The latest book from a bestselling illustrator and Caldecott Honoree, featuring a very proper tiger who just wants to get a little wild. Bored with city life and the proper behavior it requires, Mr. Tiger has a wild idea that leads him...

"Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity" von Peter Brown untersucht die Rolle des Heiligen und des Übernatürlichen in der spätantiken Gesellschaft. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die verschiedene Aspekte dieser Thematik...

"Der neugierige Garten" von Nils Aulike ist eine charmante, bildhafte Geschichte über einen kleinen Garten in der Stadt, der sich danach sehnt, mehr von der Welt zu sehen. Der Garten beginnt zu wachsen und zu erkunden, klettert die...

Der Schatz im Himmel: Der Aufstieg des Christentums und der Untergang des römischen Weltreichs

'An engaging tale that explores many important themes. We can only hope that Roz serves as the template for all future robots. Peter Brown's illustrations are as marvellous as ever!' Coralie Bickford-Smith, author of THE FOX AND THE STAR...

The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter BrownRoz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home, befriend...

Peter Brown, the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity, examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all...

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. von Brown, Peter

Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. They deal with different kinds of locations (islands,...

This volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as...

The author links Chaucer's writings with the medieval optical tradition in its various forms (scholastic texts, encyclopedias, exempla, vernacular poetry) both in general cultural terms and through the discussion of specific examples. He...

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and...