Glyn: 195 books
by Glyn Daly, Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics.
An excellent introduction...
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Chronicling the spectacular rise to power of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, this is an intimate profile of the one of the most powerful warlords to have dominated Afghanistan in the years since the Soviet withdrawal in the late 1980s. His rise from simple peasant villager to warrior against the repressive...
by Kenneth Grahame, Glyn Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Oh it’s not a day for cleaning!
Perhaps it’s a day for nothing I expected…
So says little Moley as she ventures out into the Wide World for the first time, a realm of sunshine and darkness, comfort and threat. There she will meet the friendly Ratty, secretly dreaming of lives he...
The Boys at Twilight
Poems 1990 - 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), and REST FOR THE WICKED. Maxwell “is a formalist,” wrote Robert McIlwaine about his first book, “but . . ....
by Elinor Glyn
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Elinor Glyn was a controversial British novelist in the early 20th century. Her romances were considered scandalous for the time period, but they remain popular today.
by Glyn Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A spirited homage to the departed literary greats—set in an entrancing English village—this novel tells the tale of a profound autumn term with Poe, Yeats, Whitman, Dickinson, and the Brontës.
“I am walking along a country lane with no earthly idea why . . .”
Poet Glyn Maxwell...
Did Jesus Come to Britain?
An Investigation into the Traditions That Christ Visited Cornwall and Somerset
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The many traditions and legends of Jesus’s travels to Britain are deeply impressed into our culture, thanks particularly to the famous allusion by William Blake. These tales tell that, while still a boy, Jesus accompanied his uncle Joseph of Arimathea - an importer of metals - on expeditions to...
The Battle for North Africa
El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“A well-researched and highly readable account of one of World War II’s most important ‘turning point’ battles.” —Jerry D. Morelock, Senior Editor at HistoryNet.com
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most...
by Andrew-Glyn Smail
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Based on social media statistics, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling is arguably the most popular horse trainer in the world, with more than 675,000 likes on Facebook and just one of his many YouTube videos viewed more than 2 million times. At a certain point in time he invited people to join him as part of...
Film Studies
A Global Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age.
Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s...
The Idea of a European Superstate
Public Justification and European Integration - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Is there a justification for European integration? The Idea of a European Superstate examines this--the most basic--question raised by the European Union. In doing so, Glyn Morgan assesses the arguments put forward by eurosceptics and their critics. In a challenge to both sides of the debate, Morgan...
by Glyn Coppack
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
At the height of the middle ages, there were hundreds of abbeys and priories throughout England. The ruins of some of those that were destroyed at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries are today seen as iconic medieval buildings - such as Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, designated a World Heritage...
Predators
The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIAÆs and U.S. militaryÆs most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples...
by Glyn Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Seven angels have fallen through space and time for so long, they have forgotten why. Coming to rest on a desert landscape, they imagine the creation of a legendary garden that once flourished there and its destruction from greed and neglect. Inspired byParadise Lost, Seven Angels interprets the themes...