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Brand: Georgiana Els;ian Reed;vanessa Mawer
EAN: 9781138832664
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This book provides events management students with an accessible and essential introduction to project management.\n\nWritten by both academics and industry experts, Events Project Management offers a unique blend of theory and practice to encourage and contextualise project management requirements within events settings. Key questions include: What is project management? How does it connect to events management? What is effective project management within the events sector? How does academic theory connect to practice? The book is coherently structured into 12 chapters covering crucial event management topics such as stakeholders, supply chain management, project management tools and techniques, and financial and legal issues. Guides, templates, case study examples, industry tips and activity tasks are integrated in the text and online to show practice and aid knowledge.\n\nWritten in an engaging style, this text offers the reader a thorough understanding of how to successfully project manage an event from the creative idea to the concrete product. It is essential reading for all events management students.

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Brand: Georgiana Keable;dawne Mcfarlane
EAN: 9781912480388
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Georgiana Spencer Cavendish
EAN: 9788893802680
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Luci ingannevoli e tetre ombre si susseguono nel romanzo epistolare di una giovane nobildonna, Georgiana Cavendish, duchessa del Devonshire, che prende spunto dalle proprie delusioni per raccontare le disavventure di una coetanea, una ragazza originaria del Galles che, dopo il matrimonio con il dissoluto Lord Stanley, sembra destinata a perdersi nel gorgo della più deleteria mondanità londinese. Sarà un misterioso sedicente \"spirito dell'aria\" a redimerla e a introdurla, come un autentico mistagogo, ai misteri dell'animo umano, prima di rivelare la propria identità e di realizzare, così, la felicità di entrambi. Lo spirito dell'aria (1779), scritto con uno stile limpido ed elegante, ispirato ai modelli dei gradi maestri, da Richardson a Rousseau, ritrae dall'interno (cosa rara) l'aristocrazia georgiana della seconda metà del Settecento e offre un impietoso ritratto dei suoi costumi e delle sue dissolutezze. Le moderne edizioni inglesi e americane hanno consentito, dopo quasi due secoli di oblio, di riscoprire l'importanza di un'opera, qui presentata per la prima volta in traduzione italiana, il cui successo dipese dal fatto che dichiarava apertamente il tratto più caratteristico della nobiltà inglese del tempo: la più completa e spudorata mancanza di cuore.

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Brand: Georgiana Mccall
EAN: 9780764321511
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Hattie Carnegie's life story surpasses that of Cinderella in that it is true. Born in 1886, she went from being a destitute Macy's messenger girl who owned three blouses and one skirt to controlling, at its high point, a ten-million-dollar empire. Her five companies included custom and ready-to-wear clothing, hats, perfume, and fabulous costume jewelry. For decades, her personal taste and fashion sense influenced the styles worn by countless American women. Today, Hattie Carnegie's jewelry is what has lasted, and this groundbreaking book showcases the full range of designs -- from glamorous rhinestone bracelets to exotic Oriental pins. Over 480 stunning color photos illustrate earrings, necklaces, sets, pins, and bracelets produced from the 1920s to the 1970s. Historical background, jewelry marks and signatures, current values, and collector tips are all included. Many have heard the name Hattie Carnegie, but until now her story has remained a silent secret. With this engaging book, collectors can finally enjoy a look at Hattie Carnegie's fascinating life as well as the beautiful jewelry that serves as her legacy.

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Brand: Georgiana Keable
EAN: 9781907359804
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Georgiana Keable introduces us to a staggering wealth of world stories all about nature and our role as humans in it. These are traditional stories that have stood the test of time. They often speak of something universal or enduring about our experience and relationship with nature. Culturally diverse and all told with great energy and panache, the stories will engage young readers and encourage them to become natural storytellers.\n\n\n\nThe book includes several storymaps to help the reader think visually about stories as well as other ways to remember the different stages that make up each tale. The author also reflects on the heart of each tale, what it's about, and whether there is a way the reader can turn their own experience into a story. Each section has a practical activity that can be undertaken individually or as a group.\n\n\n\nThe author's message is clear: the resources needed for Natural Storytelling are abundantly around us - nature and our imagination.

