The Rare and the Beautiful. The Lives of the Garmans, Paperback - Cressida Connolly

The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Publisher: HarperCollins Pu...

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 ...

I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...'It is the summer of 1938...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rebecca ConnollySpinster is as spinster does... Georgiana Allen is a spinster and everybody knows it. She also happens to b...

DescriptionThe world's most gorgeous and unusual chess sets, spanning hundreds of years and five continentsChess, one of the world's most popular g...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most important books in American History Who were the bold and courageous men that risked their lives for the glory of Americ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1994, Jack Carneal had a loose collection of friends--including Ned Oldham--who liked to get together and play some tunes now and the...

Reducere. Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. I...

Reducere. The Lives of the Virgins 2015 was written in part about the visit of the poet to Italy, Greece, and his fictitious environment in Southern New Jersey.

Reducere. All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros.In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book,...

A biographical survey of the principal Surrealists by one of the last surviving members of the movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morr...

PJ is a special kitten with unique gifts all his own. His lovable siblings, Mischka and Pickles, admire their brother's talents and discover a surp...

This ground-breaking new book reveals the powerful ancient memory technique that solves the mystery behind monuments like Stonehenge, which have fo...

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMESPub...

A bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Spike BucklowIllustration(s): 28 illustrations, 21 in co...

Today, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call "grandfamilies"--households in which children are being rais...

Publisher: Red Wheel/WeiserAuthor(s): Cressida (Cressida Stone) StoneNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 26Cover type...

Reducere. Outrageously funny story-telling from the nation's favourite comedian. Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the 'Best of Billy Connolly'. 'On...

Reducere. This book of the life of the saints, written and illustrated by Maria Athanasiou, is a labor of love. It will help each of us keep the purpose of o...

As Paul approached the cottage for the first time since boyhood he half expected to be disappointed. All through his schooldays Paul had been attra...

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES

Reducere. An informative and funny deconstruction of how the giants of American capitalism shape our world In Billionaires, Darryl Cunningham offers an illum...

From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann s...

The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple - Jean M. Evans

Reducere. In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Marga...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Cressida ConnollyNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 223 x 33Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, st...

Reducere. From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijac...

A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries...

A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress - glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating - from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries...

Reducere. Who were the Apostles really? What happened to them after the end of the Gospel story? You'll be surprised by the wealth of detail Ruffin has dug u...

DescriptionFrom the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poo...

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Lives of the Twelve is a pioneering work that details the lives of the Twelve Shia Imams. While most works on the Twelve Imams focus...

From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives ...

Reducere. Markham's memoir, West with the Night, was rediscovered in 1983 and became an instant bestseller, though shadowed by rumors that Markham was not th...

Male PGAD is a rare and debilitating pelvic disorder that impacts as many as one million men in the U.S. Known as persistent genital arousal disord...

Reducere. Eyewitness accounts of the lives and teachings of the fourth-century Desert Fathers from the Historia monachorum in Aegypto.

Through a raucous tour of Instagram's fisherwomen, The Instagram Archipelago proposes a radical new ethics of gender and race.Publisher: John Hunt ...

National treasure Billy Connolly is our personal guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the ArcticPub...

Reducere. With the fate of the world at stake, Syl and Paul battle the sinister forces of the Nairene Sisterhood in this second thrilling Chronicles of the I...

The Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard...

William E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our at...

The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. This book analyzes the transformational leaders...