Bodleian Library Forlag
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Divination, Oracles & Omens (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A spellbinding collection of twenty-four divinatory techniques from around the world exploring our need to appeal to powers beyond our realm for prediction and clarification.
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Book Curses (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Featuring some of the most ferocious and humorous book curses ever inscribed, this is a lively and engaging introduction to the history and development of bookish maledictions.
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Beautiful Shells (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A treasure trove of natural beauty from our oceans and shores, George Perry's stunning illustrations of shells from his largely forgotten volume are lavishly reproduced here, together with informative descriptions of some of the most notable specimens.
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50 Plants that Changed the World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An exciting journey through history, this beautifully illustrated new edition tells the stories of fifty plants that have been key to the development of the western world.
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Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book tells the fascinating stories behind 100 everyday words that have been influenced by writing, reading and publishing books.
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Meet the pioneering female anthropologists who coped with illness, shipwreck, loneliness and misogyny to document the remarkable lives of people in distant parts of the world where ‘ladies’ were not meant to travel.
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Pen Names (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An engaging exploration of the stories behind forty famous pen names from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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Alice's Oxford: People and Places that Inspired Wonderland (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book is both a guide and a history, exploring the curious and entertaining glories of Oxford through two of the most famous fantasies in world literature.
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Oxford Libraries Architecture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This beautifully illustrated book invites readers to explore over fifty University libraries dating from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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Splendours of Japan: Highlights from the Bodleian Library (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This beautifully illustrated book invites readers to explore the magnificent collection of Japanese rare books and manuscripts housed in the Bodleian Library.
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Type Designers of the Twentieth Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book explores the work and working lives of celebrated type designers, charting the radical changes that have taken place in typography during the twentieth century.
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