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  • Modern Architecture A–Z

    Taschen GmbH Modern Architecture A–Z

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period spanning the 19th to the 21st century, pioneering architects are featured with a portrait, concise biography, as well as a description of her or his important work. Like a bespoke global architecture tour, you’ll travel from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Gaudí’s Palau Güell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and leisure center in a former factory site in São Paulo. You’ll take in Gio Ponti’s colored geometries, Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, the luminous interiors of SANAA, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s unique blend of Scottish tradition and elegant japonisme. The book’s A to Z entries also cover groups, movements, and styles to position these leading individual architects within broader building trends across time and geography, including International Style, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and much more. Featuring modern architectural photography, this is a comprehensive source book for any architecture professional, student, or devotee.Trade Review“A splendid record.” * Architectural Review *

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    £17.00

  • Indigenous Voices

    Wellfleet Press Indigenous Voices

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    £13.49

  • 100 Immigrants Who Made Britain Great

    Canbury Press 100 Immigrants Who Made Britain Great

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisBeautifully-illustrated and written, this lively, engaging book celebrates the lives of talented individuals who came to the UK and built a sparkling new life here. From Hans Holbein to Marie Tussaud, Mary Seacole to Mo Farah, find out the real stories of people recognizable to children and adults alike, and other quieter individuals, who have shaped our lives from business to food to medicine. Discover how: • Refugee Michael Marks founded Marks & Spencer • Banker Charles Yerkes built the London Underground • Scientist Ernst Chain developed life-saving penicillin • Activist Claudia Jones launched the Notting Hill Carnival Each individual is celebrated with an original illustration and a short biography. Many showed grit to make their mark on Britain after fleeing persecution or war abroad. All achieved their success through talent and hard work. 100 Immigrants Who Made Britain Great is a stirring gift for any teenager

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    £22.50

  • Cambridge University Press Camb Dictionary of Scientists 2ed

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  • Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

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  • Black Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from

    Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Black Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisFind wisdom, inspiration, and new insight in this definitive volume of empowering quotes from the Pan African world. With over 60 quotations—carefully researched by National Black Cultural Information Trust founder, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor—Black Voices is your go-to source for powerful words from both famous Black individuals in history and new and lesser-known voices. From this diverse spectrum of perspectives and experiences, gain a deeper understanding of Black culture and history. Some of the inspirational quotes include:“I’m very interested in, ‘What does it mean for us to cultivate together?’ Community that allows for risk, the risk of knowing someone outside your own boundaries, the risk that is love. There is no love that does not involve risk.” —bell hooks, African American feminist scholar“Our youth, our drive, our diversity and openness, our boundless capacity for risk and reinvention means that the future should be ours. But that potential will only be realized if our democracy works. Only if our politics better reflects the decency of our people.” —Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States and the first Black American president Spotlighting Black writers, artists, scholars, politicians, activists, and visionaries from all eras and backgrounds, each quote is accompanied by a short biography of its writer or speaker. This engaging and information-packed book touches on aspects and subjects relevant to Black lives, including and featuring, among many others, the voices of: Culture and History: Werewere Liking, author (Cameroon) Education and Knowledge: Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, author, poet, and playwright (Kenya) Justice, Civil Rights, and Human Rights: Ida B. Wells, journalist and activist (USA) Race and Racism: Paul Stephenson, civil rights activist (UK) Gender, Feminism, and Womanism: Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court (USA) Peace and Love: Basetsana Kumalo, businesswoman and television personality (South Africa) Inspiration, Hope, and Perseverance: Dudley Laws, activist (Canada) Freedom and Liberation: Claudia Jones, political activist and cofounder of Notting Hill Carnival (UK) Politics: Francia Márquez, 13th vice president of Colombia Blackness: Walter Rodney, scholar and activist (Guyana) Pan Africanism: Amy Jacques Garvey, Pan Africanist, journalist, and civil rights activist (Jamaica) The book also features the lush, vibrant artwork of six Black artists from around the world: Affen Segun, Nigerian painter (Instagram: @affensegun) Erin K. Robinson, American illustrator (Instagram: @brooklyndolly) Gilles Mayk Navangi, Belgian painter, illustrator, and sculptor (Instagram: @ngm_world) Nicole Collie, Bahamian painter (Portfolio: nicolecollie.com) Rendani Nemakhavhani, South African illustrator, visual artist, and art director (Instagram: @prsdnthoney) Uzo Njoku, Nigerian American visual artist (Portfolio: uzonjoku.com) Black Voices is a must-have reference to Pan African culture and history.

    2 in stock

    £13.49

  • A Dictionary of Popes

    Oxford University Press A Dictionary of Popes

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI, as well as all of their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes. Each pope and antipope''s entry covers his family and social background and pre-papal career as well as his activities in office. Also, an appendix provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the tradition that there has been a female pope. This new edition reflects the very latest in papal research and contains additional information in the further reading sections of each entry, making the book an even more useful starting place for research into specific pontiffs. The entries are arranged chronologically making this a continuous history of the papacy over almost 2,000 years. It reveals how, for much of that history, spiritual and temporal power have been inextricably mingled in the person of the pope. A fascinating read for students of theology and history, as well as theTrade ReviewReview from previous edition invaluable and much needed * Guardian *well-researched, extremely well written, and a delightful exercise in its own right...an entertaining read for those of any religion or of none * Church Times *very much a book to read or browse in as well as one to consult * New York Times *ought to be on the reference shelf of any civilized person of any faith or none...not merely a dictionary but an agreeable bedside read * Hampstead and Highgate Express *Table of ContentsPREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE TO THE READER; ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POPES AND ANTIPOPES; THE POPES; APPENDIX: POPE JOAN; INDEX

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    £13.49

  • International Whos Who in Classical Music 2020

    Taylor & Francis International Whos Who in Classical Music 2020

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis  The International Who's Who in Classical Music 2020 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved 2020 edition. Each biographical entry comprises personal information, principal career details, repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details where available. Appendices provide contact details for national orchestras, opera companies, music festivals, music organizations and major competitions and awards. International Who's Who in Classical Music includes individuals involved in all aspects of the world of classical music: composers, instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, writers, musicologists, conductors, directors and managers. Key Features:- over 8,000 detailed biographical entriesTable of ContentsPart 1: BiographiesPart 2: Directory Appendix A: Orchestras. Appendix B Opera Companies. Appendix C: Music Festivals. Appendix D: Music Organizations. Appendix E: Competitions and Awards.

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    £506.25

  • The Book of Saints A Comprehensive Biographical

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Book of Saints A Comprehensive Biographical

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisDom Basil Watkins has edited this work on behalf of the Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth (formerly Ramsgate), UK.Trade ReviewAn excellent source of biographical information on the saints... which contains entries for all who have been canonized or beatified by the Church to date... Libraries will want this exceptional book to modernize their reference collections on the saints. * Catholic Library World *The eighth edition - "entirely revised and reset" - of an invaluable reference work. * Catholic Herald *..."a comprehensive biographical dictionary" edited by Basil Watkins OSB... if sanctity could be purchased or pondered by pounds and ounces, this book is twice the bargain... * Review for Religious *A useful reference work for anyone who teaches theology or religious studies, for members of the clergy, for monasteries and reliigous houses, and for those interested in Christian history... this is a standard reference work, now brought up to date to reflect more recent developments in the Church and in scholarship. * Fr Ambrose Bennett, Christian B. Peter Librarian, St Louis Abbey, MO, USA *The current edition of this work, which records the biographies of Catholic saints, introduces new information while building on its numerous predecessors (the first edition was published in 1921, the seventh in 2002) … Integration of the Church's two liturgical calendrical sources for the first time in English, and the inclusion of deleted entries from past works along with the reasons for this action, make this full revision the authoritative compendium without peer, useful for all those dealing with church history. Summing Up: Essential. Advanced undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers; professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Abbreviations Saints: entries A to Z Bibliography List of Websites Glossary List of National Martyrs

