The First Bohemians. Life and Art in London's Golden Age, Paperback - Vic Gatrell

In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteen...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Florian KlingerIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Sunshine on Putty. The Golden Age of British Comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office - Ben Thompson

An account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to ...

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Islamic Golden Age, including Baghdad around AD900. Supported by timelines,...

Reducere. Think you know everything about Pirates? Fascination with Pirates has for centuries driven stories of heroic proportions--true, exaggerated, and im...

The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This book tells this ...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

Reducere. DescriptionThink you know everything about Pirates? Fascination with Pirates has for centuries driven stories of heroic proportions--true, exaggera...

A fascinating auto-biography of the life of George Stevens Jr. and his life on movie sets.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Geo...

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Islamic Golden Age, including Baghdad around AD900. Supported by timelines,...

DescriptionJan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy...

Reducere. The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taois...

Reducere. The hedge fund industry is a boys' club, with hardly any female success stories to turn to. Damsel in Distressed is one of those rare, humorous, an...

Reducere. The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, ...

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a...

Reducere. "I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as somethin...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life Michael Kimmelman, the pro...

PIRATES AND THEIR TREASURE IN NEW ENGLAND AND ON CAPE COD. Who were they and why were they here? The Golden Age on Cape Cod in New England was betw...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glide over the ...

Liners--The Golden Age chronicles the great era of ocean liner travel from the close of the nineteenth century to the launch of the QE2 and beyond

The silver screen in the golden age - Christopher Landry

DescriptionThis volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination o...

Advances in technology are often accompanied by a flowering of creative expression, and the turn of the twentieth century witnessed exactly such un...

Reducere. "'Reggae got soul, ' Toots Hibbert sang in one of his best-known songs, andKim Gottlieb-Walker's remarkable photographs coax that soul out of shado...

In this book Saint Germain explains that his actual vision for what is possible in his Golden Age is so far beyond what we see manifest today that ...

Reducere. Description3 More Reps showcases the golden age of Bodybuilding, and it's superstars. It is more than a training book. It is a collector coffee tab...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Jasmin DarznikNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 204 x 26Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. "Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make...

This book investigates the cultural and political conflicts that translation brought into the new Abbasid state from a sociological perspective, tr...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glid...

Reducere. DescriptionDagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that r...

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations re...

A long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel 4

Reducere. DescriptionPart religious study and part scientific study The Age of Aquarius: The Golden Age of Mankind is a fascinating insight into religion, sc...

Publisher: Double Dragon PublishingAuthor(s): Marilyn PeakeNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 9Cover type: Paperback...

A mother struggles to protect her children as Bangladesh fights for independence; winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the...

A vivid account of the men and women who revealed the treasures of Ancient Egypt to the world, from the first decipherment of hieroglyphics to the ...

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. The modern obsession with celebrity began with the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blood...

A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction....

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped i...

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early mo...

The final novel in the }Last Hundred Years Trilogy{ from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. }Golden Age{ sees a magnificent conclusion to the centur...

The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy.