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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Chronicle of the World
Author: DK Publishing, Inc
Publisher: Dk Pub
ISBN: 9780789403346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
Book Description
A chronological summary of world events from 3.5 million years B.C. to the present day depicts the history of humanity in its entirety
Publisher: Dk Pub
ISBN: 9780789403346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
Book Description
A chronological summary of world events from 3.5 million years B.C. to the present day depicts the history of humanity in its entirety
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101911107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101911107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
Chronicle of America
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 983
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 983
Book Description
Australian National Bibliography: 1992
Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1976
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1976
Book Description
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans
Author: Pierre Chuvin
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans is a history of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the defeated: the adherents of the mysteries, cults, and philosophies that dominated Greco-Roman culture. With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate--their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution--he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans is a history of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the defeated: the adherents of the mysteries, cults, and philosophies that dominated Greco-Roman culture. With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate--their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution--he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity.
Russia
Author: Martin Sixsmith
Publisher: Ebury Press
ISBN: 9781849900737
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause.
Publisher: Ebury Press
ISBN: 9781849900737
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause.
Chronicle of the Year 1990
Author: Heald
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582076839
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reports the events of the year as though it has just happened, it makes it easy to understand how the dramatic developments of 1990 unfolded and how they were interpreted at the time.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582076839
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reports the events of the year as though it has just happened, it makes it easy to understand how the dramatic developments of 1990 unfolded and how they were interpreted at the time.
The Nineties
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735217971
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—GQ From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735217971
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—GQ From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The 1990s
Author: Richard Alan Schwartz
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143810880X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the history of the United States during the 1990s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143810880X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the history of the United States during the 1990s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.