The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London, Hardcover - Simon Jenkins

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...

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Thames in Transition -the changing nature of the Docks and the ships that served them in the 1970s-1980sHow and why the Docks adapted to changed ca...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Diana Hollingsworth GesslerA travel guide with character, this fact-filled keepsake offers all the history, beauty, charm, ...

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

Reducere. In April 1884, Ben Wallace, the owner of the local livery, opened the season of his new circus in Peru and billed it as Wallace and Company's Great...

DescriptionFor more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the Ci...

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Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

This work does not necessarily prove or disprove anything. It is an exposition of the current body of more or less accepted thinking on the subject...

Beastly London explores the complex and changing relationship between Londoners of all classes and their animal neighbours: from a mainly exploitat...

Reducere. (Limelight). A Chorus Line, the biggest Broadway hit of its generation, is returning to Times Square in a major fall 2006 revival. The show is base...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdIllustration(s): 450 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 504Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 260 x 296 x 52Co...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

DescriptionHow the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation o...

Reducere. During the Gilded Age, Dupont Circle was Washington's undisputed center of wealth, power and status. Over twenty years, it evolved from small farms...

Publisher: Capital Transport PublishingAuthor(s): Cyril M. HarrisIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 84Publication date: 2001Dimensions:...

The definitive visual history of the world under Covid-19, documented by the photographers of Agence France Presse.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAu...

The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones are just as much a part of Lond...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure'...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins.

An innovative illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe.Publisher: Thames & Hudson ...

Reducere. Journey through the history of the world, one day at a time!If you ever wondered what happened on your birthday 100 years ago, or on Christmas in t...

Reducere. Khaldoun Fansa is an Aleppo native who was displaced by the Syrian Civil War. For many years he worked as an architect who managed restoration of A...

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "So the church has been made a spec...

It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions...

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning s...

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 ...

As Germany marks the thirtieth anniversary of its unification since the end of the Cold War, international bestselling-author Barney White-Spunner ...

As Germany marks the thirtieth anniversary of its unification since the end of the Cold War, international bestselling-author Barney White-Spunner ...

As Germany marks the thirtieth anniversary of its unification since the end of the Cold War, international bestselling-author Barney White-Spunner ...