One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Paperback - Witold Rybczynski

Reducere. The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked hi...

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with...

The Turn of the Screw is a novella (short novel) written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story. Due to its a...

Henry James's masterpiece, and widely considered to be the greatest ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw remains the apogee of suspensef...

Reducere. " James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot "The economy of horror is carried to its last degree."-Edith Wharton "The mos...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): James HenryNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 9Cover type: Paperback / ...

A World Book Day Quick Read title, this is from the bestselling author of }Ultimate Weapon{ and }The One That Got Away{. Set during the First World...

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 ...

Reducere. A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How ...

Reducere. An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in ...

Reducere. Christopher AwardsIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illumina...

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about poo in this exciting new edition of a bestselling book. Hippos navigate by it, sloths keep in touch ...

Reducere. This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James's classic 1898 short novel, along with documents that place the work in historical c...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

Reducere. Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching al...

DescriptionTracing the development of American cities and city life from early colonial settlements to the familiar downtowns of today, a sweeping ...

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...

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 ...

The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of s...

A new edition of a classic on a beloved turtle species.Publisher: Brandeis University PressAuthor(s): Bob PrescottNumber of pages: 256Publication d...

A captivating history of red hair through the ages, drawing on science, religion, politics, literature and art.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): ...

Reducere. Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels. Dominoe...

Reducere. In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing a...

Reducere. The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss...

"This admirable new and expanded Norton Critical Edition, with its judiciously selected and expertly curated secondary materials, both historical a...

Reducere. An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreb...

An exploration of the world's most important medicinal plants, the compounds they produce and how they benefit the human body. With diagrams, photo...

Level 3. Turn of the Screw - Henry James

Reducere. " James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot "The economy of horror is carried to its last degree."-Edith Wharton "The mos...

Reducere. THE TURN OF THE SCREW, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its original content, the novel...

DescriptionHeaven's Breath, the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biolo...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New Y...

Reducere. The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently domin...

The first book to explore the relationship between cricket and the natural world, from the trees, shrubs and flowers around a cricket ground to the...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Ian TattersallIllustration(s): 73 b-w illus.Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x ...

DescriptionA celebration of beer--its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the ...

Reducere. A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them,...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which J...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robbin C. MoranA Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are uniq...

DescriptionIn 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, traveled to St Kilda to study the island's flora and fauna and to learn abou...

An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshinePublisher: Yale University PressAut...

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 ...

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.Publisher: John Murray Pr...