Invention of the english landscape

Invention of the English Landscape

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Making of the English Landscape

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential historians of the 20th century. He realized that landscapes are the richest record we have o

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English Landscape Garden

The 18th-century phenomenon of the English Landscape Garden was so widespread that even today, when so much has been built over or otherwise changed,

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Legal History of the English Landscape

A Legal History of the English Landscape is an engaging account of how the law has played a pivotal role in shaping the English landscape through t

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Landscape in Middle English Romance

Richmond explores the landscapes, waterscapes, and ecological perspectives of popular Middle English romances at the onset of the Little Ice Age, reve

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Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape

The story of how ancient oaks have shaped the English landscape over the past 1000 years.

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Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority

This 1991 book is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d.1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in L...

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Making of Our Urban Landscape

The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia.

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Shaping of the English Landscape: An Atlas of Archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book

An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Ir

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Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England

Pre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawin

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Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England

Pre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawin

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Women Who Saved the English Countryside

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women

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Impact of Global English on Cultural Identities in the United Arab Emirates

This book provides a nuanced portrait of the complexities of the cultural and linguistic landscape in the United Arab Emirates, unpacking the ever-shi

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Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800

Politics and the English Country House explores the relationship between the country house and the changing British political landscape of the eightee

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Transnational Research in English Language Teaching

The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across

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Transnational Research in English Language Teaching

The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across

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Lights Out, Full Throttle : The Good the Bad and the Bernie of Formula One - Hill Damon

Anotace: Drawing on a lifetime of sniffing petrol fumes, Lights Out, Full Throttle stands large over the landscape of Formula One and takes the temperature of the good, the bad and the ugly of the petrolhead`s paradise.Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill between them competed in 261 Grands Prix, amassing twenty-five wins, forty-nine podium finishes, one World Championship, 458...

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Lights Out, Full Throttle: The Good the Bad and the Bernie of Formula One - Damon Hill

<p>Drawing on a lifetime of sniffing petrol fumes, Lights Out, Full Throttle stands large over the landscape of Formula One and takes the temperature of the good, the bad and the ugly of the petrolhead's paradise. Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill between them competed in 261 Grands Prix, amassing twenty-five wins, forty-nine podium finishes, one World Championship, 45...

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Světlana Alexijevičová

<p>A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich...

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Třebel 1647 - A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology - Václav Matoušek

<p></p><p> Kniha „Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology” pojednává o střetnutí švédské a habsburské armády, která se odehrála pod hradem Třebelí v západních Čechách mezi 18. srpnem a 5. zářím, v roce 1647. Krajina bojiště se od poloviny 17. století dodn...

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Třebel 1647 - A Battlefield of the Thirty Years´ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology - Václav Matoušek; Tomáš Janata; Jan Chlíbec

Anotace: Kniha "Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years´ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology" pojednává o střetnutí švédské a habsburské armády, která se odehrála pod hradem Třebelí v západních Čechách mezi...

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J.M.W. Turner Masterpieces of Art

The English Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775-19 December 1851) was a brilliant landscape artist, a watercolourist and pri

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In the Mind's Eye / La Mirada de Quien Contempla

this English/Spanish bilingual volume is a ground-breaking exploration of the Cuban landscape in the imagination of American and Cuban artists.

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Alibaba´s World - How a remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the face of Global Business - Porter Erisman

<p>In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Westerners had never heard of held the largest IPO in history - bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base larger than Amazon's, and handling the bulk of e-commerce transaction...

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The Common Reader: First Series - Virginia Woolfová

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Auste...

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The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics) - Herbert George Wells

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Austen, Geo...

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Windblown

A journey through the Great Storm and the re-birth of the English landscape.

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Cloven Country

A colourful and engaging account of the Devil's influence on the English landscape.

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Stonehenge

A concise, illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape.

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Cloven Country

A colourful and engaging account of the Devil’s influence on the English landscape.

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Curves: Norway

Atmospheric photos by Stefan Bogner, capturing the full magnificence of the Norwegian landscape. Text in English and German.