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    £33.24

  • An A-Z of Hellraisers: A Comprehensive Compendium

    Cornerstone An A-Z of Hellraisers: A Comprehensive Compendium

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print: from Alexander the Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an entire city; to W. C. Fields, who passed critical judgement on a brass band by urinating over them from a hotel balcony; Dylan Thomas, who drove a sports car onto Charlie Chaplin's private tennis court; to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, suffocating on his own vomit after consuming forty measures of vodka - what a night out that was!This hilarious volume makes for an ideal bedside companion or pub reading fodder, as it scrutinises and salutes these glorious individuals, from Winston Churchill to Keith Moon, George Best to Ernest Hemingway, Wild Bill Hickok to Sam Peckinpah, Ozzy Osbourne to Errol Flynn. Just thank God we didn't have to live next door to any of them.Trade ReviewContains some hair-raising anecdotes and some priceless one-liners * Daily Mail Book of the Week *

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    £9.99

  • 50 Psychology Classics: Your shortcut to the most

    John Murray Press 50 Psychology Classics: Your shortcut to the most

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisA brand new edition of the thinking person's guide to popular psychology. In a journey spanning 50 books, hundreds of ideas and over a century, 50 Psychology Classics looks at some of the most intriguing questions relating to what motivates us, what makes us feel and act in certain ways, how our brains work, and how we create a sense of self. This edition includes contemporary classics like Thinking, Fast and Slow; Quiet and The Marshmallow Test. EXPLORE the human condition through the great thinkers in psychology:Alfred Adler on human nature - Albert Bandura on self-efficacy - Isabel Briggs-Myers on personality type - Hans Eysenck on the four dimensions of personality - Albert Ellis on emotions - Erik Erikson on identity crises - Anna Freud on defense mechanisms - Sigmund Freud on dreams - Eric Hoffer on mass psychology - Karen Horney on inner conflicts - Carl Jung on the collective unconscious - Alfred Kinsey on sexual psychology - Melanie Klein on envy - Abraham Maslow on human potential - Stanley Milgram on obedience to authority - I. P. Pavlov on conditioning - Carl Rogers on counselling - Jean Piaget on child psychology - B. F. Skinner on the power of environment DISCOVER the findings of contemporary research and practice:Susan Cain on introversion - Carol Dweck on mindset - Martin Gilbert on happiness - Malcolm Gladwell on intuition - John Gottman on marriage - Temple Grandin on autism - Stephen Grosz on self-delusion - Daniel Kahneman on thinking - Walter Mischel on self-control - Leonard Mlodinow on the subconscious - Steven Pinker on nature vs nurture - V. S. Ramachandran on neurology - Barry Schwartz on the burden of choiceGAIN the essence of great writings in psychology:The Nature of Prejudice - The Female Brain - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - A Guide To Rational Living - The Will To Meaning - The Nature of Love - I'm OK, You're OK - The Divided Self - Gestalt Therapy - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Authentic Happiness - Darkness VisibleTrade ReviewAt long last a chance for those outside the profession to discover that there is so much more to psychology than just Freud and Jung. 50 Psychology Classics offers a unique opportunity to become acquainted with a dazzling array of the key works in psychological literature almost overnight. -- Dr Raj Persaud, Gresham Professor for Public Understanding of PsychiatryThis delightful book provides thoughtful and entertaining summaries of 50 of the most influential books in psychology. It's a 'must read' for students contemplating a career in psychology. -- VS Ramachandran, Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San DiegoA brilliant synthesis. The author makes complex ideas accessible and practical, without dumbing down the material. I found myself over and over thinking, 'Oh, that's what that guy meant.' -- Douglas Stone, lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and co-author of 'Difficult Conversations'Intelligent, engaging, and crisp . . . will appeal to anyone who is seeking to understand themselves, partners, colleagues, or bosses better. -- Wendy Taylor * The Age *Butler-Bowdon writes with infectious enthusiasm . . . he is a true scholar of this type of literature. * USA Today *

