Geoffrey: 1373 books
The Pathetick Musician
Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion...
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In the foreword to the first edition Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote:
'In a sense, the story of Calcutta is the story of India . . . It is the story of how and why Empire was created and what happened when Empire finished . . . The imperial residue of Calcutta, a generation after Empire ended, is...
by Geoffrey W. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A nascent Hawaiian Island. Two long-lost lovers: one a comet-riding poet, the other a sea turtle. An intelligent and belligerent venereal disease. And a real estate agent who will stop at nothing to protect a very long-term investment.
In "Lo'ihi Rising", Geoffrey W. Cole combines...
A Disposition to Be Rich
How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Throughhis unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Ward...
Pure Evil
Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
As featured in Geoffrey Wansell's UPCOMING TRUE CRIME TV series, Murder By The Sea on CBS Reality . . .
A fascinating exposé of the country's most violent murderers and their horrifying crimes, based on years of original research and intimate interviews.
Pure Evil takes a close look...
by Geoffrey Durham
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practice? The Religious Society of Friends—also known as Quakers-—believes that everyone can have a direct experience of God. Quakers express this in a unique form of worship that inspires them to work for change in themselves and in the...
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
“The present edition of Chaucer contains an entirely new Text, founded solely on the manuscripts and on the earliest accessible printed editions. For correct copies of the manuscripts, I am indebted, except in a few rare instances, to the admirable texts published by the Chaucer Society. In each case,...
A Scholar's Tale
Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies,...
Quicksand
America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
An unprecedented history of our involvement in the Middle East that traces our current quandaries there-in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere-back to their roots almost a century ago.
Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new way-by encompassing...
Reform
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Politician and law professor Geoffrey Palmer recounts the events and forces that shaped him in this memoir, as well as his many adventures in reforming a wide range of institutions, laws, and policies. Reform has been a recurring theme throughout Geoffrey Palmer’s life, not only during his career...
The Shell Country Alphabet
The Classic Guide to the British Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected places and strange phenomena.
From...
by Geoffrey de Vinsauf
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
The Collected Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
The Complete Works PergamonMedia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 8950 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems • Chaucer's Works • Troilus and Criseyde • The Canterbury...
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
“The present edition of Chaucer contains an entirely new Text, founded solely on the manuscripts and on the earliest accessible printed editions. For correct copies of the manuscripts, I am indebted, except in a few rare instances, to the admirable texts published by the Chaucer Society. In each case,...