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Selected Poems and Prose

Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. By 1917, whe

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Wilton House

An unprecedented tour through the rich interiors and magnificent collections of one of the great houses of the English country landscape, and a treasu

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Paul Feiler

Paul Feiler was inspired by the English landscape, particularlythe cliffs and inlets of the coast of south-west Cornwall. Based on full accessto the a

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Old Straight Track

A new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English co

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Open Kitchen

From Malaysian street food to English pub grub, 30 of the UK's top chefs showcase the diversity of Britain's culinary landscape with 50 exclusive reci

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Dunsinane

Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to conta

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Ivon Hitchens

Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is widely regarded as the outstanding English landscape painter of the 20th century. Immediately recognisable by its daring

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Turner

Enter a world of ravishing light and color. English Romanticist J. M. W. Turner transformed the essence of landscape painting from serene contemplativ

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Gustave Courbet

This book deals with the theme of landscape by presenting a set of important works by Gustave Courbet and other 19th century artists. Text in English

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Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough

Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses a great variety in landscape and architecture. Its major monument is Woburn Abbey

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Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife...

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Sugar Glider Level 5

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to Australia hoping to rescue a failed marriage and to spend more time with his daughter, Judy. But a routine cargo flight in an old D...

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Middlemarch, 1. vydání - George Eliot

<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irr...

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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries — a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including acco...

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Middlemarch, 1. vydání - George Eliot

<p>'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage t...

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Josef Lada - Lev Pavluch

The first presentation in book form of Josef Lada (1887-1957) as a major exponent of Central European art of the 20th century, and consequently also a master of world painting. This full-colour pictorial monograph is conceived around the premise that his perennial attachment to quintessentially Czech motifs, the Bohemian landscape, as well as Czech traditions and myths, w...

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Josef Lada - Lev Pavluch

Anotace: The first presentation in book form of Josef Lada (1887-1957) as a major exponent of Central European art of the 20th century, and consequently also a master of world painting. This full-colour pictorial monograph is conceived around the premise that his perennial attachment to quintessentially Czech motifs, the Bohemian landscape, as well as Czech traditions an...

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Josef Lada

The first presentation in book form of Josef Lada (1887-1957) as a major exponent of Central European art of the 20th century, and consequently also a master of world painting. This full-colour pictorial monograph is conceived around the premise that his perennial attachment to quintessentially Czech motifs, the Bohemian landscape, as well as Czech traditions and myths, w...

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Josef Lada: A 20th-century Central European master - Pavluch Lev

Anotace: The first presentation in book form of Josef Lada (1887-1957) as a major exponent of Central European art of the 20th century, and consequently also a master of world painting. This full-colour pictorial monograph is conceived around the premise that his perennial attachment to quintessentially Czech motifs, the Bohemian landscape, as well as Czech traditions an...

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Josef Lada: A 20th-century Central European master - Lev Pavluch

<p>The first presentation in book form of Josef Lada (1887-1957) as a major exponent of Central European art of the 20th century, and consequently also a master of world painting. This full-colour pictorial monograph is conceived around the premise that his perennial attachment to quintessentially Czech motifs, the Bohemian landscape, as well as Czech traditions and...

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Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History - Williams Hugh

Anotace: What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history?If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that selection, and the result is a fascinating overview of Britain`s ...

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Třebel 1647

Kniha „Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology” pojednává o střetnutí švédské a habsburské armády, která se odehrála pod hradem Třebelí v západních Čechách mezi 18. srpnem a 5. zářím, v roce 1647. Krajina bojiště se od poloviny 17. století dodnes téměř nezměnila. Na bojišti...

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TIDELANDS TR - neuveden

Anotace: THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer`s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south...

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Tidelands

THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast...

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Dresden - Sinclair McKay

<p>In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself...

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Tidelands - Philippa Gregory

<p>THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the so...

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David Hockney. A Chronology. 40th Anniversary Edition - David Hockney

<p>Published to mark TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary, this special edition is an unprecedented year by year journey through the life and work of David Hockney. From the London of the Swinging Sixties, via Californian swimming pools, to the expansive landscapes of his native Yorkshire, the book’s juxtaposition of artworks and biographical text makes us discover how Hockne...

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Awali – Embodied MP3

'Embodied' is a concept-album that incudes poems in Russian and English, photography and regular :) songs. It is a melancholic dark wave set, exploring the fragility and inner strength of a human being through deliberately limited electronic music tools for consistent sound. [?m] as 'I'm' Often, when asked about my origin, I stumble. I am stuck. Because I am from ever...

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Awali – Embodied FLAC

'Embodied' is a concept-album that incudes poems in Russian and English, photography and regular :) songs. It is a melancholic dark wave set, exploring the fragility and inner strength of a human being through deliberately limited electronic music tools for consistent sound. [?m] as 'I'm' Often, when asked about my origin, I stumble. I am stuck. Because I am from ever...

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