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16 produkter
Under Western Eyes
Av Joseph Conrad, Roger Osborne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2191 kr
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Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. …
Floating Egg
Episodes in the Making of Geology
Häftad, 1999
216 kr
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The Floating Egg begins with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ends with the re-imagination of a past world. Each chapter is connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. …
Under Western Eyes
Av Joseph Conrad, Paul Eggert m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
2127 kr
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Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. …
Under Western Eyes
Av Joseph Conrad, Paul Eggert m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
2174 kr
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Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. …
Nostromo
A Tale of the Seaboard
Av Joseph Conrad, Roger Osborne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1891 kr
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Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America. It is an enduring portrait of …
Nostromo
A Tale of the Seaboard
Av Joseph Conrad, Hugh Epstein m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
1874 kr
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Joseph Conrad''s Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America. It is an enduring portrait of …
Of The People, By The People
A New History of Democracy
E-bok, 2011
167 kr
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'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office after leading Britain to victory in 1945. Democracy, when viewed from above, has …
Civilization
A New History of the Western World
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous …
Floating Egg
Episodes in the Making of Geology
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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The Floating Egg begins with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ends with the re-imagination of a past world. Each chapter is connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. …
Iron, Steam & Money
The Making of the Industrial Revolution
E-bok, 2013
147 kr
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In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of …
Deprat Affair
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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Detective story, social history, human drama, The Deprat Affair recreates the hothouse atmosphere of colonial Indochina in the early twentieth century. Among its cliques, its bitter rivalries, its nepotism and favours, how are we to disentangle the scientific, the moral and the legal 'truths' of …
Dreamer Of Calle San Salvador
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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Spell-binding, horrific, poetic, apocalyptic, heart-rending, disturbing, prophetic, seditious, compelling and utterly fascinating - the dreams of Lucrecia de Leon have lain virtually undisturbed in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition for more than four hundred years. Lucrecia was a …
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s
Av David Carter, Roger Osborne
Häftad, 2018
404 kr
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Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.
Life of Such is Life
A Cultural History of an Australian Classic
Häftad, 2022
392 kr
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Shortlisted for the AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship 2022 Winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award 2023Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history …
Iron, Steam & Money
The Making of the Industrial Revolution
Häftad, 2014
210 kr
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In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of …
