A rage for China

PAYNE, Robert

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

A spelendid panorama of the Roman world, its history, culture and people. In its sheer scope, the Roman epoch is unsurpassed in history. What has endured to our own time is its great legacy to Western civilization, in law, language, architecture and the art of government, and of course the fascination of its story. Ancient Rome presents the history and heritage of that remarkable era. In this richly illustrated volume, the reader can enjoy an all-round introduction to the politics, people, culture and everyday life of the world ruled by Rome. Unlike most general histories of the subject, it enables the reader to know the Romans not only from reading about them, but by hearing directly from them in their own words, through the works of orators, philosophers, historians, poets, playwrights and satirists.

Ancient Rome

History

Ancient Civilizations

American Heritage Pr

Hardcover and DJ McGraw-Hill, 1977. Looks NEW. Boards and Spine look NEW, tight binding. DJ looks NEW in a clear plastic wrap, (not taped), protects the DJ. Collector's Quality

The life and death of Trotsky

McGraw=Hill

Minor wear to covers and edges, some nicks and loss to d.j. at base and head of spine, and at tips. Internally clean.

A portrait of André Malraux

PRENTICE/HALL

The story of the Brooke dynasty, James, Charles, and Vyner, Rajahs of Sarawak for over a hundred years.

The White Rajahs of Sarawak

Asia

Oxford University Press

Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in 1983, Patrice Chéreau’s L’Homme blessé (The Wounded Man) was one of France’s first major cinematic releases to depict homosexual desire and queer sexual cultures in an unapologetic and complex way. It is a film that continues to resonate to this day.L’Homme blessé generated controversy with its dark tone and its treatment of an adolescent’s obsessive homoerotic desire, as well as Chéreau’s denial that the film is about homosexuality. Robert Payne guides readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L’Homme blessé, where the film sidesteps fixed identities and draws viewers into the ambiguous spaces of queer desire, and argues that its visual composition depicts queer ways of seeing and generates queer ways of feeling. A look into the production’s historical and cultural backdrop uncovers a behind-the-scenes story of power and desire between its two screenwriters and the presence of HIV/AIDS hovering ominously and inevitably off screen. Original interviews trace the lives of L’Homme blessé across three continents and three decades and measure the film’s enduring value beyond its prestigious debut.Payne cements L’Homme blessé in its rightful place within queer cultural history and introduces the film to a new generation of viewers.

L' L'Homme blessé (Volume 1) (Queer Film Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

McGill-Queen's University Press

Praeger Publishers, 1973. Hardcover.

The life and death of Adolf Hitler.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Praeger Publishers

Bribery, corruption, education, fraud, methodology from the Greeks to the Presidents.

The corrupt society: From ancient Greece to present-day America

Praeger

This is the story of modern history’s most treacherous and terrifying dictator.\nStalin was a man of many he studied for the priesthood, he was a romantic poet, a bank-robber, an assassin, a revolutionary, a ruthless leader, and, for a time, one of the two most powerful men in the world.\nBut after he took power he was also one of the bloodiest and cruellest leaders in all history. He cracked an iron whip over Russia and Eastern Europe as millions fell to his purges.\nHis bizarre, sinister life was matched only by his strange death in 1953 and his subsequent fall and condemnation by his successors.\n‘A whale of a book … extremely readable, the verve and gusto of the writing are unflagging to the end’ - The Spectator\n‘A prodigious biography… Fascinating. Valuable’ - New York Herald Tribune\n‘A triumph of biography … a clear and fluent style, a powerful picture of one of the most influential men in European History’ - Will Durant\n‘Few writers have come closer to capturing the spiritual essence of their subject’ - Harrison Salisbury\n‘A gripping wide-read chronicle, narrated with a wealth of detail, colour and documentation. Once you become enmeshed in the book’s tentacles of intrigue, it takes you by the throat’ - Saturday Review Syndicate\nRobert Payne (1911-1983) had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects during his lifetime. Critics raved about ‘his vast erudition,’ ‘his magic power over words,’ and that rare ability ‘to capture the spiritual essence of his subject.’ The Russian series, in particular The Life and Death of Lenin and The Rise and Fall of Stalin , raised his reputation as biographer to enormous stature.

The Rise and Fall of Stalin

Pan Books

The Splendour of Greece

Pan/Macmillan

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