Maiden Voyages - women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel (Evans Sian)(Pevná vazba)

Maiden Voyages - women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel (Evans Sian)(Pevná vazba)

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean

Maiden Voyages - women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel (Evans Sian)(Paperback / softback)

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the iconic ocean

Louis Vuitton: Extraordinary Voyages (Mattoli Francisca)(Pevná vazba)

A beautifully illustrated journey through the history of travel--and traveling in style--from one of the world's preeminent fashion brands The mid-19th and early 20th centuries heralded new means of transport and equipment and, with them, new and original ways of exploring the world. Transatlantic

Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750 (Pullin Naomi)(Pevná vazba)

Quaker women were unusually active participants in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural and religious exchange, as ministers, missionaries, authors and spiritual leaders. Drawing upon documentary evidence, with a focus on women's personal writings and correspondence, Naomi Pullin explores

On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (Humphreys Andrew)(Paperback)

Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens (Stuttard David)(Pevná vazba)

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes

The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age (Dahl Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent (Angel Katherine)(Pevná vazba)

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo Women are in a bind. They are told that in the name of sexual consent and feminist empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Sex researchers tell us that women don't

The Master Painters of the Dutch Golden Age: Their Lives and Works in 500 Images (Hodge Susie)(Pevná vazba)

Named retrospectively, the Golden Age was a period when the new Dutch Republic had become the most prosperous nation in Europe, leading in trade, science and art. From 1600 for almost a century, more than four million paintings were produced there, and the accomplishments in realism and naturalism

Danish Golden Age Painting (Jackson David)(Pevná vazba)

Following the disastrous outcome of the Napoleonic Wars and national bankruptcy, Denmark affected a remarkable cultural renaissance, spawning such major talents as Hans Christian Andersen, S ren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian rsted. The Golden Age, roughly spanning the first half of the nineteenth

History of Information Graphics (Rendgen Sandra)(Pevná vazba)

In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center stage. At once nuanced and neat, they distill abstract ideas, complex statistics, and cutting-edge

Carnet de Voyage - A Travel Diary by the author of Blankets, New edition (Thompson Craig)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful new edition of the long out of print classic - mixing travelogue, memoir and how-to draw insight - with 30 new pp from Craig's return trip over a decade

Babes in Arms: Women in the Comics During World War Two (Robbins Trina)(Pevná vazba)

During the Golden Age of comics, publishers offered titles supporting the war effort -- presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts -- babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting all of the axis bad guys and gave several of the most noteworthy women

The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting (Wolf Norbert)(Pevná vazba)

This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of the most important eras in western art. The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in

Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars (Hamilton-Paterson James)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars and locomotives from 1900 to

Fashion and the Art of Pochoir - The Golden Age of Illustration in Paris (Calahan April)(Pevná vazba)

The 1910s and 1920s witnessed an outpouring of luxury fashion publications that used a hand-stenciling technique known as pochoir (French for stencil). This highly refined, painterly technique, which consists of applying layers of gouache paint or watercolor to achieve bold blocks of saturated

The Tony Evans Bible Commentary (Evans Tony)(Pevná vazba)

Tony Evans is one of the most influential church leaders of our time and has been studying and preaching the Gospel for over 50 years. He is senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, TX and founder of The Urban Alternative, a ministry which promotes a kingdom agenda philosophy designed

The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World (Wintroub Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub

Shellac and Swing!: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain (Lindsay Bruce)(Pevná vazba)

Shellac and Swing tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' from 1900-1955, when it helped to shape Britain's culture from the arts to warfare. The story focuses on the gramophone, the invention of Emile Berliner in the 1880s, but begins with a brief outline of the first attempts to

Texas Jazz Singer, 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond (Mooney Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the cradle singing and all she ever wanted to do was to sing. And sing she did. She

Holidays and High Society: The Golden Age of Travel (Gosling Lucinda)(Paperback)

In the 19th century, the phenomenon of 'going abroad' was born. Beautiful Mediterranean towns, luxurious spas of Mittel-Europe and the golf courses of France became the playground of the idle wealthy. Until foreign travel became more accessible, the picturesque towns and smart hotels catered to an

Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity (Morat Cristina)(Pevná vazba)

An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous 'Spider

Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Evans Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction; Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan.- PART I: NARRATIVES OF PREGNANCY, BIRTH, AND PARENTHOOD.- 1. 'Breeding' a 'little stranger': Managing Uncertainty in Pregnancy in Late Georgian England; Joanne Begiato.- 2. 'Bound to be a troublesome time': Canadian Perceptions of Pregnancy,

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Locomotives:: A Guide to the Golden Age of Train Engines from 1830 to 2000 (Garratt Colin)(Pevná vazba)

A detailed history of locomotive technology and the trains of the world, with 700