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Ad Lib Publishers Ltd The Notorious Guide to Britain: A fascinating
Book SynopsisA fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within its pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and eccentrics, film stars and train robbers and much more besides. Why were some customers at Harrods offered cognac or smelling salts during their visit to the store? What links DJ “Whispering Bob” Harris to a split pair of velvet trousers? Which high street store issued a patent for a drug to treat syphilis? The staff of which shop had uniforms by Mary Quant and hairstyles by Vidal Sassoon? Who placed a sign on her bedroom door bearing the legend ‘Chief Chick’? Did you know that the cashpoint was invented while someone was having a bath? Trade Review'A splendid collection of deeds and misdeeds of the good, the bad and the downright nasty and the places they frequented.' * James Morton, best-selling crime author *'With his deeply engaging forensic style at its best, Paul Donnelley has done it again! The Notorious Guide to Britain is a bulging treasure chest of gems, a dip-in-and-out must for trivia junkies and a sheer delight for anyone who’s curious about our great nation. It’s a witty, compelling, well-researched, utterly lovable book that you’ll buy as a kind gift ... but end up keeping.' * James Steen, best-selling author *'The Notorious Guide To Britain is the best trivia book of the year, the decade and probably the century. Paul Donnelley is the finest researcher in Britain but he doesn’t just know what to put in: he also knows what to leave out. No show-off he! Just the facts, Jack – and these are absolutely splendid.' * Mitchell Symons, best-selling author *
£11.69
PIE - Peter Lang Thinking in Common: Community in the Global Era
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume brings together articles by researchers in the humanities and the social sciences analyzing the emergence of communities in the age of globalisation. The different contributions deal with the complex network of cultural, political and symbolic spaces that coalesce around commonly held causes or interests and examine ways in which these sets of connections impact on their members' everyday lives, shaping attitudes and behaviours which transcend (or at least claim to transcend) the limits of the nation state, creating common spaces, communities, or at times both.
£25.65
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften LInterculturalite Au Service Des Transitions
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de Gruyter Handbook of American Poetry
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£198.90
De Gruyter Max Slevogts Netzwerke: Kunst-, Kultur- und
Book SynopsisThe very multifaceted artist Max Slevogt had contact with many different circles. As a leading member of the Berlin Secession and then the Prussian Academy of Art, he had an outstanding network and was a central figure on the art scene in Germany from the turn of century until the 1920s. The texts in the book situate Max Slevogt within the intellectual history of the late German Empire and the Weimar Republic and thus attempt to classify his work from the perspective of art and cultural history. Max Slevogt's extremely complex artistic practice is described based its intellectual, material, and communicative requirements. The constitution of his oeuvre and his identity as an artist hence go hand in hand and, as netlike structures, give rise to reciprocal interactions.
£40.95
de Gruyter BrigitteKronauerHandbuch
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£146.99
De Gruyter Kältebilder: Ästhetik und Erkenntnis am
Book SynopsisAls Mittel der Konservierung ist Kälte seit alters her von fundamentaler Bedeutung für die menschliche Kultur, doch erst mit dem Industriezeitalter wurden Möglichkeiten künstlicher Kühlung ersonnen, die heute selbstverständlich sind. Mit ihr gingen auch neue Möglichkeiten der Erkenntnisgewinnung einher. Die gefrorene Bewegung wurde zur Metapher der verlangsamten Aufzeichnung. Ohne Kryotechnik gäbe es keine modernen Rechen- und Bildgebungsprozesse. Diesen Möglichkeiten eiskalter Beobachtung stehen Sichtbarkeitsverluste durch Frost oder Niederschlag gegenüber, so wie die künstliche Absenkung von Temperaturen gerade durch ihren Energieverbrauch den Klimawandel weiter anheizt. Die Technik der Kühlung erreicht in jeder Hinsicht neue Tiefst- und Höchstmarken - mit umfassenden Folgen für das Wissen und die Wahrnehmung. Das Cover der Bilderwelten wurde mit einer thermochromen Farbe gedruckt. Diese reagiert auf unterschiedliche Umgebungstemperaturen mit der Veränderung des Farbtons. Schauen Sie selbst!
