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Salem Press Careers in Travel Adventure
£90.00
Salem Press Careers in Culinary Arts
£90.00
Salem Press Careers in Criminal Justice
£90.00
H. W. Wilson The Reference Shelf Labor Unions
£57.00
H. W. Wilson The Reference Shelf Health Conspiracies
£57.00
H. W. Wilson The Reference Shelf National Debate Topic 20252026
£54.00
£58.50
H. W. Wilson The Reference Shelf Space Exploration
£56.70
£283.50
Salem Press Defining Documents in World History The Rise
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£211.50
Vida Publishers Historia de la Filosofía Con Relación Con La
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£27.46
Obelisco El Libro de Los Nombres Hebreos
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£11.66
Taylor & Francis Ltd Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
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£18.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts
Book SynopsisThe Encyclopaedia Britannica was the first English-language compendium to be called an encyclopaedia. It was compiled on a completely new plan, alphabetically arranged, combining easy reference to individual items, terms and minor topics, pioneering a new way to organize and disseminate learning. This milestone in the history of encyclopaedia-making was first issued in one hundred parts in less than three years.
£1,301.50
Cambridge University Press The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville
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£37.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution Cambridge Reference Book
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£63.64
Cambridge University Press Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
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£47.49
Cambridge University Press Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Book SynopsisThere is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods, with a focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies.Trade Review'… this volume can be used in two different ways: each article can be read separately (I think it will be its main use), but the whole reading is stimulating. The interest of this book is to remind us that the theme of encyclopaedism, apparently limited to a technical genre, is not of small importance: it enables us to think about intertextuality, visions of the world or relations between power and knowledge.' Jacques Elfassi, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: Jason König and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason König and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts András Németh; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendytès' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia: some observations D. C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Caius Julius Solinus in the first century of print Paul Dover; 21. Shakespeare's encyclopaedias Neil Rhodes; 22. Big Dig: Dugdale's drainage and the dregs of England History of Embanking and Drayning Claire Preston; 23. Irony and encyclopedic writing before (and after) the Enlightenment William West; Part IV. Chinese Encyclopaedism: A Postscript: 24. The passion to collect, select, and protect: fifteen hundred years of the Chinese encyclopaedia Harriet Zurndorfer.
£118.75
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise
Book SynopsisPonder, if you will ...What is the difference between a kit and a caboodle?Why don''t people get goose bumps on their faces?Where do houseflies go in the winter?What causes that ringing sound in your ears?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization''s most nagging questions. Part of the Imponderables® series and charmingly illustrated by Kassie Schwan, Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? challenges readers with the knowledge about everyday life that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don''t have. And think about it, where else are you going to get to the bottom of why hot dogs come ten to a package while hot dog buns come in eights?
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc When Do Fish Sleep
Book SynopsisWhen Do Fish Sleep? is the third book in David Feldman’s best-selling Imponderables™ series, packed with answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries, repackaged and featuring a new cumulative index to all ten Imponderables™ books.In his bestselling Imponderables™ series, David Feldman has shown conclusively that there are answers to just about every question that has been baffling the human race in our relentless search for knowledge and self-improvement. Not the “What is life?” sort of questions, but the really hard ones, like “Why does Mickey Mouse have only four fingers?” or “Why don’t birds tip over when they sleep on a telephone wire?”Where lesser mortals fear to tread, David Feldman charges on undaunted and brings us When Do Fish Sleep?, the third installment of his witty, intelligent, enlightening Imponderables™ series. Since 1986, the Impond
£16.14
Penguin Putnam Inc Mind Blown
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£13.50
Penguin Putnam Inc Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisAn updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materialsA Penguin Vitae EditionThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In addition to Douglass’s classic autobiography, this new edition also includes his most famous speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” and his only known work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, which was written, in part, as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.Penguin Classics presents Penguin Vitae, loosely translated as “Penguin of one&rsquo
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press The World in a Box
Book SynopsisThe picture encyclopedia in question was a popular work invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in 18th century Germany. This study of an individual object provides an unusual perspective on the German bourgeois enlightenmentTrade Review"This is a truly magnificent book - the most impressive histoire totale of an object that I have read. te Heesen provides a fascinating series of perspectives on the German bourgeois Enlightenment through minute study of the production, physical make-up, marketing, reviewing, and educational uses of Stoy's world in a box." - Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge
£999.99
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location
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£34.00
Beacon Press Ten Lives Ten Demands LifeAndDeath Stories and a
Book SynopsisTold through the powerful stories of Black lives that were ravaged by racism, this manifesto holds 10 demands to rectify racial injusticeTold through his perspective as an activist, acclaimed commentator Solomon Jones tells the stories of real people whose lives and deaths pushed the Black Lives Matter movement forward. He explains how each act of violence was incited by specific instances of structural racism, and details concrete and actionable strategies to address crimes committed by our “justice” system.These stories and strategies are a critical resource for social justice activists looking to further their anti-racist education. These 10 demands form an actionable plan that is necessary to repair our racist past, change the racist present, and bring justice to the future: 1. George Floyd: Pay financial reparations to Black communities that have been damaged by legalized racism. 2. Mic
£18.70
The University Press of Kentucky The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of World War II, Heinz August Lüning, posing as a Jewish refugee, was sent to Cuba to spy for the Third Reich. Lüning's assignment was to collect information about the United States and its allies and report back to Abwehr, the German for
£80.25
The University Press of Kentucky The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Thomas
Book SynopsisThe story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches, portrays politicians and community leaders, as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry.
