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Aflame Books Hornets' Nest
"Hornets' Nest" is a surprising story. One which mixes revenge, American rock stars in the Amazon jungle and political scandals with a language, form and rhythm which shock the reader. An action thriller told from diverse voices and points of view of its characters. Isabela Pastri has watched the rise of Wlamir Turvel ever since the day he assaulted her father and made him an invalid, as well as taking his sawmill in the interior of the Amazon. Now he is governor of the state of Para and one of the most significant drug dealers in the Amazon region. She becomes his lover, becomes pregnant and learns his secrets. Fred Pastri, her brother, has left for the United States, where he lives with his lover Pat, a famous rock star. He abandons everything and travels back to his home town of Belem in search of his sister, between trying to forget and having to relive a family tragedy. He arrives in the midst of a police investigation, journalists, prostitutes and corrupt politicians. It is time for vengeance.
£8.70
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Measure For Measure: Third Series
Often described as one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’, Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to witness all that ensues. In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, with commentary and notes from A. R. Braunmuller, Robert N. Watson explores the recent increased attention to the play and the shifting judgements of key characters such as the Duke and Isabella. He analyses the social foundations of these changes, their validity as readings of the text, and their manifestations in performance. It also explores the play’s implications on topics including love, marriage, sexuality, consent, mortality, religion, statecraft, moderation, and theatre itself.
£11.86
HarperCollins Publishers Friends Don’t Lie
The new addictive, compelling and immersive thriller from Nell Pattison, with enough dark twists to give you whiplash…Fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell will be hooked. My name is Isabella Butterworth. Your name is Isabella Butterworth. We’re around the same age. We live in the same town. But your life is more exciting than mine, isn’t it? Richer, dramatic, more fulfilling. Imagine if I’d never found out about you… But I have. Because someone mistook me for you. And now I can’t stop thinking about you because I know you’re in trouble. You need my help. And I need a way to get to know you. To save you. To be you… The unputdownable new thriller from Nell Pattison that will turn everything you thought you knew on its head…perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell. Readers are GRIPPED by Friends Don’t Lie: ‘A real cracker! Fast paced and full of clever characters. Just when I thought I got it…I hadn’t’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Whip smart, cleverly plotted and just impeccably written. To say I was gripped is an understatement. It completely and utterly blindsided me – and I loved it’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Twisty and unpredictable, I couldn’t put it down’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was on the edge of my seat … oh so many twists and turns and OMG jaw dropping moments’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Utterly gripping, with surprises in every shadow’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Kept me guessing the entire time!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I really did not see that twist coming’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I read this in several hours – I was completely swept away’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘If you love twisty books, this book is for you! If you love great characters, this book is for you! If you love great writing, this book is for you!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Will keep you reading into the early hours of the night … I couldn’t turn the pages quick enough!’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Reichert Verlag Receptive Music Therapy: Theory and Practice
£51.49
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Random House USA Inc Social Creature: A Novel
£14.18
LICHTWELLE-Verlag Die Engel so nah Meine Krankheit als Weg zu innerem Frieden
£22.41
Koha-Verlag GmbH Engel und Einhorn Ein himmlisches Team
£8.84
Juventa Verlag GmbH Schulen in herausfordernden Lagen Forschungsbefunde und Schulentwicklung in der Region Ruhr Das Projekt Potenziale entwickeln Schulen strken
£35.96
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Die Rolle Des Europaischen Gerichtshofs Im Wandel: Von Judicial Activism Zu Judicial Deference?
