Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient civilizations still shape the lives of the majority of mankind. In Search of the First Civilizations (previously published as Legacy) asks the intriguing question: what is civilization? Did it mean the same to the Chinese, the Indians and the Greeks? What can the values of the ancient cultures teach us today? And do the ideals of the West - a latecomer to civilization - really have universal validity? In this fascinating historical search, Michael Wood explores these ancient cultures, looking for their essential character and their continuing legacy. A brilliant exploration. Sunday Times Well-written, gorgeous and guaranteed to induce thought... Wood takes great care to put everything in a large historical perspective, which is actually more disturbing than comforting. New York Post
For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this extensively revised edition, historian Michael Wood takes account of the latest dramatic developments in the search for Troy. His wide-ranging study of the complex archaeological, literary and historical records has been brought up-to-date. Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the most excited discoveries in archaeology. A dazzling and exhaustive analysis. Washington Post This beautifully illustrated book vividly evokes themes that are central to our civilizations quest for its past. The New York Times Book Review
From the dark mind behind the DCI Matilda Darke series, comes the next novel in a pulse-pounding new series. Dr Olivia Winter is back. And she's got a brand new case to solve.**Available to pre-order now**
The White Island is a journey through the Mediterranean world of Homer, exploring the myths and legends that continue to weave their way into our collective consciousness. Michael Wood is an expert guide, taking readers on a rich and rewarding journey through the heart of ancient Greece and beyond.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Beneath the cracked roads of a burning town lost to history, an old threat rises from the ashes. When his best friend is killed in a mysterious vampiric ritual, Zeke Boldan is left to uncover the mysteries behind a rising vampire threat. With a broken weapon and a shattered spirit, Zeke is left with nothing besides the clothes on his back and a vague lead. After he encounters an enthusiastic priest and a reluctant paranormal investigator, they form a necessary partnership which leads them to Pennsylvania while they learn hidden secrets behind Luzerne County's dark past. Faced with trauma, Zeke is forced to put aside his own personal vendetta for the greater good while forming new friendships along the way. Only he has the experience and understanding to stop the soul of the sinister Blackheart Valentine from returning and rising to power. Time may heal all wounds but the scars beneath the surface are the most frightening. Michael Wood is a passionate writer from Massachusetts. He aspires to write and create unique worlds from new ideas while following relatable characters who embody thought-provoking themes. This is his debut novel.
In a nation that threatens to be divided by war and hardship, a young man helps ensure the freedom of his country while creating his own. In 1864, the American Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy intensifies by the day. A wealthy businessman in New York named Charles Nethersole wants to benefit the Union by inventing new ways to improve technology once the war concludes. With the aid of a distraught inventor, Charles supervises him as he creates a new workforce with steam-powered beetles to invent a new electric generator that can transfer power across the state. Living within Charles' mansion is a crew of misfit career thieves who work for him while they each carry their own personal demon. Among his crew, a young man named Silas Wellesley desires a life on the other side of the law. When he and his partner inadvertently incriminate a theater actress named Rosalind during their latest heist, Silas rescues her from a wrongful imprisonment. As the two grow closer, Silas rekindles his lost love of becoming an actor. Torn between loyalties, Silas must decide between his team and the life he always wanted. Enduring love, loss, betrayal, and greed, Silas is forced to face his worst fears and realize who he truly is. The only way to predict one's future is to create it.
This accessibly-written book provides lawyers, diplomats, scholars and students the tools to understand the law governing the powers of the UN Security Council, as conceived in the Charter and as they apply and evolve in practice, and explores the powers and limits of the Council within the international legal system.
The year is 2138. The devastation caused by the Obliteration has polluted the planet with nuclear waste. In a new world of blossoming violence, some strive to make peace in their own twisted way. Robbed of his home and innocence, Zachary Grayfield is forced to make a living on a farm in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Every day becomes harder for him to endure when his painful memories of torture and loss are always present to haunt him. When he encounters a drifter named Norman who offers him a chance to sail to California, Zachary seizes the opportunity to finally run away from his past. When Norman invites Zachary and his companions to a pirate museum in Provincetown, the young man decides that a life of fortune and wanderlust is the path he should pursue. With a display ship restored to working order, the crew dub it the "Broadmoor" and make their way south through a treacherous sea ruled by savagery and greed. Whether it's to escape the pain of the past, to make a difference, or to fight the cruelties of the world, the crew of the Broadmoor realize that the seas can be just as unforgiving as they approach an uncertain future.
From the author of the DCI Matilda Darke series and Dr Olivia Winter series, comes a standalone thriller to keep you up all night!