£48.56
Picador USA The Greatest Invention
Book SynopsisIn this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverancepublished all around the worlda trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's oval backrestall around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at howand how many timeshuman beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond.With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we
£16.15
Sourcebooks, Inc The Killer Book of True Crime Incredible Stories
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Sourcebooks, Inc Killer Book of Serial Killers Incredible Stories
Book SynopsisThe Killer Book of Serial Killers is the ultimate resource (and gift) for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of serial killers.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE FIENDS AMONG US Chapter 1: Meet the Serial Killer PART II: AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS Chapter 2: Albert Fish Chapter 3: Bobby Joe Long Chapter 4: Ted Bundy Chapter 5: Dean Corll Chapter 6: Gary Heidnik Chapter 7: John Wayne Gacy Chapter 8: Albert DeSalvo Chapter 9: Jerry Brudos Chapter 10: Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole Chapter 11: Jeffrey Dahmer Chapter 12: David Berkowitz Chapter 13: Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. Chapter 14: Dennis Rader Chapter 15: Edmund Kemper Chapter 16: Richard Ramirez Chapter 17: Robert Hansen Chapter 18: Harvey Glatman Chapter 19: Ed Gein Chapter 20: Wayne Williams Chapter 21: Gary Ridgway Chapter 22: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng Charles 23: Aileen Wuornos PART III: SERIAL KILLERS WORLDWIDE Chapter 24: Ivan Robert Marko Milat, Australia Chapter 25: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, Canada Chapter 26: Pedro Lopez, Colombia Chapter 27: Dennis Nilsen, England Chapter 28: Henri Landru, France Chapter 29: Peter Kurten, Germany Chapter 30: Bela Kiss, Hungary Chapter 31: Ahmad Suradji, Indonesia Chapter 32: Yoshio Kodaira, Japan Chapter 33: Arnfinn Nesset, Norway Chapter 34: Karl Denke, Poland Chapter 35: Andrei Chikatilo, Russia Chapter 36: Moses Sithole, South Africa PART IV: IN THEIR OWN WORDS Chapter 37: Dennis Rader: Court Transcript of His Confession Chapter 38: Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer Chapter 39: Edmund Kemper PART V: TEST YOUR SERIAL KILLER IQ Index About the Authors
£15.65
National Geographic Kids Brain Candy 2
Book SynopsisUnwrap even more tantilizing tidbits about all kinds of topics to boost your brainpower in the second yummy little fact book.So you know that the speed of light is fast: 229,792,458 miles per second. But what does that really mean? It means that at the speed of light, you could reach the moon in 1.3 seconds. How long to travel to the sun? Just 8 minutes. And in 4.6 hours, you could reach Pluto at 4.6 billion miles away! If you like seeing far-out facts in a new light, the second book in the colorful Brain Candy series takes a deep (and delicious) dive into numbers, fun facts, and cool trivia on all kinds of topics. It''s a novel approach to feeding kids smart snackable bites about the world and is sure to be an addictive addition to the bookshelves of Weird But True! and Just Joking fans.
£18.90
DK The Mythology Book
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£26.59
DK The Human Body Book An Illustrated Guide to Its
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£34.00
DK El libro de la mitología The Mythology Book
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£25.19
DK The Complete Gardeners Guide
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[S]ubtitled 'Everything You Need to Know to Create and Care for Your Garden' is just that — answers for everything, on an encyclopedic scale." – Martha's Vineyard Times
£27.00
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s
Book SynopsisMaster the balance between working on your career and working in it. Intelligence Isn?t Enough helps Black professionals make strategic decisions and learn the unspoken rules for success.Recounting the frustration she felt as a young Black woman beginning her career, Carice Anderson knows that many Black professionals are relying on their education and intellect alone to be successful in the workplace. In this book, she empowers young Black professionals by equipping them with advice and little-known principles of career success from her experiences and interviews with thirty successful Black leaders.Intelligence Isn?t Enough is divided into six chapters that guide readers through what Anderson calls the three ?major corporate muscle groups?: Knowing yourself? understanding your story and investigating your mindset Knowing others?building and sustaining important relationships in the workplace Knowing your environment?analyzing your organization?s culture Anderson will teach you how to integrate the knowledge of these three groups to craft an authentic personal brand and communication style that will help you maximize your impact.Using personal stories, quotes, lessons learned, and advice from both the author and Black leaders who have worked in some of the finest institutions across North America, Africa, and Europe, Black professionals will learn tips and tools to strategically chart their career paths and advance in the workplace for lifelong success.
