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22 produkter
Lineage and Legacy
A Certain Modernism in Cadaqués
Av Stephen Bates, Fernando Villavecchia
Inbunden, 2023
518 kr
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This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectural …
God's Own Country
Religion and Politics in the USA
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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Right-wing evangelical Christianity has come to dominate American political and social life in recent years, dividing the country and sparking cultural and moral battles. High politics and low tactics frame a fierce debate which goes much further back in the country''s history than the accession of …
Photographer's Boy
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
131 kr
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A set of antique photographic plates is the key to uncovering hidden truths of the Civil War, Great Depression, and 9/11 eras in this "unflinching" novel (Publishers Weekly).A teenage boy and his grandfather travel across America to attend that last great reunion of Civil War veterans at Gettysburg …
Penny Loaves and Butter Cheap: Britain In 1846
E-bok, 2014
139 kr
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Britain in 1846 was a nation in the grip of dramatic change. As the Industrial Revolution reached its height, people were flooding from countryside to city; the railways were spreading; starvation and destitution existed alongside immense wealth and power, generating profound social tensions. And …
Year of Waterloo
Britain in 1815
E-bok, 2015
139 kr
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1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon''s European ambitions and ushered in a century largely of peace for Britain. But what sort of country were Wellington''s troops fighting for? And what kind of society did they return to? Stephen Bates paints a vivid portrait of …
Poisonous Solicitor
The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery
Häftad, 2023
142 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEYA brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, …
Man Who Sold Honours
The First Modern Cash for Honours Scandal
Inbunden, 2025
208 kr
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Paying for a peerage - an illegal practice - feels like a very modern form of corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been accused of indulging in at times during the early twenty-first century. Except, of course, it was happening almost a century ago.Meet Maundy Gregory, …
Poisoner
The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
Häftad, 2026
127 kr
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Dr William Palmer, the Prince of Poisoners, was nineteenth-century Britain's most notorious, cold-blooded murderer, whose Old Bailey trial in 1855 was avidly followed by newspaper readers from New York to Ballarat. Charles Dickens was fascinated by the case and Queen Victoria herself read the …
Church at War
Anglicans and Homosexuality
Inbunden, 2004
857 kr
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The Anglican Communion is in turmoil. One of the great historic pillars of Christianity, embraced by 70 million people in 164 countries, faces the real and immediate possibility of dismberment, as the spectre of schism looms ever closer. Yet why is gay sexuality the tinderbox that could rip the …
Asquith
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
184 kr
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Asquith's administration laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power struggle with the House of Lords. The budget of 1909 was vetoed by the hereditary upper chamber, and in 1910 Asquith called and won two elections on this constitutional issue. The Lords …
Kanal #1
Thinking
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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In November 2026, the new Kanal museum of modern and contemporary art, architecture, and landscape architecture will open in Brussels. Operated in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, it will be one of Europe’s largest cultural venues, with space for up to 10 exhibitions at a time over 49,000 m2 …
Kanal #2
Making
Häftad, 2027
438 kr
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Kanal #2: Making is part two of a three-part journal by Atelier Kanal, a consortium formed by architecture firms EM2N (Zurich), noAarchitecten (Brussels), and Sergison Bates Architects (London and Zurich). It is dedicated entirely to the actual building for the Kanal arts and culture center in …
Poisonous Solicitor
The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery
Inbunden, 2022
231 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY'CAREFUL AND COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC MULHOLLAND'A …
Aufsätze 3
Sergison Bates Architects
Av Stephen Bates, Jonathan Sergison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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Following Papers and Papers 2, the third volume in the series contains papers written by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates between 2008 and 2014. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the papers focus on some of the themes that are at the heart of the work of Sergison Bates architects and …
Lineage and Legacy
A certain Modernism in Cadaqués
Av Stephen Bates, Fernando Villavecchia
Inbunden, 2021
518 kr
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This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectural …
Lineage and Legacy
A certain Modernism in Cadaques
Av Fernando Villavecchia, Stephen Bates
Inbunden, 2021
531 kr
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This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectural …
Tent poles in the ground
Häftad, 2025
585 kr
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Tent poles in the ground is a collection of twenty-one texts by Stephen Bates. Like Papers (2001), Papers 2 (2007) and Papers 3 (2016), which were written in collaboration with Jonathan Sergison, co-founder of Sergison Bates architects, 'Tent Poles' testifies to the importance of writing as part of …
