“…Before presidents and prime ministers there were lords of the auspicious conjunction - the alignment of the heavens and planets heralded their arrival. …”

“…They were not just religious leaders; they were important men who served kings and lords as advisers and even diplomats. They also controlled large territories and had significant incomes and people at their command. …”

“…She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords. Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the life and work of this singular woman, but the book goes much further. …”

“…How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe? In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. …”

“…The work examines the socio-political dynamics of the era, including the Spanish domination and the internal conflicts among feudal lords. The text explores the life and works of Diego Sandoval de Castro, a nobleman and poet, whose Spanish heritage and Italian upbringing influenced his literary contributions. …”

“…This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. …”

“…Ceremonies, pageants and temporary architectures in honour of the newlyweds had the task of making explicit the alliances between the reigning houses of different principalities, visually expressing the power of the lords over their capitals. This book's aim is to understand how the festivities, orchestrated with court artists, became a means of celebratory propaganda and how the diffusion of their descriptions, in incunabula or manuscripts, heightened the fame of the events. …”

“…With insight and with, she illuminates how the writing process has transformed authors such as Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, Audre Lorde, and Isabel Allende. WRITING AS A WAY OF HEALING gives valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inpsire both experienced and beginning writers…”

“…Es un trabajo que se inspira en el lema de la feminista Audre Lorde, quien señalaba que "las herramientas del amo nunca desmontan la casa del amo", para desarrollar una apuesta etnoeducativa descolonial de la educación colombiana, que siempre subestimó la presencia africana en nuestro tejido social. …”
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“…The new Norman conquerors changed the landscape with major building projects, new cathedrals and churches, and numerous castles in the countryside to defend the new lords. In 1215 the king's administration had become more sophisticated and centralised. …”

“…The seventh edition of this highly successful volume is published at a time of accelerated constitutional change in the wake of the 2010 general election and the formation of a Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition committed to political reforms - including fixed term parliaments, a referendum on electoral reform, reform of the House of Lords, improved freedom of information, and reform of the House of Commons. …”

“…This work will spur many students of the New Testament to explore the writings of the apostolic fathers and wrestle with their content, theology, praxis, use of the New Testament, and devotion to the risen Lord."--Publisher's website…”