39 results for 'sophist queen'

Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Written by a Catholic Englishman with an uneasy relationship to the English regime, A Fig...

With simple stories and sophisticated artwork, this series is perfect for fans and their kids!Behind-the-scenes stories and sophisticated artwork will give lifelong buffs and new fans alike a rare...

Edible Australiana cookbook from a cake and style queen with a gigantic fanbase. This mad-cap collection of edible Australiana will win over anyone with a love for the land of the Great Barrier...

'If strategy is the queen of business, then this book offers us the perfect introduction to her court! It is accessible, lively, and informative. The book repays the reader with wonderful account of...

Discover the acclaimed non-fiction of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks...'Frank, enraging and captivating.' The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known...

The concise history of the Hermes scarf, but also detailed practical information on collecting and buying. Sought-after, sophisticated and versatile, the Hermes carre is wearable art that never goes...

From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture – bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream – comes a playful yet...

A gripping YA fantasy novel featuring a deadly contest for the crown, a heroine determined to right the wrongs done to her people, and a smouldering love story that could change everything.Seven will...

In this pathfinding book, based on original archival research, Marsha F. Cassidy offers the first thorough analysis of daytime television's earliest and most significant women's genres, appraising...

And now I will unclaspe a Secret booke,And to your quicke conceyving Discontents,Ille reade you Matter, deepe and dangerousAs full of peril and adventurous Spirit...- William Shakespeare, King Henry...

The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seenWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present...

Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice.As a poet, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Republic, and...

Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground...

"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."-Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars,...

What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a...

This collection of essays explores the survival of Catholic culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England-a time of Protestant domination and sometimes persecution. Contributors examine not...