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The Last Of The Celts (Paperback): Marcus Tanner The Last Of The Celts (Paperback)
Marcus Tanner
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A search for authentic Celtic culture and its scattered, endangered survivors Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, award-winning author Marcus Tanner describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate and warns that a distinct Celtic identity may not survive for another generation-a sobering loss that would impoverish us all. "Tanner has concluded we must resign ourselves to the fact that Celticism is done, over, finis. He proves it in a very good and special book that every prodigal and true Celt should read and try to prove wrong."-Malachy McCourt, Washington Post Book World "Lively. . . . [A] thoughtful book."-Publishers Weekly "An exceptional journey into the remarkable cultural history of the Celtic people. . . . [Tanner's] experience reads like a travelogue and an insightful history with an emphasis on cultural heritage."-Raymond L. Flynn, Boston Sunday Herald "[An] angry, elegiac and meticulously researched book."-Christian Century

Croatia - A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Paperback, 4th Revised edition): Marcus Tanner Croatia - A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Paperback, 4th Revised edition)
Marcus Tanner
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era "Full of absorbing stories and important insights, Croatia deserves to be read."-Aleska Djilas, New York Times Book Review "A lucid, expert account of Croatia's past at the bloody crossroads of big-power ambitions-Turks, Austrians, Italians, Russians-leads smoothly into a riveting close-up view of the 1990s fight for independence." Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

Introduction to Integrative Studies (Paperback, Second Edition): Marcus Tanner Introduction to Integrative Studies (Paperback, Second Edition)
Marcus Tanner
R3,332 Discovery Miles 33 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Integrative learning curriculum prepares students for current and future job demand as well as long-term careers. Graduates have acquired important skills that employers value. Marcus N. Tanner's Introduction to Integrative Studies provides a comprehensive overview of interdisciplinary and integrative learning and demonstrates how these skills can help students thrive in college and in their professional lives upon graduation. Introduction to Integrative Studies: examines introduction to interdisciplinary and integrative learning. introduces an overview of classic and contemporary interdisciplinary research. discusses Interdisciplinary priorities (skills and abilities) that are characteristic and critical for interdisciplinarians to possess. helps students develop themselves as interdisciplinarians. It helps students to connect different areas of their life, tell their interdisciplinary story, and construct a meaningful portfolio. is interactive! Review and Discussion sections help students to check their learning of concepts presented; and Making Connections vignettes encourage students to go beyond the material discussed by pointing them in the direction of sources that may help them understand or apply the content.

The Raven King - Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library (Paperback): Marcus Tanner The Raven King - Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library (Paperback)
Marcus Tanner
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A gripping account of an extraordinary Renaissance monarch and the quest for his treasured library Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, the "Raven King," was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and humanist ambitions a strong, unified country, splendid palaces, and the most magnificent library in Christendom. But Hungary, invaded by Turkey after Matthias's death in 1490, yielded its treasures, and the Raven King's exquisite library of two thousand volumes, witness to a golden cultural age, was dispersed first across Europe and then the world. The quest to recover this collection of sumptuously illuminated scripts provoked and tantalized generations of princes, cardinals, collectors, and scholars and imbued Hungarians with the mythical conviction that the restoration of the lost library would seal their country's rebirth. In this thrilling and absorbing account, drawing on a wealth of original sources in several languages, Marcus Tanner tracks the destiny of the Raven King and his magnificent bequest, uncovering the remarkable story of a life and library almost lost to history.

Ireland's Holy Wars - The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000 (Paperback, New Ed): Marcus Tanner Ireland's Holy Wars - The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000 (Paperback, New Ed)
Marcus Tanner
R1,831 Discovery Miles 18 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For much of the twentieth century, Ireland has been synonymous with conflict, the painful struggle for its national soul part of the regular fabric of life. And because the Irish have emigrated to all parts of the world-while always remaining Irish-"the troubles" have become part of a common heritage, well beyond their own borders. In most accounts of Irish history, the focus is on the political rivalry between Unionism and Republicanism. But the roots of the Irish conflict are profoundly and inescapably religious. As Marcus Tanner shows in this vivid, warm, and perceptive book, only by understanding the consequences over five centuries of the failed attempt by the English to make Ireland into a Protestant state can the pervasive tribal hatreds of today be seen in context. Tanner traces the creation of a modern Irish national identity through the popular resistance to imposed Protestantism and the common defense of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale, who settled in Ireland after its twelfth-century conquest. The book is based on detailed research into the Irish past and a personal encounter with today's Ireland, from Belfast to Cork. Tanner has walked with the Apprentice Boys of Derry and explored the so-called Bandit Country of South Armagh. He has visited churches and religious organizations across the thirty-two counties of Ireland, spoken with priests, pastors, and their congregations, and crossed and re-crossed the lines that for centuries have isolated the faiths of Ireland and their history.

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