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Doruntine

Ismail Kadare

• Paperback | Engels
• ...a magical parable of love, death and the power of familial bonds. -Stephen Salisbury, New York Times Book Review Lees meer

Drinking with Dickens

Cedric Dickens

• Paperback | Engels
• There are vivid and memorable drinking scenes in all of Charles Dickens' works, and this book abounds in excerpts from the novels and in recipes for t... Lees meer

The Muslim Mind

Charis Waddy

• Paperback | Engels | Southern Literary Studies (Paperback)
• In this book, the central tenets of Islam are put forward by doctors, engineers, politicians, bankers, carpenters, and theologians. Lees meer

A Kitchen in Corfu

James Chatto, W L Martin

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the heart of Corfu, away from the tourist beaches, old traditions of living and eating still flourish. Over the centuries culinary influences from ... Lees meer

Costumes for the Stage

Sheila Jackson

• Paperback | Engels
• This updated edition of Costumes for the Stage aims at simplicity in all aspects of designing and making costumes. Starting with five pages illustrati... Lees meer

Five and Eighty Hamlets

J C Trewin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Hamlet is probably the most famous play in the world. The distinguished English critic, J. C. Trewin, saw his first performance of it in 1922, and the... Lees meer

Roman Mornings

James Lees-Milne

• Paperback | Engels
• In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-th... Lees meer

The People of Ireland

• Hardcover | Engels
• The People of Ireland challenges the popular conception of "two traditions"--of planter and Gael, or Protestant and Catholic--in Irish society. Lees meer

English Watercolors

Graham Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels
• English artists have made a unique contribution to the art of watercolor painting. In no other Western country has this very attractive medium been us... Lees meer

A Woman of Passion

Julia Briggs

• Paperback | Engels
• In A Woman of Passion , Julia Briggs chronicles the life of author Edith Nesbit who is credited with being the first modern writer for children and th... Lees meer

Elizabethan Jacobean Drama

• Hardcover | Engels
• Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Eliza... Lees meer

The Magic of Kew

James Bartholomew

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, rich in architectural and horticultural treasures, are among the most beloved of the world's gardens. Each year more... Lees meer

Hotchkiss

Ernest Kolowrat

• Hardcover | Engels
• How has the Hotchkiss School managed to accommodate a hundred years of unprecedented change--a century during which horse-and-buggy trails have become... Lees meer

Caring for Books and Documents

A D Baynes-Cope

• Paperback | Engels
• This practical guide, written in response to the many queries The British Library answers each year, gives a straightforward advice on creating the ri... Lees meer

Leo Africanus

Amin Maalouf

• Paperback | Engels
• An imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description... Lees meer

Women and Spirituality

Ursula King

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the autumn of 1988 a group of Israeli women donned prayer shawls, took up the Torah, and gathered at the Wailing Wall to pray. The religious leader... Lees meer

Invisible Country

Brigadier General James D Campbell

• Paperback | Engels
• "How can a politically disabled nation create a history for itself?" James Campbell sets out across Scotland to answer his own question. From the bust... Lees meer

The Battle of Wagram

Gilles Lapouge

• Paperback | Engels
• A fascinating historical novel, ...Lapouge is clearly a passionate historian. -The Time Lees meer

British Chimney Sweeps

Benita Cullingford

• Paperback | Engels
• The art and science of chimney sweeping, from the development of chimneys in the twelfth century to the patenting of mechanical devices in the late ni... Lees meer

The Garden Where the Brass Band Played

Simon Vestdijk

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a coming-of-age novel, something that in other languages is expressed more pointedly as the novel of education. Lees meer

Art in the Cold War

Christine Lindey

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book, which covers new ground, is a study of high and low art, official and unofficial, in the Soviet Union and the West in the Cold War years, 1... Lees meer

The Italian Language Today

Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio Lepschy

• Paperback | Engels
• The authors present the Italian language not as it is prescribed in grammars and dictionaries, but as it is actually written and spoken. Lees meer

Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray

Cherry Hankin

• Paperback | Engels
• The New Zealand-born writer Mansfield (1888-1923) and her husband, Murry, the English editor and literary critic, exchanged hundreds of passionate, pr... Lees meer

The Story of Western Furniture

Phyllis Bennett Oates

• Paperback | Engels
• " A well organised survey of a facinating subject." David Pearce, RIBA Journal Lees meer