Author: David Stacton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571296203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
' People of the Book is set in the Thirty Years' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton's incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagaries of the human condition. A book to put on the shelf with Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and Tolstoy's War and Peace.' Professor Charles Hill (author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order) 'A troubling and fantastic book... Stacton sets up a duel plot. One follows the fortunes of the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus, the other recounts the fate of an orphaned boy and his little sister who try to make their way across Germany from their ruined home to refuge with an imagined uncle.' Life '[An] extraordinary evocation of the whole spiritual climate of the time; the very vapours of Teutonic mists seem to rise from its pages.' Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times
People of the Book
Author: David Stacton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571296203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
' People of the Book is set in the Thirty Years' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton's incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagaries of the human condition. A book to put on the shelf with Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and Tolstoy's War and Peace.' Professor Charles Hill (author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order) 'A troubling and fantastic book... Stacton sets up a duel plot. One follows the fortunes of the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus, the other recounts the fate of an orphaned boy and his little sister who try to make their way across Germany from their ruined home to refuge with an imagined uncle.' Life '[An] extraordinary evocation of the whole spiritual climate of the time; the very vapours of Teutonic mists seem to rise from its pages.' Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571296203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
' People of the Book is set in the Thirty Years' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton's incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagaries of the human condition. A book to put on the shelf with Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and Tolstoy's War and Peace.' Professor Charles Hill (author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order) 'A troubling and fantastic book... Stacton sets up a duel plot. One follows the fortunes of the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus, the other recounts the fate of an orphaned boy and his little sister who try to make their way across Germany from their ruined home to refuge with an imagined uncle.' Life '[An] extraordinary evocation of the whole spiritual climate of the time; the very vapours of Teutonic mists seem to rise from its pages.' Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times
Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan
Author: AndrewL. Maske
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135155350X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain traces the development of one of Japan's best-documented ceramic types, from its beginnings around 1600 until the abolition of the domain system in 1871. Using historical records, archaeological material from early kilns and consumer sites, and the results of comparative chemical analysis, this study explores the operation of Takatori as the official ceramic workshop of the Kuroda, lords of one of the largest domains in Japan. Spanning cultural, aesthetic, economic and practical aspects, this book presents Takatori ware as an ideal archetype with which to compare developments in elite ceramics in other parts of Japan throughout the Edo period. In addition to its scholarly examination of the operation of a domain-sponsored ceramics workshop over more than 250 years, the book includes illustrations of examples from each of the seven Takatori workshop locations, including beautiful pieces that have never before appeared in print.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135155350X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain traces the development of one of Japan's best-documented ceramic types, from its beginnings around 1600 until the abolition of the domain system in 1871. Using historical records, archaeological material from early kilns and consumer sites, and the results of comparative chemical analysis, this study explores the operation of Takatori as the official ceramic workshop of the Kuroda, lords of one of the largest domains in Japan. Spanning cultural, aesthetic, economic and practical aspects, this book presents Takatori ware as an ideal archetype with which to compare developments in elite ceramics in other parts of Japan throughout the Edo period. In addition to its scholarly examination of the operation of a domain-sponsored ceramics workshop over more than 250 years, the book includes illustrations of examples from each of the seven Takatori workshop locations, including beautiful pieces that have never before appeared in print.
German-English
Author: Felix Flügel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Smashing Through Death's Door
Author: Marshall J. Alexander
Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation
ISBN: 0882704915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The reader will be in for an exciting ride in the thrilling story of Marshall Alexander, a seasoned pilot who miraculously survived a plane crash in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. This story is so amazing that even the writers of Lost, on ABC-TV, couldn¿t have dreamed it up. Smashing Through Death¿s Door reveals God¿s bigger plan for Marshall¿s life and how the crash set that plan into motion. The reader will be left with a powerful message of eternal destiny.
Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation
ISBN: 0882704915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The reader will be in for an exciting ride in the thrilling story of Marshall Alexander, a seasoned pilot who miraculously survived a plane crash in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. This story is so amazing that even the writers of Lost, on ABC-TV, couldn¿t have dreamed it up. Smashing Through Death¿s Door reveals God¿s bigger plan for Marshall¿s life and how the crash set that plan into motion. The reader will be left with a powerful message of eternal destiny.
A Dictionary of the English and German Languages for Home and School ...
Author: Felix Flügel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Dictionary of the English and German languages for home and school
Author: Felix Flügel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger, Wörterbuch der Englischen und deutschen sprache für hand-und schulgebrauch ...
Author: Immanuel Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Wörterbuch der englischen und deutschen Sprache für Hand- und Schulgebrauch: German-English
Author: Felix Flügel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger
Author: Immanuel Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger, a Dictionary of the English and German Languages for Home and School ...: German-English
Author: Immanuel Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description