Thomas: 19500 books

Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Thomas De Quincey. Auteur des célèbres "Confessions d'un mangeur d'opium anglais" (que Baudelaire popularisa avec "Les Paradis artificiels") et de nombreuses autres nouvelles gothiques, essais biographiques et récits divers...

Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) fut un des écrivains anglais les plus célèbres de son temps. L'audience de son ouvre dépassa de loin les frontières des îles Britanniques et de son époque et l'on sait qu'il fut un modèle tant pour Edgar Allan Poë, Charles Baudelaire, Nikolaï Gogol ou Jorge Luis...

Bertram Sidney Thomas was an English civil servant who is the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). He was also a scientist who practiced craniofacial anthropometry. He was born in Pill near Bristol and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After working for the...

One of the best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, The Imitation of Christ is a passionate celebration of God and His love, mercy and holiness, which has inspired conversion and stimulated religious devotion for over five hundred years. With great personal conviction, Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)...

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual...

This extraordinary book brings together many sources of important information on the changes occurring within our world, ourselves, and the evolution of consciousness leading up to the year 2012. The text is addressed in part to Lightworkers, for whom the energy shift now gearing up has been ongoing...

Welcome to our second volume of Detective stories! This is a grab-bag volume with contributions by many top mystery authors from the mid 20th Century pulp and digest magazines. There’s something to appeal to every taste, from noir to crime to even holiday capers and a Christmas tale by Johnson McCulley...

Utopia kelimesi, Thomas More tarafından üretilmiş ve günümüze kadar gelmiştir. More, Yunanca "yer" anlamına gelen sözcüğün önüne "iyi" anlamına gelen "eu" ve yok anlamına gelen "ou" takılarını birlikte çağrıştıran bir hece getirmiş,...

The trust of editing the following Correspondence, committed to me several years since by the writers, has been of easy fulfilment. The whole Correspondence, so far as it is known to exist, is here printed, with the exception of a few notes of introduction, and one or two essentially duplicate letters....

This booklet discusses a major recent study on Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks" - Peter Thomas's "The Gramscian Moment" - and argues that the Notebooks were in fact a powerful contribution to the working-out of revolutionary working-class strategy in developed capitalist societies.

Het kunnen maar een paar seconden zijn die je leven uiteindelijk bepalen. Iemand aankijken of juist niet. Ineens gekust worden op een zomerse dag. Meer hoeft het niet te zijn. Zo vergaat het de hoofdpersoon van deze roman, die jaren leeft met de herinnering aan zo'n moment. Maar de herinnering alleen...

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the...