnum opus, Il Fior di Batalgia (The Flower of Battle), composed in early 1409, is one of the oldest, most extensive, and most clearly elucidated martial arts treatises from the medieval period.Flowers of Battle is a multi-volume series of lavishly illustrated hardcover books, combining full colour facsimiles of the Master's original manuscripts, professional, annotated translations, and extensive peer-reviewed essays.Volume III, Florius de Arte Luctandi, presents a translation, transcription and reproduction of chronologically the last, most recently discovered, and visually most lush Flower of Battle manuscript. This posthumous work raises more questions than it answers: for whom was the manuscript creared and why? Why was it translated into a complex, humanistic Latin, and from what prior source? Why are there clear nomenclatures and instruction differences between this and the other three manuscripts, and do these changes reflect an evolution in the Master's thinking, or errors in transmission? Mondschein and Mele tackle these questions and more in a lavishly illustrated introduction that seeks to set the manuscript in context, as an objet d'art, as an example of Renaissance patronage, and as a practical martial arts memorial.Series Note:Vol. I: Historical Overview and the Getty ManuscriptVol. II: Flos DuellatorumVol. III: Florius de Arte LuctandiVol. IV: The Pierpont-Morgan Manuscript and General ConcordanceVol. V: Leaves of Battle – Fiore dei Liberi’s Martial Heirs and Influence