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Hardcover. new. In an autobiographical letter, the author refers to this work as the ""...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...."" Vitangelo, the pr… Mehr…
Hardcover. new. In an autobiographical letter, the author refers to this work as the ""...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...."" Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The reader is immediately immersed in a cruel game of confusing projections, mirroring the reality of social existence itself, which imperiously dictate their rules. As a result, the first, ironic ""awareness"" of Vitangelo consists in the knowledge of that which he definitely is not; the preliminary operation must therefore consist in the spiteful destruction of all of these fictitious masks.| Author: Luigi Pirandello| Publisher: Www.Bnpublishing.Com| Publication Date: Feb 23, 2022| Number of Pages: 120 pages| Language: English| Binding: Hardcover| ISBN-10: 1638233136| ISBN-13: 9781638233138, 6, Charles Smiley Presents. DVD. New. This was the Southern Pacific at work on the Yuma District of the Sunset Route. The best material from our discontinued video, 'Sunset Salute', is combined with a wealth of newly discovered material to make this new DVD video. See mixed freights and Inter-modal trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of 'foreign' and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugar Beet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to the SMV Railroad at Guadalupe, CA are covered from the 1970s and 1992. And don't miss a cab ride on the SP-owned Carriso Gorge line just before hurricane Kathleen closed it to through traffic in 1976. Featuring.. Yuma AZ to Colton CA Desert beauty Beaumont Hill 1991 - 1999 with Helpers and Foreign Power Imperial Valley SA&E Railway cab ride circa 1975 Sugar Beet Trains circa 1992 Beet loading and processing Betteravia Sugar Factory Santa Maria Valley Railroad SP Coastline action To quote Model Railroad News magazine, ""Well Charles Smiley has done it again! This is a very entertaining and informative video. You want stuff to model? It's in here, though I can't tell you what you'll gloom onto and turn into a feature on your layout. Maybe you'll just watch this for an hour and 35 minutes instead of broadcast TV. What a thought!"" Charles Smiley Presents, 1 hour and 35 minutes. View on YouTube, Charles Smiley Presents, 6, Tor Books, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the eastern end of the Celadon Highway to the western, chaos reigns. The great Khaganate is shattered, and with it the peace. High in his desert fastness, the sorcerer Mukhtar ai-Idoj, al-Sepehr of the Nameless sect of the Rahazeen, plots to bring all the world under the rule of his Scholar-God. He is very close to success; his enemies war with one another, and none sees the true author of their downfall. Re Temur and the wizard Samarkar have reached the great city of Asitaneh and the house of Temur's powerful grandfather. With their companions, they intend to mount an assault on the fortress of the Rahazeen to rescue Temur's beloved, Edene. If they succeed, it will be a mighty feat, a hero's deed. But Temur has sworn a magical oath, and he has a wizard of the Tsarepheth at his side. Far to the east of Asitaneh, the attack on the Rasan empire has taken the form of a plague. The imperial city of Tsarepheth struggles against the contagion, a terrible disease that kills all who contract it. The wizard-healers do all they can to discover the course and cure the disease, but with little success. Someone with power in the city has invited the plague demons in, and if the Emperor Songtsan falls to the disease, so too might the Rasan Empire - he has no heir who is of age. But al-Sepehr has made one error. He has allowed the escape of his hostage, Edene., Tor Books, 2015, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.This novel is the English language debut of the highly regarded Russian writer,nominated for GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic vignette illustrated dw/dj panels with black,grey and lettering to front and black lettered critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though toned are bright and clean,without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with no spine lean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 16 numbered chapters+a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a 'Table of Ranks' - 19thC Russian authority and privilege formally structured in a hierachy of equivalent military and civil ranks and titles,introduced by the Emperor Peter the Great in January 1722. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. First in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. Moscow 1876.A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens.Erast Fandorin, the brilliant, young and gifted detective is put on the case - a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left considerable assets.Fandorin's fearless investigation takes him from Moscow to Berlin and London,via St. Petersburg,as the suicide reveals a worldwide conspiracy. 'The Winter Queen' is a gripping literary page-turner whose power and appeal is enhanced by its vividly realistic historical setting.Boris Akunin's first UK publication marks the arrival of a startlingly original new talent in thriller writing. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B.ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2003., 5, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. New. 19 x 26 cm. The present volume contains 20 research papers and four book reviews and out of these five scholars have contributed two papers each. These include two papers by P.L. Gupta, one on Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coins and another on the Kuras. R.C. Agrawal`s first paper discusses a Greek coin in which he left open its attribution. His second paper deals with the Gupta gold coins (26 in number) housed in the Sardar Museum Jodhpur. Editor`s Note List of Contributors 1. Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coin/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 2. A Note on an Interesting Greek Coin in the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawala 3. Vonones, Maues and the Early Indo-Scythic Succession/R.C. Senior 4. Numismatic Evidence of a New Guild from Khokhrakot (Rohtak)/Manmohan Kumar 5. The Kurds/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 6. Three-Headed Siva-Chitresvara Type Copper Coins/Devendra Handa 7. Some Mahasenapati Coins of the Deccan/A.H. Siddiqui 8. Roman Coins and Bullae from Adam/Amarendra Nath 9. Some Coins of Vakataka Dynasty/A.H. Siddiqui 10. Horseman Type Coins of the Imperial Guptas/Ashvini Agrawal 11. Gupta Gold Coins in the Collection of the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawal 12. A Newly Discovered Gold Coin from Newal/K.S. Shukia 13. Two Dies of Gadhaiya Coins/M.K. Gupta 14. Nur Afshan Coins of Burhdnpur Mint/M.K. Gupta 15. Some New Type Copper Coins of Adil Shahi Rulers/A.H. Siddiqui 16. 1/5 Rupees or Silver Fanams of the Malabar Coast/Hans Herrli 17. In Search of a Die/S.K. Boss 18. Initial Sikh Coinage/Surinder Singh 19. Copper Coins of Sher Singh/Devendra Handa 20. Non-Destructive Assay of Ancient Coins of Kangra Ruler, Sri Rupachanda Deva I, by Neutron Activation Analysis/N.S. Rajurkar, A.K. Jha and R.P. Bhadane Printed Pages: 232., Sundeep Prakashan, 1996, 6, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. New. 19 x 26 cm. The present volume contains 20 research papers and four book reviews and out of these five scholars have contributed two papers each. These include two papers by P.L. Gupta, one on Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coins and another on the Kuras. R.C. Agrawal`s first paper discusses a Greek coin in which he left open its attribution. His second paper deals with the Gupta gold coins (26 in number) housed in the Sardar Museum Jodhpur. Editor`s Note List of Contributors 1. Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coin/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 2. A Note on an Interesting Greek Coin in the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawala 3. Vonones, Maues and the Early Indo-Scythic Succession/R.C. Senior 4. Numismatic Evidence of a New Guild from Khokhrakot (Rohtak)/Manmohan Kumar 5. The Kurds/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 6. Three-Headed Siva-Chitresvara Type Copper Coins/Devendra Handa 7. Some Mahasenapati Coins of the Deccan/A.H. Siddiqui 8. Roman Coins and Bullae from Adam/Amarendra Nath 9. Some Coins of Vakataka Dynasty/A.H. Siddiqui 10. Horseman Type Coins of the Imperial Guptas/Ashvini Agrawal 11. Gupta Gold Coins in the Collection of the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawal 12. A Newly Discovered Gold Coin from Newal/K.S. Shukia 13. Two Dies of Gadhaiya Coins/M.K. Gupta 14. Nur Afshan Coins of Burhdnpur Mint/M.K. Gupta 15. Some New Type Copper Coins of Adil Shahi Rulers/A.H. Siddiqui 16. 