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Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Biography by Adam Sisman
Lord Dacre, Doctor of Divinity, Regius professor of History Oxford, former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Director of The Times newspaper London, remembered amongst others for his acclaimed "last Days of Hitler" but also of his involvement in the scandal of the forged Hitler's diaries.
When in old age he found himself the master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, he reviewed Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England by Maurice Cowling, the history don who had secured him the mastership. Cowling was the guru to such rightwing journalistic luminaries as Peregrine Worsthorne and Colin Welch of the Telegraph, and to that extent he was a person of influence. "The subject is the intellectual history of our time and the great spiritual crisis in which we have found ourselves," Trevor-Roper wrote. "I find, on reading it, that this intellectual history has unfolded itself, and this crisis has been observed, and is to be resolved, almost entirely within the walls of Peterhouse."
An excellent, balanced and thought-provoking account thorougly backed by references, quotations and illustrations. Hardback, 598 pages, Weidenfeld and nicolson, London, July 2010
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Adam Sisman was educated at St Pauls School and Sussex University. He worked full time as a publishers editor for 14 years, and has since undertaken a number of freelance projects for publishers, as well as ghost writing several books. From 1989 to 2000 he was a partner in a copywriting business. He has acted as a judge for various prizes, including the Whitbread Awards. In 2003 he was elected President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, and he is currently President of the Boswell Society of Auchinleck. He is an occasional broadcaster on radio and television, and a frequent reviewer, most recently for the Sunday Telegraph, the Los Angeles Times and the Literary Review.
Mr O'Neil is a survivor of another era; he practically lives above the shop, that is his veterinary surgery and during his spare time he plays the piano upstairs.
he is reputed to have attended to the good health of Winston Churchill's dogs and his surgery is right next door's to John Sandoe's
john Sandoe's Bookshop is a survivor of a kind which traditionally nurtured links with authors. Its founder had his obituary in The Times.
NOTE:
O'Neil is now closed down...
Princess Marthe Bibesco: "Le Perroquet Vert"
My Library of Intentions
Franco-Romanian complicities
See also: "Blouse Roumaine - An Anthology of Romanian Women"
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Book by Harriet Jacobs
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Understanding Wall Street
by Jeffrey B. Little, Lucien Rhodes
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Famous People
Poetry in Transation
“To me the trying part is being a woman at all. I’ve come to the ultimate conclusion that I’m a misfit of the worst kind, in spite of a superficial femininity — emotion with a foreknowledge of impermanence, a daring mind with only the tongue as an outlet, a greed for experience plus a slavery to convention — what the deuce are you to make of that? — as a woman? As a man, you could go ahead and stir things up fine”.
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Capturing Camelot:
Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys
Kitty Kelley
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Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times
Book by Michael Grant
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Hellenistic Art: The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium
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Profiles in Courage (50th Anniversary Edition)
Book by John F. Kennedy
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Arrian was a Greek who served the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a governor and (perhaps) as a general; after he retired, he specialised in writing military histories.
Arrian regarded Alexander as a hero totally unlike any other human being'
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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Jessica Kingsley from the Houston Astronomical Society explains what will happen during the solar eclipse.
To my Readers
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961)
Here is my house. There is the Sun and the garden with beehives.
You are passing along the road, peering through the slats of my gate
expecting me to speak. Where shall I start?
Believe me, please, believe me,
one could talk as long as one wants to, about anything:
of Destiny and the snake of Goodwill,
of archangels tilling
the land of man,
of heavens towards which we aspire,
of hatred and fall, of sadness and Calvary,
but, above all, about the Great Passage.
Yet our words are only the tears of those who wished
so much to cry and could not.
Bitter are all those words
and that is why, please, allow me
to pass in silence amongst you,
crossing your road, eyes closed.
(Rendered in English by Constantin ROMAN, London,
© 2013 Copyright Constantin ROMAN)
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Transylvanian-born Lucian BLAGA was a graduate in Theology of the Sibiu Seminary, following which he took a doctorate in Philosophy from Vienna university.
