Sweet Violence The Idea of the Tragic by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton's "Tragedy "provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.
Five in a Row has been created to bring fun to learning. These lessons plans are simple in concept but rich in results. Read the chosen book in its entirety each day for at least a week. After each reading, choose an exercise to share with your student, and watch their world expand as you begin to show them facets of the story they would never recognized without your purposeful guidance.
Biographical Dictionary of Modern World Leaders - 1900 to 1991
Bringing together biographical information on world leaders from 1900 to the present, the "Biographical Dictionary of Modern World Leaders" provides an ideal introduction to the lives and work of the most influential and powerful people on the world stage. Political leaders of every stripe can be found in this accessible A-to-Z reference set. Approximately 800 detailed biographies are derived from each of the 190 countries of the world, as well as many leaders of states or peoples that are only nominally independent. Each accessible volume includes a further reading list and an index of leaders by country.
Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Will they change the world? This is their story
Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War.
A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians.
