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- The British Library, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5414-1
EAN 9780712354141
Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of ancient stories have become even more fantastical with age. Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the Librarys ...
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Churchill's Secretary
The War in Her Words
- The British Library, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5343-4
EAN 9780712353434
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Alexander the Great
The Making of a Myth
- The British Library, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 43,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5447-9
EAN 9780712354479
Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20, as king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. By his death in 323 ...
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- The British Library, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5451-6
EAN 9780712354516
Joke books have a long publishing history dating back to the 'Philogelos' from ancient Greece and 'Facetiae' of the 15th century. But while there are themed joke books on everything from cats to lawyers, there have surprisingly been few with a literary theme. The Book of Book Jokes includes a huge range of comic material ...
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Propaganda is thousands of years old. But it came of age in the 20th century, when the development of mass media (and later multimedia communications) offered a fertile ground for its dissemination, and the century's global conflicts provided the impetus needed for its growth. Put simply, propaganda is the dissemination of ideas intended to convince ...
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- The British Library, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5450-9
EAN 9780712354509
There are curries on almost every continent, with a stunning diversity of flavours and textures across India alone, and many more interpretations the world over, including in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Trinidad and the curry capital of the UK, Bradford. But curry is difficult to define. The word has origins in ancient India, but its adoption ...
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- The British Library, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5328-1
EAN 9780712353281
An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5440-0
EAN 9780712354400
A spectacular, puzzle-fuelled, myth-busting journey through the hidden history of Britain in 500 questions. Britain's history is one of the richest and most complex in Europe. From the first Stone Age settlers, through the Roman occupation, the waves of Germanic and Viking invaders, the wars of the Middle Ages, the consolidation of the United Kingdom, ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 64 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5465-3
EAN 9780712354653
For adventurous readers of all ages... a book of nonsense, old and new... a playful text, like a game to share, a challenge...an absurd-word wrangle-mangle, a story-stew... This beautifully presented and fully illustrated new collection presents many English-language favourites, some old and some newly made, to try twisting your tongue to. Dip in and out, ...
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The Book Lover's Bucket List
A Tour of Great British Literature
- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5324-3
EAN 9780712353243
Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book Lover's Bucket List takes you through some 100 wonderfully described literary sites and landscapes, complete with colour destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library collections. ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5334-2
EAN 9780712353342
Assignment 1: Find party responsible for murders by space virus.Assignment 2: Investigate 'accidental' deaths on orbital solar shield. Assignment 3: Apprehend criminal possessing short term time machine.Science fiction meets crime in this new anthology exploring one of the genre's most popular themes: mystery and detection. Pitching detectives against time paradoxes, alien intruders, AI gone bad ...
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Bespoke
A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang
- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5365-6
EAN 9780712353656
Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology that goes well beyond borders, producing a lexicon all of its own. This book guides the reader through a land where the road to ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5347-2
EAN 9780712353472
Have you ever wondered about the difference between a lager and an ale? Or marvelled at how, with only four basic ingredients, there are around 150 different styles of beer?In The Philosophy of Beer, Jane Peyton, the UK's first Beer Sommelier of the Year, distils practical advice from the incredible history of the nation's favourite ...
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Sailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5370-0
EAN 9780712353700
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5314-4
EAN 9780712353144
A car speeds down a road between miles of marshes and estuary flats, its passenger a young woman named Agnes - hands bloodied, numbed with fear, her world turned upside down. Meanwhile, the news of a girl found dead on the marsh is spreading round the local area. A masterpiece of suspense, Mary Kelly's 1964 ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5308-3
EAN 9780712353083
Tattooing is an ancient practice with profound religious and cultural significance. While western tattooing centres on three main traditions - Polynesian, Japanese and Euro-American -- it has been recorded more or less everywhere. Beginning with the birth of the tattoo, John Miller explores this unique expression of personal, cultural and national identity, the tension between ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5383-0
EAN 9780712353830
'This is only a hill mist, not a real fog. You'll find it'll be perfectly clear when we run down into Fordings. Let's think - were you at the Hunt Ball last year, too?'It is a dark and misty night - isn't it always? - and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball ...
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- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5358-8
EAN 9780712353588
Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to twentieth-century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters, heat waves, severe winters, hurricanes and ...
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