Dominic: 570 books
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
In Search of Paul
How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L. Reed, an expert in biblical archaeology, reveal through archaeology and textual scholarship that Paul, like Jesus, focused on championing the Kingdom of God––a realm of justice and equality––against the dominant, worldly...
Who Killed Jesus?
Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism -- never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in...
by Dominic Legge, O.P.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology. Dominic Legge, O.P, disproves Karl Rahner's assertion that Aquinas divorces the study of Christ from the Trinity, by offering a stimulating re-reading of Aquinas on his own terms,...
by Dominic Aidan Bellenger, Stella Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Dominic Aidan Bellenger is Prior of Downside Abbey and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include Medieval Worlds (Routledge 2002) and Princes of the Church (with Stella Fletcher, Sutton 2001), Stella Fletcher is a lecturer and writer on history. Her books include the Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe (1999).
by Dominic Lieven
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Rusland tegen Napoleon is een monumentaal boek dat een nieuw licht werpt op de veldtocht van Napoleon naar Rusland en de politieke ontwikkelingen aan het hof van tsaar Alexander I. Dominic Lieven beschrijft de verschrikkingen van de oorlog en de impact op de samenleving door de ogen van de lagere...
Russia Against Napoleon
The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in War and Peace
Russia's expulsion of Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812 is considered one of the most dramatic events in European history. However, Tolstoyan myth and an imbalance of British and French interpretations have...
We Bled Together
Michael Collins, The Squad and the Dublin Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer...I have paid them back in their own coin. - Michael CollinsMichael Collins' development of a formidable intelligence network transformed, for the first time in history, the military fortunes of the Irish against the British....
by Dominic Pettman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same motions or moments, but rather dispersed into countless different emotional micro-experiences?...
A Utopia Like Any Other
Inside the Swedish Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Does a utopia really exist within northern Europe? Do we have anything to learn from it if it does? And what makes a nation worthy of admiration, anyway? Since the ’30s, when the world was wowed by the Stockholm Exhibition, to most people Sweden has meant clean lines, good public housing, and a...
Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream
Shaping America's Immigration Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research...
Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's resistance to innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming.
This is a book about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is not celebratory or self-congratulatory. Most other accounts...
You Can Have an Amazing Memory
Learn Life-Changing Techniques and Tips from the Memory Maestro
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Never forget a name or a number again! Dominic O'Brien is legendary for winning the World Memory Championship eight times and outwitting the casinos of Las Vegas to win a fortune at blackjack. Here, for the first time, he reveals his secrets for memory mastery. Follow his brain-boosting techniques...
by Dominic Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
In the Sunset Desert of Alpha Centauri A Four are three immense structures. For nearly thirty years, these massive mines have used United States of the Zodiac prisoners to dig uraninite out of the ground by hand. No-one escapes from Alpha Four. Once you are sent there, established wisdom considers...