Peter Lewis taught German at St Anne »s College, Oxford and worked as a publishing commissioning editor before becoming a freelance translator, writer and project manager. Recent translations include The Mad Science Book (Quercus) and Roman Elegy (Haus Publishing).
25 Ebooks par Lewis Peter Lewis
Mr Philip Gooden & Peter Lewis: Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases
Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. The very etymology of the word »idiom » reveals what »s so endlessly fascinating about the wide range of colourful phrases we u …
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Mr Philip Gooden & Peter Lewis: Idiomantics: The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases
Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. The very etymology of the word »idiom » reveals what »s so endlessly fascinating about the wide range of colourful phrases we u …
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€10.67
Peter Lewis & Philip Gooden: Word at War
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and …
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Peter Lewis & Philip Gooden: Word at War
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and …
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€10.39
Peter Clark: Dickens’s London
Marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Dickens’s London leads us in the footsteps of the author through this beloved city. Few novelists have written so intimately about a place as …
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€24.33
Klaus Wagenbach: Kafka’s Prague
Nearly one hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Kafka is regarded as one of the most significant intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth century …
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€24.45
Sabine Gruber: Roman Elegy
It is 2009: writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome to sort out the affairs and clear the flat of her school friend Ines, prematurely dead from cancer. Sorting through Ines’s belongings, Clara finds a ma …
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Jonas Luscher: Barbarian Spring
On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city trader …
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Peter Heine: Culinary Crescent
The Fertile Crescent region-the swath of land comprising a vast portion of today’s Middle East-has long been regarded as pivotal to the rise of civilization. Alongside the story of human development, …
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€32.16
Asfa-Wossen Asserate: King of Kings
Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he fought w …
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Asfa-Wossen Asserate: African Exodus
In 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Africa and the Near East took flight and sought refuge in Europe. By the end of that year, some 1.8 million migrants had arrived in the EU, the vast ma …
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€31.70
Roger Willemsen: Ends of the Earth
An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth offers English-language readers a chance to engage w …
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€38.32
Dirk Liesemer: Phantom Islands
From the famed Atlantis to the remote Rupes Nigra, islands have long held our fascination: they are locales isolated from ordinary life, lurking in unexplored corners of the globe and thus full of un …
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€31.90
Karsten Brensing: What Do Animals Think and Feel?
In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have developed the …
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€10.28
Stephan Fussel: Gutenberg
Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe’s history: a printing press with mechanical m …
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€21.72
Hubert Nowak: Salzburg
Now in paperback, Nowak reveals the lesser-known side of Salzburg through stories of those who have lived there over the centuries.Situated in the shadow of the Eastern Alps, Salzburg is known for it …
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Donald Rothchild & Naomi Chazan: Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition includes …
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€45.07
Klaus von Stosch & Muna Tatari: Mary in the Qur’an
A sensitive consideration of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Qur’an.An entire chapter (surah) is dedicated to her, and she is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur an indeed, her name appears mor …
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€57.98
Schroter Jens Schroter & Schmid Konrad Schmid: Making of the Bible
"The Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and Christianity."-John Barton, author of A History of the Bible: The B …
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€44.94
Ralf Georg Reuth: Hitler’s Tyranny
A fresh, stimulating look at Adolf Hitler and his dictatorship throughout the study of ten key aspects. Hitler s tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg Reuth examine …
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Fried Johannes Fried: Middle Ages
Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely deba …
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Decker Gunnar Decker: Hesse
A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusion …
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Fried Johannes Fried: Charlemagne
When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes F …
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Peter Walther: Darkness Falling
‘Gripping and all too timely’ James Hawes’A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling’ Julia Boyd’History at its very best and a fabulous translation, too’ Graham Hurley In March 1930 …
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€11.31
Heinrich Gerlach: Breakout at Stalingrad
‘One of the greatest novels of the Second World War’ The Times ‘A remarkable find’ Antony Beevor’A masterpiece’ Mail on Sunday Stalingrad, November 1942. Lieutenant Breuer dreams of returning home fo …
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