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 ...

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...

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...

'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...

Make the Christmas season brighter with a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and timeless holiday tales. The Big Book of Christmas brings together a generous selection of classic Christmas stories, festive poems, fairy tales, and seasonal writings by various authors, offering hours of holiday reading for the whole family. From snowy winter nights and cozy firesides to family gatherings, unexpected adventures, acts of kindness, and magical Christmas encounters, these stories capture th...

Lioness is a comprehensive leadership guide for women who are ready to lead with confidence and reclaim their power at work.As an executive coach and training facilitator, Dr Mel Milton-Smith has worked with hundreds of women across industries and career stages. Time and again, she’s found the same pattern: capable women who have every reason to be confident, yet walk into rooms with quiet voices, minimized selves, and a tendency to play s...

You may stare at an unfinished task, wait for motivation, or escape into easier activities. The relief lasts only a moment. Then guilt, anxiety, shame, and pressure make returning feel even harder.You are not simply lazy, careless, or undisciplined. Task avoidance is often connected to emotional discomfort, executive-function difficulties, perfectionism, sensory overload, fear of criticism, low energy, time blindness, or burnout.Dbt exercises for task avoid...

"Of Man's first disobedience" begins one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. In Paradise Lost, John Milton creates a monumental work of epic poetry that retells the biblical story of humanity's fall from grace. Through powerful imagery, elevated language, and unforgettable characters, Milton explores the origins of temptation, disobedience, suffering, and the human condition. Drawing upon biblical tradition and classical epic conventions, the poem follows the cosmic conflic...

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...

One of the most significant works of economic theory ever written, from the "outstanding [and] unfailingly enlightening" Milton Friedman ( Newsweek).One of Time magazine's All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction BooksOne of Times Literary Supplement's 100 Most Influential Books Since the WarOne of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the CenturyOne of Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 50 Best Books of the 20t...