Passchendaele: Unseen Panoramas of the Third Battle of Ypres
'An extraordinary set of panoramic photographs that reveal the battlefields of the Western Front as never before.' The Times 'The book is a magnificent effort and most impressive - one could almost say unique.' Lyn Macdonald 'Is without doubt the best publication on the Great War in many years it is a superb piece of work.' --Western Front Association
Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western LiesLiteracy
This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western concepts of rhetoric as dissembling and of language as deceptive that Swearingen argues have received curiously prominent emphasis in Western aesthetics and language theory.
Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,
Education here in the United States leaves much to the imagination concerning western societie's historic connection to Africa... This book takes into account the socio-economical, and political relationships that the western world has maintained with Africa and other parts of the eastern world since the 1400s, and is a must read in my opinion....
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The Renaissance was a turning point in the development of civilization. The great flowering of art, architecture, politics, and especially the study of literature began in Italy the late 14th century and spread throughout Europe and the Western world.- A comprehensive view of the major literary movements in Western history - An introduction by Harold Bloom and a selection of critical essays provides scholarly analysis on the major writers and works that defined each literary period - Features a chronology of important cultural, literary, and political events that helped shape each literary period
