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Hadrian's Wall
Häftad, 2022
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136 kr
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A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east …
Magna Carta
The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter
Av Dan Jones
Häftad, 2025
160 kr
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A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of …
Stonehenge
Häftad, 2025
160 kr
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A beautifully illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient …
Magna Carta
The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter
Av Dan Jones
E-bok, 2014
110 kr
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A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer''s day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of …
Messiah
E-bok, 2016
110 kr
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In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel''s death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at …
Stonehenge
E-bok, 2016
110 kr
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A beautifully illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient …
Hadrian's Wall
E-bok, 2018
126 kr
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A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian''s Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian''s Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the …
Eroica
The First Great Romantic Symphony
E-bok, 2016
110 kr
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In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven''s Third Symphony, the ''Eroica'', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual …
Dante's Divine Comedy
Av Ian Thomson
E-bok, 2018
164 kr
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A TLS Book of the Year. ''Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson''s Dante''s Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read'' Spectator . ''Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson''s richly illustrated exploration of Dante''s masterpiece is... fun... ingenious... fascinating'' Observer . ''A …
Skyscraper
E-bok, 2018
221 kr
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Chicago''s beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction – metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding – it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century …
Skyscraper
Inbunden, 2018
242 kr
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Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction – metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding – it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century …
Guernica
Painting the End of the World
Av James Attlee
E-bok, 2017
110 kr
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A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilion in 1937 when news …
Sarpedon Krater
Av Nigel Spivey
E-bok, 2018
205 kr
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Once the pride of New York''s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sarpedon krater is a wine-mixing bowl crafted by two Athenians, Euxitheos (who shaped it) and Euphronios (who decorated it), in the late 6thc BC. The moving image Euphronios created for the krater, depicting the stricken Trojan hero …
British Museum
E-bok, 2018
210 kr
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A concise history of one of the world''s greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson''s Dictionary , the French Encyclopedie …
British Museum
Inbunden, 2018
230 kr
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A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753.A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and …
Royal Society
E-bok, 2019
142 kr
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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions , published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer …
Olympia
The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
E-bok, 2018
210 kr
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In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the steep-sided Hill of Cronus. Here, between the eighth century BCE and the fourth century CE, rival athletes competed for …
Versailles
Av Colin Jones
E-bok, 2018
210 kr
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Few buildings carry such a freight of historical symbolism as the Palace of Versailles. First built as a hunting lodge by Louis XIII in the early seventeenth century, then radically repurposed by his absolutist son Louis XIV, Versailles became the focus of that king''s centralised power. Drawing on …
City of Light
E-bok, 2018
159 kr
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A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. ''This really is an impressive book'' Sebastian Faulks. ''Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring... No one writes as evocatively and …
Messiah
Häftad, 2017
125 kr
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In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at …
Rite of Spring
E-bok, 2019
160 kr
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The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev''s Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, …
French Revolution
E-bok, 2019
164 kr
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A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and the demand for liberty, equality and fraternity central to modern politics. In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues …
French Revolution
Häftad, 2022
160 kr
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A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and the demand for liberty, equality and fraternity central to modern politics. In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues …
Shakespeare
The Theatre of Our World
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2018
229 kr
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In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare''s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies , better known as The First Folio . In doing so they preserved literature''s most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our human world. Endlessly reinterpreted by …
Shakespeare
The Theatre of Our World
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 2018
257 kr
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In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our human world. Endlessly reinterpreted by …
Railways
E-bok, 2019
164 kr
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From Britain''s most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world''s continents acted as a spur for …
Railways
Häftad, 2022
160 kr
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From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for …
Dante's Divine Comedy
Av Ian Thomson
Häftad, 2021
178 kr
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A TLS Book of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedy is another book that everyone ought to read' Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is... fun... ingenious... fascinating' Observer. 'A book worth …
Voyagers
The Settlement of the Pacific
Häftad, 2022
157 kr
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The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of new research' The Economist 'A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates …
Voyagers
The Settlement of the Pacific
E-bok, 2021
164 kr
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The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. ''Takes readers on a narrative odyssey'' Wall Street Journal , Books of the Year ''Highlights a dizzying burst of new research'' The Economist ''A refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates …
