The Story of China. A portrait of a civilisation and its people, Paperback - Michael Wood

A single-volume history told in a new way: mingling grand sweep narrative with deep-core, local, personal stories - all woven together with landsca...

The first full history of Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield which also reveals new information about key features of the churchIllustrations: 80 Illus...

Publisher: Signal Books LtdAuthor(s): Barry HattonIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 214 x 141 x 2...

Reducere. DescriptionInternationally renowned photographer Lucian Niemeyer and National Park Service historian Art G mez have combined talents in this stunni...

Reducere. This book remains the definitive history of the deepest of all American gorges.

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Barry StewartIllustration(s): 176 black & white photographs 11 mapsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never for...

Reducere. The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A ...

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Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Barry StewartIllustration(s): 119 PhotographsNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 210 x 2...

Reissue of a wonderfully evocative book that reflects a place and a taste never to be forgotten once sampled: the perfect book to curl up with in f...

A vivid and fascinating account of Worthing's old buildings and the people associated with them, beautifully illustrated with engravings and photog...

With superb illustrations and illuminating text, we are led to the wild side of Mull. Every facet of the Scottish island's natural history is consi...

Reducere. DescriptionExploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and un...

America and Its Rivals provides an objective comparison of the United States, Russia, and China. It provides a solid foundation enabling the reader...

Reducere. While searching for vintage guitars on the internet, Zeke Schein came across what he believed was a photograph of one of the most influential blues...

Reducere. New Iberia was founded by a handful of Spaniards in the spring of 1779. In the more than two hundred years that have elapsed since that event, the ...

Reducere. Crossroads of the continent, Land of Lincoln, hub of commerce--or, as Charles Dickens viewed it, a landscape "oppressive in its barren monotony"--I...

A pictorial history of Mansfield then and now

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the t...

Reducere. U.S. Highway 66 was always different from other roads. During the decades it served American travelers, Route 66 became the subject of a world-famo...

Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contr...

It's a fascinating story that [Palin] brings full-bloodedly to life.' Guardian 'This is an incredible book . Carefully researched and well-crafted,...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.

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In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse have made a case study of one of its most colourful cities, the...

Paperback edition of Wood's mesmerising portrait of the Indian subcontinent, which accompanied his TV series, now with added historical and regiona...

Publisher: Fircone Books LtdAuthor(s): Ralph BeardmoreIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2020Dimen...

Reducere. DescriptionSpanning thirty years of dazzling work--from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from poli...

Reducere. This collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales tran...

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The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James. Retold by Michael Lacey Freeman

Reducere. A new kind of Judaism is emerging in the 21st century.In Israel, the state of the Jewish people, Judaism is undergoing one of its greatest transfor...

Reducere. With great talent and vision and his winning smile, Thomas Muller has emerged as one of the world's most accomplished soccer players of our time. B...

The story of the modest city-state that would become the birthplace of democracy

DescriptionIn Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Sp...

Reducere. Edward "Ed" Schieffelin (1847-1897) was the epitome of the American frontiersman. A former Indian scout, he discovered what would become known as t...

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A true music-lover's journey into the past! Late one night in 2005, Zeke Schein made an amazing discovery while searching for a vintage guitar on e...

Publisher: Portage & Main PressAuthor(s): William DumasIllustration(s): 22 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 48Collection: The Six Seasons of th...

This monograph offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation, a core component of the history of international law, that also show...