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Hertfordshire

A Landscape History

de Anne Rowe, Tom Williamson ...

Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the "champion" countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in the course of the middle ages, natural characteristics influenced the development of land use and settlement to create a range of distinctive ... Leer más

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Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the "champion" countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in the course of the middle ages, natural characteristics influenced the development of land use and settlement to create a range of distinctive
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Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire

Society and landscape in the eighteenth century

de Andrew Macnair, Anne Rowe, Tom Williamson ...

This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book ... Leer más

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This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book
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Iris Murdoch

A Literary Life

de P. Martin, Anne Rowe ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999. ... Leer más

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This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.
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City Kids, City Teachers

Reports from the Front Row

de James Baldwin, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Constance Clayton, Lisa Delpit, Louanne Johnson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Deborah Meier ...

" City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools." — Library JournalIn more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit ... Leer más

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" City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools." — Library JournalIn more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit
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The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels Volume Two

Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, and Bluegate Fields

de Anne Perry ...

Series series The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels
Return to the "exemplary Victorian company" of this London sleuthing couple with books four through six in the long-running New York Times –bestselling series ( The New York Times )."For nearly four decades Anne Perry's riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era" ( The Washington Post). Now, in a single volume, readers can enjoy m... ... Leer más

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Return to the "exemplary Victorian company" of this London sleuthing couple with books four through six in the long-running New York Times –bestselling series ( The New York Times )."For nearly four decades Anne Perry's riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era" ( The Washington Post). Now, in a single volume, readers can enjoy m...
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Living on Paper

Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995

de Iris Murdoch ...

"This collection of letters provides a fascinating insight into the life of a complex and important novelist. It is a wonderful book." —Alexander McCall Smith, national bestselling authorIris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice ... Leer más

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"This collection of letters provides a fascinating insight into the life of a complex and important novelist. It is a wonderful book." —Alexander McCall Smith, national bestselling authorIris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice
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George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle

A Novel in Stories

de Christopher Rowe, Carrie Vaughn, Cherie Priest, William F. Wu, Walter Jon Williams, Stephen Leigh, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Max Gladstone ...

An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of ThronesAn alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the ... Leer más

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An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of ThronesAn alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the
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Resurrection Row

de Anne Perry ...

Series Libro 4 - The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels
Inspector Pitt follows a trail of corpses to solve a crime in this Victorian-Era mystery from the New York Times– bestselling author of Death on BlackheathLord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the m ... Leer más

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Inspector Pitt follows a trail of corpses to solve a crime in this Victorian-Era mystery from the New York Times– bestselling author of Death on BlackheathLord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn't Inspector Thomas Pitt's usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the m
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Southampton Row

A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

de Anne Perry ...

Series Libro 22 - Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so enflamed that Thomas Pitt, shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered not to solve a crime but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidate—and Pitt’s archenemy—is Charles Voisey. The Liberal candidate is Aubrey Serracold, whose wife’s dalliance with spiritualism ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so enflamed that Thomas Pitt, shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered not to solve a crime but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidate—and Pitt’s archenemy—is Charles Voisey. The Liberal candidate is Aubrey Serracold, whose wife’s dalliance with spiritualism
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Audiolibro

Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Irish

The top ten short stories written by Irish authors.

de Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Katharine Tynan, Mary Anne Hoare, Somerville and Ross ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

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6 hora 8 minutos

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Her Dark Materials - Volume 1

Louisa May Alcott to Rebecca Harding Davis

de Louisa May Alcott, Alice and Claude Askew, Mary Anne Atherstone, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Louisa Baldwin, Barbara Baynton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Stella Benson, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, D K Broster, Rhoda Broughton, Katharine Butler, Mary Butts, Fernan Caballeron, Willa Cather, Mary Cholmonderly, Mrs Craik, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine Crowe, Ella D'Arcy, Rebecca Harding Davies ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow, Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe ...

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11 hora 24 minutos

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Leer más

$24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
... Leer más
Understanding Inequality

The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

de Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Leer más

$47.99 USD

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work
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