In Paradise Lost (1667), Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man. In this wide-ranging study, William Poole presents a comprehensive analysis of the origin, evolution, and contemporary discussion of the Fall, and the way seventeenth-century author[...]
An 1877 biographical sketch of the great orientalist remembered for his Arabic-English Lexicon and translation of One Thousand and One Nights.[...]
This book will not please those who have totally bought into the idea that wars are won and casualties limited through technology, nor those who think the victor's version of history is always correct. But, all U.S. security personnel should still read it. Possibly the best treatise on Oriental warf[...]