Peter Hunt ist ein renommierter britischer Gelehrter, dessen Werk sich kritisch mit Kinderliteratur auseinandersetzt. Er leistete Pionierarbeit bei der akademischen Erforschung der Kinderliteratur im Vereinigten Königreich und beeinflusste durch seine umfangreichen Vorlesungen Studenten weltweit. Hunts Beiträge umfassen kritische Analysen und originelle Fiktion für junge Leser, die sich mit der tiefgreifenden Bedeutung von Kindergeschichten befassen. Sein Ansatz zeichnet sich durch sorgfältige Textanalyse und Einbettung in breitere kulturelle Kontexte aus.
Wie alles begann
Vor 150 Jahren erschienen »Alice im Wunderland« und »Alice hinter den Spiegeln«. Peter Hunt gratuliert mit einem wunderschön illustrierten Band. Er erzählt, wie die berühmten Nonsens-Romane entstanden und ihren Siegeszug um die ganze Welt antraten. Das ideale Geschenkbuch für alle großen und kleinen Fans!
Tight binding, cover looks used - interior does not. We are not a bookstore.
This book examines the oratorical appeals deployed in assembly speeches to understand the wide range of thinking and feeling that determined Athenian foreign policy decisions. It draws on theories of militarism, international relations, games, gender, and metaphor to show how even seemingly irrational appeals made sense in their context.
Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two remarkable stories, which takes us on a guided tour from the treacle wells of Victorian Oxford through an astonishing world of politics, philosophy, humour - and nightmare.
A slightly abridged edition of this classic wargame text with artwork for the Red and Blue armies as individual Paperboys .
It is the 12th century, and the world is a dangerous place. The Khan with the Golden Horde are marching through village after village, killing their way across Asia and into Europe. There are empires such as the Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires seeking to expand their influence and there are ruthless leaders suppressing their people with utter brutality.Whether you are a little person or a powerful person, it is not safe to live in this world. There are no safe havens, no peaceful corners.However, there is one boy who offers hope. A wild child who grows up free and adventurous in the mountains behind his remote village. A boy with a desire to fight. A boy with such determination and courage that, as he grows, he begins to bind the warring peoples of the earth together.The Original - World at War is the story of Courtier, a man from the small village of Utelle, a village up in the toes of the European Alps mountain range. Be it fate or the will of God, Courtier finds himself in the fight of his life to save his loved ones. This fight ends up defining him and his family's fate and, over his lifetime, shapes the world as we know it today.
Out of the chaos of war emerges a new and inspired people. As their power grows so does their legend. Before long the welfare of the old peoples of this land rests with this new and innovative culture. As the Vikings push for total dominance of Britannia only the English from the city of Worchester stand in their way. One young man must lead the fight in this fictional tale of Angles, Vikings, Picts and Celts.
Britain's vast losses of men in the first world war produced a revulsion against conscription. Originally published in 1972, Peter Dennis here describes how conscription was introduced once more in 1939, when pressure from within Britain and from France forced the British Government to reverse its position.