A Winter's Promise

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Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609454847
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis A Winter's Promise by : Christelle Dabos

Download or read book A Winter's Promise written by Christelle Dabos and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A stunningly atmospheric fantasy that doubles as an exceptional character study . . . we can’t wait to see where Dabos takes it next.” —Entertainment Weekly (“The 10 Best YA Books of 2018”) One of Publishers Weekly’s Best YA Books of the Year A National Indie Bestseller Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit, Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor quartet. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world. The World of the Arks Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength.

A Distant Mirror

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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0345349571
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)

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Book Synopsis A Distant Mirror by : Barbara W. Tuchman

Download or read book A Distant Mirror written by Barbara W. Tuchman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 1987-07-12 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary

The Rape of Europa

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307739724
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rape of Europa by : Lynn H. Nicholas

Download or read book The Rape of Europa written by Lynn H. Nicholas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.

Europa's Fairy Book

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Europa's Fairy Book by : Joseph Jacobs

Download or read book Europa's Fairy Book written by Joseph Jacobs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following work is a collection of some of the most popular European fairy tales. Titles featured include 'Snow White', 'The Cinder Maid', and 'The Swan Maiden'.

Fans

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Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745629725
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis Fans by : Cornel Sandvoss

Download or read book Fans written by Cornel Sandvoss and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-04-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. This book describes the nature and development of whole fan cultures, and focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan.

Europa

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Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559704441
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Europa by : Tim Parks

Download or read book Europa written by Tim Parks and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy on Jerry Marlow, suffering the torment of physical proximity to a woman who jilted him and whom he still loves. The two are among a group of teachers from Milan, making a bus trip to the European parliament in Strasbourg. By the author of Tongues of Flame.

Europe

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694675
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis Europe by : Jürgen Habermas

Download or read book Europe written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a decade ago has now faded but the stakes are higher than ever. The way these questions are answered will have enormous implications not only for all Europeans but also for the citizens of Europe’s closest and oldest ally – the USA. In this new book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals examines the political alternatives facing Europe today and outlines a course of action for the future. Habermas advocates a policy of gradual integration of Europe in which key decisions about Europe's future are put in the hands of its peoples, and a 'bipolar commonality' of the West in which a more unified Europe is able to work closely with the United States to build a more stable and equitable international order. This book includes Habermas's portraits of three long-time philosophical companions, Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Ronald Dworkin. It also includes several important new texts by Habermas on the impact of the media on the public sphere, on the enduring importance religion in "post-secular" societies, and on the design of a democratic constitutional order for the emergent world society.

Into the Cronesphere

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ISBN 13 : 9780989507400
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Into the Cronesphere by : Timothy Lachin

Download or read book Into the Cronesphere written by Timothy Lachin and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trey Barnes is a cracker baller with a Glock. Tyrone Washington is a seventeen-year old black nerd with a beautiful soul and a touching little afro. They're neighbors in a trailer park in Lacombe, Louisiana. Trey shoots a few cluckers and has to leave town. Where a lesser baller might see problems, Trey sees opportunities. He's going to set up shop in Miami and become a Don. That's how it worked in Scarface, right? Trey loves that movie. But Tony Montana didn't have to deal with a ghetto Werther who has decided, in the interest of Truth and Beauty, to do the world a double favor and use his Beretta on the bad guy before using it on himself. YouTube brawls in marina parking lots...losers playing chess in McDonald's...first love...stone cold killing...the drone of Sea-Doos on Daytona Beach...purple ground effects...it can all be found here. INTO THE CRONESPHERE may be the first ever Hegelian Bildungsroman disguised as lurid exploitation in the tradition of Charles Willeford, James Hadley Chase, and James Ellroy.

Hotel Europa

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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 156478570X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis Hotel Europa by : Dumitru Țepeneag

Download or read book Hotel Europa written by Dumitru Țepeneag and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel begun by a man in his bathtub begins, little by little, to overflow into his life.

Europe - What's in a Name

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Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058671493
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis Europe - What's in a Name by : Peter H. Gommers

Download or read book Europe - What's in a Name written by Peter H. Gommers and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is a word that is almost daily on our lips. But how far do we have to go back in order to find the origins of its name? The first part of this beautifully illustrated book traces the geographical and mythological basis of Europe's name. Who came up with the idea to distinguish the world in continents with proper names? The search will bring the reader back to the early history of mankind. How did the ancient Egyptians see the world and populations around them? Where did the Hebrews get the idea to split the world in three? And what was the world-picture in ancient Greece, laid down in geographic treatises and fragments? Where did the name 'Europe' originate from? Could it be from a person, either mortal or divine? In ancient Greek literature the name 'Europa' appears quite frequently for Greek goddesses and Greek women. Strangely enough, the best known Europa myth concerns a Phoenician princess, loved by the Greek god Zeus. Many mythographs doubt the Asian descent of the Phoenician Europa. Is her real origin to be located on mainland Greece? How can the contradicting Greek myths be interpreted, and was the name universally accepted as the name for the continent? In the second part of this book, the author tells the amazing story of how the Arts have treated the Europa myths for almost three millennia. He shows the extraordinary influence of the personification of the geographic continent Europe on literature, music, sculpture, painting, tapestry and other applied arts. All this clearly demonstrates the vivid interest in Europe for the subject throughout the ages and illustrates, according to Karel van Miert in his Foreword, our common European culture.

