Future Music from Germany"So many of Kraftwerk's innovations have become absorbed into the mainstream that it is sometimes hard to remember just how innovative, strange and avant-garde they were. Ignoring ...9999903400585Shute, Uwe
Penguin
sábado, 22 de noviembre de 2025
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longingis...9999903400578Leonard Cohen
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 22 de noviembre de 2025
The Folklore of British Pub NamesWhy do British pubs have such curious names? What tales lie behind the Moonrakers, the Hooden Horse, the Derby Tup? And why does the Green Man come in different shapes and sizes? I...9999903400035Jacqueline Simpson
Vintage
jueves, 20 de noviembre de 2025
Drawing, Building, ReflectingIllustrated by the architect and in his own words, this memoir features drawings never seen outside Santiago Calatrava ??s studio. Santiago Calatrava is an intimate insight into on...9999903399285Santiago Calatrava and Cr...
London; Thames & Hudson
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
The Story of a RiverRamzan in Karachi -- Conquering the classic river -- Ethiopia's first fruit -- River saints -- The guru's army -- Up the Khyber -- Buddha on the Silk Road -- Alexander at the outer...9999903399155Alice Albinia
Hodder
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
From Revolutionary to EmperorCaesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before dying peacefully in his bed. The system he create...9999903399148Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
PHOENIX
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
History of a Goddess"Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twent...9999903399131Bettany Hughes
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman WorldThe Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialist...9999903399117Adrian Goldsworthy
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
Lost Capitals of the MediterraneanWINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cu...9999903399100Katherine Pangonis
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman RepublicThe Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon pai...9999903399025Tom Holland
London : Abacus, 2004.
martes, 18 de noviembre de 2025
The First World Empire and the Battle for the WestIn 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had s...9999903399001Tom Holland
London : Abacus, 2006.
martes, 18 de noviembre de 2025
The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval EuropeIreland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...9999903398134Cahill, Thomas A.
Sceptre
lunes, 17 de noviembre de 2025
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and b...9999903398004Ezra Pound
Faber & Faber
jueves, 13 de noviembre de 2025
Maximum Security Ward and other poems, including the whole of the title-sequence (1970) and generous selections from Graffiti (1959) and Asbestos Phoenix (1968), at last provides a...9999903129554Ramon Guthrie
Persea Books
sábado, 18 de mayo de 2024
For the past 30 years Fred Voss has worked as a machinist in various factories in California, transmuting his experiences into three books of poetry. The backdrop of much of his wo...9999903129493Fred Voss
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
sábado, 18 de mayo de 2024
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984George Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to the 'Thought Police', 'Do...9999903397137Dorian Lynskey
Picador
miércoles, 5 de noviembre de 2025
A Handbook to Anthony Powell's a Dance to the Music of TimeA unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than...9999903396215Hilary Spurling
Vintage
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
The story of two eccentric Victorian spinsters, Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), poets and lovers, who wrote together under the name of Michael...9999903396208Emma Donoghue
Editors Varis
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
People and Their DiariesMallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the poli...9999903396147Thomas Mallon
Editors Varis
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and ...9999903396123Bryan Magee
Penguin Books Ltd
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
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