LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david higgins

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  • Our Sun’s Revenge
    David H Higgins
    In the heart of London, an ordinary day takes an extraordinary turn for the Bolton family. Trevor, immersed in his work, Carol, preparing a family meal, and their teenage daughter Jane, lost in the world of her phone, are blissfully unaware of the impending chaos about to unfold.Without warning, a massive electrical storm engulfs the Earth, plunging the world into darkness. Com...
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    20,66 €

  • Ann Leckie’s 'Ancillary Justice'
    David M. Higgins
    This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Just...
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    48,76 €

  • Shoil
    David Higgins
    Revenge is a dish best served cold.After a major battle between the Higher Middle and Lower Middle, there were few survivors on either side.Shoil’s hatred for Tampong ran deep to her very core, constantly fueling her anger, which increased her appetite, making her feed on men to satisfy that appetite. She was determined to track down and kill the traitor Tampong, even if killin...
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    23,47 €

  • British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene
    David Higgins
    This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts - by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley - in relation to the global crisis produced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. By connecting these texts to current de...
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    73,10 €

  • Saint Jordan of Bristol
    David H. Higgins / David HHiggins
    DAVID H. HIGGINS, M.A. (Cambridge), was Head of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Bristol until retirement in 1995. His main professional field was the cultural and political history of Italy from Late Antiquity, through medieval to the Renaissance, together with comparative philology and linguistics. This was accompanied by an interdisciplinary professio...
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    17,40 €

  • Jon Cornwall’s Adventures
    David Higgins
    John Cornwall started life as your original thin, asthmatic eight stone weakling who meets his first love only to see her snatched away from him by a brutal murderer. This sparks a unique skill in him that will change his life forever. As he slowly develops this new found skill he is able to use it to track down and seek revenge for the murder of his girlfriend. However, the ...
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    28,09 €

  • At Piney Ridge; a Play of Tennessee Life, in Four Acts
    David Knowles 1858- [from old Higgins
    'At Piney Ridge; a Play of Tennessee Life, in Four Acts' by David Knowles Higgins offers a glimpse into early 20th-century life in the Appalachian region. This play captures the unique culture, dialect, and social dynamics of rural Tennessee. Through its engaging characters and authentic setting, the drama explores themes of community, tradition, and the challenges of a changin...
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    20,05 €

  • The Passing Of A Race
    David Williams Higgins
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    36,50 €

  • The Mystic Spring And Other Tales Of Western Life (1904)
    David Williams Higgins
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,36 €

  • Frankenstein
    David Higgins
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most widely read novels of all time. Its two central characters, the scientist Victor Frankenstein and the being he creates, have gained mythic status in their own right. Engaging with the novel’s characterization is crucial to gaining a real understanding of its themes and contexts, including education, gender difference, imperialism, ...
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    38,60 €

  • The Shores of Malpeque Bay
    David Alfred Higgins
    The author traces his ancestry from Scotland and Ireland to the shores of Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island. The narration covers over two centuries from the 1740’s through to 1973. His investigation into why his ancestors migrated starts with the last battle fought on the soil of Britain, the disastrous Battle of Culloden and the equally disastrous Clearance Movement in Scotl...
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    20,37 €