After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's delightful The Little Prince has been translated into over 180 languages and sold over 80 million copies. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features a specially commissioned translation by Ros and Chloe Schwarz, as well as the charming original illustrations by Saint-Exupéry himself, coloured by Barbara Frith, one of England's leading colourists. It's a book that will enchant both children and adults alike.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles.
492 Great Things About Being Italian is fun, informative and catnip for 17 million Italian-Americans. It follows in the footsteps of other successful books aimed at this minority proud of its remarkable—and ongoing!—heritage. It comprises 492 (as in 1492…) individual people, things, places and phenomena that make one proud to be Italian (or half-Italian, which adds millions more to the target market).
But one doesn’t have to be Italian to enjoy this book, any more than one has to be Jewish to love rye bread! Italy is Americans’ second-favorite travel destination outside North America, and Italian foods, celebrities, entertainment, etc., are popular with most everyone.
It’s also the kind of book that once you peek inside, you won’t be able to read just one entry of the 492—it’s like potato chips!
Craving pleasure as well as knowledge, Raphael Sanzio was quick torealize that his talent would only be truly appreciated in theliberal, carefree and extravagantly sensual atmosphere of Romeduring its golden age under Julius II and Leo X.
Arriving in the city in 1508 at the age of twenty-five, he wasentranced and seduced by life at the papal court and within a fewmonths had emerged as the most brilliant star in its intellectualfirmament. His art achieved a natural grace that was totallyuninhibited and free from subjection. His death, at justthirty-seven, plunged the city into the kind of despair thatfollows the passing of an esteemed and much loved prince.
In this major new biography Antonio Forcellino retraces themeteoric arc of Raphael’s career by re-examining contemporarydocuments and accounts and interpreting the artist’s workswith the eye of an expert art restorer. Raphael’s paintingsare vividly described and placed in their historical context.Forcellino analyses Raphael’s techniques for producing thelarge frescos for which he is so famous, examines his workingpractices and his organization of what was a new kind of artisticworkshop, and shows how his female portraits expressed and conveyeda new attitude to women.
This rich and nuanced account casts aside the misconceptions passedon by those critics who persistently tried to undermineRaphael’s mythical status, enabling one of the greatestartists of all time to re-emerge fully as both man and artist.
It's time to elect a new pope. Hundreds of thousands of people gather in front of St. Peter's Basilica to learn who will be the next leader of the Catholic Church. A white puff of smoke from a chimney signals the cardinals--the "princes" of the church--have elected one of their own who will continue to be the leader of the faith that has been around for more than two thousand years. Author Megan Stine charts the beginning of Christianity and its hold on members of the faith as well as the countless struggles for power (one pope was poisoned by his own men!), the building of the Vatican and creation of the Sistine Chapel, and the Secret Archives that hold papers the church has accumulated over the centuries.
"Happiness can't be bought. And when you buy happiness, you realize that the happiness that is bought does not last. Only the happiness of love lasts."
Pope Francis
Pope Francis illuminates the path to happiness, through family, freedom, forgiveness and prayer. You will find hope and comfort in His Holiness' words, helping you to find your own way through life's challenges to a spiritual place of true joy.
Pope Benedict made history by being the first Pope in over 700 years to resign from office. The Catholic Church the world over was stunned. Worn out by corruption in the Church and by an endless series of clerical sex scandals, he decided that the resolution of all these problems was outside his power for a man of his age.
Last Testament is nearest to an autobiography from the shy and private man who has remained “hidden to the world” in a former convent in the Vatican gardens. He breaks his silence on issues such as:
- The “Vatileaks” case in which his butler leaked some of his personal letters that alleged corruption and scandal in the Vatican
- The presence of a “gay lobby” within the Vatican and how he dismantled it
- His alleged Nazi upbringing
- His attempts at cleaning up the “dirt in the church” (clerical sexual abuse)
- The mysterious private secretary “Gorgeous George”
On a more personal level he writes with great warmth of his successor Pope Francis, who he admits has a popular touch, a star quality which he has lacked. Much controversy still surrounds Pope Benedict`s Papacy--in this book he addresses these controversies and reveals how at his late age, governing and reforming the Papacy and particularly the Vatican, was beyond him. - See more at: http://bloomsbury.com/us/last-testament-9781472944672/#sthash.EhXhPmG9.dpuf
SPQR is the Romans own abbreviation for their state: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus, 'the Senate and People of Rome' - and this magnificent book is an eloquent and a definitive account of their story.
Explore the city's vibrant history and culture, and understand its modern-day life, people and ploitics.
Discover the best districts, sights and excursion, and be inspired by stunning imagery.
Get around with ease thanks to detailed maps that pinpoint the key attractions featured in every chapter.
Plan your travels easily with an A to Z of useful advice on everything from climate to tipping.
Essential phrases for travel, eating out, shopping, sightseeing.
Numbers, times and dates.
Pronunciation given.
Grammar basics and vocabulary list.
This intelligent and richly resourced collection, drawn together by Professor Eamon Duffy, brings together beautiful and memorable prayers and hymns from a wide range of sources. This is not a mere anthology of prayers, but rather a comprehensive guide to praying the big things of life and faith, using words with resonance and eloquence to convey a Catholic Christianity that stretches across Eastern and Western traditions, Orthodox as well as Latin Catholic. It offers guidance on the basics of the faith: how to prepare for confession, how to say the rosary, how to make the stations of the cross, material for saying morning and night prayers. This book is the result of Eamon Duffy's own deep devotional life throughout his distinguished academic career and will be deeply valued. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-heart-in-pilgrimage-9781408183991/#sthash.EVeOP2Gd.dpuf