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Adrift
The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea
Inbunden, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
253 kr
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In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that followed, beachcombers started to find Lego washed up on …
Swifts in a Tower
Av David Lack
Inbunden, 2018
232 kr
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First published in 1956, Swifts in a Tower still offers astonishing insights into swifts' private lives along with thoughts about their life style and wider issues. Now more than sixty years later swifts have been studied even more thoroughly, with technology unimaginable in the 1950s. This …
Energy is Life
Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear
Av Zion Lights
Häftad, 2026
191 kr
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Energy is Life: Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear follows Zion Lights’s personal and powerful journey: from grassroots green activism to becoming one of the UK’s leading advocates for nuclear energy. In a time of climate crisis, energy poverty and growing demand for clean power, she examines why …
German Jazz Guitars
The Archtop Guitar in Post-War Central Europe
Inbunden, 2025
646 kr
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Most guitarists today think of the USA as the land of the guitar. Classical guitars come from Spain but rock, jazz and folk guitars must surely be American? They know the ‘great’ names – Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, Martin but few non-German speakers know that Bohemia and neighbouring Saxony, …
Potter's Book
Inbunden, 2014
279 kr
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Written by Bernard Leach, the father of British studio pottery, this seminal book is the first treatise to be written by a potter on the workshop traditions handed down from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in the Sung dynasty. With this book, potters can learn everything from how to adapt …
Her Play
Make Your Own Luck
Häftad, 2026
221 kr
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Forget polished playbooks and sanitized lessons. This is a business memoir and career journey rooted in lived experience, not theory. It's the raw, unfiltered story of a woman who began as a casino dealer and went on to sell her startup in one of the fastest exits in the industry.What if the …
Nine Lives
One Photographer, Nine Persecuted Species
Häftad, 2026
274 kr
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Paul Goldstein has spent many years at the business end of a camera trying for that elusive ‘impossible shot’. For him, though, his images are just a gateway to highlighting the plight of the Nine Lives species he so treasures. He has spent years putting his body through often tortuous pain to …
Weaver's Trade
900 Years from Handloom to Hi-Tech
Av Alex Martin, Emma Crichton-Miller
Inbunden, 2026
334 kr
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Published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Weavers, this richly illustrated book is a tribute to the creativity, resourcefulness, and passion behind weaving in Britain today. Visiting a wide range of makers, from handloom weavers creating individual works of art to …
Green Parrots
A Memoir of Survival in Iran's Evin Prison
Av Morad Tahbaz
Inbunden, 2026
288 kr
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When Iranian authorities arrested Morad Tahbaz in January 2018, they thought they were capturing a spy. They were wrong. Tahbaz was a conservationist—and they had handed him a new wilderness in which to survive. In this extraordinary memoir, Tahbaz reveals how nearly six years in Evin Prison, …
Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia
A Journey of Discovery in South-East Türkiye – A Personal Perspective
Inbunden, 2024
279 kr
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Explore the enduring wonder that is the story of Northern Mesopotamia - the Cradle of Civilisation - from an Irish perspective.Embark on an extraordinary odyssey through south-east Türkiye with Nicholas Mackey as he guides you through a captivating region embraced by the legendary Euphrates and …
Glasgow Museums: The Italian Paintings
Inbunden, 2012
815 kr
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Glasgow Museums has the finest and most comprehensive collection of Italian paintings of any civic museums service in the United Kingdom.
Glasgow Museums: Seventeenth-century Costume
Häftad, 2013
257 kr
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This book is the first in the series of publications about Glasgow Museums' European Costume collection.
