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

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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 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 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 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: E. C. Bateman
EAN: 9780008564919
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman!\n \n Murder stalks the cobbles in England’s finest Georgian town…\n \n\n\n When an accident forces Felicia Grant back to her family’s auction house in Stamford, she vows it’ll only be a flying visit. But as the gavel falls on the final lot, a hidden secret is revealed—the body of her father’s business rival, murdered during the packed sale!\n\n\n Soon, Felicia is swept into a mystery that has everyone in the community as a potential suspect?including her.\n\n\n As the body count rises and with the people she loves under threat, Felicia takes matters into her own hands. But even the most picturesque place has its secrets…\n\n\n \n Cover illustrated by local Stamford illustrator Katie Cardew. Discover more at www.katiecardew.com\n \n\n\n Cosy crime readers are loving E.C. Bateman:\n ‘Ideal for fans of Richard Osman’s books…Beautifully set in the gorgeous Stamford, this murder mystery will keep you guessing as the bodies stack up! Full of red herrings, twists and turns, wonderful characters and fabulous houses’ ?????\n\n\n ‘Set in the historic town of Stamford, this murder set in the antiques trade is a brilliantly plotted mystery’ ?????\n\n\n ‘A thoroughly enjoyable cosy murder mystery… I’m pleased to see this is the start of a series, I’m looking forward to the next book already!’ ?????\n\n\n ‘Mystery and intrigue…written by a talented and gifted author’ ?????\n\n\n ‘An absorbing murder mystery…Lots of interesting information about Antique auctions was a added bonus’ ?????\n\n\n ‘A fun read that kept me reading through to the end…certainly held my attention with a group of interesting characters, any one of which might have been a multiple murderer’ ?????

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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: 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: 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: 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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EAN: 9783031388125
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies, concentrating on the later Stuart queens from the restoration of King Charles II (who married Catherine of Braganza in 1662) until the death of Maria Clementina Sobieska in 1735, who was married to James Francis Edward Stuart, the titular King James III, otherwise known as the Old Pretender. It showcases these women’s roles as queen consorts and as ruling queens in Britain and Europe, and reveals how their positions allowed them to act as power-brokers, diplomats, patrons, and religious trendsetters during their lifetimes. It also explores their impact in early modern Britain and Europe by assessing their influence in religion, political culture, and the promotion of patronage.

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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: 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: Alan Spree
EAN: 9781398116061
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The spa town of Bath has drawn visitors since the Roman’s built baths and a temple at the site of hot springs in the Avon valley. Bath Abbey was founded in the seventh century but it was in the eighteenth century that the town became the fashion centre of England. Bath’s Georgian architecture is one of its chief glories today but the city has seen many changes in the intervening years, not least the destruction caused by aerial bombardment during the Second World War. Post-war years saw new housing and commercial redevelopment in the city, museums opened, fresh industries established and the expansion of its two universities.\n\nIn Bath: The Postcard Collection author Alan Spree has drawn on a remarkable selection of old postcards to give a pictorial record of life in Bath in the past. Although some of historical Bath seen in these views has been lost, many landmarks have remained and will be familiar today. This fascinating collection of images will be of interest to those who have lived in Bath or know it well.

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Brand: Rhys Bowen
EAN: 9781408718285
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O'Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . .\n\nI am a bit at loose ends at the moment. My cook, Queenie, is making my new role as mistress of Eynsleigh something akin to constant torture as Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts. And Grandad is busy helping wayward youths avoid lives of crime. So when my dearest friend, Belinda, inherits an old cottage in Cornwall and begs me to go with her to inspect the property, I jump at the chance.\n\nAfter a heart-stopping journey in Belinda's beast of a motorcar, we arrive at the creaky old cottage called White Sails and quickly realize that it is completely uninhabitable. Just when I'm starting to wonder if I would have been better off trying to get Queenie to cook a roast that hasn't been burnt beyond all recognition, we meet Rose Summers, a woman Belinda knew as a child when she spent time in Cornwall. Rose invites us to stay at Trewoma Hall, the lovely estate now owned by her husband, Tony.\n\nBelinda confesses that she never liked Rose and had a fling with Tony years ago, so staying with them is far from ideal but beggars can't be choosers as they say. Trewoma is not the idyllic house Belinda remembers. There's something claustrophobic and foreboding about the place. Matters aren't helped by the oppressively efficient housekeeper Mrs. Mannering or by the fact that Tony seems to want to rekindle whatever he and Belinda once had right under his wife's nose.\n\nOur increasingly awkward visit soon turns deadly when a member of the household is found murdered and all clues point to Belinda as the prime suspect. I soon learn that some long buried secrets have come back to haunt those in residence at Trewoma Hall and I'll need to sift through the ruins of their past so Belinda doesn't lose her chance at freedom in the present. . . .

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Brand: Clare Hartwell;nikolaus Pevsner
EAN: 9780300126679
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The landscapes of Lancashire range from the shores of Morecambe Bay and the wild Forest of Bowland in the north to the coastal flatlands and Pennine mill towns in the south. Lancaster, the historic county town, boasts some of the finest Georgian buildings in northern England, while Blackpool is unrivaled anywhere for spectacular seaside architecture. \n\n \n\nLancashire treats each city, town, and village in the county in a detailed gazetteer. An expert general introduction provides a historical and artistic overview. Numerous maps and plans, over a hundred new color photographs, full indexes, and an illustrated glossary help to make this book invaluable as both reference work and guide.

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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: 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: 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: Val Wood
EAN: 9780552172707
Categoria: Libri e riviste

When Georgiana Gregory and her maid, Kitty, make the long sea journey from their native Hull for New York, they hope to begin a new life in the freedom of the newly-formed United States of America. \n\nGeorgiana wants to escape from the confines of English life, and to savour a land of emancipation and opportunity. But in New York, she encounters a man passing himself off as a local mill-owner's son, Edward, who has abandoned Georgiana's sister and fled to America. Georgiana recognises the man standing before her as Edward's valet Robert - Edward himself appears to have vanished.\n\nAs Georgiana and Kitty pursue the adventures of the frontier, and Edward tries to flee his enemies, the dangers of this new country seem too much to cope with.\n\nIf you've liked books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.

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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: Lucy Mcmurdo
EAN: 9781398101456
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The London districts of Islington and Clerkenwell are charming to explore. Within their streets are the greatest variety of architectural styles, ranging from Tudor, Georgian and Victorian to modernist and contemporary twenty-first-century design.\n\nIn Islington & Clerkenwell in 50 Buildings, author Lucy McMurdo presents a well-illustrated and engaging perspective of the rich architectural heritage of both areas. Islington has a wonderful vibrancy. Its main thoroughfare of Upper Street overflows with bars, restaurants, cafes, pubs and clubs, giving rise to the nickname 'Supper Street'. Hostelries have lined this street for centuries. It was here, on the main route into the capital, that herdsmen bringing cattle and sheep to Smithfield broke their journey from the north. Until the growth of industry in the 1800s, Islington was renowned for its river, springs and meadows, and a recreational destination for hunters and archers. Industrialisation resulted in an increasing population, transforming Islington's character and replacing fields with terraced houses, Georgian squares, gin distilleries, warehouses, depots and factories.\n\nNeighbouring Clerkenwell has always been more densely populated. Until the 1530s it was famous for its monastery, priory and nunnery and, in the late 1600s, it was a haven for French Huguenot immigrants, and later refugees and workers from Ireland, Prussia and Italy. For hundreds of years the River Fleet acted as Clerkenwell's main artery and, together with the district's many springs, was a prime reason for the area's development. The French Huguenots who settled here brought skills in watchmaking, precision engineering, printing, bookbinding and weaving - many of which are still found in the area today.

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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: Cynthia Fowler
EAN: 9781350129146
Categoria: Libri e riviste

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018\n\nIn the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the forefront of the modern embroidery movement in the United States. In the first scholarly examination of their work and influence, Cynthia Fowler explores the arguments presented by these pioneering women and their collaborators for embroidery to be considered as art.\n\nUsing key exhibitions and contemporary criticism, The Modern Embroidery Movement focuses extensively on the individual work of Zorach and Brown Harbeson, casting a new light on their careers. Documenting a previously marginalised movement, Fowler brings together the history of craft, art and women's rights and firmly establishes embroidery as a significant aspect of modern art.

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Brand: Jenny Valentine
EAN: 9780007283590
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A stunning new look for the irresistible novel from Guardian-award-winning novelist, Jenny Valentine.\n\n\n Number 33 Georgiana Street houses many people and yet seems home to none. To runaway Sam it is a place to disappear. To Bohemia, it's just another blip between crises, as her mum ricochets off the latest boyfriend. Old Isobel acts like she owns the place, even though it actually belongs to Steve in the basement, who is always looking to squeeze in yet another tenant. Life there is a kind of ordered chaos. Like ants, they scurry about their business, crossing paths, following their own tracks, no questions asked.\n\n\n But it doesn't take much to upset the balance. Dig deep enough and you'll find that everyone has something to hide…

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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: 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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