£180.70
story.one publishing Gedankenkarussell. Life is a Story story.one
£18.00
Bod Third Party Titles Die Industrielle Revolution nach David S Landes Technologischer Wandel und industrielle Entwicklung in Westeuropa von 1750 bis zur Gegenwart
£17.06
Campus Verlag GmbH Digital Work Design Die Big Five fr Arbeit Fhrung und Organisation im digitalen Zeitalter
£41.40
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Abandoned Buildings in Contemporary Cities: Smart Conditions for Actions
Is it possible to energise the reuse of urban abandoned spaces with low financial capital investment? Addressing this question requires a normative and cultural change, where the rules are less focused on the material processes of producing space and more aimed at fostering the construction of relationships. The reality of several European cities shows how traditional forms of stimulating urban renewal – with respect to the financing of operations, how to design and build, and urban planning legislation – no longer work. This book examines an alternative culture of design and regulation, drawing on the richness of the various approaches to the subject to present an integrated study of the phenomenon of reuse across its economic, architectural and urban dimensions. From this theoretical base, it empirically analyses six Italian case studies in terms of the broadness of geography and in their governance models, and of the important role of the unity of cultural destination for their reuse proposal. The book is intended for all those involved in the cultural challenge of reusing urban abandoned spaces, including public administrators, entrepreneurs, architects, planners and academics.
£119.99
Editions Flammarion Modern Artisan
£58.50
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City Paths to Prison – On the Architecture of Carcerality
As Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the “path to prison,” which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence, must be interrogated for its involvement along this diffuse and mobile path. Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality aims to expand the ways the built environment’s relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States—and follow the premise that to understand how the prison enacts its violence in the present one must shift the epistemological frame elsewhere: to places, discourses, and narratives assumed to be outside of the sphere of incarceration.Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality offers not a fixed or inexorable account of how things are but rather a set of starting points and methodologies for reevaluating the architecture of carceral society and for undoing it altogether.With contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright.
£16.99
Temple University Press,U.S. This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
An introduction to the themes of a still-evolving American ethnic literature
£22.99
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd How to Talk to Children About World Art
Using a simple question and answer format, this book looks at the art of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, featuring 30 extraordinary objects.
£11.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Cameroon in the 21st Century -- Challenges & Prospects: Volume 1: Governance & Businesses
£219.59
State University of New York Press The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals
£72.27
Tara Books 8 Ways to Draw Deer
This unusual art activity book featuring the deer introduces children to a variety of Indian art traditions. Through tracing, patterning and colouring the deer, children learn to explore each of the eight distinctive styles in the book – or just have fun. Children also get to experience and understand how art is as much about the imagination as it is about depiction. The book comes with clear and valuable information on Indian art traditions.
£6.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Social Creature: 'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' (Guardian)
'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' Guardian, Books of the Year ‘An irresistible novel about a toxic friendship taken to the extreme’ Elle Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being catcalled by her creepy neighbour, she dreams of being a writer. And then one day she meets Lavinia. Lavinia who has everything – looks, money, clothes, friends, an amazing apartment… Lavinia invites Louise into her charmed circle, takes her to the best underground speakeasies, the opera, shares her clothes, her drugs, her Uber account. Louise knows that this can’t last for ever, but just how far is she prepared to go to have this life? Or rather, to have Lavinia’s life?
£8.32
Alba Editorial Las dos señoras Abbott
Después de El libro de la señorita Buncle (1934) y El matrimonio de la señorita Buncle (1936), D. E. Stevenson quiso asomarse a la vida de su personaje en plena guerra. En Las dos señoras Abbott (1942), encontramos a la señorita Buncle ya madre de dos niños y a la encantadora Jerry, que se casó con el sobrino del señor Abbot, algo sola porque su marido está en el frente. pero algo excesivamente acompañada también porque en su gran casa isabelina ?aún sin electricidad? se ha alojado un batallón del ejército británico. La Segunda Guerra Mundial deja, pues, sus huellas en la apacible comunidad de Wanderbury, en la que pululan incluso los espías.
£20.19
Oxford University Press Carol Songbook: Low voice: 7 carol arrangements for low voice and piano
This wonderful collection brings together seven well-loved carols, all newly arranged by Mack Wilberg for low voice and piano. Featuring a range of Christmas texts, including 'Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella', 'Deck the hall', and 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', it also offers two carols with alternative, original foreign-language options (French and Catalan). With a delightful variety of musical styles and moods, this volume is perfect for recitals, services, and concerts at Christmas time. Also available in a volume for high voice.
