1599 Year In Life Of William Shakespeare
£14.99Here is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature as we know it.
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Man’s Search For Meaning
£10.99In ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.
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Man’s Search For Meaning
In ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.
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The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England
£11.99Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, this book provides an account of the lives of genteel women in Georgian times.
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A Greek Anthology
£23.99This book offers an ideal first reader in ancient Greek for students who have already completed a beginner’s course. It presents twenty extracts from a comprehensive range of Greek authors (Homer to Plutarch). Generous help is provided with vocabulary and grammar, and brief introductions set them in their context.
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London Biography
£30.00Much of Peter Ackroyd’s work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. Previous titles by the author include T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Dan Lemo and The Limehouse Golem and Blake.
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Venice
£12.99A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as ‘La Serenissima’ – a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art. Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese are a key part of this story. Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods. In this volume, Gayford – who has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s, covered every Biennale since 1990, and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions – takes us on a visual journey through the past five centuries of the city known ‘La Serenissima’, the Most Serene.
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Guns Germs & Steel
£12.99This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world’s most explosive diversions.