In a subtle exposition of the tension between sacred and secular themes in twentieth-century literature, Eugene Webb analyzes works by Yeats, Mann, Rilke, Stevens, Beckett, Joyce, Nietzsche, Eliot, Auden, and Ibsen. He demonstrates the connection between modern literature and religious tradition, and shows how conceptions of the sacred and its relation to the secular have been transformed in modern literary imagery.Webb considers the writers he discusses to be the true explorers of their generation, who have had to find a new symbolic language in which to understand and express their "idea of the holy." Because the sacred consists of "additude" and "experience" as well as "concept," Webb maintains that it receives its most direct and adequate expression in works of imaginative literature, where imagery can combine the intellectual and emotional elements of the sacred and communicate them to the reader.

History is about people, and this book explores the everyday lives of people of almost all kinds across the centuries: both the ordinary people, who are the life blood of a nation, and the extraordinary rulers, reformers, rebels, thinkers, scientists and artists who have been the pioneers of change.

Details differing methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease used by Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians, as well as ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations.

Details methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease used between 1450 and 1750, including the theory of the Four Humors, midwifery, quacks, and the plague.

Product Description: This book investigates the two World Wars, the Cold War and the Holocaust - the compulsory content of this National Curriculum unit. It explores why these events are regarded as significant and what criteria this suggests for historical significance...read more

Describes how the sick were treated, how effective surgery was, what herbals were, and how devastating the Black Death was throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.

Discusses the practice of medicine in the classical world, describing the earliest medical treatments used by the Greeks, the medical theories of Hippocrates, the healing practices of the Romans, and the influence of Galen.

Product Description: "This is History!" is the Schools History Project's Key Stage 3 scheme of work for National Curriculum history. Through a combination of in-depth and overview units, it offers a varied, relevant and challenging scheme of work for the whole Key Stage 3 history programme of study...read more