£19.92
The University of Chicago Press Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930
Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.
£30.59
Travelers' Tales, Incorporated 365 Travel: A Daily Book of Journeys, Meditations, and Adventures
Whether kept on the nightstand or tucked in a backpack or briefcase, this volume of travel vignettes will inspire readers who dream of faraway places. Famous travelers and ordinary men and women share their stories. Each day offers a reflection or anecdote, providing an illuminating collection of travel wisdom and reminding readers of their past experiences--or of their dreams to be on the road. Features selections from classic and contemporary storytellers including Buddha, St. Augustine, Lawrence Durrell, Benjamin Disraeli, Paul Theroux, Jon Krakauer, Mary Morris, Peter Matthiessen, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, Richard Halliburton, and Isabella Bird.
£12.89
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Women in the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History
In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set up was the Labour Representation Committee; six years later when 29 of its candidates were elected to the House of Commons, it changed its name to the Labour Party. No women took part in that first meeting, but several watched from the public gallery. Amongst them was Isabella Ford, an active socialist and trade unionist who would have been familiar to most of the men assembled below. She had been asked by her friend, Millicent Fawcett, to attend and report back on what happened. A few years later she would become the first woman to speak at a Labour Party conference, moving a resolution on votes for women but, at the Party’s inception in 1900, she and every other woman in the hall was silent. Throughout Labour’s history, even in its earliest years, women were present in the room, but they were not always recorded or remembered. They came from many different backgrounds and they worked for the causes they believed in as organisers, campaigners, negotiators, polemicists, public speakers and leaders. They took on the vested interests of their time; sometimes they won. Yet the vast majority of them have been forgotten by the Labour movement that they helped to found. Even Margaret Bondfield, who became Britain’s first woman cabinet minister, often barely merits a footnote. Women made real and substantial contributions to Labour’s earliest years and had a significant impact on the Party’s ability to attract and maintain women’s votes after World War I. In addition to Margaret and Isabella, in many of the rooms in which the Labour Party found its feet, remarkable women wait to be rediscovered. This book tells their story.
£13.99
Benjamin Press The Book of Tea
The original 1906 edition of The Book of Tea is one of the classic texts found on the desks of artists, poets, teaists and Zen Buddhists around the world. The book has been re-designed and expanded for a contemporary audience.You will discover the fascinating character of Okakura Kakuzo and the story of how he came to write one of the twentieth century’s most influential books on art, beauty, and simplicity—all steeped in the world’s communal cup of tea. His incredible journey took him from Yokohama to New York, Paris, Bombay, and Boston, where his life intertwined with such luminaries as Rabindranath Tagore, John Singer Sargent, Henry James, John La Farge, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse. His writings influenced the work of such notable artists as Frank Lloyd Wright and Georgia O'Keeffe.American tea writer Bruce Richardson includes many historical photographs and illustrations in this updated edition of Okakura’s classic text, along with unique insight into how Okakura's philosophy continues to inspire today’s tea culture. Plus, Richardson includes an all-new chapter on America's thirst for Japanese tea during the late 1800s, illustrated with archival photographs.