The best person to understand a serial killer is one of his victims.Meet Dr Olivia Winter.The pulse-pounding brand new thriller from the bestselling author of the Matilda Darke series
In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "e;repopulates"e; the German Enlightenment.German literature and thought flourished in the eighteenth century, when a culture considered a European backwater came to assert worldwide significance. This was an age in which repeated attempts to reform German literary and philosophical culture were made - often only to be overtaken within a few decades. It ushered in generations of exceptionally gifted poets and thinkers including Klopstock, Lessing, Goethe, Kant, and Schiller, whose names still dominate our understanding of the German Enlightenment. Yet the period also brought with it new means of accessing and disseminating culture and a rapid increase in cultural production. The leading lights of eighteenth-century German culture operated against the backdrop of a yet more diverse and vivid cast of literary and philosophical figures since consigned to the second tier of German culture. Through essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this collection repopulates the German Enlightenment with these largely forgotten movements, writers, and literary circles. It offers new insights into the development of genres such as thenovel, the fable, and the historical drama, and assesses the dynamics that led to individual authors, circles, and schools of thought being left behind in their time and passed over or inadequately understood to this day.Contributors: Johannes Birgfeld, Stephanie Blum, Julia Bohnengel, Kristin Eichhorn, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Jonathan Blake Fine, J. C. Lees, Leonard von Morze, Ellen Pilsworth, Joanna Raisbeck, Ritchie Robertson, Michael Wood. Michael Wood is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh. Johannes Birgfeld teaches Modern German Literature at the University of the Saarland.
Analyzes not just Muller's texts but also the theatrical events that emerged from them, showing that from the beginning of his career Muller tried to create democracy both within and outside the theater.The East German playwright Heiner Muller (1929-1995) is one of the most influential European dramatists and theater directors since Brecht. While critical literature on Muller often discusses the politics of his works, analysis tends to stop at the level of the text, neglecting the theatrical events that emerge from it and the audiences for which it was written and performed. Situating his study within Muller's interests in democracy and audience activity,Michael Wood addresses these gaps in scholarship, making an original contribution to the understanding of Muller's work as playwright and director. In 1985, Muller spoke of the importance of a "e;democratic"e; theater: one thatconfronts theatergoers with densely contradictory material that they must interpret for themselves, reflecting the complexity of material reality and encouraging them to question their participation in political life. Wood's studyshows that Muller sought to do this in his combined 1988 production of Der Lohndrucker, Der Horatier, and Wolokolamsker Chaussee IV: Kentauren, staged at a time when questions of democracy were at the forefront of East German consciousness. It also demonstrates that from the beginning of his career Muller tried to make theater that would create a form of democracy both within and outside the theater. Michael Wood is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his PhD in 2014.
From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series comes a standalone thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page¿`Dark, twisting and captivating. The very essence of the just-one-more-page thriller¿ Will Carver
A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet and perhaps quarrel, perhaps agree, to go wherever their collaboration leads them, with language itself acting as a conduit.
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans, and King Arthur, the 'once and future king', for whose riddle Wood proposes a new and surprising solution. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England - Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting recent historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain. 'With In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV.' The Times 'Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history and archaeology.' Times Literary Supplement
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982, its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern Colombia's violent history, and helps the reader to explore the rich and complex vision of the world which Garcia Marquez presents in it. Close reference is made to the text itself (in English translation), and there is a guide to further reading.
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'Gory, brutal, devastating, utterly addictive and yet so finely written. This deserves to be huge - and I think it will be. His best yet' Louise BeechThey were the perfect family. It was the perfect crime.The new gripping DCI Matilda Darke crime thriller about the dark secrets that lie within a perfect family. For fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons.It's the most disturbing crime scene DCI Matilda Darke has ever seen... The morning after a wedding reception at a beautiful suburban home in Sheffield, the bride's entire family are stabbed to death - in a frenzied attack more violent than anything DCI Matilda Darke could have imagined. Forensics point to a burglar on the run across the country. But cracks are starting to appear in Matilda's team, someone is playing games with the evidence - and the killer might be closer to home than they thought...Praise for The Murder House:'Matilda Darke is Sheffield's answer to Northumberland's Vera and Wood's stories are up there with the best. Fast-paced, crisp writing and a thoroughly enjoyable read' David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child
'Tense, twisty, emotional and gripping. Will definitely be reading more from Matilda Darke and this gets a huge 5 stars from me!' Angela Marsons 'Matilda Darke is an excellent character' BA Paris
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