Orlando: 233 books

An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority. This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially painting—as a...

Over the last twenty years advising large and small organizations around the world, Orlando Kimber gradually learnt that the root of all good communication is good ethics. Treating other people as you’d wish to be treated. These eighty short essays use that information to examine how this...

“Folsom on Fire was immediately compelling . . . as if it had a life of its own. Orlando Smart-Powell has a wonderful style. I found the whole approach to a familiar story in history quite novel . . . well written . . .. This is fantastic!” Esther – C.M.N. 2012 Critique My Novel - Winner African-American...

A gentile richiesta. Torna a un anno di distanza dal fortunato Rock Progressivo vol 2. Linee di confine il giornalista Stefano Orlando Puracchio, con il suo nuovo libro Rock Progressivo vol 3. A Gentile Richiesta, indicativo già dal titolo di un bel responso e di un atteso ritorno. Proprio grazie...

The Apostle Paul's dramatic and much-discussed conversion on the road to Damascus radically changed the course of his life--as well as the Christian religion. Can a new narrative, and a new perspective, be brought to this two-thousand-year-old story and centuries of critical thought and study? Writer...

Uma biografia do homem responsável pela propaganda salazarista É impossível entender o salazarismo em toda a sua extensão sem conhecer a figura singular de António Ferro. A originalidade do regime autoritário português, envolto numa cortina de brandos costumes habilmente tecida, é, de resto,...

Elegido por la prestigiosa revista History Today como el mejor libro del año y galardonada con varios premios internacionales (NCR, Wolfson, W.H. Smith, etc.),  este libro ha consagrado a Orlando Figes como el historiador que mejor conoce los entresijos de la Revolución rusa y, además, como un...

Una guida introduttiva al Rock Progressivo (Versione 1.3). "Il mio nuovo libro potrebbe essere il testo perfetto per le fidanzate, mogli o amiche di un qualsiasi patito di progressive... Infatti non si rivolge principalmente agli appassionati prog, bensì a gente che è incuriosita da questo...

Viele Darstellungen behandeln die sichtbaren Aspekte der stalinistischen Diktatur: die Verhaftungen und Prozesse, die Versklavung und das Morden in den Gulags. Kein Buch hat jedoch bislang die Auswirkungen des Regimes auf das Privat- und Familienleben der Menschen untersucht, den Stalinismus, der...

After finally taking down Torres, her mother’s merciless killer, Reagan and Luke have two targets on their backs and are forced into hiding. With new names, looks, and cover stories, they’re living quiet, “safe” lives, but revenge comes at a steep price. Reagan’s actions continue to haunt...

History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally...

From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian...

A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting...

Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence...