Peter Robb: 12 books
Minuit en Sicile
Sur l'art, la gastronomie, l'histoire et… cosa nostra
Language: French
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Partez à la rencontre des secrets les plus sombres de la Sicile
Au sud de l'Italie, la Sicile - une île aux paysages arides, aux côtes magnifiques et aux trésors artistiques uniques - attire conquérants et voyageurs depuis des siècles. Au cœur de cette rare beauté, Cosa Nostra, la mafia...
M
The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter As presented with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition...
Midnight In Sicily
On Art, Feed, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily.
South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes,...
by Paul Durcan, Peter Robb
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
For most of us Christmas is the season of huge helpings of good food, good drink, and with luck, good cheer, as the rituals of cracker-pulling, present-giving and happy or sulphurous family reunions fizzle and bang through the long afternoon.
For anyone who has ever had too much of it, or felt...
Sentiment and Self
Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life. While Sex and Sensibility...
Sex and Sensibility
Richard Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1791–1822
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life. While Sentiment and...
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
Japanese Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.
Institutions and Ideologies
A SOAS South Asia Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
Ancient Rights and Future Comfort
Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Adjie Henderson, Glen Damian Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
"It's the unknown that gets us. I mean, where are they? They have to be somewhere ..."
-Anonymous
No Trace features fifteen tales of disappearances from some of today's newest writers that tell the stories of the vanished.
Some are poignant, some are terrifying....
Novel Ideas
Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...