After WWI, Blaga served in various Romanian embassies in Warsaw, Prague, Lisbon, Bern and Vienna, before he returned to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Cluj. With the advent of a Communist Government, Blaga refused to back the new regime, as a result of which he lost his University Chair and was demoted to the position of librarian. Furthermore Blaga was forbidden from publishing his academic work, being only allowed to publish translations, before he was finally sent to the Communist jails. After being freed the poet came out a shadow of his former self to die a few years later.
Lucian Blaga was proposed for the Nobel Prize by Rosa del Conte, Mircea Eliade and Basil Munteanu, but their initiative was fiercely opposed by emissaries of the Romanian Communist Government sent to Oslo for this purpose. As a result of these political machinations the Nobel Commission caved in: it will not be either the first or last of such scenarios – a sad reflection on the effect of the long hand of repressive regimes on the decision-making of an otherwise distinguished Academic Institution.
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The Cigar Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide
by Anwer Bati, Simon Chase
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These are books in my library - the three-volume boxed set "A History of the Crusades" by Stephen Runciman, and A Distant Mirroe by Barbara Tuchman.
Runciman alsowrote a book called "The Fall of Constantinople" that is one of my favorite history books. It got me deeper into the subject after reading an article about it in (a now-defunct) Mankind magazine. Those channeled me deeper into the era, along the way finding medieval & Renaissance music (my favorite music to listen to), and researching the 15th and 16th centuries. Reading Braudel’s books really got me into it. And there was Waltari’s fiction, “The Wanderer”." A terrific read... the unintending lead character, bumbling through life into the right opportunities somehow...
The books i this photo are generally earlier than the time period I'm most into, but history in general grabsme...
I used a watercolor filter on the photo. I like the effect...
Remembering Jack: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys
by Jacques Lowe,
Hugh Sidey,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Foreword)
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Poetry in Translation (CXLVI): Sergiu MANDINESCU (1926-1964), ROMANIA, “Prison Warder”, “ Suflet de călău”
Sergiu MANDINESCU (1926 – 1964),
Poet of the Communist Prisons
Prison Warder (Suflet de călău)
A muffled night
a bottomless abyss
a peacock’s cry
that never goes amiss.
Great panthers watching in the night
and tigers ready for the pounce,
the pythons flawlessly advance
a path so trite.
The shadow’s silence so profound
fills to the brim the darkest mind -
a jungle full of beasts of any kind,
but human soul is nowhere to be found!
(Rendered in English, from the Romanian original,
by Constantin ROMAN, London,
© 2012, Copyright Constantin ROMAN)
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Belmore Basin
Harbours
Commencement of construction of Wollongong City Council's Blue Mile Vision, a master plan to maximise Wollongong's advantage as 'A City by the Sea' For more Illawarra Images visit mylibrary.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/
Photo date : July 2008
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times
Book by Michael Grant
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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Complete Paintings
Hardcover Coffee Table Book
DIMENSIONS
11.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 13.5ʺH
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Robert Kennedy and His Times
Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Fear: Trump in the White House
by Bob Woodward
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Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C. A Historical Biography, With a New Preface by the Author and a Foreword by Eugene N. Borza
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In December 1989 the killer-dictator was put down.
Several thousand people were killed or disappeared in the process of this bloody coup. The perpetrators were never brought to book.
The image conjures death by hammer and siclke (symbol of Communism) with the armed police in the background.
This is one of a series of posters created by art students in Bucharest:
Capturing Camelot:
Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys
Kitty Kelley
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My Library of Intentions
Reference books. books I consult, Books I read, Books I will read at a later date
Gai-Jin
by James Clavell
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The Secret Team
Book by L. Fletcher Prouty
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
by Brent Schlender
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
by James W. Douglass
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Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family
Book by Deirdre Marie Capone
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