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Brand: Dr. Sanlyn Buxner;pamela Gay;georgiana Kramer
EAN: 9780241529065
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Discover the mysteries of Earth's closest neighbour in this incredible guide to the Moon. \n\nThis charming book is the perfect introduction for young readers who want to learn about every aspect of the moon. The Moon features breakdowns of the Moon's formation and geography, the lunar phases, a history of NASA's Apollo missions, the Moon's effect on Earth's tides and nocturnal animals, recent scientific discoveries, and so much more!\n\nThis fascinating guide introduces 7-9 year olds to the moon's past, present, and future, through stunning illustrations, photographs, and fascinating information. Packed with mind-blowing facts, this incredible book of the moon is perfect for space lovers everywhere.\n\nExplore this wonderful book about the moon, featuring:\n\n- In-depth information, backed up by space photography, probe images, illustrations, and fun diagrams\n- Stunning dreamy illustrations, making this title a perfect gift, as well as a solid reference book\n- Easy-to-digest sections, each filled with incredible facts and visuals\n- The entire subject of the Moon - including its formation and geography, the lunar phases, a history of NASA's Apollo missions, its effect on Earth's tides and nocturnal animals, plenty of recent scientific discoveries, and more!\n\nBoasting beautiful illustrations by artist Dawn Cooper, combined with up-to-date images from space agencies such as NASA and ESA, info panels, timelines, and diagrams, that help demystify and explain the wonder of the Moon, this is the perfect book for young readers.

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Brand: Stephen Skinner;rafal T. Prinke;georgiana Hedesan
EAN: 9781786782052
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A magnificent edition of Splendor Solis for all those interested in alchemy, magic and mysterious manuscripts. Popularly attributed to the legendary figure Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis (‘Splendour of the Sun’) is the most beautiful alchemical manuscript ever made, with 22 fabulous illustrations rich in allegorical and mystical symbolism. The paintings are given a fitting showcase in this new Watkins edition, which accompanies them with Joscelyn Godwin’s excellent contemporary translation of the original 16th-century German text, as well as interpretation from alchemical experts Stephen Skinner and Georgiana Hedesan, and from Rafal T. Prinke, an authority in central and Eastern European esoteric manuscripts. \n\nStephen Skinner explains the symbolism of both the text and the illustrations, suggesting that together they describe the physical process of the alchemical transmutation of base metal into gold. Rafal T. Prinke explains the theories about the authorship of both text and illustrations, discussing Splendor Solis as the turning point in alchemical iconography passing from the medieval tradition to that of the Baroque and the reasons for the misattribution of Splendor Solis to Poysel and Trismosin. Georgiana Hedesan looks at the legendary figure of Salomon Trismosin and his creation by followers of Theophrastus Paracelsus as part of an attempt to integrate their master in a lineage of ancient alchemical philosophers. The images are taken from the British Library manuscript Harley 3469, the finest example of the Splendor Solis to survive.

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Brand: Naomi Bonasia
EAN: 9788833666167
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Londra 1840. Rebecca e Georgiana hanno solo sedici anni, ma il loro destino appare già segnato. Una è fuoco e fiamme, l'altra dolcezza e compassione. Nessuna delle due desidera la vita che i genitori vogliono imporre loro. In un'epoca in cui essere se stessi è un delitto l'amicizia tra due donne può rappresentare la strada per la libertà.

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Brand: Michael Forsyth
EAN: 9780300101775
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This delightful book is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Bath, England’s finest Georgian city. Full of new discoveries and lively descriptions of the city’s notable buildings, the book follows in the great tradition of the Pevsner series. It features superb, specially taken color illustrations throughout and numerous easy-to-use walking maps.\n\nThe great set-pieces of Bath—the famous Pump Room, The Circus, Royal Crescent—are embedded in a graceful urban landscape developed by a long succession of gifted local architects. The city’s Roman roots are represented by the remains of its extraordinary baths, its medieval prosperity by the splendid Abbey. Exquisite villas and terraces on the surrounding hills add further variety. For all who share an interest in the buildings of Bath—from architect to historian, tourist to armchair traveler—this is an irresistible volume.

