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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 29 páginas
PVP: 8,10 €
ISBN 978-1-871829-26-6
EAN 9781871829266
This charming little abecedary was first published in 1915 as a fundraising gimmick to support transportation workers and their families during World War I. The illustrations which brilliantly tie the letters of the alphabet to familiar words related to London transportation, like I is Inspector and Interest too, If you won't pay your fare they ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-1-910065-96-9
EAN 9781910065969
The world's leading expert on letterforms and their relationship to writing and handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon has had a long career as a scholar, teacher, and writer. This book charts that career from her early, very formal training in letterforms to the more free and creative work that she does with her students today. Filled with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-16-3
EAN 9781910500163
The poppy has been the enduring symbol of World War I since the years of the war itself, and it now embodies a century of ever-changing attitudes towards the world's first global war. But the Great War didn't represent the poppy's first association with combat long before 1914, it was seen as an emblem of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 48,70 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-30-9
EAN 9781906509309
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-12-5
EAN 9781910500125
In 1915, during the second year of the Great War, Kipling made a tour as a journalist to the front of some of the French armed forces. His report of what he had seen of the military activity was published in six articles in The Daily Telegraph, in England, and in the New York Sun. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-13-2
EAN 9781910500132
The pieces collected in this volume were written in response to a request by the Admiralty, as the British public wanted to know what the Navy, the 'silent service', on which so much money had been spent in the decade before the war, was doing. Sea Warfare was a compilation of a series of thirteen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-14-9
EAN 9781910500149
Kipling had been invited to Italy by the British Ambassador, Sir Rennell Rodd, who was concerned about the lack of understanding in England of the scale and cost of the Italian war effort. Rodd's proposal was that distinguished writers from England and Italy should visit each others' front lines and then write about their experiences ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 43,00 €
ISBN 978-1-910065-49-5
EAN 9781910065495
The Blues: A Visual History will be a unique, fully illustrated (over 250 colour images) account of the blues - the common denominator that has driven and permeated the popular music of the last hundred years. As well as tracing the story of the blues through its various styles, the book will include profiles of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-910065-30-3
EAN 9781910065303
In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that was both passionate and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen children and worked for years as his copyist, rewriting countless drafts of his timeless novels.Both ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 260 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-65-1
EAN 9781906509651
Rachel Carson's classic trilogy comprises three volumes - The Sea Around Us (1950), Under the Wind-Sea (1941) and The Edge of the Sea (1955). The Sea Around Us presents an overview of the subject, a natural history of the oceans in which Rachel Carson discusses such matters as their origins, the evolution of life, the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 262 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-49-1
EAN 9781906509491
We discover how the Baltic and Black Sea fleet were organised to benefit the imperial cause and how the officers and seamen who served in them lived and worked, trained and fought. The Russian Imperial Navy is a remarkable look at a remarkable world, long gone in history but alive in the pages of this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 262 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-40-8
EAN 9781906509408
Lavishly illustrated with over 400 evocative and compelling photographs of these pioneers and their first attempts at flight, the book brings together for the first time the renowned documentary collection of the Russian military historian G.E. Petrov. From these earliest days of flight in balloons and experimental 'heavier than air flying machines', Petrov's collection takes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-39-2
EAN 9781906509392
Accurately portraying a flamboyant world that was soon to pass and foreseeing darker days ahead, St. Petersburg's master photographers, led by the famous early chronicler Karl Bulla, here reveal their St. Peters- burg, the imperial capital of splendour and foreboding, of certainties and contradictions.The book includes 120 photographs of the city in all her glory, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 10,80 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-33-0
EAN 9781906509330
The perfect antidote to his 'Black Dog', a depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to painting with gusto. Picking up a paintbrush for the first time at the age of forty, Winston Churchill found in painting a passion that was to remain his constant companion. This glorious essay exudes his compulsion for a ...
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