Foreign bodies, Schama, Simon

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
ISBN: 0099590069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099590064
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany.

The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways; trudges the dawn streets of London, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army. The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us.

And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever. 'A magnificent achievement...' Jonathan Freedland, Guardian 'An extraordinary cultural journey, filled with astonishingly colourful and outrageous characters ... Schama delivers a superb and thrilling ride, both inspirational and tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: The Story of the Jews
ISBN: 009954668X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099546689
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews everyone`s story, too.

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: The Face of Britain: the nation through its Portraits
ISBN: 0670922307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670922307
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Описание: Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century; the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn't possess in life; a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces brought in from the Battle of the Somme; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death. In the age of the hasty glance and the selfie, Simon Schama has written a tour de force about the long exchange of looks from which British portraits have been made over the centuries: images of the modest and the mighty; of friends and lovers; heroes and working people. Each of them - the image-maker, the subject, and the rest of us who get to look at them - are brought unforgettably to life.

Together they build into a collective picture of Britain, our past and our present, a look into the mirror of our identity at a moment when we are wondering just who we are. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, Schama's extraordinary storytelling reveals the truth behind the nation's most famous portrayals of power, love, fame, the self, and the people. Mesmerising in its breadth and its panache, and beautifully illustrated, with more than 150 images from the National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain will change the way we see our past - and ourselves.

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: American Future, The
ISBN: 0099520397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099520399
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Описание: Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world`s most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than ever, the fate of America, and by extension the rest of the world, is hanging in the balance.

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: Art
ISBN: 1784875678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784875671
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Описание: 'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master storyteller Simon Schama makes an irresistible case for the power of art and its necessary place in our lives, examining art through the prism of the troubling life and works of Italian master painter, and murderer, Caravaggio.

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Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: The Embarrassment of Riches
ISBN: 0679781242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679781240
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: The Power of Art
ISBN: 1847921183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847921185
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Описание: * `Great art has dreadful manners...` Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art.

Автор: Simon Schama
Название: Citizens
ISBN: 0141017279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141017273
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Описание: Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events.

Автор: Goodman, Martin
Название: A History of Judaism
ISBN: 0141038217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141038216
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Описание: 'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary ReviewA panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the presentJudaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed themselves bound to God by the same covenant for more than three thousand years.

This book explains how Judaism came to be and how it has developed from one age to the next, as well as the ways in which its varieties have related to each other. 'A one-volume tour de force. Goodman meets the substantial challenge of charting the twists and turns, tributaries and backwaters of Judaism's many streams over 2,000 years - and succeeds' Harry Freedman, Jewish Chronicle'Learned and illuminating ...

this magnificently lucid account will become the standard reference for a generation' Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: History of Britain Vol.3 (1776-2000) : The Fate of Empire
ISBN: 1847920144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847920140
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Описание: Asks crucial questions about the nature of empire, journeying from celebrations of industrial and imperialist power at the Great Exhibition, to the catastrophic Irish potato famine and the Indian Mutiny. Alongside flamboyant heroes, like Nelson and Churchill, the author also recalls unsung heroines and virtually unknown enemies.

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: History of Britain Vol.2 (1603-1776) : The British Wars
ISBN: 1847920136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847920133
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Описание: Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on land, up and down the length of burgeoning Britain, across Europe, America and India.

Автор: Schama, Simon
Название: History of Britain Vol.1 (3000BC-AD1603) : At the Edge of the World?
ISBN: 1847920128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847920126
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Описание: Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama`s unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.