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  • International Whos Who in Popular Music 2020

    Taylor & Francis Ltd International Whos Who in Popular Music 2020

    5 in stock

    Book Synopsis  The International Who''s Who in Popular Music 2020 gives biographical information and contact details for some of the most talented and influential artists and individuals from the world of popular music. Now in its twentieth edition, there are over 7,000 biographies charting the careers and achievements of artists in pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world, country music and much more. Key Features:- each entry includes full biographical information: principal career details, recordings and compositions, honours and contact information where available- each entrant is given the opportunity to update his or her information - spans the full range of the popular music industry, from rock to jazz and dance to country- provides information on established names as well as up-and-coming artists- a directory section provides details of music festivals, awards, organizations within the industry, and digital musiTable of ContentsPart 1: Biographies Part 2: Directory Appendix A: Music Festivals. Appendix B: Music Organizations. Appendix C: Music Awards. Appendix D: Digital Music. Group Index.

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    £522.50

  • The International Whos Who in Popular Music 2022

    Taylor & Francis The International Whos Who in Popular Music 2022

    15 in stock

    Book Synopsis  The International Who''s Who in Popular Music 2022 gives biographical information and contact details for some of the most talented and influential artists and individuals from the world of popular music. Now in its twenty-fourth edition, there are over 7,000 biographies charting the careers and achievements of artists in pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world, country music and much more. Key Features:- each entry includes full biographical information: principal career details, recordings and compositions, honours and contact information where available- each entrant is given the opportunity to update his or her information - spans the full range of the popular music industry, from rock to jazz and dance to country- provides information on established names as well as up-and-coming artists- a directory section provides details of music festivals, awards, organizations within the industry, and digital Table of ContentsPart 1: Biographies Part 2: Directory Appendix A: Music Festivals. Appendix B: Music Organizations. Appendix C: Music Awards. Appendix D: Digital Music. Group Index.

    15 in stock

    £562.50

  • My Bert Has Alzheimers

    FriesenPress My Bert Has Alzheimers

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  • Lovely Lonely Life

    Xlibris Lovely Lonely Life

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    £21.85

  • Meeting The Little Prince

    Lulu.com Meeting The Little Prince

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  • Who's Who in Research: Media Studies

    Intellect Books Who's Who in Research: Media Studies

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    Book SynopsisThis volume of Who’s Who in Research series offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Media Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and current research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers’ principal articles in Intellect journals.

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    £79.46

  • I Rode With Forrest!: Confederate Soldiers Who

    Sea Raven Press I Rode With Forrest!: Confederate Soldiers Who

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  • I Rode With Forrest!: Confederate Soldiers Who