1/5 Rupees or Silver Fanams of the Malabar Coast/Hans Herrli 17. In Search of a Die/S.K. Boss 18. Initial Sikh Coinage/Surinder Singh 19. Copper Coins of Sher Singh/Devendra Handa 20. Non-Destructive Assay of Ancient Coins of Kangra Ruler, Sri Rupachanda Deva I, by Neutron Activation Analysis/N.S. Rajurkar, A.K. Jha and R.P. Bhadane Printed Pages: 232., Sundeep Prakashan, 1996, 6, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. New. 19 x 26 cm. The present volume contains 20 research papers and four book reviews and out of these five scholars have contributed two papers each. These include two papers by P.L. Gupta, one on Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coins and another on the Kuras. R.C. Agrawal`s first paper discusses a Greek coin in which he left open its attribution. His second paper deals with the Gupta gold coins (26 in number) housed in the Sardar Museum Jodhpur. Editor`s Note List of Contributors 1. Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coin/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 2. A Note on an Interesting Greek Coin in the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawala 3. Vonones, Maues and the Early Indo-Scythic Succession/R.C. Senior 4. Numismatic Evidence of a New Guild from Khokhrakot (Rohtak)/Manmohan Kumar 5. The Kurds/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 6. Three-Headed Siva-Chitresvara Type Copper Coins/Devendra Handa 7. Some Mahasenapati Coins of the Deccan/A.H. Siddiqui 8. Roman Coins and Bullae from Adam/Amarendra Nath 9. Some Coins of Vakataka Dynasty/A.H. Siddiqui 10. Horseman Type Coins of the Imperial Guptas/Ashvini Agrawal 11. Gupta Gold Coins in the Collection of the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawal 12. A Newly Discovered Gold Coin from Newal/K.S. Shukia 13. Two Dies of Gadhaiya Coins/M.K. Gupta 14. Nur Afshan Coins of Burhdnpur Mint/M.K. Gupta 15. Some New Type Copper Coins of Adil Shahi Rulers/A.H. Siddiqui 16. 1/5 Rupees or Silver Fanams of the Malabar Coast/Hans Herrli 17. In Search of a Die/S.K. Boss 18. Initial Sikh Coinage/Surinder Singh 19. Copper Coins of Sher Singh/Devendra Handa 20. Non-Destructive Assay of Ancient Coins of Kangra Ruler, Sri Rupachanda Deva I, by Neutron Activation Analysis/N.S. Rajurkar, A.K. Jha and R.P. Bhadane Printed Pages: 232. Oriental Numismatic Studies, Volume 1Devendra Handa9788185067995, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996, 6, Hardback. New. German railroading revolutionized warfare during 1825-1918 by getting more men, horses, guns, and supplies to the various battlefronts quicker and more efficiently than any other Great Power until the Allies discovered how to do it also, and sometimes better. In order to gain the advantages over their enemies, strict timetables had to be followed!, 6, San Francisco, CA: VIZ Media, 2008. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Arina Tanemura (Author-Illustrator). VOLUME 5. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Book is read right-to-left. A longer than usual manga by author and artist Arina Tanemura (1978- ), whose works have been serialized on television. A complex tale set in the exclusive Imperial Academy. Heroine Haine discovers her birth family had given her up for adoption in lieu of discharge of a business debt. Lineage uncertain, plus the object(s) of her love turns out to be twins ... first Haine falls in love with older twin Takanari, author of a book she much admires, and secondly, unknowingly, with younger twin Shizumasa, who, because of his older brother's frail health, is oblidged to be his stand-in (the very slight difference between the two being one parts his hair to the left)., VIZ Media, 2008, 6, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009. Hardcover. New. This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the worldâs largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being âIndiaâs dreamtownâand its purgatory.â He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinationsâNehru Place, Rohini, Ghaziabad and Gurgaonâthat most writers ignore. Millerâs quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of callâthe ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhiâmake only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhiâs peopleâfrom a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass BandâMiller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the worldâs fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for lifeâs diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate peopleâs lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar. Printed Pages: 304., Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009, 6, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009. Hardcover. New. This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the worldâs largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being âIndiaâs dreamtownâand its purgatory.