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Homer and His Age
История, Культурология

Homer and His Age

Автор: Lang Andrew
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
Статус: Закончена
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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made...
Post-Impressionism
Изобразительное искусство, фотография

Post-Impressionism

Автор: Brodskaia Nathalia
Серия: Art of Century Collection
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
Статус: Закончена
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While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons....
The Lotus Lovers
Культурология

The Lotus Lovers

Автор: Levy Howard C.
Язык: английский
Год: 1992
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Footbinding for women on China was a curious, painful custom that deformed the foot and kept it from growing more than a few inches in length. This practice may have begun in the tenth century as a whim of the Imperial court; by the twelfth century,...
The Joy of Reading
Культурология

The Joy of Reading

Автор: Doren Charles Van
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." --Mortimer J. Adler This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world--from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
The Meaning of Happiness
Культурология

The Meaning of Happiness

Автор: Watts Alan , Уотс Алан
Язык: английский
Год: 1940
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Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking second book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as...