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White Goddess(1999) GRAVES, ROBERTThis labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Prison notebooks(1998) GRAMSCI, ANTONIOThis volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Nobebooks" to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of "The ModerVezava: Mehka49,90 € -
Around the Tuscan Table(2004) COUNIHAN, CAROLE M.Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.Vezava: Mehka104,99 € -
Pessimism(2009) DIENSTAG, JOSHUA FOAPessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, aVezava: Mehka59,50 € -
Mountain of Light(2003) CRUMLEY, JIMThis volume is a mixture of folk-tale, magic, myth, love story and hymn of praise to the natural world of Scotland's high and low lands, their landscapes and creatures, and the poet-guardians who timelessly maintain their care for them.Vezava: Mehka10,80 € -
Down and Out in Paris and London(2013) ORWELL, GEORGETo be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. This book giVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Little History of Dragons(2006) HARGREAVES, JOYCEWhy are dragons recognised in almost all cultures on Earth? Could dragons be a folk memory of something which once hunted us long ago? This book tells the story of these extraordinary animals through examples drawn from all over the world. It is illustratVezava: Mehka9,25 € -
Discarded Image(2012) LEWIS, C. S.Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teVezava: Mehka30,29 € -
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And Furthermore(2012) DENCH, DAME JUDIUpdated edition of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir of Britain's best-loved actress, Dame Judi Dench. 'National treasure Judi Dench's collection of anecdotes from her career and family life makes this a sharp-witted memoir' DAILY EXPRESSVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance(2015) STEPHEN DUBNER , STEVEN LEVITTVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Classical Hollywood Cinema(1988) BORDWELL, DAVID (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, USA),STAIGER, JANET,THOMPSON, KRISTINAcclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.Vezava: Mehka80,49 € -
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England(2010) OWEN-CROCKER, GALE RSplendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI NewsletterVezava: Mehka40,14 € -
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Penguin Classics)(2005) JACOBS, HARRIETA haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumVezava: Mehka12,61 €