â He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinationsâNehru Place, Rohini, Ghaziabad and Gurgaonâthat most writers ignore. Millerâs quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of callâthe ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhiâmake only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhiâs peopleâfrom a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass BandâMiller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the worldâs fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for lifeâs diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate peopleâs lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar. Printed Pages: 304., Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009, 6, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009. Hardcover. New. This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the worlds largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being Indias dreamtownand its purgatory. He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinationsNehru Place, Rohini, Ghaziabad and Gurgaonthat most writers ignore. Millers quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of callthe ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhimake only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhis peoplefrom a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass BandMiller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the worlds fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for lifes diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate peoples lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar. Printed Pages: 304. Delhi: Adventures in a MegacitySam Miller9780670082315, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009, 6, DK Children, 2005-09-05. Hardcover. Used:Good., DK Children, 2005-09-05, 0, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in nearly new condition aside from very minor shelf rubbing and that the book pages move more freely like the book has been read once before mindfully so as to not cause damage. 'In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story Lihaaf --The Quilt. The narrator of this story, a precocious nine-year old child, is sent to visit an aunt. This aunt, ignored by a husband whose only interest seems to lie in entertaining slim-waisted young boys, suffers from a relentless bodily itch, an itch, her niece discovers, no doctor can cure and only her maidservant can relieve. Frank and often wickedly comic, Chughtai's stories were the imaginative core of her life's work, drawn from memories of the sprawling Muslim household of her childhood. With her mastery of the spoken language, economy of form, and her fine eye for the details of the intricate and hidden world of women's experience, Chughtai captured the evolving conflicts of Muslim India. Her exploration of the myriad and subtle tyrannies of middle-class gentility, and, equally, of those unexpected moments of sexual liberation and spirit, is unrivalled in contemporary Urdu literature.' xi+149 pages. 6 x 9 inches.., Sheep Meadow Press, 1994, 3, Paperback / softback. As New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate, 5, New York, Oxford first edition - h/c in d.j. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the sterotypes, the author reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated. 242 x 160mm., pp.xv, 352, b/w plates, notes, index. Contents - no inscriptions, in d.j. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0192804839, New York, Oxford, 2003, 0<
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Paperback / softback. As New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight agai… Mehr…
Paperback / softback. As New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate, 5, Hardback. New. The Ruin of Kings begins an extraordinary fantasy adventure. Prophecy and magic combine in a powerful epic of imperial politics, dragons, gods and demons. And a young man discovers his fate will determine the future of an empire., 6, San Francisco, CA: VIZ Media, 2008. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Arina Tanemura (Author-Illustrator). VOLUME 5. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Book is read right-to-left. A longer than usual manga by author and artist Arina Tanemura (1978- ), whose works have been serialized on television. A complex tale set in the exclusive Imperial Academy. Heroine Haine discovers her birth family had given her up for adoption in lieu of discharge of a business debt. Lineage uncertain, plus the object(s) of her love turns out to be twins ... first Haine falls in love with older twin Takanari, author of a book she much admires, and secondly, unknowingly, with younger twin Shizumasa, who, because of his older brother's frail health, is oblidged to be his stand-in (the very slight difference between the two being one parts his hair to the left)., VIZ Media, 2008, 6, Hardback. New. German railroading revolutionized warfare during 1825-1918 by getting more men, horses, guns, and supplies to the various battlefronts quicker and more efficiently than any other Great Power until the Allies discovered how to do it also, and sometimes better. In order to gain the advantages over their enemies, strict timetables had to be followed!, 6, Paperback. New. Cyrus was fourteen when his gods were slain, his country invaded, and his parents--the king and queen--beheaded in front of him. After years held prisoner in the invader's court, a mysterious group of revolutionaries breaks him free and gives him the chance for revenge that he's always dreamed of. In exchange, he will become the figurehead of their rebellion. He will become a hero to unite the people and strike fear in the hearts of the imperials. He will take up the skull mask and swords to become the legendary Vagrant""-an unparalleled assassin of otherworldly skill. But all is not as it seems. Creating the illusion of a hero is the work of many, and Cyrus will soon discover the true price of his vengeance""--| Author: David Dalglish| Publisher: Orbit| Publication Date: Apr 05, 2022| Number of Pages: 512 pages| Language: English| Binding: Paperback| ISBN-10: 075955708X| ISBN-13: 9780759557086, 6, Paperback / softback. New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.This novel is the English language debut of the highly regarded Russian writer,nominated for GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic vignette illustrated dw/dj panels with black,grey and lettering to front and black lettered critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though toned are bright and clean,without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with no spine lean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 16 numbered chapters+a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a 'Table of Ranks' - 19thC Russian authority and privilege formally structured in a hierachy of equivalent military and civil ranks and titles,introduced by the Emperor Peter the Great in January 1722. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. First in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. Moscow 1876.A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens.Erast Fandorin, the brilliant, young and gifted detective is put on the case - a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left considerable assets.Fandorin's fearless investigation takes him from Moscow to Berlin and London,via St. Petersburg,as the suicide reveals a worldwide conspiracy. 'The Winter Queen' is a gripping literary page-turner whose power and appeal is enhanced by its vividly realistic historical setting.Boris Akunin's first UK publication marks the arrival of a startlingly original new talent in thriller writing. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B.ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2003., 5, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in nearly new condition aside from very minor shelf rubbing and that the book pages move more freely like the book has been read once before mindfully so as to not cause damage. 'In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story Lihaaf --The Quilt. The narrator of this story, a precocious nine-year old child, is sent to visit an aunt. This aunt, ignored by a husband whose only interest seems to lie in entertaining slim-waisted young boys, suffers from a relentless bodily itch, an itch, her niece discovers, no doctor can cure and only her maidservant can relieve. Frank and often wickedly comic, Chughtai's stories were the imaginative core of her life's work, drawn from memories of the sprawling Muslim household of her childhood. With her mastery of the spoken language, economy of form, and her fine eye for the details of the intricate and hidden world of women's experience, Chughtai captured the evolving conflicts of Muslim India. Her exploration of the myriad and subtle tyrannies of middle-class gentility, and, equally, of those unexpected moments of sexual liberation and spirit, is unrivalled in contemporary Urdu literature.' xi+149 pages. 6 x 9 inches.., Sheep Meadow Press, 1994, 3, New York, Oxford first edition - h/c in d.j. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the sterotypes, the author reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated. 242 x 160mm., pp.xv, 352, b/w plates, notes, index. Contents - no inscriptions, in d.j. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0192804839, New York, Oxford, 2003, 0<
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The Last Great Quest : Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice by Max Jones - gebrauchtes Buch
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Many have told the story of Sir Robert Scott's dramatic and, ultimately, tragic race to the South Pole. But in The Last Great Quest, Max Jones adds a new dimension to the story by probing… Mehr…
Many have told the story of Sir Robert Scott's dramatic and, ultimately, tragic race to the South Pole. But in The Last Great Quest, Max Jones adds a new dimension to the story by probing the nature of heroism in modern Britain as reflected in the strengths and weaknesses of Scott himself. In particular, he charts the cultural reverberations of Scott's death and sacrifice on the eve of the greatest slaughter in British history--the First World War. A dramatic opening leads to a compelling examination of the British traditions of exploration, the scientific ambitions of the expedition, the "race to the South Pole," and the disaster itself. Jones argues that Scott's death was a pivotal moment in British history, and central to this is his extraordinary journal--the ultimate expression of self-control and heroism in the face of death--which was immensely popular in the years before the war. This important and challenging interpretation of Scott's life and death re-evaluates the man and his sacrifice. Indeed, Jones shows that the story of Scott of the Antarctic is a key to understanding modern British history, connecting Scott with Dr. Livingstone, the Titanic disaster, and the ascent of Everest. In particular, Scott's story helps us to fathom the generation who fought and died in the Great War. The most important new contribution to our knowledge of this compelling story in nearly 25 years, and the first account that sets the story in a wider historical context, The Last Great Quest brims with original conclusions that are based on previously unavailable evidence. Media > Book, [PU: Oxford University Press]<
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Hardcover. new. In an autobiographical letter, the author refers to this work as the ""...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...."" Vitangelo, the pr… Mehr…
Hardcover. new. In an autobiographical letter, the author refers to this work as the ""...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...."" Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The reader is immediately immersed in a cruel game of confusing projections, mirroring the reality of social existence itself, which imperiously dictate their rules. As a result, the first, ironic ""awareness"" of Vitangelo consists in the knowledge of that which he definitely is not; the preliminary operation must therefore consist in the spiteful destruction of all of these fictitious masks.| Author: Luigi Pirandello| Publisher: Www.Bnpublishing.Com| Publication Date: Feb 23, 2022| Number of Pages: 120 pages| Language: English| Binding: Hardcover| ISBN-10: 1638233136| ISBN-13: 9781638233138, 6, Charles Smiley Presents. DVD. New. This was the Southern Pacific at work on the Yuma District of the Sunset Route. The best material from our discontinued video, 'Sunset Salute', is combined with a wealth of newly discovered material to make this new DVD video. See mixed freights and Inter-modal trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of 'foreign' and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugar Beet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to the SMV Railroad at Guadalupe, CA are covered from the 1970s and 1992. And don't miss a cab ride on the SP-owned Carriso Gorge line just before hurricane Kathleen closed it to through traffic in 1976. Featuring.. Yuma AZ to Colton CA Desert beauty Beaumont Hill 1991 - 1999 with Helpers and Foreign Power Imperial Valley SA&E Railway cab ride circa 1975 Sugar Beet Trains circa 1992 Beet loading and processing Betteravia Sugar Factory Santa Maria Valley Railroad SP Coastline action To quote Model Railroad News magazine, ""Well Charles Smiley has done it again! This is a very entertaining and informative video. You want stuff to model? It's in here, though I can't tell you what you'll gloom onto and turn into a feature on your layout. Maybe you'll just watch this for an hour and 35 minutes instead of broadcast TV. What a thought!"" Charles Smiley Presents, 1 hour and 35 minutes. View on YouTube, Charles Smiley Presents, 6, Tor Books, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the eastern end of the Celadon Highway to the western, chaos reigns. The great Khaganate is shattered, and with it the peace. High in his desert fastness, the sorcerer Mukhtar ai-Idoj, al-Sepehr of the Nameless sect of the Rahazeen, plots to bring all the world under the rule of his Scholar-God. He is very