The Golden Age

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

TracklistingBerwald: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Alkan: Concerto da Camera No. 2 - Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato1. Piano Concerto No. ...

The silver screen in the golden age - Christopher Landry

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

Strange Days Indeed. The Golden Age of Paranoia - Francis Wheen

Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age - Jonathan Bardill

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Publisher: Roaring Brook PressAuthor(s): Cyril PedrosaIllustration(s): full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 192Collection: The Golde...

Publisher: Harvard Business Review PressAuthor(s): Susan Wilner GoldenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 243 x 27Cover typ...

In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World's Fair of 1933, as well as the...

Medieval knights, their origins, status, training, military exploits and adventures, sumptuously illustrated throughout.Publisher: Anness Publishin...

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including J...

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Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

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Most horror film fans are familiar with the classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks - all of which have been celebrat...

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...

A vision of Spanish culture and society during the Golden Age, 1500-1700.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Jeremy RobbinsIllustration(s): 70 illu...

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

Reducere. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain a...

Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): David L. WilliamsIllustration(s): 160 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 120Publication date...

Reducere. Get to know the scientific advancements and inventions created during the Islamic Golden Age. Inculcate historic awareness deep in your child's con...

Beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Publisher: Little, Brown...

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...

Reducere. In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experience...

Publisher: Idea & Design WorksAuthor(s): Gabriel RodriguezNumber of pages: 264Collection: Locke & KeyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 266 x 230 x ...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Gore VidalNumber of pages: 480Collection: Vintage InternationalPublication date: 2001Dimensions: 132 x 20...

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"A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: a world history is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive t...

Reducere. The music world exploded into Technicolor on February 9, 1964, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and ignited the music phenomenon d...

Reducere. Of all the giants of golf's Golden Age, Bobby Jones was the most revered. His intelligence, modesty, eloquence, and charm--and the fact he remained...

Reducere. The music world exploded into Technicolor on February 9, 1964, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and ignited the music phenomenon d...

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

Reducere. A memoir that represents the lifelong journey - both personal and professional - of legendary actress Janis Paige. It's a deeply personal work, fil...

"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

The enthralling true story of the curious life and career of Maud West, one of Britain's first and best-known female detectives.

Kenneth Grahame captured the imagination of the English speaking world with his books in the early 1900s. Later "The Wind in the Willows" and "The ...

Reducere. Scott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up ...

Reducere. Scott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up ...

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

'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for...

A case from Lord Peter Wimsey's past returns, in a dazzling novel from Jill Paton Walsh.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Jill Paton WalshNum...

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large f...

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 ...

A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a traditio...

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...

Explores the history of the famous cathedral as part of the School of Chartres through its great teachers Fulbertus, Bernadus Silvestris, John of S...

Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age presents the finest pieces from one of the most important private collections in the field, The Leiden ...

Reducere. Regarded by his contemporaries as one of television's premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s an...

Quite simply, Go to the Games with Humble: Kern Tips and the Golden Age of SWC radio is a one-of-a-kind book. For the first time, the history of th...

Reducere. Prepare yourself for macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from fa...

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

An insider's story of creativity and innovation at Apple under Steve Jobs. Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed a...

Volume 1: with Don Cameron, Joe Greene, Joe Samachson, Alvin Schwartz and France Herron, writers; with Cliff Young, Maurice Del Bourgo, Bernard Kle...

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult....

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...

DescriptionShazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn't long...

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

Reducere. DescriptionMurder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a "peaceful littl...

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Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.Publisher: Amber...

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

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Reducere. A revelatory history of Antwerp--from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury--by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of...