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A comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early stage.

A survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book offers an analysis of that community, focusing on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical chara

Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as well as his art. This is an English translation of complete poetry of this legendary twentieth-century French writer.

A comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history and politics. It explores Germany's relationship to democracy, ideologies of 'reactionary modernism', the rise of the 'New Woman', Bauhaus architecture, the tradition of cabaret and urban enter

Explains the kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy.

Boek History Of The Goths, geschreven door Herwig Wolfram, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Boek The Politics Of Plunder, geschreven door Joseph B. Scholten, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

A history of the Frankfurt School and its impact during its early years in Germany and the United States. This edition includes a new preface which reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.

Examines the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. This book discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literar

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his d

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. This book tells the story of this brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scienti

Portrays the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city, the decline of the landed estate, and the formation of the gothic; and of the emergence of the city and the appearance of other genres such as detective narrative a

Through a collection of interviews with elderly Armenians who survived the conflict, this study describes the genocidal campaign mounted by the Turks between 1915 and 1923, during which over 1 million Armenians died. Interviewees describe the break-u

Presents Lorine Niedecker's poetry, plays, and creative prose in the sequence of their composition. This book includes an introduction that offers an account of the poet's life and notes that provide detailed textual information.

Includes essays that address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. This title explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, i

With gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, and pun) as well as reflections on the politics of language and dialect, this work collects poems that are inspired or influenced by a technique of the in

Boek Paul Celan, geschreven door Paul Celan, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., POETRY / General

This cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship discusses the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. The work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the European crisis as well as

Cleopatra - a brave, astute, and charming woman - continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt. This title includes essays that explore such topics as Cleopatra's controversial trip to Rome, her suicide by snake bite, and the afterlife of h

Drawing on four decades of work and also including other poems, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style - its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and u

Identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 ce: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy sc

Offers a glimpse of Mark Twain's creative process on what many critics consider the finest fiction of his later years. While the work was begun in 1897 and revised first in 1902 and then in 1908, the third version was the only manuscript titled "The

The author who was born in 1916 and left Poland for Canada in 1934, taught himself to paint at age 73. This book records in both words and images, Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II.

Recounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi. This book chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part i

Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's tim

A study that employs modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. It challenges claims that Rome was an exceptionally warlike and aggressive sta

Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are abridged. This book demonstrates how these ancient ri

Boek Dictee, geschreven door Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., POETRY / General

Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. This book focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. It draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages.

Shows that the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. This book offers an account of how and why Anna became an icon of American culture in "The Ki

Includes the collections "The Black Heralds" (1918), "Trilce" (1922), "Human Poems" (1939), and "Spain, Take This Cup from Me" (1939). This edition includes a translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Peruvian Cesar Vallejo's p

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Boek The Cultural Return, geschreven door Susan Hegeman, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

An epic that features an entire continent and its people.

An authoritative text that reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last.