Making of the English Landscape, Paperback - W. G. Hoskins

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential historians of the 20th century. He realized that landscapes are the richest record we hav...

Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...

An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and...

Reducere. "South Riding" is a 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously. Set in fictional South Riding in Yorkshire, England, it revolves around ...

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The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consulta...

The fascinating story of how we and our ancestors have created the British landscape. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, lavishly illustrated wi...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion an...

In this final collection of essays by the late W.G. Sebald, we are given a powerful insight into the development of the themes that came to dominat...

Translation of the prose poem that delves into three different lives. Sebald's novel, }Austerlitz{ has sold over 70, 000 copies to date. "Graceful,...

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Reducere. DescriptionFor Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point fr...

Reducere. In the fall of 1931, Charles "Lucky" Luciano calls the most powerful gangsters to a hotel in Chicago for a meeting that will soon change the way th...

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Reducere. Austerlitz, Paperback

In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This t...

Reducere. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside...

The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the...

Reducere. On June 6, 1996, a mother named Darlie Routier did the unthinkable: she murdered her two sons, Damon aged 5, and Devon just one week shy of his 7th...

Challenges the argument that the English Pale was contracting during the early Tudor period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Professor Ste...

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Reducere. "A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative autho...

DescriptionA world-renowned, founding figure in analytical psychology, and one of the twentieth century's most vibrant thinkers, C.G. Jung imbued a...

Reducere. Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the definitive work on the Battle of Antietam. The Civil...

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson's monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectu...

Reducere. Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone indi...

Reducere. The Rings of Saturn--with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cro...

DescriptionThis illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and ...

Reducere. From its early stories of gods, monsters, and mischievous mythical creatures to its more grounded recountings of historical events, this classic co...

Reducere. Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesqu...

How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but...

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael G. MaloufIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

This vintage book contains a comprehensive textbook for clothing designers, teachers of clothing technology, and senior students. With detailed dia...

Reducere. The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow c...