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Brand: Ben Townsend
EAN: 9781914059124
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The second part of an investigation into the clothing orders of the late-Georgian British Army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army - comparing the regulated dress with the 'modes of the army' as revealed by contemporary writing and illustrations. \n \nThe first quarter of the nineteenth century witnessed a refinement of fashionable masculine dress that has not since been surpassed. Military tailoring inspired a flowering of uniform splendour that continued into the 1830s and sparked an enduring fascination with military costume that still rages today. The army that operated in these cumbersome uniforms managed to achieve fame as one of the most effective British fighting forces ever recognised, and is still remembered and honoured for its achievements. These three strands: the flowering of late Georgian civilian tailoring; of its martial equivalent; and of military excellence on campaign, have gripped the interest and the imagination of the public, and are endlessly revived and recycled through popular culture, on television, film, through books and all of the other new media. \n \nThe reader then might properly ask why another book on uniforms of this period is necessary. Quite simply, it is because the amount of material available to the researcher has increased exponentially since the advent of the internet, especially in regard to the now widely available digital archive files of institutional collections. The huge amount of accessible material makes the task of assembling accurate information much longer and much harder, but the results are consequentially more satisfying and accurate than hitherto. \n \nThis, the second of two books on the topic, pays particular attention to the 'Prince's Regulations,' of 1812, which exhibit the full extent of the Prince Regent's excursions into military taste.

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Brand: Alexander Mccall Smith
EAN: 9780349139418
Categoria: Libri e riviste

BOOK ONE IN THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIES\n\nIsabel Dalhousie knows that behind Edinburgh's Georgian facades, its moral compasses spin with greed, dishonesty and lust. As a philosopher, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and founder of the Sunday Philosophy Club, her business is to map the intricacies of human behaviour. But when she sees a man tumble from the balcony at the Usher Hall, it's her instinct that tells her strongly that he didn't fall: he was pushed. \n\nIsabel turns amateur sleuth in a bid to solve the mystery of the falling man, and what she lacks in official status she makes up for in contacts and informants, including her housekeeper Grace, her beautiful niece Cat, and Cat's ex-boyfriend Jamie, whose charms are causing Isabel to review her own ethics.\n\nPRAISE FOR THE ISABEL DALHOUSIE NOVELS:\n\n'Isabel Dalhousie's charm is undeniable' Sunday Times\n\n'The No. 2 Lady Detective . . . anyone who loves Precious cannot fail to be charmed' Mail on Sunday\n\n'Delightful . . . McCall Smith is a writer who celebrates kindness, in short supply in the world today' Sunday Telegraph\n\n'McCall Smith's greatest gift as a writer - and God knows this is just one of many - is that he can write likeable characters' New Statesman

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Brand: Rhys Bowen
EAN: 9781472120700
Categoria: Libri e riviste

1930s London. Poor Lady Georgiana - thirty-fourth in line to the throne - has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there's the matter of the body in the bookshop and the princess's unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It's enough to drive a girl mad.

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Brand: Catherine Bailey
EAN: 9780141019239
Categoria: Libri e riviste

An extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty\n\n Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family.\n\n England's forgotten palace, it belonged to Britain's richest aristocrats. Black Diamonds tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part. But coal, one of the most emotive issues in twentieth century British politics, lies at its heart.\n\n This is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of English society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth century.\n\n 'Magnificent . . . peels back the grand façade of Wentworth to reveal a family riven with fueds, mental illness and forbidden love' Tatler\n\n 'A compelling new history . . . fascinating insights into the dynasty that once ruled this Yorkshire roost' Daily Mail\n\n 'An aristocratic tale of epic proportions, this gripping novel cleverly interweaves interviews, letters and historical fact . . . Fascinating' Easy Living

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Brand: Cherie Dimaline
EAN: 9781250842657
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Mary Lennox didn’t think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met.\n\nAt first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange people - most of whom are Indigenous self-named 'halfbreeds' - may be what she can finally call home.

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Brand: Frederick Oughton
EAN: 9780854420827
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A study of woodcarving from the earliest times to the Georgian period, with an emphasis on the role of carvers and their work for the Crown over several hundred years. The central figure is Grinling Gibbons, who is exemplified by his work at St Paul's Cathedral, Windsor Castle, Petworth House, Hampton Court Palace and other historic houses. It includes his business dealings with Sir Christopher Wren and John Evelyn, and is illustrated with reproductions of contemporary documents, photographs of period carvings and drawings of ornamental carving styles.

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Brand: Rhys Bowen
EAN: 9781472120816
Categoria: Libri e riviste

