Rex Brasher: Painter of Birds: A Biography Imagine devoting your entire life to a single, all-consuming passion so fierce and unrelenting that it reshapes everything around you, demanding sacrifice, solitude, and an almost supernatural dedication to beauty. That was the life of Rex Brasher, an American artist whose obsession with painting birds drove him deep into forests and marshes, across mountain ridges and coastal shores, through poverty and obscurity, until he had produced one of the...

Une anthologie exceptionnelle reunissant cinq monuments de la poesie epique occidentale : Homere, Virgile, Dante, Shakespeare et Milton. Des voyages heroiques de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssee aux visions de l'au-dela de la Divine Comedie et du Paradis perdu, cette collection retrace des siecles d'imagination poetique.

This book shares a number of novel perspectives on the intricate subject of pain in the clinical setting, offering a comprehensive examination of its multifaceted nature and the challenges it presents to both clinicians and patients. At the heart of this book is the matter of pain as an aporia—a mystery that defies simple categorisation and challenges our understanding. Through this book, readers will learn about the evolution of pain medicine from a traditional biomedical model to a more ...

On the frontier of a savanna-spanning empire, Keita, the disgruntled son of a goat herder, braves the wilderness, monsters, and vile magic to save his older brother from becoming an enslaved weapon of a scheming mchawi. In the process, he is granted with a divine burden--the long-lost legacy of an ancient god. Under the guidance of a bush witch and old griot, Keita learns the true nature of his newfound power, lest he become a weapon himself."Donovan Hall knocks this one out of the...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

When the Bindamu invaded her homeland, First Hunter Nandi of the Chuiku (Leopard Clan) was chosen by her people and her Priestess to lead the war against them. But does she possess the skills and strength to unite the rival nKu against the powerful Empire?Inspired by the art of Shakira Rivers, Priestess of nKu tells the story of Nandi, daughter of Adia, a young girl destined to become the leader of her people and a powerful entity of Ki Khanga. This exciting novel also contains the...

'A fabulous tale of ambition, madness and catastrophe' William DalrympleOne man's lust for empire sent a team of adventurers into the Arctic - only one came back.1913, the Arctic Circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it will control the future - air routes, resources, even the balance of pow...

Marco Polo's thirteenth-century journey from Italy to Asia marked a turning point for Western civilization. He returned with stories of exotic people, tremendous riches, and the most powerful ruler in the world Kublai Khan. The explorer told of inventions ranging from gunpowder to paper money. The intellectual ferment and cultural diversity he described helped move Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance. In his lifetime, people scoffed at his stories. But as this book explain...

The second volume of the Science Fiction Omnibus! Featuring the following masterpieces of sci-fi: WE'RE CIVILIZED!, by Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides WITH THESE HANDS, by C.M. Kornbluth WHERE THERE'S HOPE, by Jerome Bixby WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS, by Russell Burton VIGORISH, by Walter Bupp THE MEMORY OF MARS, by Raymond Jones THE MATHEMATICIANS, by Arthur Feldman THE INVADERS, by Murray Leinster THE GREAT NEBRASKA SEA, by Allan Danzig THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING, by Bradner Buckner I AM A NUC...

Journey across centuries of epic poetry with some of the most influential voices in world literature. The Epic Poems Anthology brings together major epic works associated with Homer, Virgil, Marcel Proust, and John Milton, with Samuel Butler contributing as translator. From the legendary heroes of ancient Greece and Rome to Milton's monumental vision of Paradise, temptation, rebellion, and redemption, this collection explores the enduring themes that have shaped epic literature for centuri...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...