Bøker av Peter Brown

The Wild Robot, a captivating piece by Peter Brown, is a must-read for all. Published in 2018 by Bonnier Books Ltd, this book falls under the genre that will leave you utterly absorbed. The Wild Robot is an enchanting tale that explores the beauty of nature and technology's place within it. Peter Brown, the esteemed author, has intricately woven a narrative that is both heartwarming and thought-provoking. Published by Bonnier Books Ltd, this book is a testament to their commitment to bringing quality literature to readers. Don't miss out on this extraordinary book, The Wild Robot, and experience the magic within its pages.

These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East. Mr. Brown, Professor of History at Princeton University, examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history; how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. 200 A.D. became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam. We still live with the results of these contrasts.

New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry.

When nature and technology collide: meet Roz the robot

Streakers who bare all in Chipwell's worst snowstorm for years; a fictitious legend that comes to life to inspire an up-and-coming pop group, and the village pub which has to shut its doors after the unthinkable happens and it runs out of beer! And if that's not enough, wedding bells are in the air for one of the best-known residents; someone has a close encounter with a flock of sheep and the lads have the sort of night out that they will never forget. Yes, the Boys are back for the third in the series of Chipwell Tales, and this time things are never going to be quite the same again!

Cheers for cheeky Chipwell! A never-to-be-forgotten romp through 1960s Europe with the most ill-equipped and unlikely village football team Britain has ever produced. And it's going to take more than a few ghostly apparitions; an impromptu skinny dipping session on the beach and a nightmare television interview to stop them.

"A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historians. The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the "neglected half-millennium" now known as late antiquity was in fact crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work, describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age. As he and other scholars opened up the history of the classical world in its last centuries to the wider world of Eurasia and northern Africa, they discovered previously overlooked areas of religious and cultural creativity as well as foundational institution-building. A respect for diversity and outreach to the non-European world, relatively recent concerns in other fields, have been a matter of course for decades among the leading scholars of late antiquity.Documenting both his own intellectual development and the emergence of a new and influential field of study, Brown describes his childhood and education in Ireland, his university and academic training in England, and his extensive travels, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. He discusses fruitful interactions with the work of scholars and colleagues that include the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the French theorist Michel Foucault, and offers fascinating snapshots of such far-flung places as colonial Sudan, midcentury Oxford, and prerevolutionary Iran. With Journeys of the Mind, Brown offers an essential account of the "grand endeavor" to reimagine a decisive historical moment"--

Kan en robot overleve i villmarken? Tidløs og nydelig barnebok for lesere i alle aldre. Da roboten Roz åpner øynene for første gang, oppdager hun at hun er helt alene på en øde øy. Hun har ingen anelse om hvordan hun kom seg dit eller hva hun skal gjøre, men vet at det er viktig å overleve. Etter å ha kjempet seg gjennom en fryktelig storm og unnslippet farlige bjørner, skjønner Roz at hun må tilpasse seg omgivelsene og lære av øyas lite gjestmilde dyr og landskap. Litt etter litt blir Roz venner med dyra og øya begynner å føles som et hjem, helt til robotens fortid innhenter henne. En hjertevarm og spennende barnebok om hva som skjer når natur og teknologi møtes.

Den ville roboten vil tilbake til øya! Roboten Roz klarte seg fint på øya, sammen med dyrene. Men nå må hun prøve å tilpasse seg mennesker og deres rare adferd. Men aller helst vil hun tilbake til vennene sine på øya. Klarer hun å finne veien hjem? Den ville roboten rømmer er oppfølgeren til den magiske og tidløse Den ville roboten. En barnebok som gleder lesere i alle aldre.

A preeminent classical scholar on the emergence of one of our most familiar social divisions.

An exuberant new picture book from NYT bestselling author Peter Brown, inspired by his own childhood. Fred loves to be naked! He romps around his house naked and wild and free. Until he romps into his parents' bedroom and is inspired, finally, to get dressed. But there's so much in the wardrobe! What will Fred choose?

Bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown's companion book to Children Make Terrible Pets.

In this beautifully illustrated environmental story by Peter Brown, a young boy tends to a meagre garden which blossoms and spreads across the city.

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how personal wealth in the pursuit of redemption led Church doctrine concerning the afterlife to evolve from speculation to firm reality. This new relationship to money set the stage for the Church's domination of medieval society.

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence's first play and shows him as already a master dramatist. It contains much plotting and counter-plotting, two boys in danger of losing the girls they love, and a girl searching for her family. This is the first detailed commentary on the play for nearly sixty years.

Monsters - and teachers - are not always what they seem!

This beautifully illustrated and brilliantly funny book from award-winning artist Peter Brown shows that there's a time and place for everything ... even going wild.

Provides compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. This title offers ten readings that refer to contemporary social issues such as religious belief, work and family, social class, food production, relationships, consumerism, the effects of climate change on culture, and globalization.

Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women.

The main aim of this text is to advance a method devised through experience of teaching Chaucer's poetry over many years. The method is explained in the introduction, and its underlying objective is a shared experience of reading, and of trying to understand the "Canterbury Tales".

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 well as the Canterbury Tales. Reading Chaucer is divided into three sections, on Borderlands, Interiors and After-Images. The essays are representative of methods and approaches to Chaucer that are central to current scholarship: textual criticism, interdisciplinarity, manuscript study, cultural context, iconography, close reading and historicism. The book provides a coherent and authoritative introduction to some of the key frameworks - literary, political, social, scientific, aesthetic and religious - within which Chaucer's works are now read, while covering the full range of his writings and the defining genres of his creative moment, including the chronicle, romance, fabliau and petition.