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Centuries is the complete collection of Quintus Curtius’s essays from the years 2020 to 2023. It continues where his previous volume of essays, Digest, ended.The range of topics includes moral philosophy, history, travel, leadership, and literature. Also included is a special collection of...
Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely – their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one day, Mercy is woken to find a snowdrop on her...
Joel Brouwer writes prose poems that walk a wire of anxiety throughcontemporary life where“you realize you’re naked under your coat, you don’t remember a single line, and you’ll have to go on like that, you’ll have to go on and sing.” And yet the pieces in Centuries are so various and unpredictable...
Blob Century is an exciting adventure about a blob named Jenithy who gets banished from her hometown. Join her as she travels through the forest, makes new friends, and tries to win the age-old battle of good vs. evil. Will Jenithy be able to redeem herself? Read on to find out! About the Publisher...
It’s 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children. One day, Saul happens on an...
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation —in which...
At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the...
A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion’s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by...
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in Poetry A Literary Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2020”A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence,The Centurycharts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.In the tradition of witness...
Century Worm confronts the impact of Western colonial policies and the sundering of nostalgia as the collection’s speaker recalls living amid ethnic and political violence in West Africa’s Ivory Coast. Drawing on human rights reports and personal experience, Century Worm wrestles with the ethical...
This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations...
The late Professor Basil Willey’s important and influential inquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century has become (since its first appearance in 1949) a seminal study for all students of English literature and the history of ideas. Instead of surveying a complex...
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century...
Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic...
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history….[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book ReviewContaining just the...
Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century — with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical transformation touched virtually every arena...
A great many youth who did not grow up in Bahá’í families entered the Bahá’í Faith between 1964 and 1973. Although there were those who withdrew from membership or stayed out of touch, a strong cohort of others are still actively engaged in Bahá’í communities; I count myself among them. This book...
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and...
