Edmund: 703 books

Si l’âme est chrétienne, la beauté est grecque. Freud définit l’esthétisme comme une construction intellectuelle de paramètres personnels qui s’exprime en émotions sublimées. Avec la sculpture grecque, l’homme devient dieu, et les dieux font don de leur apparence à l’humanité....

In this brief and readable study, noted biographer Edmund d’Auvergne recounts the life and times of Napoleon III and the times that reigned across Europe. An arch political schemer he capitalised on the ferment in French society that carried on even after the fall of his uncle, the Emperor Napoleon,...

'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy...

Peu de livres ont eu une importance historique aussi grande, et une postérité aussi variée, que ces « Réflexions », présentées ici dans une traduction nouvelle. OEuvre de circonstance, elle est très vite au centre des polémiques de l’époque révolutionnaire et, au-delà, elle inspire...

« L’Assemblée nationale recommande à sa jeunesse l’étude des innovateurs les plus osés en matière de moralité. On sait que le grand sujet de dispute entre ses chefs est de savoir lequel d’entre eux ressemble le plus à Rousseau. La vérité est qu’ils lui ressemblent tous. » Publiée...

This sensitive and accessible guide speaks directly to those who know what it is like to know or love a problem drinker and want to help them recover. With case studies throughout and advice based on in-depth research into alcohol addiction and the authors' personal experiences, Help Them Beat the...

  THE STORY OF AN OSTRICH AN ALLEGORY AND HUMOROUS SATIRE IN RHYME   Interpreted and Illustrated BY Edmund Nolcini   Judd Isaacs  [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]

Most people think of Gettysburg as the the three days of titanic struggle between the Union and Confederacy. The horror actually went on for weeks. "The sights and the sounds are beyond description. There are hundreds of men who will never leave the battle-field alive and hundreds more who have 'fought...

These 4 perennial children’s favourites, retold here in full by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, are exquisitely illustrated by master illustrator Edmund Dulac. Herein you will find 12 full page colour plates plus 5 BnW vignettes which breathe life into these well-known stories, vibrant enough to really...

No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I. Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the...

Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.S. and Yemeni interests. From 2001 to 2004, when Edmund J. Hull was the American ambassador to Yemen, U.S. and Yemeni counterterrorism efforts successfully seized the initiative against al Qaeda,...

Few military leaders have been as successful or as flamboyant as Maurice Marshal de Saxe, who reigned supreme in the tangled wars that raged across Europe during the early-Eighteenth Century. In this pithy biography, Edmund d’Auvergne traces the ascent of the future marshal from his lowly roots...

Even among the highly-trained and professional soldiers of the B.E.F in 1914 the men of the Seventh division stood apart for their bearing and training, for the contained no reservists; all were full-time soldiers. Accompanying these uncompromising men, was Reverend Kennedy, assigned to the 20th Brigade,...

The Allies’ Fairy Book contains a selection of traditional fairy tales from the participants of World War One – compiled and edited by Edmund Gosse in 1916. It includes the tales of: ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ (English); ‘The Battle of the Birds’ (Scottish); ‘Lludd and Llevelys’ (Welsh);...