Letters to Camondo (de Waal Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

Letters to Camondo (de Waal Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

I know your street rather well. Count Moise de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family

Letters to Camondo

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber EyesAs you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's family, they were part of belle époque

Edmund de Waal: Ten Thousand Things (Simon Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimate craftsmanship with the scale and sequence of minimalist art and music, Edmund de Waal's ensembles of

The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Hidden Inheritance (de Waal Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestsellerTwo hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later

White Road - A Journey Into Obsession (de Waal Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, this book is about a journey undertaken by the author that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history

Supporting Cast (Waal Kit de)(Paperback / softback)

Exiles Return (Waal Elisabeth de)(Paperback / softback)

Milton Place (De Waal Elisabeth)(Paperback / softback)

My Name Is Leon (De Waal Kit)(Paperback / softback)

Trick to Time (Waal Kit de)(Paperback / softback)

Voltaire: Philosophical Letters - Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation (Voltaire)(Pevná vazba)

Henry I (Penguin Monarchs): The Father of His People (King Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

Letters from Maisy (Cousins Lucy)(Pevná vazba)

Freud-Binswanger Letters (Freud Sigmund)(Pevná vazba)

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Marchand Suzanne L.)(Pevná vazba)

'This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement.'--Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China--but its secret

Solved Exercises in Fractional Calculus (Capelas De Oliveira Edmundo)(Pevná vazba)

This book contains a brief historical introduction and state of the art in fractional calculus. The author introduces some of the so-called special functions, in particular, those which will be directly involved in calculations. The concepts of fractional integral and fractional derivative are also

Edmund the Elephant Who Forgot (Dalgleish Kate)(Pevná vazba)

An elephant never forgets . . . except Edmund Join this silly elephant on the funniest shopping spree ever. 'Elephants always remember. Elephants don't get it wrong. Elephants always remember. As long as they sing this song ' Edmund isn't like other elephants: he forgets. A lot. Then, one day,

Letters to Friends (Fonzio Bartolomeo)(Pevná vazba)

Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447-1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence during the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli. A professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included among his friends and colleagues leading figures such as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano,

Churchill's Legionnaire Edmund Murray (Murray Bill)(Pevná vazba)

A biography of Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill's close friend and bodyguard in the final years of his life In 1937, aged just nineteen, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France, and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the

Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (Stewart Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (De Montaigne Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European

ANTIQUE MAPS OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY (Quixley Robert Charles Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy (Collins Gregory M.)(Pevná vazba)

Although many of Edmund Burke's speeches and writings contain prominent economic dimensions, his economic thought seldom receives the attention it warrants. Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy stands as the most comprehensive study to date of this fascinating subject. In

Abelard and Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings (Abelard)(Pevná vazba)