£17.95
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Fourteenth Century England VIII
Fourteenth Century England has quickly established for itself a deserved reputation for its scope and scholarship and for admirably filling a gap in the publication of medieval studies. HISTORY Drawing on a diverse range of documentary, literary and material evidence, the contributors to this volume examine several inter-related topics on political, social and cultural matters in late medieval England. Aspects of both arms production and armigerous society are explored, from the emergence of royal armourers in the early fourteenth century to the social implications of later armour and armorial bearings. Another major focus is the church and religion more broadly. The nature and significance of the ceremonial entry, the adventus, of bishops is explored, as well as the legal impact of provisions in shaping church-state relations in mid-century. Religious constructsof women are considered in a comparative analysis of orthodox and Lollard texts. Finally, a group of papers looks at aspects of politics at the centre, with an examination of the queenship of Isabella of France and the issue of the Mortimer inheritance in the early years of Richard II. J.S. Hamilton is Professor and Chair, Department of History, Baylor University. Contributors: Beth Allison Barr, Philip Caudrey, Katherine Harvey, Mark King, Malcolm Mercer, Shelagh Mitchell, Lisa Benz St John, Charlotte Whatley
£70.00
Skyhorse Publishing Poems for Life: Celebrities Choose Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
Now available again, this enchanting collection of 50 great poems continues to inspire with pleasure and wonder—a perfect gift.When a group of fifth-grade students asked fifty celebrities what their favorite poem was and why, the answers they received became a beautiful collection of some the world’s most beloved poems, from classic to modern, that continues to offer inspiration, solace, wisdom, and amusement. Each poem is accompanied by the celebrity’s brief letter explaining why they chose it and its resonance for them.Among the celebrities are Yo-Yo Ma, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Allen Ginsberg, Angela Lansbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Harolyn Blackwell, Isabella Rossellini, Bill Irwin, E. L. Doctorow, David Mamet, Elie Wiesel, Ally Sheedy, Ved Mehta, Tom Wolfe, David Dinkins, and Susan Minot. The poets include Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Alice Walker, Mary Oliver, Frank O’Hara, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats. and John Keats—not to mention Noel Coward and a ditty by David Mamet himself! Anna Quindlen and verse from Pulitzer Prize–winner Yusef Komunyakaa provide a thoughtful introduction.Royalties from this collection have been donated to charity since its original publication.
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Regency Rebels: Scandalous Secrets: The Soldier's Dark Secret (Comrades in Arms) / The Soldier's Rebel Lover
Hidden truths The Soldier's Dark Secret Officer Jack Trestain was one of Wellington’s most valued codebreakers, but since Waterloo he’s hung up his uniform. If only he could put aside his tortured memories. Beautiful French artist, Celeste Marmion, might be the distraction he craves. But Celeste has secrets, and questions that she needs Jack’s help to answer! With Celeste’s every touch a temptation, how close can Jack get without revealing his darkest secret? The Soldier's Rebel Lover When Major Finlay Urquhart was last on the battlefield, he shared a sizzling moment with daring Isabella Romero. Two years later, Finlay has one final duty to perform for his country – one that will reunite him with this rebellious señorita! But Isabella has her own mission, and she’s underestimated Finlay’s determination to protect her. Yet soon she finds herself letting her guard down…one kiss at a time!
£13.72
Dalkey Archive Press Essays on Poetry
Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."
£16.18
Page Street Publishing Co. Malicia
Four friends, three days, two lovers, and one very haunted theme parkOn a stormy Halloween weekend, Ray enlists his best friends Joaquin, Sofia, and Isabella to help him make a documentary of Malicia, the abandoned theme park off the coast of the Dominican Republic where his mother and brother died in a mass killing thirteen years ago. But what should be an easy weekend trip quickly turns into something darker because all four friends have come to Malicia for their own reasons:Ray has come to Malicia to find out the truth of the massacre that destroyed his family. Isabella has come to make art out of Ray's tragedy for her own personal gain. Sofia has come to support her friends in one last adventure before she goes to med school. Joaquin already knows the truth of the Malicia Massacre and he has come to betray his crush Ray to the evil that made the park possible. With an impending hurricane and horrors around every corner, they all stru
£14.39
Cengage Learning Voila
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Allison & Busby An Onerous Duty: Treachery, secrets and unexpected romance
London, 1802. Major Harry Sterling has left behind his regiment following the death of his father and, in quick succession, his older brother. The responsibilities that come with being Duke of Ranliegh now fall to him, including marrying and siring an heir without delay. However, Harry finds himself distracted from looking for a wife when his soldier instincts lead him to a web of treachery and the possibility that his brother's death was no accident. As his investigation unfolds, so Harry's search for a wife continues ... surely the eldest Winslow girl, the wilful Isabella, wouldn't be right at all .
