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His Invention So Fertile (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
it brings to life the petty jealousies that formed an integral part of both the building world and scientific milieu of the Royal Society. Above all, His Invention So Fertile... Læs mere
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Hell With A Capital H: A New Polar Hero (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On 29 March 1912, as Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition were fighting for... Læs mere
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Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the community which put down roots there was to be characteristic of the East End Jewish working class in its formative years.
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Fiction And The Reading Public (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
it offers a rich store of interest, not only in its vigorous scrutiny of the novel and the influences which have shaped it, but also in its study of changing attitudes and tempos of life amont the general public who read novels.
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Edwin Lutyens: His Life, His Wife, His Work (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) includes the Cenotaph in Whitehall, much of Imperial New Delhi and especially his masterpiece, Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), Queen Mary's dolls' house and Hampstead Garden Suburb.
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Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedicated scholar who pursued a promising career as an academic in Dresden and... Læs mere
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Scotland: a New History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances,... Læs mere
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The Floating Egg: Episodes in the Making of Geology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By using different ways of describing the world of scientific endeavour, the author has produced a fascinating visually beautiful and highly entertaining book which allows us to witness the birth of a new science - the science of geology.
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Intelligence In War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence,' wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions.
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Although Isaiah Berlin liked to say that he left philosophy for the history of ideas after the Second World War, there is a decided continuity between his... Læs mere
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Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Linda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British... Læs mere
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The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Through Adam Von Trott, for whom she worked in the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry, she became involved in the Resistance and the diaries vividly describe her part in the drama of July 1944 and its appalling aftermath.
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