Author: John D. Niles
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: illustrated, beowulf
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-11-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393330109
ISBN-13: 9780393330106

More than one hundred glorious images, many of objects dating from the time of the story, enhance Seamus Heaney’s masterful best-selling translation. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother. Drawn to its immense emotional credibility, Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality for the reader. But how to visualize the poet’s story has always been a challe

Authors:Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: library, modernist, french, handbook, beowulf
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 1997-02-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0803212372
ISBN-13: 9780803212374

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, A Beowulf Handbook will be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own resea

Authors:Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: handbook, beowulf
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0803261500
ISBN-13: 9780803261501

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, A Beowulf Handbook will be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own resea

Authors:R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, John D Niles,
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: fourth, beowulf, klaebers
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2008-04-05
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0802095674
ISBN-13: 9780802095671

Frederick Klaeber?s Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared with the aim of updating the scholarship while preserving the aspects of Klaeber?s work that have made it useful to students of literature, linguists, historians, folklorists, manuscript specialists, archaeologi

Author: Bo Niles
Publisher: Capital Books
Keywords: easy, made, planning, parties
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1892123967
ISBN-13: 9781892123961

From invitations to decorations – everything you need to know about throwing a great party from a former editor of This Old House and Country Living. * Easy-to-read step-by-step book about the elements of a great party and how to put them all together. * Author is a former senior editor of This Old House and former editor of Country Living * Praise for Bo Niles’ White By Design "…one of the most enchanting design books ever published. It is the perfect world Ms. Niles is after and captures so skillfully in her book." House Beautiful, Good Reading In What Goes With What for Partie

Author: Niles Eldredge
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: evolution, vol, ecology, biodiversity, earth, encyclopedia, life
Number of Pages: 793
Published: 2002-12-13
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 157607286X
ISBN-13: 9781576072868

Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution tackles the critical issue for humanity in the 21st century—our ever more menacing impact on the environment. This two-volume, illustrated set, edited by American Museum of Natural History curator Niles Eldredge, begins with biodiversity, the complex planetary web of life that has emerged through three billion years of evolution. How does it work? And why is its continued health critical to the planet and to ourselves?More than 50 top scholars examine every form of life from amoebae to elephants, from plankton to whales.

Author: Niles Eldredge
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: dominion
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1997-05-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520208455
ISBN-13: 9780520208452

Overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, hunting of nonhuman species to extinction: paleontologist Niles Eldredge questions the long term survival of humans, given our propensity for living beyond our ecological means. In Dominion he reviews the relation between biological and cultural evolution, showing how the agricultural revolution freed humans from dependence on local ecosystems and allowed us to assert our dominion, as the Christian Bible has it, over the beasts of the field. Unless we quickly change our homocentric ways, we’ll irretrievably destr