Framing Europe

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691116112
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Framing Europe by : Juan Díez Medrano

Download or read book Framing Europe written by Juan Díez Medrano and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Europa: an Idea and a Journey

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477143025
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Book Synopsis Europa: an Idea and a Journey by : Emanuel L. Paparella PhD

Download or read book Europa: an Idea and a Journey written by Emanuel L. Paparella PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book are the distillation of years of reflection, writing, lecturing and active participation in the ongoing debate on the cultural identity of the European Union, the vicissitudes of the transatlantic dialogue, the envisioning of new social paradigms, the building of more solid and more relevant bridges of understanding between two continents that have a common Western humanistic tradition albeit synthesized to other cultures in America. While the approach is personal, it remains interdisciplinary and holistic throughout, rooted in the poetic philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico and encompassing literature, philosophy, myth, linguistics and political science, on the edge of boundaries between the historical grand narrative, the religious and even the quotidian and the anecdotal. These thirty essays trace the origins of Western Civilization and the synthesis of Humanism and Christianity that is the Renaissance, but also, Janus-like face, they look forward to a new Renaissance and humanistic synthesis yet to be envisioned and forged, that will dare to be both old and new, that will encompass the poetical as well as the rational without losing sight of the universality of our common humanity. The journey may be long arduous but it has already begun some sixty years ago. Moreover, these essays will appeal especially to those readers who are perplexed at the loss of humanistic modes of thought in our post-modern technological society. A book sure to stimulate the intellect and the imagination of its readers. They are given to understand from the outset that Europe, more than a geographical political reality, is an evolving idea, and it is her destiny to live or die as such. The readers will be provided with a Vichian chart to assist them in intellectually navigating and journey on this unique idea called Europa.

Europe in the Looking Glass

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Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780940718
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Europe in the Looking Glass by : Robert Byron

Download or read book Europe in the Looking Glass written by Robert Byron and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three rich young Englishmen cross pre-World War II Europe in an old car with a mixture of laugh-out-loud humor and perceptive commentary on art and architecture Turning a corner we suddenly found ourselves sliding down a precipice, tilted so far forward that it was necessary to hold ourselves back with our hands pressed against the dashboard, as half a dozen Apennine valleys beckoned invitingly below. Here [St Peter' s] Popes with black faces and golden crowns are wallowing twice life-size in the titanic folds of marble tablecloths, their ormolu fringes festooning upon the arms of graceful skeletons to disclose some Alice-in-Wonderland door or the grim hinges of some sepulchral grill . . . Best known as the author of The Road to Oxiana, published in 1937, Robert Byron had developed his considerable writing skills on this travel book which has not been in print since 1926. It describes a journey Byron made with three friends, driving across Europe between two world wars, and mixes political and historical analysis with architectural insights, classical scholarship, and the day-to-day adventures of three young and not very experienced travelers. For fans of Robert Byron' s work this will be a discovery; for others it will be an introduction. Includes nine original sketches made by the author during his travels.

The Idea of Europe

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108478107
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The Idea of Europe by : Shane Weller

Download or read book The Idea of Europe written by Shane Weller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new critical history of the idea of Europe from classical antiquity to the present day.

The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures

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ISBN 13 : 019088553X
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures by : Aga Skrodzka

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures written by Aga Skrodzka and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at monuments, murals, computer games, recycling campaigns, children's books, and other visual artifacts, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures reassesses communism's historical and cultural legacy.

Napoleon and The Queen of Prussia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
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Book Synopsis Napoleon and The Queen of Prussia by : Luise Mühlbach

Download or read book Napoleon and The Queen of Prussia written by Luise Mühlbach and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Historical Romances of Louisa Mühlbach: Napoleon and the queen of Prussia

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Total Pages : 532 pages
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Book Synopsis The Historical Romances of Louisa Mühlbach: Napoleon and the queen of Prussia by : Luise Mühlbach

Download or read book The Historical Romances of Louisa Mühlbach: Napoleon and the queen of Prussia written by Luise Mühlbach and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: