Literature: history & criticism books

Every day, women suffer the consequences of a world built with men as the default and women largely excluded. The...  Read More >>

La Tomatina - Buñol: The World's Messiest Celebration Step into the heart of Spain's most famous and chaotic festival:...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist....  Read More >>

""No writer, I suspect, is altogether free of the hope that what he writes - or even only a sentence or phrase of...  Read More >>

Step back into the tumultuous heart of the 1st century AD, where the ancient world's greatest empire clashed with...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters (汉字 hànzì) often feels like unlocking a secret code-but what if the key was hidden in...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters (汉字 hànzì) often feels like unlocking a secret code-but what if the key was hidden in...  Read More >>

Meet Pennywise, Pennywise is IT! Stephen King Calendar (in color) this year features stories and trivia with Stephen...  Read More >>

Young American writer Emmett Goodwin attempts to bridge the vast gulf between the Chinese and Japanese people regarding...  Read More >>

The second world war, nuclear power, space exploration. These three powerful forces engendered innovation and changed...  Read More >>

Warum glauben Menschen an Erzählungen, die sie von der Realität entfernen? Anatomie des Unglaubens untersucht die...  Read More >>

Warum glauben Menschen an Erzählungen, die sie von der Realität entfernen? Anatomie des Unglaubens untersucht die...  Read More >>

Emily Dickinson - AND I'M A ROSE! 211 Short Poems is an invitation to meet one of the most intense voices in American...  Read More >>

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I originally began writing these stories with a younger readership in mind, imagining children and teenagers enjoying...  Read More >>

Fühlen Sie sich manchmal machtlos angesichts der täglichen Nachrichtenflut? Haben Sie das schleichende Gefühl, dass...  Read More >>

For more than two hundred years, Frankenstein has refused to die. It survives every generation, every cultural shift,...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters doesn't have to feel like a chore-especially when you're having so much fun! Welcome...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters doesn't have to feel like a chore-especially when you're having so much fun! Welcome...  Read More >>

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), the philosopher of pessimism, shocked even his contemporaries with his uncompromising...  Read More >>

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What if cracking the code of Mandarin felt like uncovering hidden treasures? That's the adventure waiting inside...  Read More >>

What if cracking the code of Mandarin felt like uncovering hidden treasures? That's the adventure waiting inside...  Read More >>

What if cracking the code of Mandarin felt like uncovering hidden treasures? That's the adventure waiting inside...  Read More >>

Long before Ireland's first kings walked the green hills, before the first stones of Newgrange caught the rising...  Read More >>