    Sea Raven Press I Rode With Forrest!: Confederate Soldiers Who

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  • Famous Women

    Harvard University Press Famous Women

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisGiovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.Trade ReviewIn 1362, Boccaccio…wrote specifically ‘for the ladies,’ this time in Latin…[on] a subject as stately as the city’s soaring ruins and luminous marble statues: “Famous Women”…(biographies of 106 women, beginning with “Eve Our First Mother” and ending with the monarch to whose lady-in-waiting he dedicated the book, Queen Joanna “of Sicily and Jerusalem”)… In a pungent new translation by Virginia Brown, [Boccaccio’s] famous women hold up very well indeed. This beautiful little book…spearheads a new publication program designed to make accessible important works of Renaissance Latin to modern readers…the success of Famous Women suggests that the ladies read their Boccaccio as we are invited to read him: with forbearance for his foibles and delight in the tales he tells with such gusto and skill. -- Ingrid D. Rowland * New York Times Book Review *A monument of classical scholarship for its time, [Famous Women] contains the biographies of women renowned for valor in warfare and fearlessness in the face of death, for writing and the arts, for political rulership, and for the particularly womanly virtues of marital chastity and devotion to husbands living and dead… The book became immensely popular in the late Middle Ages, and it was quickly translated into the major languages of Western Europe. It has now been given an expert and readable English translation… Famous Women is an appropriate book with which to inaugurate this series, since it stands at a cusp in cultural history between medieval attitudes and the new mental universe of the Renaissance. -- David Quint * New Republic *Whispered in the language of the dead, tales of one hundred and six famous and infamous women of ancient times breathe new life in this inaugural edition of the Harvard I Tatti Renaissance Library’s Famous Women… Giovanni Boccaccio’s book emerges as the earliest amalgam of biographies celebrating and describing the deeds of women exclusively, flushed with the timeless air of antiquity… [I]n its first English translation, [Famous Women] bridges the boundaries of language and fosters the perpetual rediscovery of Renaissance intellectualism. -- Karen Wyckoff * Fore Word Magazine *Inspired by Petrarch’s Lives of Famous Men, [Famous Women] represents the first biographical compendium of women’s lives. Boccaccio prepared 106 brief lives of women…covering both the virtuous and the infamous… This edition provides the original Latin with a graceful and accurate translation by medievalist Brown on facing pages, the first translation in almost 40 years. Her efforts are a profound contribution to literature. Highly recommended. * Library Journal *Harvard University Press’s I Tatti Renaissance Library is the only library offering to scholars, students and citizens the sublime works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin and translated into lucid English... Famous Women is a wonderfully enjoyable book to read in its style of fine clearness. The stories are tales of virtue. Courageous women defend honor and truth and in their defense they give us magnificent models to follow in this life of adversity. * Window on Italy *The Loeb Classical Library…has been of incalculable benefit to generations of scholars… It seems certain that the I Tatti Renaissance Library will serve a similar purpose for Renaissance Latin texts, and that, in addition to its obvious academic value, it will facilitate a broadening base of participation in Renaissance Studies… These books are to be lauded not only for their principles of inclusivity and accessibility, and for their rigorous scholarship, but also for their look and feel. Everything about them is attractive: the blue of their dust jackets and cloth covers, the restrained and elegant design, the clarity of the typesetting, the quality of the paper, and not least the sensible price. This is a new set of texts well worth collecting. -- Kate Lowe * Times Literary Supplement *An aristocratic devotion to our culture continues to manifest itself even today in the most prestigious centers of study and thought. One has merely to look at the very recent (begun in 2001), rigorous and elegant humanistic series of Harvard University, with the original Latin text, English translation, introduction and notes. -- Vittore Branca * Il Sole 24 Ore *

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  • MY - University of Toronto Press Dictionary of Basilian Biography

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  • Oxf Dict of Saints 5e Revised Oqr

    Oxford University Press Oxf Dict of Saints 5e Revised Oqr

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFar more than a dry hagiographical account of the lives of saints, this entertaining and authoritative dictionary breathes life into its subjects and is as browsable as it is informative. First published in 1978, the Oxford Dictionary of Saints offers more than 1,700 fascinating and informative entries covering the lives, cults, and artistic associations of saints from around the world, from the famous to the obscure, the rich to the poor, and the academic to the uneducated. From all walks of life and from all periods of history and from around the world, the wide varieties of personalities and achievements of the canonized are reflected. An updated introduction explains the steps towards becoming a saint, the processes of beatification and canonization.This revised fifth edition includes appendices containing five maps of pilgrimage sites, a list of saints'' patronages and iconographical emblems, and a calendar of principal feasts, as well as a new appendix on pilgrimages.Trade Reviewfact-packed, readable publication * Methodist Recorder *It is a fascinating book and highly readable * Gazette and Herald *the best compact reference book on the subject * Church of England Newspaper *

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  • A Dictionary of Celtic Saints

    The History Press Ltd A Dictionary of Celtic Saints

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    Book SynopsisThroughout the Celtic world, in Britain, Ireland and France, the early Christian saints left a profound legacy to the history and culture of Northern Europe. This is the first ever dictionary of Celtic saints and is fully illustrated with photographs of where each saint lived and worked, ranging from ruined monasteries to holy wells, and from caves to Roman and Celtic forts. The reader is therefore drawn into the beautiful world which these men and women inhabited, while also being able to trace the history and legend surrounding these early British Christians. Easy to use, with an Introduction and maps to pinpoint the sites described in the text, A Dictionary of Celtic Saints will appeal to anyone interested in history, landscape or spirituality. Based on sound scholarship, it will also be helpful to students of civilisation and culture.

