Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age (Cornelis Bart)(Paperback)

The Overcoat (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

From the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Nicolai Gogol's The Overcoat is one of the greatest short stories of all time. This satire on Russia's 19th century bureaucracy is amusing, pointed and has influenced many renowned Russian writers. Civil servant, Akakiy Akakievitch, is

Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection: A Supplement to Golden (Duparc Frederik J.)(Pevná vazba)

Highlights from one of the world's most impressive private collections of Dutch Golden Age masterpiecesOver the past 35 years, husband-and-wife collector duo Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo have acquired an unparalleled private collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, representing a

Dutch Light (Aldersey-Williams Hugh)(Paperback)

Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europes leading, yet unsung,

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

The Golden Age (Vidal Gore)(Paperback)

The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and

Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (Ashley Mike)(Paperback)

This anthology presents twelve short stories from the most popular magazines of the golden age of SF and includes stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Judith Merril and John

Death-Watch (Carr John Dickson)(Paperback)

John Dickson Carr, a master of the Golden Age British-style mystery novel, presents Dr. Gideon Fell's most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes LondonA clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member of the nobility

Lost Mars - The Golden Age of the Red Planet(Paperback / softback)

These ten short stories from the golden age of science fiction feature classic SF writers including H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and J.G. Ballard, as well as lesser-known writers from the genre. They reveal much about how we understand our place in the universe. Lost Mars is the first volume in the

The Golden Age of Strength and Conditioning (Epley Boyd)(Paperback)

In The Golden Age of Strength & Conditioning, 32 college and professional strength coaches share their story of how they became part of the 'golden years' of strength and conditioning. From sharing their start in the profession, to the adversities they had to overcome, and the philosophies and

Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV (Bourne Stephen)(Paperback)

A long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel

Pathfinders - The Golden Age of Arabic Science (Al-Khalili Jim)(Paperback / softback)

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before

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

Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal (Kidd Chip)(Paperback)

China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty (Benn Charles)(Paperback)

The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Charles Benn paints a vivid picture of the

The Golden Age of Streamlining (Alexander Colin)(Paperback)

Between the two world wars there was a golden era of industrial design when the benefits of streamlining were realized, allowing for reduced wind resistance, faster transportation, and a more efficient economy. The Art Deco-influenced style was also a huge public relations exercise in the

Beautiful and Damned (Fitzgerald F Scott)(Paperback / softback)

Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with

The Golden Age: Order of The Golden Dawn (Maredia Aly)(Paperback)

Four hundred years after World War 3, during which certain organisations develop ambiguous powers, a new government named Sanctum becomes victorious and rules the world.In a future where the order is peace and there are no crimes, Jack encounters a strange murder which the Sanctum seems to be

The Golden Age of Islam (Lombard Maurice)(Paperback)

Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward. Its reach extended from Cordoba to Samarkand, and it maintained and developed the tradition of wealth, cultural and artistic achievement, and thriving urban life which it had

Pax: War and Peace in Rome´s Golden Age - Tom Holland

The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest and

Virgil (Keith Alison)(Paperback)

The works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious

Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown (Taussig Michael)(Paperback)

For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty might exert along with such change. Mastery of

Golden Age - Number 7 in series (Vidal Gore)(Paperback / softback)

* The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American

Bumper Book of Peanuts - Snoopy and Friends (Schulz Charles M.)(Paperback / softback)

A bumper collection of the very best strips from the golden age of

Pan American Clippers: The Golden Age of Flying Boats (Trautman James)(Paperback)

The photographs and artwork will enable readers to grasp the magnificence of the transoceanic flying boats...The accurate, authoritative text will provide information that is new to all but the exceptionally well-informed aviation buff and nonspecialist historian. --Choice For a world recovering