Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures and Printed Books
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Catalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Annotated Origin
Author: DarwinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032811
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history of science. The Annotated Origin is a facsimile of the first edition of 1859, and is accompanied by James T. Costa’s marginal annotations, drawing on his extensive experience with Darwin’s ideas in the field, lab, and classroom.
Curiosities of Literature
Author: Isaac DisraeliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel MoynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald CarterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
Author: John Hill WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Author: Reviel NetzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earliest Accounts
Author: Adam AndersonHerbert of Bosham
Author: Michael StauntonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903153888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In-depth study of an important writer and close associate of Becket. Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194) was one of the most brilliant, original and versatile thinkers of the twelfth century. Herbert was Thomas Becket's closest confidant, a theologian, biblical commentator, historian, letter-writer and Hebrew scholar; he wrote a Life of St Thomas unlike any other contemporary biography, produced one of the most visually-arresting illuminated Bible books of his age, and composed a commentary on the Psalms inspired by Jewish scholarship. His uncompromising character, and the originality and complexity of his thought, meant that Herbert's works were largely ignored during his lifetime and forgotten for centuries, but more recently they have begun to receive the attention and approval that their author insisted they deserved. The chapters in this book, the first to be devoted to Herbert's life and works, examine his eventful and troubled life, his remarkable corpus of works, and how they came to be neglected and rediscovered. They provide an introduction to his life, writings and legacy, direction to existing scholarship on the subject, and new insights on, interpretations of and discoveries about anidiosyncratic representative of the "twelfth-century renaissance". MICHAEL STAUNTON is Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin. Contributors: Julie Barrau, Laura Cleaver, Matthew Doyle, Anne J. Duggan, Christopher de Hamel, Sabina Flanagan, Michael Staunton, Nicholas Vincent.