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  • DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SO ARE MORALS

    Penguin Random House India DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SO ARE MORALS

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  • Whos Who in British Climbing

    The Climbing Company Ltd Whos Who in British Climbing

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisContains nearly 700 mini biographies of climbers - the romantics, eccentrics and buffoons that have made British Climbing what it is: dissolute and hungover most of the time, with the odd unexpected burst of brilliance.

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  • An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson

    New Falcon Publications,U.S. An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson

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  • The Great Ones

    Abhinav Publications The Great Ones

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  • Encyclopaedia of Great Men of India

    Shubhi Publications Encyclopaedia of Great Men of India

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    Book SynopsisThe book highlights the great men of Indian history who revived the country's culture and national spirit. Divided into rulers, cultural contributors, and modern leaders, these individuals have made India strong and honorable throughout history.

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  • A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han

    Brill A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China’s formative first empires. Over decennia Michael Loewe (Cambridge, UK) has painstakingly collected all biographical information available. Not only those are dealt with who set the literary forms and intellectual background of traditional China, such as writers, scholars, historians and philosophers, but also those officials who administered the empire, and the military leaders who fought in civil warfare or with China’s neighbours. The work draws on primary historical sources as interpreted by Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars and as supplemented by archaeological finds and inscriptions. By devoting extensive entries to each of the emperors the author provides the reader with the necessary historical context and gives insight into the dynastic disputes and their far-reaching consequences. No comparable work exists for this important period of Chinese history. Without exaggeration a real must for historians of both China and other cultures.Trade Review'Simply said, this is a work of consummate mastery and high utility. It will last for decades and beyond. All who have occasion to study the early imperioal period are deeply in Loewe’s debt for this great gift. The book and its author deserve the Prix Stanislas Julien.' Paul W. Kroll, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2002. '...une mine de renseignements inestimables sur tous les aspects de la vie politique et sociale dans la Chine des Han Occidentaux.' Michel Cartier, Review of Bibliography in Sinology, 2001. '…an invaluable resource to serious students and enlightened amateurs alike…A source book of unprecedented depth and scope, the biographical dictionary includes several features that make it far superior to any comparable work known to me…This volume now appears to me to be an unexpected boon of inestimable worth, and the debt owed to Michael Loewe for his painstaking labours is huge.' Michael Nylan, Journal Royal Asiatic Society, 2001.

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    £263.50

  • Neurological Eponyms

    Oxford University Press, USA Neurological Eponyms

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisNeurology abounds with eponyms. This book brings together 55 eponyms related to neurological examination, neuroanatomy and neurological diseases. For each it provides a short biography, a discussion of the original publication, and a discussion of the evolution and significance of the eponym.Trade Review"...a beautiful book describing the origin and clinical neurosciences...The editors' goal for this book was education and entertainment. They have succeeded quite admirably."--New England Journal of Medicine Noted in Nature "This book opens a valuable window on interesting people...Neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, internists, and other generalists with an interest in the history of neurology would probably enjoy it."--JAMA2001 "The editors' goal for this book was education and entertainment. They have succeeded quite admirably."--New England Journal of MedicineAugust 2001 "...both educational and entertaining...By any account, this book is a success and can be warmly recommended."--Ian McDonald in BRAINTable of ContentsPART I STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES; PART II SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS; PART III REFLEXES AND OTHER TESTS; PART IV SYNDROMES; PART V DISEASES AND DEFECTS

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  • Unwavering Choices Book Journal

    Lulu Press Unwavering Choices Book Journal

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  • Thrash Metal

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  • Nigel Holmes On Information Design Working Biographies

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  • Leadership Institute Press Leo Fender The Quiet Giant Heard Around the World

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