Sciences humaines & sociales
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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.
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The Crisis of Islam ; Holy War and Unholy Terror
Bernard Lewis
- Orion publishing group
- 29 Janvier 2004
- 9780753817520
The great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world.
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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.
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Red nile - the biography of the world's greatest river
Robert Twigger
- Orion publishing group
- 13 Février 2014
- 9781780220932
A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES.
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For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael, Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Rome's cultural predominance was assured, artists and tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens and Bernini. Hughes' Rome is a vibrant, contradictory, spectacular and secretive place; a monument both to human glory and human error. In equal parts loving, iconoclastic, enraged and wise, peopled with colourful figures and rich in unexpected details, ROME is an exhilarating journey through the story of one of the world's most timelessly fascinating cities.
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The operators - the wild and terrifying inside story of america''s war in afghanistan
Michael Hastings
- Orion publishing group
- 21 Février 2013
- 9780753829387
Six rollercoaster weeks that brought down America's top general by the ROLLING STONE journalist who broke the story.
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SHADOWS OF THE WORKHOUSE - THE DRAMA OF LIFE IN POSTWAR LONDON
Jennifer Worth
- Orion publishing group
- 3 Janvier 2013
- 9781780225111
The inspiration for the second series of the BBC's phenomenally popular CALL THE MIDWIFE, starring Miranda Hart.
In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered.
There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within six months of one another and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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Trade Secrets: Christmas
Annie Ashworth, Meg Sanders
- Orion publishing group
- 13 Octobre 2004
- 9780752859200
This is a pocket-sized edition of 'TRADE SECRETS: CHRISTMAS', full of helpful hints to get readers through the festive season.
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In Praise of Slow ; How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed
Carl Honoré
- Orion publishing group
- 7 Juin 2005
- 9780752865263