As thirty-fifth in line for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch may not be the most sophisticated young woman, but she knows her table manners. It's forks on the left, knives on the right, not in His Majesty's back.\n\nHere I am thinking the education I received at my posh Swiss finishing school would never come in handy. And while it hasn't landed me a job, or a husband, it has convinced Her Majesty the Queen, and the Dowager Duchess to enlist my help. I have been entrusted with grooming Jack Altringham, the Duke's newly discovered heir fresh from the Outback of Australia, for high society.\n\nThe upside is I am to live in luxury at one of England's most gorgeous stately homes. But upon arrival at Kingsdowne Place, my dearest Darcy has been sent to fetch Jack, leaving me stuck in a manor full of miscreants, none of whom are too pleased with the discovery of my new ward.\n\nAnd no sooner has the lad been retrieved than the Duke announces he wants to choose his own heir. With the house in a hubbub over the news, Jack's hunting knife somehow finds its way into the Duke's back. Eyes fall, backs turn, and fingers point to the young heir. As if the rascal wasn't enough of a handful, now he's suspected of murder. Jack may be wild, but I'd bet the crown jewels it wasn't he who killed the Duke

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Brand: Andrew Graham Stables
EAN: 9781445683911
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Richmond is one of the most scenic towns in Britain, well known for its magnificent castle, bustling marketplace and Georgian Theatre Royal, while Swaledale is one of the country's most beautiful and inspirational rural areas.Secret Richmond & Swaledale looks beyond the familiar to discover the lesser-known parts of the town and the surrounding area's long and illustrious past. Local author Andrew Graham Stables takes the reader on an enlightening and entertaining journey through the past, delving beneath the surface to reveal dark deeds and strange tales with long-forgotten facts and amusing stories. This book will lift the lid on the hidden secrets that even most local people don't know.

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Brand: Gillian Veal
EAN: 9781739174026
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The Parlour Café Cookbook won awards when it was published over 10 years ago and went on to become a cult classic. This new, updated edition transports us to the lush Georgian walled garden at Cambo House in Fife where Gillian now runs the café and takes inspiration from the abundant supply of wonderful fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers that grow there.\n\n\n\nCafé Cooking features over 30 new recipes as well as revisiting many of the old favourites to reflect how Gillian’s cooking has evolved. From the most delicious brunch dishes to hearty soups, tangy salads, mouth-watering mains and irresistible cakes and tarts, these recipes will just as happily feed a family as delight a dinner party.\n\n\n\nChapters include: Breakfast, Brunch and Eggs; Breads and Sandwiches; Soups; Dips, Mezze and Salads; Tarts and Pastries; Mains; Sweet Things; Drinks; Dressings, Sauces and Flavourings.

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Brand: Clare Hickman
EAN: 9780300236101
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation\n \n As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

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Brand: Kurban Said
EAN: 9788804764663
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Alla vigilia della Prima guerra mondiale, nella cosmopolita Baku – «la città europea più a est del mondo» –, il giovane azero musulmano Ali Khan Shirvanshir si innamora di Nino Kipiani, una principessa georgiana cristiano-ortodossa. L'appassionante, delicata e talora fiabesca vicenda dei due giovani deve però fare i conti con l'irrompere della Storia: l'incrinarsi dell'impero degli zar porta con sé la rottura dell'equilibrio e della pacifica convivenza tra etnie e religioni. E a cascata, il risorgere di antichi tabù provoca laceranti, profonde incomprensioni, mentre il nascere di sentimenti nazionalisti suscita conflitti, ai quali anche Ali prenderà parte combattendo per l'indipendenza del suo popolo. Vero e proprio «classico moderno», Ali e Nino (il sottotitolo precisa: Una storia d'amore ) riesce a non perdere mai la sua delicatezza di danza che unisce Occidente e Oriente, intrecciando modernità e radici profonde della cultura azera.

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Brand: Andrew Graham
EAN: 9781445674087
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From its earliest days as a Roman legionary fortress, through the Middle Ages when the town grew as a major trading centre and became Henry VIII's northern capital; through the grandeur and decadence of Georgian York and into the nineteenth century when the city became an important railway hub, confectionery manufacturer and pioneer of social housing, to its current status as a majour tourist destination and sustainable city, York has a proud and distinctive identity. This extraordinary history is embodied in the rich architecture that has shaped this beautifully preserved city, famed for its Gothic cathedral.\n\nYork in 50 Buildings explores the history of York through a selection of its greatest architectural treasures. From the magnificent medieval York Minster to the first neoclassical building in Europe, this unique study celebrates York's architectural heritage in a new and accessible way. Local architectural historian and photographer Andrew Graham guides the reader on a tour of the city's historic buildings and modern architectural projects.

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Brand: Angela Barton
EAN: 9781781894590
Categoria: Libri e riviste

When you open up your home and your heart ...\nRowan Forrester has it all - the happy marriage, the adorable dog, the good friends, the promising business and even the dream home after she and her husband Tom win a stunning but slightly dilapidated Georgian townhouse in London at auction.\nBut in the blink of an eye, Rowan's picture-perfect life comes crashing down around her and she is faced with the prospect of having to start again.\nTo make ends meet she begins a search for housemates, and in doing so opens the door to new friends and new beginnings. But could she be opening the door to new heartbreak too?

