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The Hurt Business(2013)From Jack London to Joyce Carol Oates, The Hurt Business is the ultimate boxing book covering a century of the greatest fighter and the writers who have followed 'the sweet science'.Vezava: Mehka30,57 € -
Splendid Exchange(2009) BERNSTEIN, WILLIAM L.As globalisation wobbles into world crisis, a vividly written, brilliantly original history of world trade, the first for a generation: 'A Splendid Exchange is a splendid book.' New York TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES / GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOVezava: Mehka27,79 € -
Brother Gardeners(2009) WULF, ANDREAOne January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
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Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs(2007) MCDONALD, ANGELAA handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases.Vezava: Mehka12,50 € -
The Making of the British Landscape(2011) PRYOR, FRANCISFrom our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. This title includes over 250 maps and photographs that chaVezava: Mehka27,78 € -
British Queer History(2013)Takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides. -- .Vezava: Mehka34,44 € -
Founding Gardeners(2012) WULF, ANDREAA story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
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Twelve Years a Slave(2012) NORTHUP, SOLOMONBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. In thVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
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More Boys and Girls of History(2012) POWER, RHODA,POWER, EILEENThe studies in this 1928 book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created following the enthusiastic response which greeted the original Boys and Girls of History, this volume concentrates on the period subVezava: Mehka44,09 € -
Food History Reader(2014)With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest amongst scholars and the public, the need for a comprehensive collection of primary texts is urgent. This is the definitive reader, spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the presVezava: Mehka74,17 € -
Levelling Sea(2012) MARSDEN, PHILIPThe story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
And the Band Played On: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank(2012) WARD, CHRISTOPHERAND THE BAND PLAYED ON brings to life the trauma of the Titanic through the true story of one family.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Stopping Places(2004) EVANS, SIMONKent, the "Garden of England", was also the market garden for its giant neighbour, London.Vezava: Mehka25,83 € -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle(2009) SCOTT, ROBYN'Beautifully written, acutely observed This is a wonderful memoir of an exotic childhood and a striking portrait of one of the world's most beguiling countries. A gem of a book.' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Ghost Map(2008) JOHNSON, STEVENTells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge,Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Even on Days when it Rains(2008) O'DONNELL, JULIAIrish singing star Daniel O'Donnell's mother, Julia, grew up on a remote island off the northwest coast of Ireland, going barefoot and doing hard labour as as child during the poverty-stricken 1920s. The hard work continued through her teenage years asVezava: Mehka22,22 € -
