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'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Robert
Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his
attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of
melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging
over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing,
poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things,
The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel
Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and
remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all
its flawed, endless variety. Edited with an introduction by Angus
Gowland
South Georgia is rich in wildlife and spectacular scenery, and it
is a prime destination spot on most Antarctic tours. This
beautifully illustrated field guide depicts the birds, mammals,
insects, flowering plants, and other vegetation found in this
unique part of the world. It features 368 full-color photographs of
more than 180 species, including 65 species of birds, 20 species of
sea mammals, nearly 60 species of insects, and more than 40 species
of flowering and nonflowering plants. Detailed species accounts
describe key identification features, with information on status,
behavior, threats, and distribution. This one-of-a-kind
photographic guide also includes introductory chapters on South
Georgia's geography, climate, ecology, and conservation. * Features
368 photos of more than 180 species * Covers birds, sea mammals,
insects, and plants * Provides detailed species accounts * Includes
chapters on geography, climate, ecology, and conservation * The
only photographic field guide to focus specifically on South
Georgia
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Compulsion (Blu-ray disc)
Dean Stockwell, Martin Milner, E. G. Marshall, Robert F Simon, Wilton Graff, …
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R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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Orson Welles stars in this 1950s crime drama based on the novel by
Meyer Levin, which in turn is based on a real legal case that took
place in 1920s Chicago. Two wealthy law students, Judd Steiner
(Dean Stockwell) and Arthur Strauss (Bradford Dillman), decide that
they can get away with committing the perfect murder. They kidnap
and kill the teenage son of a millionaire, but a pair of spectacles
left at the crime scene leads to them being identified as the
murderers. Their families hire America's top lawyer Jonathan Wilk
(Welles) - a known opponent of the death penalty - to defend them
in their trial, and Wilk goes on to make American legal history by
successfully arguing in favour of a life sentence rather than the
pair's execution.
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert
Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its
myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its
publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it
"the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English
prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared
it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell
reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the
morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and
elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure
to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has
those of the past four centuries.
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The Anatomy Of Melancholy - What It Is, With All The Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, And Several Cures Of It: In Three Partitions, With Their Several Sections, Members, And Subsections, Philosophically, Medically, Historically Opened And Cut Up (Hardcover)
Robert Burton
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R950
Discovery Miles 9 500
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The Anatomy Of Melancholy - What It Is, With All The Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, And Several Cures Of It: In Three Partitions, With Their Several Sections, Members, And Subsections, Philosophically, Medically, Historically Opened And Cut Up (Paperback)
Robert Burton
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R664
Discovery Miles 6 640
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The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and several curses of it. In three paritions. With their several sections, members and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically, opened and cut up (Vol (Hardcover)
Robert Burton
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R925
Discovery Miles 9 250
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The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and several curses of it. In three paritions. With their several sections, members and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically, opened and cut up (Volume I (Paperback)
Robert Burton
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R816
Discovery Miles 8 160
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