Longford Castle
The Treasures and the Collectors
Av Amelia Smith
Inbunden, 2017
477 kr
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Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned today by their descendants. Until now, it has been relatively little known amongst the pantheon of English country …
William Harry Rogers
Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition
Inbunden, 2023
592 kr
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The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize …
Four French Holidays
Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France
Av Anne Hall
Inbunden, 2023
313 kr
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Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefield-tour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp’s 1936 …
Renewal Architects
The Transformation of Farsons Brewery Malta
Av Ian Ritchie
Inbunden, 2023
354 kr
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The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful and brilliant transformation of the 1951 Art Deco Farsons Old Brewhouse buildings. The …
Liotard
A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe
Inbunden, 2023
334 kr
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Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of society. Liotard worked in Paris, …
Wilfred Avery and the Unpredictable Image
Inbunden, 2023
406 kr
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The painter and collagist Wilfred Avery (1926 2016) tackled just two subjects in his career: landscape and the male body. A sixty-year investigation into both subjects developed out of his fascination with the unconscious mind as well as an exploration (and acceptance) of his own sexuality. By the …
Remembering Christopher Robin
Escaping Winnie-the-Pooh
Inbunden, 2023
334 kr
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This story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They were initially quite distant from him and his …
Unravelled
A Family Lost and Found
Av Fanny Mills
Inbunden, 2023
313 kr
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In Unravelled the author unpicks the threads of her comically nuclear family with its deep silences to find what lay hidden, never to be spoken of.Beneath the carefully woven fabric of her family life, she finds clash of cultures – on one side Jews fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe, and on the …
Tristan/Yseult
Inbunden, 2024
204 kr
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A duel on an empty island sets the course for one of the greatest romances ever told. As the lovers of legend meet, something new is born, and something eternal is revealed. Their names will forever be spoken as one. This modern retelling of Tristan and Yseult sheds a stark light on the beauty of …
Living with the Algorithm: Servant or Master?
AI Governance and Policy for the Future
Häftad, 2024
167 kr
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An authoritative guide to what is needed for AI governance and regulation from expert authors internationally involved in the practical world of AI. This book tackles the question of why AI is a distinct challenge from other technologies and how we should seek to implement innovation-friendly …
Benjamin Ferrey
A Victorian Architect
Av Harry Spain
Inbunden, 2026
400 kr
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Benjamin Ferrey (1810–1880) is remembered today as the childhood friend and biographer of A.W.N. Pugin, but that represents only one episode in a fascinating career spanning some of the most eventful decades in architectural history. After showing early promise as a draughtsman, Ferrey was sent to …
KWAIDAN
Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Inbunden, 2019
339 kr
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things is a new edition book of classic short, Japanese, horror stories written by Lafcadio Hearn over a century ago. Hearn was an Irishman who was born in Greece, grew up in Ireland, and emigrated to the US where he became a writer. He later moved to Japan …
Beyond East and West
Memoirs, Portraits and Essays
Inbunden, 2024
400 kr
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Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America,both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orientin the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of life - was a lodestar for many potters inthe West. Beyond …
Monemvasia
People. Place. Presence.
Av Ann Eldridge
Inbunden, 2019
304 kr
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Monemvasia has a powerful visual and emotive separation from the world. The‘Castro’ or fortress is set on a rock in the southern Peloponnese of the Aegean Sea, joinedby a causeway to the Greek mainland. Inhabitants are further isolated behind the fortifiedwalls, with only one gateway into the …
10,000 Not Out
The History of The Spectator 1828 - 2020
Häftad, 2020
313 kr
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There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the world’s oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer to spheres of power and influence in Britain. Since its first appearance in 1828, during the dying days of the Georgian era, The Spectator …
Four Seasons at the Fish Deli
Inbunden, 2020
254 kr
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On the edge of Dartmoor and a stone’s throw from the fishing ports of Devon and the rich seas of Cornwall, the Fish Deli celebrates the wonderful array of fresh fish and shellfish available in local waters. The shop was established in 2004 by Nick and Michele Legg who, in this book, share the …
Hsiao Chin and Punto: Mapping Post-War Avant-Garde
Av Joshua Gong
Inbunden, 2020
361 kr
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Hsiao Chin spent his formative years in Europe experiencing the Western Modern Art movement. As a leading post-war Asian artist, he has contributed immensely to the development of avant-garde art and established himself prominently in the modern abstract movement in Asia. As a co-founder of Punto …
Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera
Inbunden, 2020
388 kr
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Discovering painting at the age of 40, Sir Winston Churchill revelled in his new pastime. He went on to produce over 550 paintings, with over 130 of them on the French Riviera.The fellow artist and Riviera resident Paul Rafferty has tracked down many of the locations Churchill used in Provence, an …
