![]() ![]() ![]() The story's central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced pagan rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world's greatest artistic traditions. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. ![]() ![]() Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents have worked hard to build a new addition onto the side of the house so that Ramona can have her own bedroom, but she’s terrified to sleep alone in it and she can’t tell anyone. ![]() Her first-grade teacher doesn’t understand her. She wanted to do something terrible that would shock her whole family, something that would make them sit up and take notice.” It is a culmination of months of resentment and feeling misunderstood for Ramona, an accumulation of slights big and small that have finally come to a head. “She had been miserable the whole first grade, and she no longer cared what happened. “Ramona had had enough,” Cleary wrote in Ramona the Brave. Her best-known, most beloved creation is Ramona Quimby, the protagonist of seven of Cleary’s many books for young readers, and while Ramona is a naturally curious, cheerful kid, sometimes things do not go her way. The author, who died on March 25, three weeks short of her 105th birthday, was a giant of American literature, a singular talent whose work reshaped the history of children’s literature, and an unmatched prose writer of incredible deftness and skill. No one could write a foul mood like Beverly Cleary. Photo: Christina Koci Hernandez/San Francisco Chronicle by Getty Images ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Night is falling on the Republic for perhaps the final time. Together with her lover Ashlinn, brother Jonnen and a mysterious benefactor returned from beyond the veil of death, she must undertake a perilous journey across the Republic, seeking the final answer to the riddle of her life. And her nemesis, Consul Julius Scaeva, stands but a breath from total dominance over the Republic.īut beneath the city, a dark secret awaits. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies. ![]() ![]() After the greatest games in Godsgrave’s history ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic, Mia. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run. She may never escape the City of Bridges and Bones alive. From bestselling and award-winning author Jay Kristoff comes the thrilling and heart-breaking conclusion to The Nevernight Chronicle. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run.Īfter the greatest games in Godsgrave’s history ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic, Mia finds herself pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() La mujer que hizo que la roca s?lida sobre la que se asentaba su vida se desmoronara. Pero es que no es solo con su padre con quien tiene que vivir. ?gneo Cuando sus padres se divorcian, Cooper se ve inmerso en una custodia compartida en la que le tocar? vivir una semana con su madre y otra con su padre. Una historia de amor a fuego lento que sigue la vida de sus protagonistas desde la adolescencia hasta los veintitantos y nos hace testigos de c?mo su amistad se transforma en amor. 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The mirror is doubtless defective, the outlines will sometimes be disturbed, the reflection faint or confused but I feel as much bound to tell you as precisely as I can what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box, narrating my experience on oath.Įliot’s most important novel, Middlemarch, we are shown a fictional representation of provincial life during the Victorian era. to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. As she says in her first novel, Adam Bede, Authors, such as George Eliot, emphasized a realistic presentation of everyday life in their novels.The goal was to present “complex life-like characters” to the reader. During the Victorian age, the realistic novel emerged as the preferred medium for literary expression. ![]() |