Valerie J Runyan 
Pieces of Me – A Collection of Essays [EPUB ebook] 

On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Del …

In these new essays leading European and North American scholars of medieval medicine focus on manuscripts and their transmission and demonstrate how medievalists in all disciplines can profit by stu …

Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on …

First published in 1988. This large and authoritative volume offers, for the first time, a representative selection of the works of ninety-five of Arabia’s best creative authors. It presents poetry, …

This comprehensive volume brings together essays by one of the most influential literary, cultural and intellectual voices of our time: Arthur Miller. Arranged chronologically from 1944 to 2000, thes …

Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels! Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan’s Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysi …

First published in 1993. Part of a library on Medieval Literature this volume is a translated version of “The Book of the Treasure“ by Brunetto Latini, who was a teacher of Dante and is remembered …

Robert Filmer“s prime assumption is that the Bible contains the entire truth about the nature of the world and the nature of society. Along with details of recorded history from the beginning to the …

Stimulated by new editions of Shelley“s writings and the evidence of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of …

De Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new …