Fashion history from 18th 20th century

From full skirts to miniskirts and morning coats to leisure suits, men's and women's clothing design evolved so rapidly that it was all one could d...

An edition combining all seven books in John Peacock's "Fashion Sourcebooks" series, which charts in meticulous drawings the development of women's...

DescriptionFashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to ye...

Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are...

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.Author(s): Rosemary TorreIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 176Collection: Dover Fashion...

Reducere. An exhaustive survey of the history of disability in a single volume. An eye-opening look into how various cultures have conceived of the concept o...

Working from surviving garments and contemporary tailoring books and patterns, Anne Tyrrell has put together a pattern book of key 20th-century cos...

DescriptionSatirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hij...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Penny PritchardNumber of pages: 384Collection: York Notes CompanionsPublication date: 2010Dimensions...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

* A classic history of Britons' experiences of India in the last days of the Raj.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Charles AllenIllustr...

Features the most significant submarines ever built, with each entry including a description of the submarine's development and history, a colour p...

This is a collection of church registers and pastoral records of births, marriages and deaths in Cumberland County of the eighteenth century. Exist...

DescriptionRichard Nottingham discovers that a new, more ruthless breed of criminal has colonised the city when he returns as Constable of Leeds. O...

Reducere. Ann Arbor began the 20th century as a modest manufacturing and farm trading center with a small co-existing university community. By the end of the...

Reducere. Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortion...

Publisher: MarsilioIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 208 x 277 x 32Cover type: Hardb...

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and ...

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today.Publi...

Reducere. In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Be...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Geoffrey BlaineyGeoffrey Blainey's Short History of the World, published by Ivan R. Dee in 2002, rapidly became a book of c...

Reducere. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind ...

Reducere. From Czernowitz to China and Beyond is the personal account of an extraordinary woman born of Jewish parents in 1890 in Czernowitz, then a part of ...

A detailed examination of the English glass industry with an emphasis on the archaeological evidence.

This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and...

Reducere. It's a book that looks like a magazine [...] and full of detail to die for - Crawford Gribben, New Books Network From one of the world's leading hi...

Reducere. "if your vessell houlde Ten Gallons put in a Bout 5 Races of Ginger the out sides Paired a Way 2 Nuttmege and a Grote worth of Cinnamon A little ma...

Reducere. Alfred Rosenberg was one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter. Originally published in ...

In his day, he was more successful and popular than his fellow German, contemporary and friend, J.S. Bach.He had studied law, but during his long m...

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was c...

Reducere. Widely regarded as the second most-important book to come out of National Socialist Germany (after Mein Kampf), Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the ...

Reducere. Widely regarded as the second most-important book to come out of National Socialist Germany (after Mein Kampf), Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the ...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Kenneth GoldsmithNumber of pa...

A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competiti...

Reducere. For decades, downtown Grand Rapids enjoyed a long run in the limelight as the epicenter of shopping in western Michigan. The vibrant Monroe Avenue ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, howeve...

Orthodox Theology in the 20th century and early 21st century

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. The story of the historic Greenwood District is a bittersweet one that speaks of triumph but was interrupted by tragedy, leaving one wondering, "wh...

Publisher: Pearson Education (US)Author(s): Stephanie HallockNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 253 x 207 x 7Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art provides a broad synthesis of the subject through short chapters illustrated with reproductions of iconic...

"Dazzling. . . . Polzine] brings a fresh approach and singular panache. . . . Her clear voice and precise, idiosyncratic instructions will allow ho...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

During this period, Renoir was initially looking at painters such as Rubens, Titian and Raphael, and dedicating himself to cheery subjects such as ...

This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection's rich diversity; from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage, all of the major mo...