| |
Pellegrino Artusi, the great gastronome and amateur detective, is back. It is 1900 and Pellegrino's famed cookbook is in its fifth edition. Flushed from his fortune and success, our hero joins a weekend party at the Tuscan castle of the wealthy agricultural...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-04-13
ePub
|
This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-06
PDF, ePub
|
'Ruminative and enigmatic . . . powerful' Simon Armitage'Tenderly inquisitive . . . a powerful poetry of witness . . . full of discovery' Alycia Pirmohamed'Majella Kelly offers so much: ecstatic lyricism . . . emotional excavation and virtuosic skill' Kathryn Maris ...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2023-04-06
ePub
|
This book explores the various ramifications and consequences of the violent civil protests that affected Kazakhstan in January 2022. In this compelling study, the authors examine the underlying social and political tensions that have affected this biggest country of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-30
PDF, ePub
|
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting.'Foreign...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-03-30
ePub
|
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine?In My Russia: War or Peace?...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2023-03-30
ePub
|
Histories you can trust.
The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-28
ePub
|
Nâzim Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the most important poets to have written in the Turkish language,Nâzim Hikmet's dramatic life...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-22
PDF
|
A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-16
ePub
|
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-08
PDF
|
Nâzim Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the most important poets to have written in the Turkish language,Nâzim Hikmet's dramatic life...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-07
ePub
|
Dieser Band bietet eine umfassende Geschichte der Soziologie in Großbritannien und verfolgt die Entwicklungen der Disziplin im institutionellen und politischen Kontext.Nachdem er die frühe Entwicklung des Fachs als intellektuelles Feld in empirischer und idealistischer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-03-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial contexts in the late...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-27
PDF, ePub
|
This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor monarchs from 1727 to the present. Some of the consorts examined in this volume—such as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, consort to George VI—are well known...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-24
PDF, ePub
|
This book covers the discovery and the results of the analytical study of the composition of the Farnley Hall service, involving both the embossed moulding and the decorative compositions. The discovery of this missing porcelain service, which was manufactured...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-02-22
PDF, ePub
|
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-02-21
ePub
|
This book explores origins, manifestations, and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology, a number of related discourses, metaphors, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-13
PDF, ePub
|
The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan. Various documents from the archives reveal to the reader the most difficult period of the Soviet history of Kazakhstan, associated with the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-13
PDF, ePub
|
Dieses Buch fügt sich in die Diskussion über die Auslandshilfe ein, die durch das Aufkommen einer Vielzahl neuer Geber im Bereich der internationalen Entwicklung ausgelöst wurde, und untersucht den Wandel Kasachstans von einem Empfängerland zu einem...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-02-09
PDF, ePub
|
"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabó's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles" EconomistEszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous,...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-02-02
ePub
|