The Economist Book of Obituaries Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Bloomberg Press
• File Size : 46,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about, the surprising lives they led, and

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 March 2021

A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times

• Publisher : Random House
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 07 April 2000

Pontius Pilate arrived in Judaea in the year 26, sent to collect taxes and oversee the firm establishment of Roman law. His ten-year term was a time of relative peace in

• Publisher : Forum Books
• File Size : 22,8 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2016

The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers—as only he could—the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by

• Publisher : Granta Books
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 August 2011

Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts

• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• File Size : 47,7 Mb
• Release Date : 24 September 2019

2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man . . . this is a gripping study of power, and the loneliness of power." —The

• Publisher : The Economist
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 24 July 2018

The revised and updated 7th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive

• Publisher : House of Anansi
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 11 September 2012

Longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and an iTunes Store Best Book Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019** A life of St Francis in verse Throughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded expectations, following

• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 October 2015

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A