£19.99
FN-Verlag, Warendorf Pferdefhrerschein Reiten Standardwissen fr jeden Reiter das offizielle Lehrbuch
£14.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lost Michelangelos
Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio Forcellino - a distinguished Michelangelo scholar and restorer - stumbled across some unpublished letters among the papers of Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, son of Isabella d’Este and an extremely important figure in the Italian Renaissance. These letters comment on the paintings of Michelangelo in a way that is completely at odds with what was to become the dominant critical tradition of Michelangelo scholarship, an inconsistency that set Forcellino off on a journey that took him to Dubrovnik, Oxford, New York and Niagara Falls and culminated in the discovery of two magnificent paintings: Pieta with Mary and Two Angels, now in a private collection in America, and Cavalieri Crucifixion, now held by an educational institution in England. Through a combination of careful historical research, extensive restoration and meticulous radiographic analysis, Forcellino shows convincingly that these paintings can be traced back to the studio of Michelangelo. This extraordinary story, brilliantly retold, calls into question the received view of Michelangelo’s work and fills in a missing piece in our understanding of one of the greatest artists of all time.
£11.24
Baker Publishing Group Beyond the Desert Sands
Can she reconcile who she's become with who she's meant to be? Accustomed to an opulent life with her aunt, the last thing twenty-five-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to celebrate Christmas in her parents' small silver-mining desert town, leaving her handsome beau, Diego Morales, behind in California. Adding insult to injury, she must bear the company of Aaron Bailey, the disapproving Santa Fe Railroad businessman her father has sent to escort her home, who clearly finds her spoiled. But she is surprised to see how much the town of Silver Veil has grown and how fragile her father's health has become. Then a surprise visitor shows up with news that entirely upends the comfortable life she's been leading. Faced with all these changes, Isabella struggles to sort through her future and who she wants to be. But trouble is brewing, and there are those who hope she stays just as she is, even if it costs her everything.
£13.46
Profile Jungle House
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Stylish, beautiful and strange' Jessie GreengrassAs featured on BBC Open Book: 'poses questions about whether we can love AI and whether AI could love us ... I couldn't help but develop a soft spot for Mother' -- Johny PittsLena has always lived in the jungle with Mother. There they look after a holiday home in surroundings that burst with colour and crawl with danger. Lena's only other friend is Isabella, who once visited regularly with her wealthy parents and security drone, Anton. But Isabella and her family haven't been seen in years. Mother is not like other mothers. She gets angry when Lena draws her with a face. When Lena challenges her to portray herself, she paints a tiny yellow dot surrounded by swirling black. She is a bastion of light, she says, against an army of darkness. Outside, rebels are fighting to take over the country. Mother is determined nothing will change inside the security fence, nothing to threaten her bond with Lena,
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Er Docs Miracle Triplets Surgeons Brooding Brazilian Rival
Triple the shock!In this Buenos Aires Docs story, ER doctor Isabella can't believe it. She's miraculously pregnant! With triplets She knows she must tell her husband, Sebastián, that he's about to be a father. But they're separated, and the last time she saw him he was leaving Argentina following yet another IVF heartache. Isabella was left questioning if there would be a marriage for him to come back to Now Seb's home, can they reignite their flame to secure their future as a family?Friction to red-hot flirtationIn this Buenos Aires Docs story, everything else took a back seat as Sofia fought to become a trauma surgeon. She's never met anyone who's as dedicated and meticulous as her. Until world-renowned Dr Carlos Cabrera arrives. But while her rival's arrogance is exasperating, he makes her pulse race exponentially The single thing Sofia and brooding Carlos agree on? The passion that sparked in the operating room can only end in the Brazilian's bedroom!
£10.45
Rizzoli International Publications The Colors of Sies Marjan
Known for its evocative use of colour, proportion, and subversive fabrication, the New York based fashion house Sies Marjan, founded in 2016 by Dutch creative director Sander Lak, had a brief but influential life. Sies Marjan s pieces were marked by luxurious construction, the signature use of shining, jewel-toned hues, and effortlessly cool appeal the house s pastel coats, thrown over T-shirts, are still regularly seen in downtown New York and Brooklyn. Since its founding Sies Marjan has garnered a devoted fan base and praise from notable critics, celebrities, and fans alike in a city known for its endless affection for a darker palette. Rejecting the chronologies and seasonality of the typical fashion compendium, this exhaustive, richly illustrated volume is organized purely by colour. The trajectory through the colour spectrum traces the journey through the blazing life of the brand. Images featured within range from previously unpublished drawings, looks from iconic runway shows and ad campaigns, as well as found objects that reveal the inspiration behind the creation of these luxurious, chromatic garments. The flow of colour is punctuated by a number of interviews and reflections from Donna Tartt, Isabella Rossellini, Rem Koolhaas, Nia Dacosta, Hanya Yanagihara, and others.
£43.16
Alianza Editorial La de Bringas
Perteneciente al primer ciclo de ?novelas españolas contemporáneas?, ?La de Bringas?, publicada en 1884, es una de las cumbres de la novela galdosiana. El laberíntico universo de los altos del Palacio Real donde conviven la aristocracia, la clase media y el pueblo, y un abigarrado mundo de burgueses, burócratas y sirvientes son retratados por Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) de forma magistral. Rosalía Pipaón, deslumbrada por el lujo, la ropa y los adornos, domina este amplio fresco de la época isabelina. La desintegración moral de la protagonista, quintaesencia de lo cursi, marcha en paralelo con el deterioro de la situación política, que culmina en septiembre de 1868 con el advenimiento de ?la Gloriosa?.
£15.01
Alianza Editorial ODonnell
El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles ?guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares? a lo largo del agitado siglo xix. Como ocurriera antes y después con Espartero y Prim, O?DONNELL constituyó en sí toda una época en la era isabelina, problemática y pintoresca. A la precaria y difícil situación política sirven de contrapunto en este episodio los vaivenes de Teresa Villaescusa, frívola muchacha perteneciente a la clase media madrileña cuyos vicios y virtudes reflejan los del país.
£13.54
Allison & Busby An Onerous Duty: Treachery, secrets and unexpected romance
London, 1802. Major Harry Sterling has left behind his regiment following the death of his father and, in quick succession, his older brother. The responsibilities that come with being Duke of Ranliegh now fall to him, including marrying and siring an heir without delay. However, Harry finds himself distracted from looking for a wife when his soldier instincts lead him to a web of treachery and the possibility that his brother's death was no accident. As his investigation unfolds, so Harry's search for a wife continues ... surely the eldest Winslow girl, the wilful Isabella, wouldn't be right at all .
£8.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs 1474-1520
This book provides a comprehensive and compelling history of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella form the origins and upbringing of the two rulers, through the events and circumstances of their rule, to the consequences for the following generations.
£49.95
Iter Press Amorous Hope, A Pastoral Play – A Bilingual Edition
A seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Miani’s Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of society’s double-standards and it champions women’s dramatic agency by centering on the bleak reality they often faced, a reality that attempted to harm and silence its victims. The play’s salient episodes reflect realities modern women still face today. Miani’s literary achievements attest to her emergence as a cultural protagonist alongside Europe’s most talented women writers, such as Isabella Andreini, and she challenged the premodern notion that a woman’s eloquence is an indication of her sexual promiscuity.
£48.00
Orion Publishing Co A Court of Betrayal
'Anne O'Brien gets right inside the heads of her characters!' JOANNA HICKSON'A terrific storyteller' THE DAILY TELEGRAPHALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR...The Welsh Marches, 1301 Strong-willed heiress Johane de Geneville is married to Richard Mortimer, Earl of March, at just fifteen years old. Soon Johane finds herself swept up in a world of treacherous court politics and dangerous secrets as her husband deposes Edward II and rules England alongside Queen Isabella. Yet when Richard is accused of treason, she is robbed of her freedom and must survive catastrophic events in her fight for justice - with her life, and her children's, hanging in the balance...Will she pay for her husband's mistakes, or will she manage to escape from a terrible fate?,
£18.00
The American University in Cairo Press Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology
Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.
£12.82