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1066
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

1066

A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.

Harold II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Harold II

Harold Godwinson was king of England for less than a year and failed to defend England from William the Conqueror's invading Norman army in 1066, an army that wreaked havoc across the country and changed the political history of England forever. Indeed, 1066 was so critical a turning point that it marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon epoch. Harold II: The Doomed Saxon King is the first full-scale biography of England's "lost king," an astute political operator who as Earl of Wessex won the affection of the English people, and the death-bed nomination from Edward the Confessor to succeed him. The Battle of Hasting was a close-run battle that could have gone either way—England would be a very different place today had the fatal arrow missed Harold's eye.

Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder

This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder’s understanding of history, time, and temporalities. Although his ideas on time mark an important transition period that advanced the emergence of the modern world, scholars have rarely addressed Herder’s temporalities. In eight chapters, the volume examines and illuminates Herder’s conception of human freedom in connection with time; the importance of the concept of forces (Kräfte) for a dynamic ontology; human beings’ sensuous experience of inner and external temporality; Herder’s conception of Bildung, speculations on extra-terrestrial beings and on different perceptions of time; ...

Modern Artists on Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Modern Artists on Art

  • Categories: Art

16 of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators talk forcefully about their work: Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henry Moore, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, and more.

Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A groundbreaking analysis of two movements of the historical avant-garde

The Last Dog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

The Last Dog

The Last Dog is a Readers' Favorite 5-Star Review and was awarded the silver medallion 8-2018. After the Unified World Pact of 2045, people lived in a state of peace and prosperity previously unknown in human history. The World Guild, a new global government, managed all the needs of humanity and the animals it loved. Then in 2086, a security breach of Xavier Labs in Colorado and Zheng Industries in China released the deadly experimental agent XSKL435. Anyone outside was dead within minutes. As statistics on the death toll are gathered from all over the world, Abby, the six-week old dog-daughter of Bill and Teresa Maxwell, was one of only four known surviving canines. News services soon anno...

Hereward
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Hereward

After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction. Returning from Flanders to find his country taken over by the Normans, Hereward, embarked on a path of resistance. This work rescues Hereward from the myths associated with his life and career.

The Last of Uptake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

The Last of Uptake

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rex
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Rex

Originally published: London, England: Walker Books & Co., 2015.

From The Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

From The Heart

After the brutal murder of a young woman leaves the small city of Applegate shaken and a broken family torn further apart, Detective Andrew Mason and his partner take the case. Seems like an easy open and close case for Det. Mason, but when he finds himself getting too close his struggles of personal life and work become too much to handle. Everything takes a bizarre turn when a man claiming to possess visions of the decease's final moments alive approaches Det. Mason offering the aid to find her killer. The strong-hearted detective must keep wits over wisdom as he becomes tangled in a web of secrets, lost love, and revenge.