close to success; his enemies war with one another, and none sees the true author of their downfall. Re Temur and the wizard Samarkar have reached the great city of Asitaneh and the house of Temur's powerful grandfather. With their companions, they intend to mount an assault on the fortress of the Rahazeen to rescue Temur's beloved, Edene. If they succeed, it will be a mighty feat, a hero's deed. But Temur has sworn a magical oath, and he has a wizard of the Tsarepheth at his side. Far to the east of Asitaneh, the attack on the Rasan empire has taken the form of a plague. The imperial city of Tsarepheth struggles against the contagion, a terrible disease that kills all who contract it. The wizard-healers do all they can to discover the course and cure the disease, but with little success. Someone with power in the city has invited the plague demons in, and if the Emperor Songtsan falls to the disease, so too might the Rasan Empire - he has no heir who is of age. But al-Sepehr has made one error. He has allowed the escape of his hostage, Edene., Tor Books, 2015, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.This novel is the English language debut of the highly regarded Russian writer,nominated for GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic vignette illustrated dw/dj panels with black,grey and lettering to front and black lettered critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though toned are bright and clean,without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with no spine lean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 16 numbered chapters+a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a 'Table of Ranks' - 19thC Russian authority and privilege formally structured in a hierachy of equivalent military and civil ranks and titles,introduced by the Emperor Peter the Great in January 1722. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. First in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. Moscow 1876.A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens.Erast Fandorin, the brilliant, young and gifted detective is put on the case - a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left considerable assets.Fandorin's fearless investigation takes him from Moscow to Berlin and London,via St. Petersburg,as the suicide reveals a worldwide conspiracy. 'The Winter Queen' is a gripping literary page-turner whose power and appeal is enhanced by its vividly realistic historical setting.Boris Akunin's first UK publication marks the arrival of a startlingly original new talent in thriller writing. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B.ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2003., 5, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. New. 19 x 26 cm. The present volume contains 20 research papers and four book reviews and out of these five scholars have contributed two papers each. These include two papers by P.L. Gupta, one on Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coins and another on the Kuras. R.C. Agrawal`s first paper discusses a Greek coin in which he left open its attribution. His second paper deals with the Gupta gold coins (26 in number) housed in the Sardar Museum Jodhpur. Editor`s Note List of Contributors 1. Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coin/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 2. A Note on an Interesting Greek Coin in the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawala 3. Vonones, Maues and the Early Indo-Scythic Succession/R.C. Senior 4. Numismatic Evidence of a New Guild from Khokhrakot (Rohtak)/Manmohan Kumar 5. The Kurds/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 6. Three-Headed Siva-Chitresvara Type Copper Coins/Devendra Handa 7. Some Mahasenapati Coins of the Deccan/A.H. Siddiqui 8. Roman Coins and Bullae from Adam/Amarendra Nath 9. Some Coins of Vakataka Dynasty/A.H. Siddiqui 10. Horseman Type Coins of the Imperial Guptas/Ashvini Agrawal 11. Gupta Gold Coins in the Collection of the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawal 12. A Newly Discovered Gold Coin from Newal/K.S. Shukia 13. Two Dies of Gadhaiya Coins/M.K. Gupta 14. Nur Afshan Coins of Burhdnpur Mint/M.K. Gupta 15. Some New Type Copper Coins of Adil Shahi Rulers/A.H. Siddiqui 16. 