The Times Complete History of the World
7 best books like The Times Complete History of the World (Richard Overy): Aesop's Fables, The First Forty-Nine Stories, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity, Henry: Virtuous Prince, A History of Narrative Film, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated, Cinematic Storytelling
| Author | Aesop |
| ISBN | 0192840509 |
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620-560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic animals. Many stories included in Aesop's...
The First Forty-Nine Stories
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0099339218 |
From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and...
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
| Author | Ryan Holiday |
| ISBN | 0735211736 |
A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Modern readers praise Stoic philosophy for its unique blend of practicality and wisdom. But it's admittedly hard for the average reader to decipher the Dover Thrift edition of Marcus...
| Author | David Starkey |
| ISBN | 0007247710 |
The highly-anticipated biography of Henry VIII's early life. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne, 'Henry: Virtuous Prince' is a radical re-evaluation of the monarchy's most enduring icon. Henry VIII was Britain's most powerful monarch, yet he was...
| Author | David A. Cook |
| ISBN | 0393978680 |
رغم أني أعطيته النجوم الخمس ...إلا أنني لا أظن أن الجميع سيستمتع به بقدر استمتاعي ...
ببساطه الكتاب يحكي عن السينما منذ بدايتها...منذ أول شريط سينمائي عرض...
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
| Author | David Thomson |
| ISBN | 0375709401 |
For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece”...
The book title sums up this book perfectly. As much as I thought it was a "good book", the examples given were not ones I enjoyed reading and seeing pictures of. Now I know (in detail) how parts of Pulp Fiction and Psycho were carefully crafted to help the audience feel intensity and terror. The book was written...
