The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
9 best books like The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin (Bernard Meehan): Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Death in Holy Orders, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, Libraries in the Ancient World, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, Immortal Hulk, Volume 2: The Green Door, Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0345446666 |
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A number of traditions come seamlessly together in P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders, another of her acclaimed mysteries featuring Scotland Yard's Commander Adam Dalgliesh. Included among those traditions are the Golden Age detective story, the police procedural,...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0099461099 |
It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target...
| Author | Lionel Casson |
| ISBN | 0300097212 |
This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when “books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the most ancient Near East, through the private and public...
| Author | Stuart Kelly |
| ISBN | 1400062977 |
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...
| Author | Christopher de Hamel |
| ISBN | 0714834521 |
Medieval manuscripts are counted among the greatest glories of Western civilization. With their gold and painted decoration and their charming miniatures, they have always had immense appeal, and images from them can be seen everywhere - from greeting cards and wrapping paper to expensive facsimiles....
Immortal Hulk, Volume 2: The Green Door
| Author | Al Ewing |
| ISBN | 1302912569 |
As Bruce Banner struggles to control the undying monster within, he finds himself hunted by his old friends and allies. To what lengths will the Avengers go to stop a monster of their own making? And the mysterious scientists of Shadow Base have their own plans for Banner, though they may just find horror...
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0767908376 |
Michael Servetus is one of those hidden figureheads of history who is remembered not for his name, but for the revolutionary deeds that stand in his place. Both a scientist and a freethinking theologian, Servetus is credited with the discovery of pulmonary circulation in the human body as well as the...
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
| Author | Christopher de Hamel |
| ISBN | 0241003040 |
This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting...
