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25 de mai. de 2024 · In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book.
Há 15 horas · Adam Nicolson, How To Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change.
29 de mai. de 2024 · "Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious."--James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek--and our--consciousness ...
9 de mai. de 2024 · Similarly, Adam Nicolson writes optimistically in Regeneration: The Story of the Dome, “The Dome, and everything around it, the spreading skirts of its National Programme, was to be, in other words, a lamp held up for the future, a beacon of hope” (Nicolson, 1999: 252).
29 de mai. de 2024 · Celebrating Diversity in the Deep Sea. May 29, 2024. “The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes.”. ― Adam Nicolson. Our global oceans are a massive resource; from maintaining global temperatures and weather patterns to providing critical food and mineral resources, we simply could not live without them.
16 de mai. de 2024 · O pequeno ribeiro talhado em cré tornara-se demasiado profundo devido às dragagens e estava turvo com os sedimentos, até Simon restaurar o seu leito de cascalho e ressuscitar a sua ecologia. Adam Nicolson. O cascalho aos nossos pés apresenta-se pintado pela luz do Sol que atinge o leito do ribeiro.
Há 2 dias · In Anger Management (2003), he played an aggressive therapist assigned to help an overly pacifist man (Adam Sandler). In 2003, Nicholson also starred in the Nancy Meyers directed romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give playing an aging playboy who falls for the mother (Diane Keaton) of his young girlfriend.
