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  • The Light Garden of the Angel King

    by Peter Levi ...
    From time immemorial Afghanistan has both been a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings from both east and west. Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders- from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horace

    A Life

    by Peter Levi ...
    'Horace tells us in his poetry almost everything we need to know about his life; it is curiously entangled with the Italian earth, with the history of his times, and an exact moment in that brief early summer of Latin poetry which had no autumn.'The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Hill of Kronos

    by Peter Levi ...
    Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he sought out its ancient spirit, the keys to its mythology and civilisation, in its ruined cities and majestic mountains. Later, as a priest working as a diplomat and a friend of the oppressed, he lived in Athens through the dark days of the dictatorship. The sinews of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

    by Peter Levi ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 13 min

    This authoritative and extremely readable biography is the first since the Victorian Age to pay full attention to Shakespeare’s life and times and their numerous subtle connections to his works. Peter Levi emphasizes the background of Shakespeare’s life: the local and national events that shaped his experiences, his family and friends, and the Elizabethan people with whom he shared his life and ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Community Matters

    Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century

    by William A. Galston, Meira Levinson, Jacob T. Levy, Peter Levine, Robert K. Fullinwider, Mick Womersley ...
    Series series Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
    Civic matters affect all members of a community and are thus of potential concern to all. In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The thought-provoking ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Yevtushenko: Selected Poems

    by Yevgeny Yevtushenko ...
    Translated by Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland ...
    This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The If Odyssey

    A Philosophical Journey Through Greek Myth and Storytelling for 8 - 16-Year-Olds

    by If Machine Peter Worley ...
    The If Odyssey draws out the philosophy that lies behind each story in Homer'sepic tale to introduce children not only to the exciting fables of Odysseus,but also to that other great Ancient Greek tradition, philosophy. Explore withOdysseus the value of happiness, non-existent entities, moral dilemmas, thephilosophy of prophecy, and the nature of love among many other philosophicalissues. From the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

    by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson ...
    Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell's diary, published after Johnson's death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Purpose

    by Peter Eugene Levy ...
    I am not a psychologist but have a keen interest, as a layman, in what makes us do the things we do, and react in the ways that we do. Everyone is different, that's for sure, but as part of the human family, we do have distinguishable features that each of us can recognize and identify with. The concept of purpose is one of those things.Purpose is deeply personal and can vary from person to person ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Guide to Greece

    Southern Greece

    by Pausanias ...
    Translated by Peter Levi ...
    Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Poets' Corner 2021

    by Peter eeEE Levy ...
    The Bayside Writers' Group publishes Poets' Corner every year to enable poets to be published amongst their peers in a collection that reflects their own individuality of comment, style and flair. ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Once Upon an If

    The Storythinking Handbook

    by If Machine Peter Worley ...
    If you want to tell more stories in the classroom but lack the confidence to do so...If you need guidance finding stories that are good to get children thinking...If you like using stories in your teaching but want to get more from them than the moral at the end...Once Upon an If is the book for you!In his brand new book, award-winning author Peter Worley provides a comprehensive guide to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD