Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, a

Reducere. This evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes the most vivid portrait of the period yet writ...

Reducere. A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBerlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest...

Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2...

Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as h...

Reducere. Mother Teresa's life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an "Angel of the ...

Reducere. The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin.Franz Hessel (1880-1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Ber...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIBSYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals it...

The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Maggie FordNumber of pages: 288Collection: The Lett Family SagasPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 21Cover t...

Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Us...

- The disastrous consequences of rising sea levels in six regions around the world are captured in photographs that are both beautiful and disturbi...

Reducere. In all of North America there is no more perfect intersection of climate, culture, and colorful history than San Francisco - the culmination of Man...

Reducere. The City of Angels? No burg this side of the Pearly Gates could live up to such a moniker, and L.A. isn't even trying. You won't see many inhabitan...

Offering the first comparative study of 1920s' US and Canadian print cultures, 'Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s'...

Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colourful career, changing his style and ev...

A stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine ...

A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery AllinghamPublisher: Icon BooksAut...

Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told ...

Reducere. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

A true Cold War espionage thriller set in the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British officer George Blake must run a high-stakes double cross t...

Reducere. The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African...

Reducere. The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African...

A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . 'Art, my dear boy, ' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock o...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

Reducere. A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our o...

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.Publisher: Head of ZeusA...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amanda Leigh StockGet your portrait or wedding photography business started or totally revitalized and start earning a real...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lerone BennettAuthor: Lerone Bennett Jr.The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lerone BennettThe black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this ...

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

Reducere. In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful stre...

Reducere. Paris, 1920s. Tatiana Vytenis has worked hard to leave her past behind. Once a ruined Russian princess in hiding, she is now a sought-after model a...

Reducere. Here is a Christian allegorical story that treats of superlatives. The richest man in the world, with the most varied and treasured art collection ...

Reducere. Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s ...

Reducere. DescriptionBirdville School opened in 1922 on the corner of two dirt roads at the edge of a fallow farm. Over the next 67 years it witnessed, and i...

Reducere. A stunning visual exploration of Canada's most recognized building accompanied by a comprehensive study of its history, in a coffee-table worthy vo...

Reducere. This is a truly original novel that has earned its place among my favorite works of historical fiction.--Jennifer Robson, USA Today bestselling aut...

Reducere. Between 1976 and 1993 Nancy Warren visited the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico numerous times. She was permitted to photograph ...

DescriptionBERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a ...

Reducere. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A K nstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intelle...

* An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of growing up in the Forest of Dean in the 1920s and 1930s

Reducere. Even celebrities die--and he was the man who picked up the bodies Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Ho...