¿La soledad es una epidemia de nuestra época? ¿Cuándo y de qué manera comenzó el deseo de desconectarse del mundo? ¿Vivir en la era digital amplía nuestra sociabilidad o nos deja cada vez más solos? La soledad siempre ha tenido un carácter controvertido, entre la capacidad de disfrutar de estar solo y la sospecha y el rechazo que produce la predisposición a estar apartado.A partir de una gran variedad de fuentes históricas y literarias, David Vincent analiza cómo se han comp...

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity.Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted themselves in the absence of company over the last three centuries. He argues that the ambivalent nature of solitude became a prominent concern in the modern era. For intellectuals in the roma...

Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the revelations of Edward Snowden.Deploying a range of vivid primary material, he discus...

The Fatal Breath is the first full-scale history of the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain. Deploying a rich archive of personal testimonies together with a wide range of research reports and official data, it presents a moving and challenging account of the crisis that enveloped Britain (and the world) in the spring of 2020.With sensitivity, care, and an historian’s critical eye, David Vincent places the pandemic in context. While much contemporary commentary has assumed people...

The home run has changed the game of baseball, moving it into a sport where might makes right and fans clamor for the clout. Home Runs Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Monumental Dingers, Prodigious Swingers, and Everything Long-Ball celebrates all there is about the home run, from the folks that hit it, the guys that serve it up, and even the voices proclaiming, Its outta here!David Vincent, called The Sultan of Swat Stats by ESPN, brings it all to you in this fact-filled ...

The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win into a nail-biter. Homers are majestic, powerful, and awe inspiring. And sluggers are the sport's biggest stars, from the days of Babe Ruth through Barry Bonds.David Vincent, called The Sultan of Swat Stats by ESPN, delves into the long history of the home run with great detail and color. He starts when the rules of the game were highly...

First published in 1981, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom is a study of 142 working class autobiographies all of which cover some part of the period between 1790 and 1850. It is a full-scale examination of a form of source material that is significantly extensive. The book illustrates many aspects of ordinary working-class family life as well as the working-class pursuit of knowledge and literacy and the attempts of the middle-class educators to impose their notion of ‘useful knowledg...

'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not...

The year 1917 finds Russia in complete chaos as the long anticipated winds of revolution finally sweep across the country. The Tsar, Nicholas II, has been forced to abdicate and he and his family have been sent into exile in Siberia. Meanwhile, throughout Russia numerous plans are being formulated to free the Romanovs from their captivity. One of these plans comes to involve Natalya Karakova, once a leading light in Russian high society. But now, she and her husband, Constantine, find them...

Lord Bainbridge is a love story, but a love story of a different kind. Lord Jeremy Bainbridge is a young Englishman of the upper class. He is also a homosexual in a time when society demanded harsh penalties for those who dared to indulge in the love story that dare not speak its name. But Jeremy Bainbridge is determined to live the life he has been dealt. He finds himself on board the Titanic on her fateful maiden voyage. There, he meets and falls in love with a young Irishman, Tom Kenned...

While this is a work of fiction, it is based on actual events that took place during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. Therefore, some of the characters in this book are based on historical figures that took part in these events. Other characters are entirely fictitious and are not meant to resemble anyone known or unknown to the author.

簡介一般學者認為古代教父奧古斯丁不談神化教義，神化教義是屬東方（東正教）的神學。但本書作者獨排眾議，認為奧古斯丁的神學隱含神化教義，且是他重要的神學思想。作者以五章談奧古斯丁的神學如何呈現神化的思想。第一章談三一神，強調三一神聖位格的共享並不抹殺彼此，反而實化另一方，這樣，奥古斯丁以類比的方式表明所有受造物是轉向神的。第二章談人論與罪，說明在良善的受造物中，人恰好是神獨一的形像；只有亞當和夏娃的被造無條件地像其創造主。人的罪的基礎是，有「像神」的渴望卻又驕傲地拒絕有分於神。第三章討論救恩論。藉著子降下成為人，人才能從這虛假神化得蒙拯救。神的兒子成為人，使人能成為同一位天父的兒女，成為其他「諸神」，有分於神的性情。第四章探討成聖。聖靈帶人進入這新生命，憑藉祂聯合的內住，藉著分賜祂自己的聖別而在基督裡救贖罪人。聖靈實現一種真正的變化，提升人脫離罪而更新人的所是。第五章談教會論與聖禮。類似於子的身體在祂成肉身時成為可見並具體的，教會也成為一個可感知體：...