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Brand: Felicity George
EAN: 9781398718845
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'A gorgeous, captivating Regency romance' SOPHIE IRWIN on A Courtesan's Worth\n\nJohn might be a catch for any debutante, but Georgiana is no lady . . .\n\nGeorgiana Bailey is making her debut, but she's not looking for a husband. Her heart is finally on the mend and she's on the search for a wealthy benefactor to fund her charity home instead.\n\nJohn Tyrold has made a fortune, but he's not in the business of charity. Until his young ward, Flora, runs away, forcing him to seek help from the ravishing and secretive debutante, Georgiana. In return, he'll help save her from her money troubles.\n\nBut being so close to the infuriating - and frustratingly handsome - John isn't as easy as Georgiana would like. Especially once feelings - that certainly weren't a part of their negotiations - begin to arise. \n\nAnd for all his expertise, John's never quite understood matters of the heart . . .

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Brand: Ian Mortimer
EAN: 9781784705961
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times\n\nA time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England.\n\nThis is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo. It was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality.\n\nAnd like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions - where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion.\n\nThis is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience. This is Ian Mortimer at the height of his time-travelling prowess.\n\n'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality' Daily Mail

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Brand: Orhan Pamuk
EAN: 9788806186180
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Investita da una tormenta di neve, la città è un miscuglio di etnie e fazioni politiche. Ci sono turchi, curdi, georgiani, nazionalisti laici e integralisti religiosi. C'è la polizia segreta, c'è l'esercito e ci sono i terroristi islamici. Ka inizia la sua indagine, mentre la neve continua a cadere e le strade vengono chiuse. Kars è isolata. In città, Ka rivede dopo diversi anni Ipek, una compagna di università molto bella. Ka se ne innamora e sogna di portarla con sé in Germania. Per realizzare questo sogno, farà di tutto. La situazione precipita quando una compagnia di teatro mette in scena un dramma degli anni Venti, scritto in sostegno della laicità dello Stato fondato da Atatùrk, dove una donna, coraggiosamente, brucia il chador in pubblico. Durante lo spettacolo alcuni giovani del liceo religioso inscenano una protesta. E la serata finisce nel sangue. Ka viene coinvolto suo malgrado. È uno spettatore imparziale, ma molto confuso. Non sa nemmeno rispondere alla domanda: credi in Dio? Sostiene che a Kars ha ritrovato Allah, ma poi l'unica cosa che gli interessa è la ricerca, molto occidentale, della felicità. Il dilemma di Ka ruota intorno al confronto tra Occidente e Islam.

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Brand: Lonely Planet;fionn Davenport;isabel Albiston
EAN: 9781788688345
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Ireland's Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features 34 amazing drives, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. Explore Dublin's rich Georgian heritage, go pub-hopping in Connemara, and marvel at Dingle's unadulterated beauty. Get to Ireland, rent a car, and hit the road!\n\n Inside Lonely Planet's Ireland's Best Road Trips:\n\n Itineraries for classic road trips plus other lesser-known drives with expert advice to pick the routes that suit your interests and needs \nFull-colour route maps - easy-to-read, detailed directions\nDetours - delightful diversions to see the Ireland's highlights along the way\n\n Link Your Trip - cruise from one driving route to the next\n\n Insider tips - get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads\nStretch Your Legs - the best things to do outside the car\n\n Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices\n\n Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss\nLavish colour photography provides inspiration throughout\n\n Covers Dublin, the Boyne Valley, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork, Connemara, Donegal, Derry, the Antrim Coast, and more!\n\n \n\n\n\n The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Ireland's Best Road Trips is perfect for exploring Ireland via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car.\n\n Planning an Irish trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's Ireland, our most comprehensive guide to Ireland, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems.\n\n Looking for a guide focused on a specific city? Check out Lonely Planet's Dublin guide for a comprehensive look at all that this city has to offer, or Pocket Dublin, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.\n\n About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day.\n\n 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times\n\n 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

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Brand: Simon Jenkins
EAN: 9780241985359
Categoria: Libri e riviste

LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And having risen from the rubble of the Blitz, it is now one of the greatest cities in the world.\n\nFrom the prehistoric occupants of the Thames Valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London's history to create a matchless portrait of the capital. He masterfully explains the battles that determined how London was conceived and built - and especially the perennial conflict between money and power.\n\nBased in part on his experiences of and involvement in the events that shaped the post-war city, and with his trademark colour and authority, Jenkins shows above all how London has taken shape over more than two thousand years. Fascinating for locals and visitors alike, this is narrative history at its finest, from the most ardent protector of our heritage.\n\n'A handsome book ... full of the good judgements one might hope for from such a sensible and readable commentator, and they alone are worth perusing for pleasure and food for thought' Michael Wood, New Statesman on A Short History of England\n\n'Any passably cultured inhabitant of the British Isles should ask for, say, three or four copies of this book for Christmas...I can imagine no better companion on a voyage across England' Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph on England's Thousand Best Houses

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Brand: Howard Pyle
EAN: 9791222471051
Categoria: Libri e riviste

L'avventurosa vita di Jack Ballister mirabilmente narrata dalla straordinaria e assai suggestiva penna di Howard Pyle. Inevitabilmente ci si ritroverà nell'Inghilterra georgiana del diciottesimo secolo, nelle neonate colonie americane, nella Virginia costiera, nelle piantagioni di tabacco, a bordo di vascelli comandati da ufficiali coraggiosi, parteciperemo alle scellerate imprese del pirata Barbanera, soffriremo, ci emozioneremo per un paio di cuori trepidanti che cercheranno di sfuggire a una sorte che il destino beffardo ha per loro, perfidamente preparato. Ma leggere Jack Ballister è molto di più: è un viaggio nel nostro “io” più profondo! In questo eccezionale capolavoro letterario, Pyle riesce davvero a trasportarci lì e grazie alla sua coinvolgente prosa non solo ci regala una descrizione della vita, ma ci fornisce la chiave per aprire tutte le porte che la compongono; per questo motivo Jack Ballister è un libro che tutti dovrebbero leggere, grandi e piccoli, perché se al mondo c'è una verità che caratterizza la nostra esistenza, di certo essa si trova magistralmente descritta proprio tra queste pagine.

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Brand: Elizabeth Davey
EAN: 9780750955522
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Birkenhead is essentially a 19th-century ‘new town’, its planned grid of streets still stretching westwards from the Georgian elegance of Hamilton Square. Two hundred years ago it did not exist. The settlement, such as it was, consisted of a mere scatter of farmhouses and cottages, which supported a population in 1801 of just 17 families living in 16 houses. Yet this tiny community lying on the east shore of Wirral was not entirely a backwater. The mid-12th century had seen the foundation of a Benedictine priory, while half a century later, in 1207, the granting of letters patent to Liverpool brought ever-increasing activity to the Mersey. The ferry meant there was plenty of coming and going, and local farmers, fisherfolk and ferrymen lived far from mundane lives. The catalyst for change was the introduction of a steam ferry service, and by the end of Victoria’s reign the town numbered over 110,000 inhabitants. It gained its first MP in 1861 and became a borough in its own right in 1877. The docks first opened in 1847 and the great shipbuilding firm of Cammell Laird provided a backdrop to the town’s spectacular growth. Birkenhead had the country’s first publicly funded park, designed by Joseph Paxton, the first street tramway and, with the Mersey Rail Tunnel, the first underwater railway in Europe. Today, although shipbuilding has ceased and activity in the docks has declined, much of the legacy of this magnificent past has survived. This fully illustrated new account sheds light on Birkenhead’s fascinating heritage and traces the town’s development from its earliest years. Based on a wide range of local and national sources, it provides a readable and accessible narrative, which will be welcomed by all those keen to know Birkenhead better.

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Brand: Christopher Horlock
EAN: 9781445689562
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Brighton has grown from a fashionable resort in Georgian times, and a popular place to visit for Londoners once the railways arrived in Sussex in the nineteenth century, to today’s lively conurbation on the south coast. In this book, local historian Christopher Horlock charts the changing face of Brighton from the end of the Victorian era to the present day. Not only are many famous lost landmarks recorded, such as the Chain and West piers, Hanningtons department store and the SS Brighton ice rink, but also industrial premises, churches, schools, theatres and cinemas, plus trams, trolleybuses and branch railways.\n\nLost Brighton presents a portrait of a city and a way of life that has radically changed or disappeared today, showing not just the buildings, streets and industries that have gone or changed, but also a way of life. This fascinating photographic history of lost Brighton will appeal to all those who live in the city or know it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.

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