Francis - Libros y biografía

Francis Bacon and Michael Peppiatt were close friends for over thirty years. As Peppiatt, the editor of this volume, tells us in his illuminating Introduction, the two would regularly embark on night-time...

Winner of the Southern Arts Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The poems in Matthew Francis's first collection range from the light-hearted to the unsettling, from...

1956: a defining year that heralded the modern era.Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union tanks rolled into Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev's 'secret speech' exposed the crimes of Stalin, and...

Athough many of the practical activities that arise from Rudolf Steiner's work are well publicized, the philosophy that stands behind them remains largely hidden. Thousands of parents send their children...

Sold out Rock Concerts in Rome, Amsterdam and London. A spell in Wormwood Scrubs jail. A potential Indian arranged marriage. The back streets of Rome. London buses. A random ventriloquist. The occasional...

This remarkable and powerful novel is described by Stuart himself as an imaginative fiction in which only real people appear, and under their actual names where possible', and it is generally agreed to...

Eddie Zero is not your usual hero. He is a successful professional drummer from the 90's whose four interests in life are blondes, mozart, marijuana and cricket. This, his first novel, takes us from Barbados...

John Ruskin was one of the greatest Victorian critics of art and society, but he was also preoccupied with politics, economics and education. This pocket-sized biography explores his influence on his...

Originally printed as a guide to street slang for men of quality, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a gem! The avowed purpose of the dictionary was to give men 'of fashion' an insight into the inappropriate...

Throughout history, most dictionaries have served the purpose of preserving the purity of the language, usually preferring the erudite vocabulary of the affluent upper classes to the salty, constantly...

In our following Treatise of Magnetism we have collected and arranged in order some valuable and secret things out of the writings of that most learned chemist and philosopher Paracelsus, who was the...

Aider les jeunes à trouver leur vocation est un chemin exigeant qui prend du temps et demande de l’écoute, de la patience et un esprit ouvert pour accepter de ne pas réduire les enfants à leurs seuls...

La franc-maçonnerie aura 300 ans d’existence en 2017. Si elle existe toujours aujourd’hui, c’est que de tout temps il y eut des francs-maçons soucieux de faire partager leur désir de progrès de l’humanité...

La franc-maçonnerie, qui aura 300 ans d’existence en 2017, n’existe et n’existera au delà de cette date que par ses membres. L’auteur estime que cette pérennité n’est possible que par la richesse de la...

Ce livre commence par mettre en lumière la vie mouvementée de ma Loge-Mère, de Francis Baudoux la R.: L. : « Le ciment », G. : O. : B. : No 83 de 5967 à 5982. C'est au cours de cette année qu’un groupe...

Psychiatre et franc-maçon, j’ai découvert sur le tard mon besoin d’écriture. J’aurais aimé jouer d’un instrument, guitare ou saxo mais je ne suis vraiment pas doué. La franc-maçonnerie m’a permis, en...

Chaque nuit, nous rêvons cinq à six fois. Chaque matin, ces trésors nous échappent, quotidienne et permanente frustration. J’ai heureusement appris au cours de quelques jours de coma, que des moments...

Arcturus Crime Classics showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s - the so-called golden age of crime writing - through to the 1970s. From conventional whodunnits to slick thrillers,...

Sie kämpfen gegen die die Vorboten des Schwarms - die Macht des Geistes ist ihre Waffe Auf Terra und den anderen Menschheitswelten schreibt man Ende März des Jahres 3442. Der mysteriöse Schwarm setzt...

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive...

Una tendra i bella celebració del regal de la vida.Novembre del 1944. Una bomba de la Luftwaffe està a punt d'impactar contra la ciutat de Londres, truncant, en un sol instant, la vida de cinc nens. Novembre...

We are in the midst of a medical revolution: in just a few years, we will be able to have our complete DNA sequenced at an affordable cost. Analysing the content of our genomes will allow a powerful estimate...

Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey...

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death,...

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