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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: Laura Shepherd-robinson
EAN: 9788854523753
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Dai bordelli di Covent Garden alle eleganti case di Mayfair, Figlie della notte è un avvincente giallo storico ambientato nella Londra georgiana e, insieme, il vivido affresco di un'e¬poca in cui soprusi, vizi e bugie si annidano sotto la maschera della virtù.«Il miglior romanzo storico poliziesco di quest'anno» – The Times«Ricco di dettagli storici e dalla trama impeccabile. Laura Shepherd-Robinson è davvero la regina del giallo storico» – C.J. Tudor\"Mi chiamo Caroline Corsham\" disse. \"Credo che conosciate mio marito, il capitano Henry Corsham. Una donna è stata uccisa, signor Child, e ho bisogno del vostro aiuto\".Londra, 1782. È una tiepida sera d'agosto e i vialetti lastricati dei Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens sono gremiti di londinesi che passeggiano allegramente sotto le stelle. L'animo gravato da un doloroso segreto, il cappuccio del mantello ben calato sulla testa, Caroline Corsham, moglie del Capitano Henry Corsham, si addentra nel Dark Walk, un sentiero stretto tra gli alberi, dove ha appuntamento con una nobildonna italiana, Lucia di Caracciolo, che ha promesso di aiutarla. Lungo il sentiero incrocia una figura singolare, un uomo con un cappotto nero e una maschera da medico della peste, che procede a passo spedito nella direzione opposta. Giunta sul luogo dell'incontro, una scena raccapricciante si schiude davanti ai suoi occhi: l'amica è riversa a terra, ferita gravemente e agonizzante. Caro fa in tempo a raccogliere le sue ultime, misteriose parole: «Lui lo sa», prima di assistere alla sua morte. L'indomani, interrogata da Sir Amos Fox, giudice di Bow Street, scopre con sgomento che la donna che credeva amica non era affatto una nobildonna italiana, né si chiamava Lucia di Caracciolo. Tra i pergolati di Vauxhall e nelle taverne e nei caffè di Londra era nota come Lucy Loveless, il nome di una prostituta d'alto bordo. Benché profondamente turbata, quando Sir Amos Fox liquida il caso come una faccenda di poca importanza, Caro insorge. Racconta dell'uomo col cappotto nero, del documento macchiato di sangue che giaceva accanto a Lucy e che sembra svanito nel nulla, ma le sue parole cadono nel vuoto. A Bow Street non si curano certo della morte di una giovane donna nota come prostituta. Caro decide allora di affidarsi a Peregrine Child. Ex giudice di Deptford, Child in passato ha goduto di prestigio e rispetto. Ora è ufficialmente un detective privato ridotto a dar la bassa lega e a perdere tempo tra i balordi del Red Lion, una taverna di furfanti da tempo immemorabile. Che il caso di Lucy Loveless, un caso che sembra celare un intricato mondo di artifici, inganni e vite segrete, possa rappresentare, finalmente, il suo riscatto?

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Brand: Ben Townsend
EAN: 9781914059117
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This book is the first part of a two-volume investigation into the clothing orders of the British late Georgian 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 parallel 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.

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Brand: Rachel Halliburton
EAN: 9780715653319
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In The Optickal Illusion, Rachel Halliburton's meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy. \n\n\n\nHer debut novel questions the lengths women must go to make their mark on a society that seeks to underplay their abilities - a theme only too relevant today. It is three years from the dawn of a new century and in London, nothing is certain any more: the future of the monarchy is in question, the city is aflame with right and left-wing conspiracies, and the French could invade any day.\n\n\n\nAgainst this feverish atmosphere, the American painter Benjamin West is visited by a strange father and daughter, the Provises, who claim they have a secret that has obsessed painters for centuries: the Venetian techniques of master painter Titian. West was once the most celebrated painter in London, but hasn't produced anything of note in years so against his better judgment he agrees to let the intriguing Ann Jemima Provis visit his studio and demonstrate what she knows. What unravels reveals more than he has ever understood - about himself, about the treachery of the art world and the seductive promise of genius. The nature of truth itself is called into question in this story of envy, lust and corruption.

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Brand: Rhys Bowen
EAN: 9781408718322
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, her beau, and her mother in this mystery in the Royal Spyness series.\n\n\nWhen royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch receives a letter from her dearest friend Belinda, who's in an Italian villa awaiting the birth of her illegitimate baby, she yearns to run to her side. If only she could find a way to get there! But then opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way-her cousin the queen asks her to attend a house party in the Italian Lake Country. The Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding.\n\n\nWhat luck! A chance to see Belinda, even if it is under the guise of stopping unwanted nuptials. Only that's as far as Georgie's fortune takes her. She soon discovers that she attended finishing school with the hostess of the party-and the hatred they had for each other then has barely dimmed. Plus, she needs to hide Belinda's delicate condition from the other guests. And her dashing beau, Darcy's (naturally) working undercover on a dangerous mission. Then her actress mother shows up, with a not-so-little task to perform. With all this subterfuge, it seems something is bound to go horribly wrong-and Georgie will no doubt be left to pick up the pieces when it does.

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Brand: Al Campbell
EAN: 9781913062934
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Kew Gardens 1771. Five strong women, trapped by Georgian convention, together rise to the challenges of espionage, smuggling, and slavery, to find happiness and freedom.\n\nWhen botanical artist Daisy Salter meets pre-eminent Georgian scientist Joseph Banks and not only becomes Artist in Residence at Kew Gardens, but 'Lady-in-Painting' to Queen Charlotte, she gets a new start. However, whilst expecting a quiet and studious life, Daisy not only learns about plant hunting from botanist friend Rupert Fitzgerald but is unwittingly inveigled into espionage, tea smuggling and the 'triangular trade' by mysterious Dutchman Johannes Van der Humm.\nWhen a fabulous flower is discovered in South Africa and sent back to Kew for the Queen's birthday, the women little guess it offers a route to freedom. But only if Daisy can foil a plot to steal it from under the King's nose. Who is friend and who is foe? Can she work out whom to trust before disaster strikes? And who will she choose to marry?\nSet in an incredibly exciting period of history, The Daisy Chain is a pacy debut novel. If you like historical fiction mixed with gardening, art, adventure, espionage, skulduggery, smuggling, the slave trade and romance, buy your copy today.\n\nRead it on holiday, read it in the garden, or read it in bed - but don't miss it!

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Brand: Emanuele Termini
EAN: 9788898848072
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Tra i turisti che sbarcano dai \"mostri bianchi\" e i veneziani che si tengono stretta la loro città, riusciremo forse a scoprire se nel 1907 il bolscevico è davvero stato lì.\r\n«Un singolare racconto-reportage che parla di una comparsa, di una velata ombra a Venezia» – Il Venerdì\r\nNel 1907, un giovane georgiano anarchico, che combatte a suo modo contro l'Impero russo di Nicola II, decide di intraprendere un lungo e tortuoso viaggio clandestino. Obiettivo: arrivare a Berlino per incontrare segretamente Lenin. Nascosto nella sala macchine di un cargo che trasporta grano, parte da Odessa e sbarca ad Ancona. Da lì, con l'aiuto degli anarchici del posto, raggiunge Venezia presentandosi alla soglia del Monastero di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, nella laguna veneta, dove sarà ospite dei padri mechitaristi. È una leggenda? Negli anni Cinquanta il giornalista italiano Gustavo Traglia cercò di scoprire le motivazioni che portarono Josif Dzugasvili in Europa, ma la pubblicazione delle sue ricerche fu ostacolata da chi preferiva tenere segreto quel viaggio. L'autore indaga sulla vicenda, insegue le poche tracce e i tanti pseudonimi che Josif dissemina lungo il suo cammino, raccoglie indizi e rintraccia le fonti. Assieme a lui torniamo ad ammirare la Venezia delle calli, dei sotoporteghi, dei ponti, dei tramonti in laguna.

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EAN: 9780319092279
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This volume sets out from Broughton Castle through the gently rolling parkland and farmland of North Oxfordshire and concludes with a full-day outing from Georgian Woodstock through and beyond the fine landscaped parkland of Blenheim to North Leigh Roman villa. Further magnificent parkland with views of grand houses can be walked at Waddesdon, Claydon, Stowe and Stonor. Countryside heritage and marvellous old buildings are a focal point at Great Coxwell, and its old tithe barn; Brill and its windmill and duck decoy; and the medieval market town of Deddington. Sections of National Trails pop up regularly throughout the book with the Thames Path at Shiplake and Hurley, the Ridgeway from near Wantage and West Ilsley; as well as chances to sample other long-distance trails such as the Chiltern Way from Pishill, and the Lambourn Valley Way, both on the Downs above the racehorse centre of Lambourn and near Donnington Castle.

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Brand: Dato Magradze
EAN: 9788866445579
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Il poemetto \"La terra feconda\" dello scrittore georgiano Dato Magradze costituisce uno dei più convinti inni elevati nei secoli al valore della poesia, intesa come strumento per \"fecondare\" l'attuale terra \"desolata\" prodotta da una società \"emporiocentrica\" e corrotta. Lo scrittore, autore delle parole dell'inno nazionale, testimonia con l'arte e con la vita la convinzione negli alti valori civili e morali ereditati da una tradizione che lega Oriente e Occidente, Atene, Gerusalemme e Bisanzio.

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Brand: Malcolm Neesam
EAN: 9781445696560
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Harrogate made its name as a spa town, after its waters were discovered in the sixteenth century. Visitors flocked to the town to try the health-giving properties of its waters over the next three centuries, and inns and hotels were built to accommodate them, a Georgian theatre for entertainment, a hospital and the Royal Pump Room. Although the heyday of the spa passed, Harrogate remains a popular town to visit as a conference centre and has been voted 'the happiest place to live in Britain'.\n\nIn this book local author Malcolm Neesam take the reader on a fascinating A-Z tour of the town's history, exploring its streets and other places, to tell the story of its buildings, places and people along the way. Fully illustrated with photographs from the past and present, A-Z of Harrogate will appeal to all those with an interest in this town in North Yorkshire.

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Brand: Paul Brown
EAN: 9780750965132
Categoria: Libri e riviste

For three centuries Portsmouth has been the leading base of the Royal Navy but the naval heritage of its port can be traced back to the Roman invasion of Britain. From the Roman walls of Portchester to the best-preserved Georgian dockyard in the world and the illustrious HMS Victory, Portsmouth is amongst the most important naval sites in the world. This fascinating book, in its new and fully revised edition, focuses on the history and present status of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as well as the magnificent ships Victory, Warrior and Mary Rose that have been preserved and are now on display at Portsmouth. Drawing on impressive original research and illustrated by a host of colourful photographs, author Paul Brown has created a concise and helpful guide to the key maritime attractions in Portsmouth and Gosport, including the Submarine Museum, the sea forts, the Gunwharf and the commercial port.

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Brand: Pöl Ó Conghaile
EAN: 9782361956264
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Scopri il santuario della Sala del massone, trova lo spazzolino di Napoleone, ammira una placca di bufala nascosta in bella vista sul ponte O'Connell, prova le dimensioni delle orme di George IV, avventurati in una capsula del tempo georgiana su Henrietta Street, attraversa il ponte sotto il quale William Rowan Hamilton ha avuto il suo “momento Eureka”, esplora un appartamento 'museo' conservato esattamente come era quasi 100 anni fa, sintonizzati sul mondo della radio vintage in una Torre Martello, individua il fiume sotterraneo di Dublino, pubblica i tuoi pensieri in una letterbox misteriosa…

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Brand: Paul L. Knox
EAN: 9781858946276
Categoria: Libri e riviste

London, a fascinating metropolis not just in terms of its history and landmark buildings, is also a city that grew out of villages. Its unique geography is expressed in a mosaic of districts, each with its own distinctive character and pedigree. London's districts, with their patchwork layout of primarily Georgian and Victorian squares and terraces juxtaposed with modern buildings and estates, reflect changing ideals in architecture, urban design and planning as well as shifting values in real estate and the insatiable thirst of its consumers. London is thus both text and context: fossilized social history, layerings of economic, social, and architectural history conveyed in stock brick, stucco, Portland stone, glass and steel. Underpinning this urban landscape is an evolutionary resilience that has maintained the basic spatial framework of the metropolis and sustained its imitable character. The city's institutional framework has been severely ruptured and reinvented time and time again after fires, bombs, floods or wholesale redevelopment.\nPolitical unrest and racial conflict have resulted in riots, while successive rounds of investment and disinvestment have replaced elements of the built environment many times over. This book offers an insightful perspective into the distinctiveness of London as expressed through its socially significant buildings and districts.

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Brand: Roberto Talamo
EAN: 9788820770402
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In questo libro, il lettore troverà uno studio tematico e comparatistico di tre testi del medioevo europeo: il lai di Maria di Francia intitolato Bisclavret (XII sec.), il romanzo arturiano inglese, di autore anonimo, Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde (XIV sec.) e il poema cavalleresco georgiano Il cavaliere con la pelle di pantera di Shota Rustaveli (XII-XIII sec.). Il tema comune è quello dell'incontro perturbante con una pelle assolutamente altra: quella mutante del lupo mannaro di Maria di Francia, quella verde del cavaliere arturiano e quella di pantera del cavaliere protagonista del poema di Rustaveli. L'incontro con l'altra pelle segna in modo determinante l'identità stessa dei personaggi che con essa si confrontano. I tre testi sono sia studiati in sé, con importanti acquisizioni anche dal punto di vista dell'interpretazione, sia accostati in una riflessione comparatistica che parte dai concetti di identità narrativa e mutuo riconoscimento di Paul Ricœur. Nel caso del poeta georgiano Rustaveli, questo libro è il primo studio d'insieme a lui dedicato in Italia.

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Brand: David Horvitz
EAN: 9783945900581
Categoria: Libri e riviste

There are 64 different terms for rain in the Georgian language. Artist David Horvitz worked with Tbilisi-based curator Elene Abashidze to collect these words. The result is a glossary that describes the subtle differences in how water can fall from the sky. The wealth of expressions for a single natural phenomenon also makes visible what we stand to lose from the effects of the climate crisis, when the variety of expressions for rain no longer apply. \n\nThe work was created on the occasion of the exhibition \"The Palace of Concrete Poetry\" at the Writers' House of Georgia in Tbilisi (September 9 - October 9, 2022). The artist's book \"????? Rain\" contains the entire glossary and is published by Edition Taube in an edition of 1000 unique copies, and a special edition printed with Georgian rainwater.

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Brand: Paul Howard Lang
EAN: 9781445639239
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Richmond upon Thames was the first borough to be known as the ‘Queen of the Suburbs’, before Ealing or Surbiton were known by this sobriquet. With around 100 parks and green spaces, including Kew Gardens and Richmond Park, as well as fine examples of Tudor, Regency, Georgian and Victorian architecture, Richmond remains a desirable place to live, with a long and interesting history.\n\nIn Richmond upon Thames Through Time, author Paul Howard Lang hopes to show how Richmond, to a great extent, has retained the ‘Queen of the Suburbs’ title. Telling the story of Richmond and its environs through a selection of beautiful photographs and postcards, he showcases the many changes that have taken place over time, as well as what has remained the same. This is an essential volume for anybody who is familiar with this attractive, historic town.

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Brand: Jonathan Bardon
EAN: 9780717146499
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Jonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his book so valuable, however, are the quirky subjects he chooses to illustrate how history really works: the great winter freeze of 1740 and the famine that followed; crime and duelling; an emigrant voyage; evictions. These episodes get behind the historical headlines to give a glimpse of past realities that might otherwise be lost to view.\n\n\n\n\nThe author has retained the original episodic structure of the radio programmes. The result is a marvellous mosaic of the Irish past, delivered with clarity and narrative skill.

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Brand: Catherine Flood;sarah Grant
EAN: 9781851778034
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From the sky-high coiffures of Georgian Britain to the languid silhouette of 1920s 'flappers', Style and Satire tells the story of European fashion and its most fantastical trends from two interrelated perspectives - the lavish, celebratory fashion plate, and the gloriously irreverent satirical print. Beautifully printed, hand-coloured fashion plates depicting the latest styles and fabrics first appeared in Britain and France in the late 1700s - nestled in luxurious periodicals and available for sale as desirable objects in their own right. At the same time (and often by the same artists), satirical prints gloried in the absurdities of fashion, presenting an alternative, often grotesque, vision of the fashionable ideal. Presented here as a joint history for the first time, the two genres describe an emerging, vibrant fashion culture. They themselves also evolved as art forms, first through the pages of the mass-produced Victorian periodical, and then as vibrant, stencilled images in the luxurious publications of the 1920s and '30s.\nLavishly illustrated and rigorously researched, Style and Satire presents a fresh and original history of fashion - a vital and witty addition to every fashion victim's library.

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Brand: Nené Giorgadze
EAN: 9788894978278
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Nené vive e opera all'intersezione di tre lingue. Di madre lingua georgiana, parla russo nella quotidianità, traduce poesia in georgiano dal russo e dall'inglese... L'autrice segue più la pittura surrealista e il cinema che non concrete tendenze letterarie. E questo, unito al verso libero americano, fornisce immagini interessanti, nelle quali spiccano rapporti spazio-temporali inusuali.

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Brand: Nigel Pickford
EAN: 9781399614962
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE - with all the drama of THE FIVE\n\nLady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her off to the dissolute fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins.\n\nWho is behind the contract killing? Is it the Swedish Count Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist? Or is it a political assassination as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Thynn was, after all, a key player in the Protestant faction to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York, as his brother Charles II's successor.\n\nNigel Pickford creates a world of tension and insecurity, of constant plotting and counter-plotting and of rabid anti-Catholicism, where massive street demonstrations and public Papal burnings are weekly events. The action moves from the great landed estates of Syon and Petworth to the cheap taverns and brothels of London, and finally to Newgate and the gallows - the sporting spectacle of the day. In the process, the book gives us a vivid and deeply researched portrait of Restoration society.

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Brand: Lynne Cleaver
EAN: 9781398116788
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Taunton is the county town of Somerset. It has its origins in the Saxon period and was a prime location in the Civil War and during the Monmouth Rebellion. Much development took place in the Georgian era when many of the ancient buildings were refaced in the new style, reflecting a time of prosperity. With the development of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, and the arrival of the railways, industry came into the town. As housing increased, so did the need for the infrastructure associated with a county town, and the Shire Hall, courts, hospitals, churches, schools and leisure buildings such as the Brewhouse Theatre and County Cricket Ground were developed. In 2017 Taunton was granted the status of a Garden Town by the government, with plans to develop new housing areas and spaces fit for a twenty-first-century town.\n\nTaunton in 50 Buildings explores the history of the county town of Somerset through a selection of its most interesting buildings and structures, showing the changes that have taken place over the years. This book will appeal to all those who live in Taunton or who have an interest in the area.

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Brand: Christine Parnell;sheila Richardson
EAN: 9781398107922
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The cathedral city of Truro is a major administrative and commercial centre in Cornwall. Historically, it grew in prosperity as an inland port and stannary town, and its Georgian and Victorian buildings demonstrate its wealth in this period. Other industries developed around the area at this time, and the town gained city status.\n\nLost Truro presents a portrait of this corner of Cornwall over the last century to recent decades that has radically changed or disappeared today, showing not only industries and buildings that have gone but also people and street scenes, many popular places of entertainment and much more. This fascinating photographic history of lost Truro will appeal to all those who live in the area or know it well, as well as those who remember it from previous decades.

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Brand: Beka Kurkhuli
EAN: 9788864792248
Categoria: Libri e riviste

I cinque racconti della 'Città nella neve' mostrano la realtà di una nazione 'di periferia' alla ricerca di un contatto ravvicinato con l'Europa. La guerra tra georgiani e abcasi ('Assassino'), il legame d'amore tra due ragazzi sullo sfondo della crisi energetica degli anni Novanta ('La città nella neve'), la quotidianità di un uomo non vedente in bilico tra nostalgia e rabbia ('In sogno vidi'), i ricordi di giovinezza in una Tbilisi multietnica dei tempi sovietici ('Una sera'): è un mosaico composto tanto da storie private quanto da vicende che hanno segnato la storia della Georgia. Chiude la raccolta 'Musakala', in cui l'autore ha ricostruito, romanzandolo, il punto di vista dei combattenti mujaheddin durante la guerra in Afghanistan.

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Brand: Warwick Rodwell
EAN: 9781848689435
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Churches are Britain's most completely surviving class of historic monument. They are also usually the oldest buildings within their settlements. As such, these structures, from parish church to cathedral, from medieval to Georgian, are a huge architectural and archaeological resource.\n\nThe last couple of decades have witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of public interest in the historic environment, and the growth of the tourism and 'heritage' industries has focused new attention on churches. While some visitors to churches, cathedrals and monastic ruins seem content to wander around with little or no understanding of what they are looking at, many have an interest in learning about the history or usage of the building. How far does it go back? Where is the earliest part of the building? Warwick Rodwell discusses the archaeological techniques that can attempt to answer such questions.\n\nIn this lavishly illustrated, informative guide, Professor Rodwell explores the buildings themselves, their component parts, from foundations to finials, their sites, furnishings, fixtures and fittings, as well as churchyards and monuments.

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