Author: UnescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Unesco List of Documents and Publications
Author: UnescoUnesco Sources
Author: The Unesco Courier
Author: UnescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Literatures of the World
Author: Ottmar EttePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004395555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
In this volume, Ottmar Ette unfolds a theory and practice of the Literatures of the World from a fractal and multi-perspective point of view.
Invasion of the Sea
Author: Jules VernePublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574600
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.
Song of the Nibelungs
Author: Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125986
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.
The Glory of the Empire
Author: Jean D'OrmessonPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590179668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
The World Through Picture Books
Author: IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults SectionPublisher:
ISBN: 9789077897805
Category : Collection development (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The World Through Picture Books (WTPB) is a programme of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section in collaboration with IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Children's Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children, for their development, cultural identity and as a springboard into learning to read for themselves. The idea behind the World Through Picture Books was to create a selection of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a way of celebrating and promoting the languages, cultures and quality of children's book publishing globally. The 3rd edition highlights 530 picture books, from 57 countries and featuring 37 languages. It is fully digital and the catalogue as well as a poster and bookmark can be downloaded free of charge." --
Revolution of the Right to Education
Author: A. Reis MonteiroPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004462465
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
In Revolution of the Right to Education, A. Reis Monteiro offers an interdisciplinary and topical introduction to the International Education Law, broadly defined, striving to explain why the normative integrity of the right to education carries far-reaching revolutionary significance.