Giovanni Boccaccio Leonardo Bruni Filippo Villani 
The Life Lives of Dante 

In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius – Matthew Parris, The Spectator An absolutely extraordinary book a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial …

”On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing ach …

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America – to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV’s …

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study. As part of President Bush s war on terror , the invasion was the most controversial British foreign policy …

Pedagogy in Process presents a first-hand account of the most comprehensive attempt yet to put into practice Paulo Freire”s theory of education within a real societal setting. When Guinea Bissau on …

Dive into the thrilling world of the Olympics ahead of the Paris 2024 Summer Games With striking, full-colour photography, rarely seen archival images and sensational reporting on the action, The …

The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devotion to his country and his people never faltered, …