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  • Global Milton and Visual Art

    de Joseph Wittreich, Hiroko Sano, Ana Elena González-Treviño, Nathalie Collé, Wendy Furman-Adams, Joshua Reid, Gabriela Villanueva, Chia-Yin Huang, Aaron Shapiro, Beverley Sherry, Matthew Geary, Islam Issa, Jonathan R. Olson ...
    Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • The Literature of Hell

    de Dr. Margaret Kean, Dr. Jonathan R. Olson, David Almond, Helen Appleton, Dr. Charlotte Jones, Jeya Ayadurai, Dr. Laura Seymour, Dr. Hannah Silverblank, Lisa Dwan, Professor Rachel Falconer0 ...
    Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves the dark and ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle

    Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990

    de James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Jonathan R. Sorensen ...
    In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die between 1923 and 1972, 361 were actually executed, thus maintaining Texas’ traditional reputation as a staunch supporter of capital punishment.This book is the single most comprehensive examination to date of capital punishment in any one ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • New Haven Noir

    de Amy Bloom, Chris Knopf, Sarah Pemberton Strong, Hirsh Sawhney, David Rich, Roxana Robinson, Karen E. Olson, Stephen L. Carter, Jessica Speart, Jonathan Stone0, Alice Mattison1, John Crowley2, Chandra Prasad3, Michael Cunningham4, Lisa D. Gray5 ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Lisa D. Gray's story "The Queen of Secrets" won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award!John Crowley's story "Spring Break" won the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Short Story!"In an Ivy League town, Bloom turns Yale's motto--Lux et Veritas--on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven...The stories Bloom chooses share a strong sense of place, detailing the quirks that make every ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early Medieval Celtic World

    de Bernard Mees, Toms Carragin, Meredith Cutrer, Penny Nash, Constant Mews, Stephen Joyce, Roxanne Bodsworth, Cynthia Neville, Carole Cusack ...
    Series series Sydney Series in Celtic Studies
    Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies on Celtic inscriptions, religious travel, settlement, penance and prophecy in medieval Celtic nations. The contributors explore the themes of memory, fate and prophecy to capture the worldview of early Celtic speaking nations and challenge the reader to consider what connections can be drawn ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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    The Apocalypse Factory

    Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

    de Steve Olson ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

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    11 hora 9 minutos

    It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Eruption

    The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    de Steve Olson ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

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    8 hora 34 minutos

    Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    de Gordon S. Wood ...
    Narrado por Robert Fass ...

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    12 hora 57 minutos

    The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American identity is so fluid and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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    Nothing Random

    Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

    de Gayle Feldman ...
    Narrado por Gayle Feldman, Lisa Flanagan ...

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    35 hora 27 minutos

    A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The “exhilarating” (The Boston Globe) story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making“[A] big, beautiful biography . . . There’s a new Power Broker in town.”—The New York Times“Feldman depicts a lost world, at ti ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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    The Abyss

    Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

    de Max Hastings ...
    Narrado por Max Hastings, John Hopkins ...

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    19 hora 9 minutos

    Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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    1494

    How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

    de Stephen R. Bown ...
    Narrado por Paul Heitsch ...

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    10 hora 12 minutos

    When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smoldering conflict between Spain's renowned monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's oceans? To quell the argument, Pope Alexander VI issued a proclamation laying the foundation for the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, an edict that created ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    The Icarus Syndrome

    A History of American Hubris

    de Peter Beinart ...
    Narrado por John Morgan ...

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    18 hora 23 minutos

    “Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely; it is indispensable.” — Steve Coll, author of Ghost WarsPeter Beinart's provocative account of ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD