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I 50 libri che hanno cambiato il mondo
Quali sono i libri che hanno costruito la realtà in cui viviamo? Andrew Taylor raccoglie la difficile sfida di elencare le cinquanta opere che hanno modificato per sempre il corso della storia, scegliendo di raccontare le vicende dell'uomo attraverso quei testi che, nei secoli e nelle epoche più diverse, hanno arricchito il mondo, lo hanno reso un posto migliore e, a volte, sono diventati il pretesto di guerre e di tragiche divisioni. In un percorso che parte dall'"Iliade" fino ad arrivare alla fortunata saga di "Harry Potter", incontriamo così il "Kamasutra" e il "Manifesto del partito comunista", la "Bibbia" e il "Corano", ma anche Niccolò Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei e Primo Levi, senza dimenticare quell'indispensabile volume che per anni non è mai mancato nelle nostre case: l'elenco telefonico. Di ogni opera Taylor ci racconta la genesi, le peculiarità, i sogni o gli incubi che ha suscitato. Il risultato è uno inno alla forza della parola scritta e una celebrazione unica del potere della lettura: un'opera ricca e per molti aspetti provocatoria dedicata a tutti coloro che sono ancora convinti che con i libri sia possibile cambiare il mondo.
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Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England
A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities.
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How to Be Kind
A celebration of the most remarkable acts of courtesy from the past and the present day
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The Politics of the Yorkshire Miners
First published in 1984, The Politics of the Yorkshire Miners examines all aspects of political activity of the Yorkshire Area of the NUM.
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The Politics of the Yorkshire Miners
First published in 1984, The Politics of the Yorkshire Miners examines all aspects of political activity of the Yorkshire Area of the NUM.
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The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the ‘Female Byron’A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prussic acid in her hand.
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Georgian London
Into the StreetsTakes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way.
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If I Survive
Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans CollectionMarking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond.
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Labour, the State, Social Movements and the Challenge of Neo-Liberal Globalisation
With the emergence of neo-liberalism in the 1980s as the dominant domestic and international political-economic orthodoxy, labour as both a social category and political movement tended to be written off or ignored by academics, politicians and commentators. However, at a time when the world's working class is growing faster than at any previous time in history and neo-liberalism is widely challenged, this orthodoxy is clearly inadequate. The spread of global production means that to ignore labour, its organisations, interests and politics, is to ignore one of the key components of that process. Labour organisations have not gone away and neither has the state: their relationship remains as significant as ever. The strategic relationship between trade unions and social movements, nationally and internationally, has also developed markedly, especially in the south. New patterns of resistance are emerging to challenge global capital and those who assert that globalisation is irresistible.
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If I Survive
The Frederick Douglass Family Story Previously unseen speeches, letters, autobiographies, essays, and photographs of Frederick Douglass and his sons Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr. and Charles Remond are collected here. The family's history is told alongside full colour facsimile reproductions of over 80 previously unpublished manuscripts and artefacts held in the Walter O. Evans Collection. All of life can be found within these pages: romance, hope, despair, love, life, death, war, protest, politics, art and friendship. Working together and against a changing backdrop of US slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, the Douglass family fought for a new 'dawn of freedom'. The book also includes a Foreword by Robert S. Levine and an Afterword by Kim F. Hall. Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Cover image: Frederick Douglass from Julia Griffiths, ed., Autographs for Freedom, 1853, Special Collections, University of Edinburgh Spine image: Anon., Charles Remond, Joseph Henry, and Lewis Henry Douglass, February 1895, courtesy of the Walter O. Evans Collection, Savannah GA. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2928-3 [cover] ISBN 978-1-4744-3972-5 [PPC] Barcode
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Chicago
A Civic, Industrial, and Familial History€ 38,50