Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nio Famines and the Making of the Third World (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nio Famines and the Making of the Third World (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award. Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Escobar Arturo)(Paperback)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece (Kahn Ashley)(Paperback / softback)

Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (de Waal Alex)(Paperback)

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all-but-disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles, and a volatile global economy. In Mass

Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Luckhurst Roger)(Paperback)

The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead

A Case of Doubtful Death (Stratmann Linda)(Paperback)

The third book in the series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London, with a clever and determined female sleuth A dedicated doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose before burial to reassure clients that no one can be

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, 'Los Angeles brings it all together.' To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where 'you can rot without feeling it.' To

Donald Trump: The Making of a World View (Simms Brendan)(Paperback)

In Donald Trump: The Making of a World View, noted UK-based historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman argue it's a grave error to see Trump's foreign policy views as impulsive and inconsistent, or believe that they were improvised on the campaign trail and now in office. They also explore how

Island That Disappeared - Old Providence and the Making of the Western World (Feiling Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Making Victorian Costumes for Women (Audin Heather)(Paperback)

Starting with the early years of Victoria's reign, this book examines the developments and evolution of fashionable dress as it progressed throughout her six decades as

London Routemasters in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s (Rhodes Mike)(Paperback)

The Routemaster is the iconic London bus, recognised around the world. This pictorial account features previously unseen pictures of the ubiquitous RM, far and wide throughout the network during the period 1976-83, which included the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, when 25 of the type were

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: Ad 395-700 (Cameron Averil)(Paperback)

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses

Ferment - A guide to the ancient art of making cultured foods (Davis Holly)(Pevná vazba)

The only guide you need to making fermented foods and drinks by a pioneer of the wholefood

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian-Era Detective Stories (Chesterton G. K.)(Paperback)

Enthralled by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian readers around the world developed a fascination with eccentric detectives and bizarre crimes. Featuring an international array of authors and characters, this compilation of 16 short stories showcases the best of the mysteries inspired by

The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (Kennedy Dane)(Paperback)

Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of

Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making (Saito Yuriko)(Paperback)

Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our

Planet of Slums (Davis Mike)(Paperback)

The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book,

Art and Making of Aquaman (Avila Mike)(Pevná vazba)

Immerse yourself in the art and making of Aquaman, the movie chronicling Arthur Curry's path to a future reign as King of the Seven

Unbeaten - The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano (Stanton Mike)(Paperback / softback)

The biography of Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, and inspiration behind Sylvester Stallone's Rocky

Holly and the Rose Garden (Bussell Darcey)(Paperback / softback)

Return to the magical world of Enchantia in the captivating third series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey

Holly and the Magic Tiara (Bussell Darcey)(Paperback / softback)

Return to the magical world of Enchantia in the captivating third series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey

Holly and the Silver Unicorn (Bussell Darcey)(Paperback / softback)

Return to the magical world of Enchantia in the captivating third series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey

Cholera: The Victorian Plague (Thomas Amanda J.)(Paperback)

A fresh approach to the history of Victorian Britain and the consequences of cholera for nineteenth century society.Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of

Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan (Lavery Grace)(Paperback)

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite