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In ancient Israel, there was no distinction between reason and emotion, as both were seen to operate within the heart and the Hebrew word for heart incorporates both. The heart is a pivotal symbol in Ezekiel. The giving of a new heart implies a reordering of reason and emotion, so that the Israelites could correctly perceive and love God. Modern psychology shows that emotion and reason are inseparable in decision making and learning, and the a...

This book shows that you don't need a large kitchen, expensive ingredients and fancy equipment to produce good food. Almost every one of the healthy and delicious vegetarian recipes is inexpensive and easy to prepare in the restricted space of a caravan - although they'll be equally at home in more permanent structures! With an eye on the environment as well as the purse, this book is packed with suggestions for making the most of leftovers.Fa...

Mentioned in despatches at Bunker Hill, brother to the Duchess of Argyll and the Countess of Coventry, John Gunning occupied an enviable position in Georgian society, but in 1792 his whole life started to unravel. The Apology, published in 1792, gives a first-hand account of Gunning's many seductions (including apparently 2 duchesses, 14 countesses, 4 viscountesses and 7 baronesses) and purports to explain the so-called 'Gunning Mystery, ' th...

Generations of students of English have benefited from the changes that Sweet wrought in the understanding of the historical and contemporary forms of the language.'Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyThis clear, concise and authoritative dictionary is the ideal reference for the student of Old English literature and language. Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was educated at King's College School, London, the University of Heidelberg and Balliol Col...

This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from the foundation of Cobham's Library in 1367, Richard de Bury's library at Durham College, Duke Humphrey's Library, Sir Thomas Bodley's bequest and on to the late nineteenth century. Macray's scholarly work abounds with fascinating detail and draws not only on the Bodleian's official archives but also many diaries and gossipy anecdotes. It comes as...

Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the follies of others from a distance, like Jacques, or who snarls and rails acerbically like Thersites or Timon. Sometimes, like Iago, he has murder in his heart. He might be an alienated intellectual, like Bosola or Flamineo, with an education he cannot use, or a cynical adventurer like Bussy, or a revenger, like Vindice, out to right wrongs, a bastar...

Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the follies of others from a distance, like Jacques, or who snarls and rails acerbically like Thersites or Timon. Sometimes, like Iago, he has murder in his heart. He might be an alienated intellectual, like Bosola or Flamineo, with an education he cannot use, or a cynical adventurer like Bussy, or a revenger, like Vindice, out to right wrongs, a bastar...

This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from the foundation of Cobham's Library in 1367, Richard de Bury's library at Durham College, Duke Humphrey's Library, Sir Thomas Bodley's bequest and on to the late nineteenth century.Macray's scholarly work abounds with fascinating detail and draws not only on the Bodleian's official archives but also many diaries and gossipy anecdotes. It comes as som...

Dibdin's Bibliomania is an anthem to the printed book, a warning to the unwary about the perils of obsessive book-collecting, and the confessions of a rabid book-collector. As a casual glance at the book will show, Dibdin's footnotes predominate over text, and it is in the footnotes that the interest lies. They invite questions as often as they answer them. What is the supposed similarity between 'Orator' Henley's library and Addison's memoran...

Published for the first time with The King's Grant of Privilege for Sole Printing Common-Law-Books Defended and The Vindication of Richard Atkyns Esquire, with introduction, notes and index. They concern his life, the history of printing in England, the English Civil War, the collapse in both his fortune and his marriage. His eyewitness accounts of battles are pungent with the smell of gun powder.

Mentioned in despatches at Bunker Hill, brother to the Duchess of Argyll and the Countess of Coventry, John Gunning occupied an enviable position in Georgian society, but in 1792 his whole life started to unravel... It all started with forged correspondence between his daughter Elizabeth and the Marquess of Blandford. Was Elizabeth, her garrulous mother, her dissipated father, the sinister Essex Bowen or someone else responsible? The Apo...

A swooping, evocative tale spanning nearly fifty years, The Mischief-Maker is a story of ambition, hubris and retribution. From the sixties to the present, from England and Ireland to Italy and the United States, we follow the lives of a diverse group of people whose fates are inextricably caught up, whether they know it or not. No-one - not the government minister, the cabaret artist, the television personality, the forgotten pop star or the ...

This book should be read by every bored citizen in the West who wants to change their life but doesn't know how to do it. It is a handbook of how to write your own life. Jay Landesman makes everything seem possible. Extravagant lifestyles of the talented, the lonely, the seekers after truth are all here in this fast, funny, frill-free romp through Jay and Fran Landesman's incomparable lifestyle. Jay never gives up, never takes himself too ser...

Sara Daniels lives in France where she pursues her passion for organic gardening and natural building at her environmentally-friendly B&B, , Terre et Toi. This book reflects her concern for the environment and provides alternatives for an increasing percentage of the population who no longer wish to include gluten and dairy products in their diet. With an emphasis on fresh, seasonal food, Recipes from the Straw Bale House is bursting with tas...

Anton de Moresco's whodunnit, set in the strange, cloistered environment of the University of Isleworth, will be a revelation to all those unfamiliar with Britain's oldest university and the area of West London which houses its ancient campus. Professor Gerrish Gray realises that his job at Britain's oldest university is threatened after an American academic claims that the Isleworth Madonna is a fake. Then Gray finds a corpse in the Snakenbor...

British journalist Hilary Blyth famously liked a drop or two as well as a midnight dip, and when his body was fished out of the sea near the infamous Denti dei Cani Rocks, the verdict was accidental death. His widow disagreed, but she went a little crazy after her husband's death and everyone was highly relieved when she returned to England...A year later, three people converge on a secluded Italian coastal idyll. None of them is on holiday: t...

If the editor has allowed himself to become as Dibdinesque as his subject, then it is all part of the fun of a work where references and citations run back and forth like so many ink rollers on a printing press.' - Rare Book Review 'a usefully annotated edition' - Financial Times

A new anthology of beautiful love poems. An ideal present for a loved one on St Valentine's Day - or any other time! Contents: There is a Lady Sweet and Kind, Anon From a Lady to a Gentleman, in Answer to a Complimentary Copy of Verses, Anon A Cheerful Tempered Lover's Farewell to His Mistress, Joanna Baillie A Sonnet Francis, Beaumont Song, Aphra Behn The One Before the Last, Rupert Brooke Memory, William Browne of Tavistock Song, William Bro...

Since the arrival of Augustine in Kent in 597, Canterbury has been the very heart of the Church in England. The Saxon cathedral, much enlarged over the years, burnt down in 1067. Its replacement suffered a similar fate in 1174, to be rebuilt again. As a result, the modern visitor is presented with a confusing historical patchwork which needs some explanation.Eadmer the singer was an eyewitness to the demolition of the Anglo-Saxon cathedral and...

The best portrait of Jay Landesman as a cultural conduit was written by Beat historian John Clellon Holmes, 'Most of the time, Landesman was that unique phenomenon in a status-drunk society: a man who knew that the only really hip style is the next one, the one that hasn't been established yet. In the late forties he shifted his attention to the popular arts without sacrificing his sense of the culture as a whole.' Landesman's significant cont...