Roger: 3830 books

So many of the poems in Sea Change merge the natural with the emotional to form a collage of intensely human experiences that speak to our greatest desires. For anyone who has felt the passion, warmth, and pain of human love, Sea Change will touch deep wellsprings of emotion. Praise for Sea Change:...

An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth offers English-language readers a chance to engage with his uniquely astute take on the world. Consisting of twenty-two essays recounting and reflecting...

King Arthur is one of the greatest legends of all time. From the magical moment when Arthur releases the sword in the stone to the quest for the Holy Grail and the final tragedy of the Last Battle, Roger Lancelyn Green brings the enchanting world of King Arthur stunningly to life. One of the...

In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how...

The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘psychic home’ as a vital psychic structure, which gathers together a...

'This is a book about how to beat the living daylights out of another human being safely...' Roger Bartlett – professional fight director and Master Teacher for the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat – leads you through everything you need to know in order to create and perform...

One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: “Why am I an only child?” His father’s answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains....

In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas?...

How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years...

What happens when a police state gets so oppressive that the police themselves become targets? Justin and Kalera are homicide detectives trying to solve a grisly crime in the not-so-distant future, but fall afoul of the notorious Department of Social Mores. Before long, they find themselves on the wrong side of the law, hunted by secret police and their own fellow officers.

This is a wonderful heartwarming love story about a woman looking for a man who was man enough to commit himself to marriage. In her unwillingness to compromise her ideals and dreams, she eventually is rewarded with far more than she ever expected possible. The story takes her to places far from home...

A human agent's communique to the representative of a big-brother alien species which have been assisting human technological progress in the interest of sparking our own species spiritual transcendence. Written in the form of letters, in imitation of C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters," the...

Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that...

Una extraordinaria nueva visión del universo. La revolucionaria y exitosa obra de Roger Penrose El camino a la realidad presentaba una guía completa y comprensible de las leyes que rigen el universo desde nuestro conocimiento actual. En Ciclos del tiempo, su libro más ambicioso, Penrose...