Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age (Carter Graydon)(Pevná vazba)

Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age (Carter Graydon)(Pevná vazba)

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture--both highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity

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

Vanity Fair's Women On Women(Pevná vazba)

Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two

All the Fun of the Fair - A hilarious, brilliantly original coming-of-age story that will capture your heart (Hulse Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

A fresh, hilarious and deeply poignant coming-of-age novel from sensational talent Caroline

Art Deco Collectibles: Fashionable Objets from the Jazz Age (Capstick-Dale Rodney)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1920s and 1930s Art Deco style influenced everything from art and architecture, interiors and furnishings, automobiles and boats to the small, personal objects that were part of everyday life: cigarette cases and lighters; powder compacts, minaudieres, and cosmetic accessories; watches and

World History - From the Ancient World to the Information Age (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities - Changing Our World(Pevná vazba)

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread (Kakutani Michiko)(Pevná vazba)

From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes 100 personal, thought-provoking essays of the life-changing books she wouldn't want you to miss--beautifully illustrated throughout. Legendary former New York Times critic and bestselling author Michiko Kakutani

Tales of the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Pevná vazba)

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. Perhaps nowhere in

Troublemakers: A Philosophy of Puer Robustus (Thom Dieter)(Pevná vazba)

The political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in power wanted to keep hidden. They are thorns in the

Gatsby Cocktails: Classic Cocktails from the Jazz Age (Reed Ben)(Pevná vazba)

Get out your cocktail shaker and re-live the speakeasy experience with this collection of authentic cocktails. Gatsby Cocktails features more than 20 classic cocktails inspired by the 1920s. Try re-creating the classic Sidecar, comprising brandy, lemon juice, and Cointreau. Or discover the secret

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety (Carter Jimmy)(Paperback)

In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and 'reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian' (Booklist). At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life

Dick Carter: Yacht Designer - In the Golden Age of Offshore Racing (Carter Dick)(Pevná vazba)

Not many 'amateur' yacht designers would dare to enter the first boat they had ever designed into the epic offshore Fastnet Race, let alone with the intention of winning it. But that is what Dick Carter did in 1964, beating 151 other yachts, some sailed by the most notable sailors of the day. He

The Greatest 100 Albums to Own on Vinyl: The Must Have Records for Your Collection (Greig Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

Even in this digital age, we haven't moved so far from our past that there's no room for the traditional musical format that is vinyl. In The Greatest 100 Albums To Own On Vinyl, we collate the greatest albums to have ever been pressed and then sold on vinyl since the '50s. From the bands and solo

Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age (Okri Ben)(Pevná vazba)

A new collection of meditations and stories from the Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri. Illustrated by Rosemary

World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age (Parker Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Take a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an essential guide for anyone who loves history or wants to broaden their knowledge. This accessible

The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Jacobs Alan)(Pevná vazba)

Tales of the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Pevná vazba)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books

The Great Gatsby: Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Pevná vazba)

Fitzgerald's masterpiece--the quintessential Jazz Age novel--now in a hardcover Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics edition For generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties

The Age of Wire and String (Marcus Ben)(Pevná vazba)

In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar

Exploding Data - Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age (Chertoff Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A powerful argument for new laws and policies regarding cyber-security, from the former US Secretary of Homeland

The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions (Paquette Gabriel)(Pevná vazba)

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and

13th Age - Shards of the Broken Sky (13th Age Adv.) (Pelgrane Press)(Pevná vazba)

Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell (D'Addario Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural