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9781851242467 | Bodleian Library, November 15, 2016, cover price $45.00
Product Description: Shakespeare never set a play in his own Elizabethan London. From the castle in Elsinore where Hamlet avenges his father’s death to Cleopatra’s Alexandria at the height of the Roman Empire to the seaport town in Cyprus where we await the arrival of Othello, each of Shakespeare’s plays is set in a time or space remote from his primary audience...read more
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9781851242573 | Bodleian Library, May 15, 2016, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Shakespeare never set a play in his own Elizabethan London.
Product Description: Artists have been drawn to the plays of Shakespeare for more than three centuries. For the artist, the challenge was to re-create the characters and the drama not on the living stage, but to freeze them into images that were timeless, and not bound within the walls of a theater...read more
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9780712358897 | British Library Board, May 15, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Artists have been drawn to the plays of Shakespeare for more than three centuries.
9780295961316, titled "Chinese Middlebrow Fiction: From the Ch'Ing and Early Republican Eras" | Chinese Univ Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $35.00 | also contains Chinese Middlebrow Fiction: From the Ch''Ing and Early Republican Eras
Product Description: Taking the form of fact-filled travelogues, stunt-writing spectaculars, or genre-blurring imaginative works, travel writing has never been more popular than it is today. But beyond the self-conscious literary artistry of today’s narratives lies a rich and well-documented history of travel writing, stretching back over several thousand years and incorporating the work of mariners and missionaries, diplomats and dilettantes alike...read more
Hardcover:
9781851243389 | Bodleian Library, March 15, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Taking the form of fact-filled travelogues, stunt-writing spectaculars, or genre-blurring imaginative works, travel writing has never been more popular than it is today.
Paperback:
9780205294787, titled "Mastering Public Speaking" | 3rd bk&cdr edition (Allyn & Bacon, December 1, 1998), cover price $54.00 | also contains Mastering Public Speaking
CD/Spoken Word:
9781843794776 | Unabridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, February 1, 2011), cover price $17.98
Product Description: Though technology has changed the tools of navigation available to us, maps are still the irreplaceable foundation of place and orientation. In this updated edition of Image of the World, map expert Peter Whitfield guides readers through a collection of some of the most extraordinary examples of mapsâboth visually stunning and historically revealing...read more
Paperback:
9780712350891, titled "The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps" | British Library Board, July 15, 2010, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Though technology has changed the tools of navigation available to us, maps are still the irreplaceable foundation of place and orientation.
Product Description: The fifth in the new Naxos Audiobooks series In a Nutshell, The Renaissance is a short and accessible introduction to the era that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Palestrina. The Renaissance swept across Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, heralding intellectual revolutions in science, art, philosophy and politics, and marking a decisive shift towards modern thinking...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9789626349793 | Unabridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, August 4, 2009), cover price $14.98 | About this edition: The fifth in the new Naxos Audiobooks series In a Nutshell, The Renaissance is a short and accessible introduction to the era that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Palestrina.
CD/Spoken Word:
9789626349441 | Unabridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, February 1, 2009), cover price $14.98
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9789626349434 | Unabridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, January 1, 2009), cover price $22.98
Like all the great historic cities of Europe, London appears to us solid and unchanging. It has been renewing or replacing the streets and buildings at its heart and has been spreading inexorably outwards. This book illustrates this process by maps of London. Approximately, 200 maps from the mid-sixteenth century are discussed.
Hardcover:
9780712349185 | British Library Board, June 15, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Like all the great historic cities of Europe, London appears to us solid and unchanging.
9780124190504, titled "Radiation in the Atmosphere" | Academic Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $123.50 | also contains London: A Life in Maps, Radiation in the Atmosphere
Product Description: Francis Drake assured his place in history when, in his lone ship the Golden Hind, he sailed the Pacific to become the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Drake the man, however, is the enigma and relatively little is known about him personally and what motivated him...read more
Hardcover:
9780712348607 | British Library Board, September 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Francis Drake assured his place in history when, in his lone ship the Golden Hind, he sailed the Pacific to become the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
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