£17.10
de Gruyter Günter Grass Handbuch
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£159.96
de Gruyter 50 Essentials on Science Communication
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£21.85
de Gruyter Zeitformen Der Liebe
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£68.99
de Gruyter Kleine Formen Und Öffentlichkeit
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£98.32
de Gruyter Literatur Und Film Im Spiegel Des Digitalen
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£35.96
De Gruyter NMR Multiplet Interpretation
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£55.80
de Gruyter Semiotics of Images
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£122.07
De Gruyter Interpreting Communication and Animal Welfare
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£102.60
de Gruyter Handbuch Bibliothekspädagogik
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£99.96
de Gruyter Auslandsdeutsche Pressesprache in Europa Asien
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de Gruyter Kathrin Rögglas SzenoGraphien Der Gegenwart
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£39.96
De Gruyter Introduction to the Semiotics of the Text
£17.58
De Gruyter Contemporary Quranic Hermeneutics
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£139.17
de Gruyter The Grammar of Maltese Prepositions
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De Gruyter Hannah Arendts Unwritten Chapter on Judging
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£64.00
de Gruyter Narrating Framing Reflecting Disability
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de Gruyter Zusammenfassen Mit Strategie in Mehrsprachigen
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De Gruyter PalaceClan Relations in the Bronze and Iron Ages
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de Gruyter New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness
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de Gruyter TwentyFirst Century Anxieties
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de Gruyter Glaube Wissenschaft Sprache
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de Gruyter Diaristik Im Ersten Weltkrieg
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£22.46
de Gruyter Oldenbourg Racializing caste
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£49.05
de Gruyter Handbook of Stemmatology
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£24.75
de Gruyter The Theatre of Anxiety
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£86.45
de Gruyter The New Wave of British Women Playwrights
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de Gruyter Unruly Narrative
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de Gruyter Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman
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de Gruyter DialektStandardVariation im ungesteuerten
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de Gruyter How Whiteness Claimed the Future
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de Gruyter Proper Names versus Common Nouns
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de Gruyter Word Order Variation
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De Gruyter Liberal Realism Politics of Difference Beyond the
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£86.45
De Gruyter The Nordic Bible
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De Gruyter Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
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£24.75
De Gruyter Familiengründung Mittels Eizellspende
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De Gruyter Einfälle - Reinfälle: Schach Zum Lesen Und Lernen. 200 Diagramme Mit Fragen Und Antworten
£87.96
De Gruyter Pommern: Aufgenommen von der Staatlichen
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFrontmatter -- INHALTSVERZEICHNIS -- ORTSVERZEICHNIS -- KÜNSTLERVERZEICHNIS -- VORWORT -- Pommern -- KURZES SACHVERZEICHNIS DER TAFELBILDER -- EINLEITUNG -- Front Matter 2 -- STRALSUND -- LITERATURNACHWEIS -- BILDERNACHWEIS -- Front Matter 3 -- MITTELPOMMERN -- ZU DEN BILDERN -- LITERATURNACHWEIS -- BILDERNACHWEIS -- DIE BILDER -- Front Matter 4 -- OSTPOMMERN -- ZU DEN BILDERN -- LITERATURNACHWEIS -- Front Matter 5 -- ANKLAM UM DIE MITTE DES 17. JAHRHUNDERTS -- LITERATURNACHWEIS -- DIE BILDER -- Front Matter 6 -- KOLBBRO UM 1650 -- ZU DEN BILDERN -- DIE BILDER
£105.60
De Gruyter Stralsund aufgenommen von der Staatlichen
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£80.00
De Gruyter Die Kunst der Germanen im frühen Mittelalter
Book SynopsisThis title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more . >Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- INHALTSVERZEICHNIS -- Vorwort -- Die ersten Jahrhunderte unserer Zeitrechnung -- Völkerwanderung und Merowingcrzeit -- Der Übergang zum Hochmittelalter -- Zu den Bildern -- Schriftenverzeichnis -- DIE ERSTEN JAHRHUNDERTE UNSERER ZEITRECHNUNG -- VÖLKERWANDERUNG UND MEROWINGERZEIT -- DER ÜBERGANG ZUM HOCHMITTELÄLTER -- DEUTSCHE DOME -- DEUTSCHE LANDE DEUTSCHE KUNST -- Zweite Abteilung ÖSTERREICH -- GRIECHISCHE TEMPEL
£80.00
