Light Perpetual, Hardcover - Francis Spufford

Reducere. From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Golden Hill, a mesmerizing and boldly inventive novel tracing the infinite possibilities ...

** From the author of Golden Hill **'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Finan...

The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has be...

Reducere. This lovely read-aloud for ages 3 to 5 takes children on a journey steeped in the magical wonder of the moon and its Creator. A young girl travels ...

Costa-award winning author of Golden Hill returns with a memoir that investigates the consequences of what we read as children, with Spufford revis...

DescriptionAn irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spuff...

Reducere. Twelve-year-old Eli lives in ancient Israel and dreams of being a treasure hunter instead of his uncle's metal-smithing apprentice. Uncle Shem is t...

Reducere. "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." The Times (London)Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppr...

Reducere. In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his fath...

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from Engl...

Offers an account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. This book cont...

Reducere. Description"A storyteller of the first order."--Joshua Ferris "Josh Weil is a spectacular talent."--Lauren Groff Following his debut Dayton Literar...

Reducere. Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic w...

Reducere. Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the ...

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination.

Reducere. "I thought He was with you, and you thought He was with me! Where could He be?"When the Son of Man goes missing, only tiny, fennel-munching Eli the...

Reducere. The year is 1 BC and times are tough when you're a mouse living in a squeaky-clean Jewish temple. But little Mo finds food and a friend when he mee...

Reducere. Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint to redress them. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, t...

This unique book invites readers to explore the mysterious world of time zones. The illustrations on each page depict the same single moment in tim...

A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simon Bolivar and his most passionate disciple,...

Paperback edition of the bestselling history of the Soviet Union, which concentrates on the heady years of the late 1950s, when the Soviet dream ap...

DescriptionThe Tudor Book of Days is a beautifully designed perpetual diary for keeping important dates, events and seasonal notes in a personal da...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman charts the emergenc...

What are your dreams?Dreams are stories you see while asleep...In this book are the dreams of different children - some are flying, or building, pa...

Featured on the Netflix documentary series Chef's Table "Elemental, fundamental, and delicious" is how Anthony Bourdain describes the trailblazing ...

Reducere. Retypeset and including Index, this is the timeless traditional catechism of Truth. Twenty years into the third millennium annis Domini, and most o...

Publisher: Clairview BooksAuthor(s): Gore VidalNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 218 x 138 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. A little boy's attempts to give Jesus a gift teaches him the truth that what he does for others, he does for Jesus. When Ronnie Wilson learns of Je...

Reducere. The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England's most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central ...

DescriptionIn the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized...

Reducere. "A CULT CLASSIC WAITING ON ITS CULT."-William Boyle, author of City of MarginsRecently fired from his job, Dave sets out on a manic, misguided ques...

Miguel Angel Asturias is the first Spanish-American prose writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This study of Asturias's early acade...

Reducere. Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint to redress them. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, t...

A concise, illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape, Stonehenge, from a distinguished Briti...

"The cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through my life as a Christian."--Francis Schaeffer M...

Reducere. Stay organized and keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and important dates all in one place.12-Month blank calendar book for dates to rememberpe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Rosalind E. (Editor, October magazine / Professor, Columbia University) KraussIllustration(s): 47 b 94 Illustrat...

This is a practical guide to the basic principles and applications of light spectroscpoy techniques. Spectrophotometry and spectrofluorometry are t...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmill...

Reducere. The Catechism Explained by Spirago, was meant to fill the gap in Catechisms that explain and deepen the propositions of Catholic doctrine, rather t...

Reducere. A smart city is a framework that aims to develop, deploy and promote sustainable development practices to address the growing challenges of urbaniz...

This alternately hilarious and devastating memoir looks at the impact of abuse and the journey forward from it, presenting along the way the North ...

A decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartlandA decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the...

This complete introduction to plasma physics and controlled fusion by one of the pioneering scientists in this expanding field offers both a simple...