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How to Read Tarot Cards

Wed, 20 May 2026 18:13:29 +0000

The decline of the age of Louis XIV;: Or, French literature, 1687-1715

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:49:26 +0000

Irish Girls About Town

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:35:44 +0000

International bestseller features Irish women celebrating the joys and perils of love and friendship. by Maeve Binchy (Author), Maian Keyes (Author), Cathy Kelly (Author), & 1 more

A History of the Balkans from the earliest times to the present day

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:01:30 +0000

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The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:59:38 +0000

The Decline & Fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a provocative view of the Empire’s decline from the failure to take Vienna in 1683 to the abolition of the Sultanate by Mustafa Kemal (Attaturk) in 1922 during a revolutionary upsurge in Turkish national pride. The narrative contains instances of violent revolt and bloody reprisals, such as the massacres of Armenians in 1896, and other ethnic episodes in Crete and Macedonia. More generally, the narrative emphasizes recurring problems: competition between religious and secular authority; the acceptance or rejection of Western ideas; and the strength or weakness of successive Sultans. The book also highlights the special challenges of the early twentieth century, when railways and oilfields gave new importance to Ottoman lands in the Middle East–Publisher’s description

Medieval Civilization 400-1500

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:41:58 +0000

In this engrossing study of an 1,100 year period that transformed ancient Europe, celebrated medievalist Jacques Le Goff explores the startling contradictions that helped to forge a durable civilization. It was a period of violence and bloodshed, in which plague and harsh natural conditions conspired against progress. It was also a period of nation-building and considerable achievements in the arts, sciences, and technology. Thirty-two pages of photo illustrations and eighteen maps give visual depth to the author’s flawless scholarship and persuasive writing style, making Medieval Civilization an immensely vivid account of the triumph of Western man – a testament to his tenacity, imagination and faith.

The Jungle Books

Mon, 20 May 2024 14:56:35 +0000

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the ‘Mowgli’ stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling’s abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the ‘Law’.

Mythology: Tales of ancient civilizations

Sat, 11 May 2024 16:03:05 +0000

Tales of love and war, courage and pain, justice and tyranny, heroes and villains, and ultimately the relationship of humanity to the divine powe4rs are a common element of all cultures. For millennia, these tales have served to transmit values, communicate wisdom, and reveal the nature of right and wrong — in short, to demonstrate a particular society’s ethics and way of life via storytelling.

Great Irish Detective Stories

Wed, 08 May 2024 17:57:43 +0000

26 tales from many of Ireland’s leading writers not normally associated with detective fiction, such as William Trevor, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce and many others. Did you know that an Irishman wrote a detective story fourteen years before Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue?

The age of Innocence

Wed, 08 May 2024 17:52:27 +0000

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.