£16.11
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Believe-in-You Money: What Would It Look Like If
Book SynopsisOffering a revolution in Black business financing, this book centers the entrepreneur and responds to the systemic failures surrounding Black wealth building.There is a huge racial wealth gap in America today. Owning a business is one of the best ways to build wealth—but entrepreneurs need capital. And investing in Black companies is obstructed by systemic racism and implicit biases that continue to create barriers to success.Merging historical information and data, along with tactical examples and explanations, this practical guide shows us what needs to be done in order to change the way we support Black companies and how we think about wealth.Norwood calls for investors to move away from extractive, individualistic, exploitative approaches to capital and entrepreneurship. She asks us to move toward transformational, restorative, regenerative, and interdependent relationships to repair the impacts of systemic racism. Investors, large and small, need to say to Black business owners, “we believe in you.”With an entrepreneur-centric approach, Believe-In-You Money challenges the system failure surrounding Black companies. It’s a guide on how Black entrepreneurs can be supported in sustainable ways and offers a shift in the way we think about who can be an investor, while aiming to change our personal relationships with money.
£17.85
Workman Publishing Schotts Significa
£27.00
Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Thrift: A Cyclopedia
Book Synopsis In today's consumer-driven society, extolling the virtues of thrift might seem like a quaint relic of a bygone era. Americans have embraced the ideas of easy credit, instant gratification, and spending as a tool to combat everything from recessions to the effects of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. In David Blankenhorn's new compendium, Thrift: A Cyclopedia, he reminds readers of a time when thrift was one of America's most cherished cultural values. Gathering hundreds of quotes, sayings, proverbs, and photographs of Blankenhorn's vast personal collection of thrift memorabilia, this handsome book is a treasure trove of wisdom from around the world and throughout the ages. Readers will find insights from such varied sources as the Bible, the Qur'an, William Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, J. C. Penney, and Warren Buffett. Entries are serious, inspiring, occasionally humorous, and they will go a great way toward expanding the narrow perception of thrift as simple penny pinching; replacing that myopic view with one of a broader thrift—one that, as William H. Kniffen puts it, "earns largely and spends wisely" and leads to a life of independence and comfort well into old age. Educators and parents will find ample wisdom to pass on to the next generation about the value of hard work, saving for the future, and generosity. Historians will delight in the glimpses into the U.S. thrift movement of the 1920s. Those seeking encouragement and inspiration will find much material here for reflection on the ideals of good stewardship, diligence, and sound financial planning. As our society ails from wastefulness, growing economic inequality, indebtedness, and runaway consumerism, there could be no stronger cure than this powerful little word, "thrift", which finds its root meaning in the word "thrive."
£999.99
Christian Writers Institute Christian Writers Market Guide 2026 Edition
£29.70
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Solo nosotros
Book SynopsisThe Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine?s Just Us, anew, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America.?A skyscraper in the literature on racism.? ?Christian Science Monitor ?Rankine [is] helping America understand itself, one conversation at a time.? ?Associated PressNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 by The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Esquire, The Guardian, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers WeeklyAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images is Rankine?s most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together. ***La edición en español de la nueva y aclamada reflexión de género mixto deClaudia Rankine (Just Us) sobre la blancura en los Estados Unidos.NOMBRADO MEJOR LIBRO DE 2020 por The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Esquire, The Guardian, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews y Publishers Weekly. A medida que se aumenta el discurso sobre la supremacía blanca cotidiana sin tener respuestas claras a mano, cuál es la mejor manera de acercarnos a los demás? Claudia Rankine, sin decirnos lo que tenemos que hacer, nos pide que iniciemoslos debates que podrán abrir caminos a través de este momento divisivo de la historia estadounidense. Just us nos invita al descubrimientode lo que se necesita para seguir hablando juntos, incluso y especialmente para romper el silencio, la culpa y la violencia que siguen a los discursos directos sobre la blancura. Este conjunto brillante de ensayos, poemas e imágenes es la obra más íntima de Rankine, menos interesada en tener razón que en encontrar la verdad, en estar juntos.
£18.66
Octopus Publishing Group AHS Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques
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£46.45
Igloo Books Conspiracy Theories
£12.73
John Blake Publishing Ltd Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopaedia of
Book SynopsisUseless information - we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the newspaper, all containing a wealth of fascinatingly useless tidbits. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is always a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. But this is no ordinary list of random facts. Unlike other books of useless information, it is organised alphabetically and full of cross references so that all those hilarious entries can be enjoyed and shared with other like-minded trivia fanatics. This is a treasure chest of a book for anyone whose curiosity extends beyond the worthy and dull to the eccentric and amusing!
£19.98
Brepols N.V. Nature, Virtue, and the Boundaries of
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£999.99
Brepols N.V. Time and Science in the Liber Floridus of Lambert
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£114.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Osterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon
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£999.99
