View from the Hill - Four Seasons in a Walker's Britain (Somerville Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

View from the Hill - Four Seasons in a Walker's Britain (Somerville Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

Collected notes from avid walker Christopher Somerville's treks through the British countryside. In Christopher Somerville's workroom is a case of shelves that holds four hundred and fifty notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insects, beer glass rings, smears

Four Seasons (McClatchy J. D.)(Pevná vazba)

from the 'stopped woods' in Marie Ponsot's 'End of October' to the chilling 'mind of winter' in Wallace Stevens's 'The Snow Man', the poems in this volume engage vividly with the seasons and, through them, with the ways in which we understand and engage with the world outside

Railways (Valkoinen Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the first railway was established in Great Britain, contributing to the country's dramatic social and economic revolution. Detailed plans were created of locomotives, carriages, wagons, stations, bridges, and tunnels to facilitate the manufacturing

Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (Hill Christopher)(Paperback)

The role of Puritanism in the formation of modern Britain In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that responded to social as well as religious needs

The House of Four Seasons (Duvoisin Roger)(Pevná vazba)

By the author of the bestselling picture book Petunia, The House of Four Seasons is a bright and lively family picture book about colors, imagination, and compromise When Father, Mother, Billy, and Suzy go house hunting in the country, they fall in love with a grand old house nestled among tall

Venice - Four Seasons of Home Cooking (Norman Russell)(Pevná vazba)

Russell Norman returns to Venice - the city that inspired POLPO - to immerse himself in the authentic flavours of the Veneto and the culinary traditions of the city. His rustic kitchen - in the residential quarter of the city where washing hangs across the narrow streets and neighbours don't bother

Walks in the Country Near London (Somerville Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

From easy rambles through apple orchards and lush pastures in Kent to more exhilarating rambles along Sharpenhoe Clappers' chalk escarpments in Bedfordshire, this title reveals the myriad treasures that lie just beyond London's urban

A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Hilliard Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate

Dublin - The View From Above (Horgan Dennis)(Pevná vazba)

View from the Bridge (Parker Sir John)(Pevná vazba)

Coming Home to the Four Streets (Dorries Nadine)(Pevná vazba)

The new heart-stopping instalment in the Four Streets saga, from the Sunday Times bestseller Nadine Dorries. Winter is coming to the Four Streets. And so is trouble. In the biting cold there is no work for the men on the docks, no food for their tough, resilient womenfolk to put on the table

Soho in the Eighties (Howse Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily tragi-comedy enacted in pubs like the Coach and Horses or the French and in drinking clubs like the Colony Room. These were places of constant

From Sheikhs to Sultanism - Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE (Davidson Christopher M.)(Pevná vazba)

The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 1: Pre-Industrial Britain (Chartres J.)(Pevná vazba)

Britain in the sixteenth century appeared little different from its European neighbours, and shared their renewed 'Malthusian' pressures, as population growth threatened the resource base of the economy. Yet, by the later seventeenth century, Britain had broken the limits imposed by food

Spitfire on My Tail - A View from the Other Side (Steinhilper Ulrich)(Pevná vazba)

Soviet Seasons: Photographs by Arseniy Kotov (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

The post-Soviet republics seen over four different seasons, by acclaimed Russian photographer, Instagram sensation and Soviet Cities author Arseniy KotovIn Soviet Seasons, Arseniy Kotov reveals unfamiliar aspects of the post-Soviet terrain in sublime photographs. From snow-blanketed Siberia in

The Orpheus Plot (Swiedler Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

A rebellion in space pits one boy's past against his future in this gripping adventure from the critically acclaimed author of In the Red This out-of-this-world story about fighting for what's right, chasing your dreams, and believing in yourself is perfect for fans of Kevin Emerson, Yoon Ha Lee,

The Evolution of Stars: From Birth to Death (Hill Graham)(Pevná vazba)

The Part-Time Vegetarian's Year: Four Seasons of Flexitarian Recipes (Graimes Nicola)(Pevná vazba)

More than 100 seasonal, everyday meals for friends and family from The Part-Time Vegetarian's kitchen. Since The Part-Time Vegetarian was published in 2015 the food landscape has changed. Proving itself more than a passing fad, the term 'flexitarian' was added to the OED in 2015 and this way of

Knife in the Fast Lane (Ribbans Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Knife in the Fast Lane charts the history of care for sportspeople from the expert view of a doctor and orthopaedic surgeon with over 40 years' experience. Bill Ribbans gives you the inside track on the life of a surgeon operating on some of sport's biggest names. From looking after world champions

In the Garden (Smit Nolle)(Pevná vazba)

Where do fruit and vegetables come from? How do plants and flowers change throughout the seasons? Come to the vegetable garden to find out Starting with the cold of January, through the harvest months of Fall and on to the marshmallow-toasting gatherings of December, gorgeous color illustrations

Thomas and Beal in the MIDI (Tilghman Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1892, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc Twenty-three years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's

Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora (Hall Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays-a

A Writer's Britain (Drabble Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman. Here, the renowned author Margaret Drabble presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods, illuminating the ways in