Minstrel Songs, Old And New: A Collection Of World-wide, Famous Minstrel And Plantation Songs, Including The Most Popular Of The Celebrated Foster, Foster Stephen Collins
Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a "three-stage rocket to the future," a work "equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life," while Time Magazine included Infinite Jest on its list of 100 Greatest Novels published between 1923-2006.
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide was the first book to be published on the novel and is a key reference for those who wish to explore further. Infinite Jest has become an exemplar for difficulty in contemporary Fiction its 1,079 pages full of verbal invention, oblique narration, and a scattered, nonlinear, chronology. In this comprehensively revised second edition, Burn maps Wallace's influence on contemporary American fiction, outlines Wallace's poetics, and provides a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas, before surveying Wallace's post-Infinite Jest output, including The Pale King."
Описание: On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen-American, British, German, and Australian. In between them stood hundreds of heavily armed United States sailors and marines. Just after 2:00 p.m., the first shot was fired, and a military coup began. This is the true, tragic, and at times amazing story of the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and her government. It's also the story of a five-year police state regime in Hawaii following the overthrow, an attempted counter-coup by Hawaiians in 1895, and of how Hawaii became a United States possession. In Taking Hawaii, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins (Standing Bear Is a Person, Legions of Rome, Tycoon's War) reveals previously little-known facts uncovered during years of research on several continents, in the most dramatic and comprehensive chronicle of the end of Hawaii's monarchy ever published. Using scores of firsthand accounts, this often minute-by-minute narrative also shows for the first time how the queen's overthrow teetered on a knife's edge, only to come about purely through bluff. Taking Hawaii reads like an exciting novel, yet this tale of a grab for power, of misjudgment and injustice, truly took place. Judge for yourself whether you think the queen of Hawaii was wronged, or was wrong. Australian-born novelist Stephen Dando-Collins trained as a graphic artist and worked as a designer, copywriter, and later senior executive with leading advertising agencies before serving as chief operating officer for Australia at a US market research group. He has been a full-time author, editor, and researcher since 1996, dealing mostly with historical subjects. His acclaimed work of American history, Standing Bear Is a Person, telling the true story of an 1879 Nebraska legal case, was published in 2004. The first in his series of definitive histories of the Roman legions, Caesar's Legion, based on more than thirty years of research, has found a broad audience around the world since it was published in 2002. The second in the series, Nero's Killing Machine, was published in 2005, followed by Cleopatra's Kidnappers in 2006 and Mark Antony's Heroes in 2007. The Inquest, his debut novel, benefits from his expert knowledge of Rome and the Romans of the first century
Автор: Scoffham Stephen Название: Collins Primary Geography Pupil Book 3 ISBN: 0007563590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007563593 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Collins Primary Geography has been developed to provide full coverage of the national curriculum requirements for geography in the primary school.
Автор: Dando-Collins Stephen Название: Constantine at the Bridge ISBN: 1684426820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684426829 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"A marvelous book. Constantine at the Bridge is an engaging and beautifully written study of a pivotal moment in Roman and European history." --Mark Felton, author of Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
The AD 312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge, just outside Rome, marked the start of a monumental change for Rome and her empire. This battle was the figurative bridge between old pagan Rome and new Christian Rome. And once Constantine had crossed that bridge, there was no turning back.
After winning this battle against his brother-in-law Maxentius and taking power at Rome, Constantine the Great--strongly influenced by his mother--forcefully steered Romans away from the traditional worship of their classical gods toward Christianity, setting Rome on two paths: the adoption of Christianity as the state religion, and the relegation of the city of Rome to obscurity as the Western Roman Empire collapsed within 175 years.
Автор: Scoffham Stephen Название: Collins Primary Geography Pupil Book 5 ISBN: 0007563612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007563616 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Collins Primary Geography has been developed to provide full coverage of the national curriculum requirements for geography in the primary school.
Автор: Collins Stephen Название: The Power Game: Ireland Under Fianna Fail ISBN: 0862787203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780862787202 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6205.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Dando-Collins Stephen Название: Conquering Jerusalem ISBN: 1684425484 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684425488 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4964.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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For the first time, in Conquering Jerusalem, author and historian Stephen Dando-Collins devotes a single book to the First Jewish Revolt - the Great Revolt as the Jews still call it, the Judean War as Romans called it. In this book, Dando-Collins details the background, people and events of the revolt, and enables readers to draw upon the numerous archeological and forensic discoveries made since 2002, discoveries that have often shone fascinating new light on those people and events.
Neither side comes out well in this story. Both were at times equally heroic, and often equally brutal and barbaric. In the end, the Jewish freedom fighters lost their war, and lost their holy city, the focus of the revolt and of the Roman military campaigns to end that revolt. Yet, today, Jerusalem is once more the heart of the Jewish faith, while, thanks to Christianity, an offshoot of Judaism, the Roman Empire and its gods have long gone. It just goes to show that, sometimes, faith can have its rewards, and the tables can be turned, if you wait long enough.
Автор: Dando-Collins Stephen Название: Cyrus the Great ISBN: 1684424380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684424382 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew "anointed by god." Cyrus influenced the US Bill of Rights, and is the biblical figure to whom US President Donald Trump has been favorably compared by Christian evangelicals and the Prime Minister of Israel.
In this first ever modern biography of Cyrus, noted historical biographer and author of 43 books Stephen Dando-Collins describes Cyrus' fraught youth, his rise to power via rebellion, his dashing military campaigns that destroyed the Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires, and his uniquely magnanimous reign.
With his usual depth of research and highly readable narrative Dando-Collins cuts through myth and folklore to deliver a fascinating account of a fascinating life.
Автор: Collins Stephen, Meehan Ciara Название: Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar ISBN: 0717189732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780717189731 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4434.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Told through the lens of its leaders and Taoisigh, Saving the State is the fascinating story of Fine Gael, from the wilderness years to the achievements in government, defeats and crises, the partnerships and the leadership. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how Fine Gael came to be the party it is today.
Автор: Dando-Collins Stephen Название: Caesar the War Dog: Operation Black Shark ISBN: 0857988638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857988638 Издательство: Edward Elgar Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 2532.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Sergeant Ben Fulton's family joins him on a cruise ship holiday, Ben, Josh, Maddie, and Nan travel in luxury among the islands of the Caribbean while Caesar is in quarantine. But a gang who have broken out of a Cuban prison have other ideas. They hijack the massive ship and hold its 3,000 passengers for ransom. With passengers of all nationalities in danger, only the United Nations can step in to help. Ben's best friend, Charlie, and the rest of the GRRR team, assemble. Charlie will need super-sniffing explosive detection dog Caesar with him as he parachutes in to sneak aboard the ship. Will Caesar and Ben be reunited in time to find the hidden explosive devices that threaten the ship? Can Operation Black Shark capture the modern-day pirates before it's too late?
Автор: Dando-Collins Stephen Название: Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome ISBN: 1684422868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684422869 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula.
In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences brought about at the hand of his sister Agrippina the Younger, his uncle Claudius and his nephew Nero.
Skillfully researched, Dando-Collins puts the jigsaw pieces together to form an accurate picture of Caligula's life and influences. Dando-Collins' precise and thorough examination of the emperor's life puts Caligula's paranoid reign into perspective, examining the betrayals and deaths he experienced prior to his time in power and the onset of a near-fatal illness believed to have affected his mental-health.
