Literature
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Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia: Volume 1 [Paperback]
John Bradley(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781925003673
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Volume 1 will i... .... Learn More -
Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia: Volume 2 [Paperback]
John Bradley(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781925333459
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This Encyclopedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Volume 2 of this... .... Learn More -
The Story of Katrine [Paperback]
Maliaraq Vebaek(Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9780996748094
Published by : International Polar Institute
The Story of Katrine tells the story of a young Greenlandic woman who falls in love with a Danish craftsman, who works in Greenland over a summer. When he returns to Denmark, Katrine follows him because she thinks they should get married, h... .... Learn More -
Eroi in fiamme: Makuch e gli altri che sfidarono l’Urss [Paperback]
Dario Fertilio(Author); Olena Ponomareva(Author)
$24.00ISBN: 9788856404555
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: VS | Verità Scomode
Volume: 4
Between 1968, a year marked by the invasion of Prague, and the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, some solitary heroes dared to challenge the “red giant” by resorting to the most extreme gesture: the immolation of themselves through fi... .... Learn More -
Arezzo e gli aretini nella Divina Commedia [Paperback]
Stefano Pasquini(Author)
$28.00ISBN: 9788856404609
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 42
This essay explores the relationship between the Divine Comedy and the Italian city of Arezzo. The author focuses on some of the characters of the poem, reconstructing important events that saw them as protagonists, such as the exploits of ... .... Learn More -
I grani, i pani e i popoli: Le antiche varietà di frumento, le «biade», le «piante esotiche» descritte da Saverio Manetti (1765) con le annotazioni autografe dell’autore [Paperback]
Lucia Bigliazzi(Author); Luciana Bigliazzi(Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9788859621362
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Saverio Manetti (1723-1784), who was one of the founders of the Georgofili Academy, published in 1765 the treatise On the different species of wheat and bread as of bread making (...), divided into ten articles, with the purpose of solving ... .... Learn More -
La forma della scrittura: Studi in ricordo di Elettra Giaconi [Paperback]
Anna Agostini(Editor); Maria Camilla Pagnini(Editor)
$30.00ISBN: 9788859621355
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The focus of the book is the multifaceted work of the Italian researcher Elettra Giaconi (1930-2020), whose studies concerned subjects as Dante Alighieri and the Florentine Humanism, the work of Giacomo Leopardi, the Futurists, and also artistic t... .... Learn More -
The Critical Life of Toni Morrison [Hardback]
Susan Neal Mayberry(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781571139344
Published by : Camden House
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
Volume: 78
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as ... .... Learn More -
Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe [Hardback]
Hetta Elizabeth Howes(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843846123
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally elusive: rivers, wells and seas slip and slide out of the readers' grasp as they alter in metaphor... .... Learn More -
Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History [Paperback]
Thijs Porck(Author)
$34.95ISBN: 9781783276349
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: 33
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the Anglo-Saxon cultural conceptualisation of old age, as manifested and reflected in the t... .... Learn More