1/5 Rupees or Silver Fanams of the Malabar Coast/Hans Herrli 17. In Search of a Die/S.K. Boss 18. Initial Sikh Coinage/Surinder Singh 19. Copper Coins of Sher Singh/Devendra Handa 20. Non-Destructive Assay of Ancient Coins of Kangra Ruler, Sri Rupachanda Deva I, by Neutron Activation Analysis/N.S. Rajurkar, A.K. Jha and R.P. Bhadane Printed Pages: 232., Sundeep Prakashan, 1996, 6, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. New. 19 x 26 cm. The present volume contains 20 research papers and four book reviews and out of these five scholars have contributed two papers each. These include two papers by P.L. Gupta, one on Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coins and another on the Kuras. R.C. Agrawal`s first paper discusses a Greek coin in which he left open its attribution. His second paper deals with the Gupta gold coins (26 in number) housed in the Sardar Museum Jodhpur. Editor`s Note List of Contributors 1. Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coin/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 2. A Note on an Interesting Greek Coin in the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawala 3. Vonones, Maues and the Early Indo-Scythic Succession/R.C. Senior 4. Numismatic Evidence of a New Guild from Khokhrakot (Rohtak)/Manmohan Kumar 5. The Kurds/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 6. Three-Headed Siva-Chitresvara Type Copper Coins/Devendra Handa 7. Some Mahasenapati Coins of the Deccan/A.H. Siddiqui 8. Roman Coins and Bullae from Adam/Amarendra Nath 9. Some Coins of Vakataka Dynasty/A.H. Siddiqui 10. Horseman Type Coins of the Imperial Guptas/Ashvini Agrawal 11. Gupta Gold Coins in the Collection of the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawal 12. A Newly Discovered Gold Coin from Newal/K.S. Shukia 13. Two Dies of Gadhaiya Coins/M.K. Gupta 14. Nur Afshan Coins of Burhdnpur Mint/M.K. Gupta 15. Some New Type Copper Coins of Adil Shahi Rulers/A.H. Siddiqui 16. 1/5 Rupees or Silver Fanams of the Malabar Coast/Hans Herrli 17. In Search of a Die/S.K. Boss 18. Initial Sikh Coinage/Surinder Singh 19. Copper Coins of Sher Singh/Devendra Handa 20. Non-Destructive Assay of Ancient Coins of Kangra Ruler, Sri Rupachanda Deva I, by Neutron Activation Analysis/N.S. Rajurkar, A.K. Jha and R.P. Bhadane Printed Pages: 232., Sundeep Prakashan, 1996, 6, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. New. 19 x 26 cm. The present volume contains 20 research papers and four book reviews and out of these five scholars have contributed two papers each. These include two papers by P.L. Gupta, one on Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coins and another on the Kuras. R.C. Agrawal`s first paper discusses a Greek coin in which he left open its attribution. His second paper deals with the Gupta gold coins (26 in number) housed in the Sardar Museum Jodhpur. Editor`s Note List of Contributors 1. Inscribed Silver Punch Marked Coin/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 2. A Note on an Interesting Greek Coin in the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawala 3. Vonones, Maues and the Early Indo-Scythic Succession/R.C. Senior 4. Numismatic Evidence of a New Guild from Khokhrakot (Rohtak)/Manmohan Kumar 5. The Kurds/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta 6. Three-Headed Siva-Chitresvara Type Copper Coins/Devendra Handa 7. Some Mahasenapati Coins of the Deccan/A.H. Siddiqui 8. Roman Coins and Bullae from Adam/Amarendra Nath 9. Some Coins of Vakataka Dynasty/A.H. Siddiqui 10. Horseman Type Coins of the Imperial Guptas/Ashvini Agrawal 11. Gupta Gold Coins in the Collection of the Sardar Museum, Jodhpur/Ratna Chandra Agrawal 12. A Newly Discovered Gold Coin from Newal/K.S. Shukia 13. Two Dies of Gadhaiya Coins/M.K. Gupta 14. Nur Afshan Coins of Burhdnpur Mint/M.K. Gupta 15. Some New Type Copper Coins of Adil Shahi Rulers/A.H. Siddiqui 16. 1/5 Rupees or Silver Fanams of the Malabar Coast/Hans Herrli 17. In Search of a Die/S.K. Boss 18. Initial Sikh Coinage/Surinder Singh 19. Copper Coins of Sher Singh/Devendra Handa 20. Non-Destructive Assay of Ancient Coins of Kangra Ruler, Sri Rupachanda Deva I, by Neutron Activation Analysis/N.S. Rajurkar, A.K. Jha and R.P. Bhadane Printed Pages: 232. Oriental Numismatic Studies, Volume 1Devendra Handa9788185067995, Sundeep Prakashan, 1996, 6, Hardback. New. German railroading revolutionized warfare during 1825-1918 by getting more men, horses, guns, and supplies to the various battlefronts quicker and more efficiently than any other Great Power until the Allies discovered how to do it also, and sometimes better. In order to gain the advantages over their enemies, strict timetables had to be followed!, 6, San Francisco, CA: VIZ Media, 2008. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Arina Tanemura (Author-Illustrator). VOLUME 5. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Book is read right-to-left. A longer than usual manga by author and artist Arina Tanemura (1978- ), whose works have been serialized on television. A complex tale set in the exclusive Imperial Academy. Heroine Haine discovers her birth family had given her up for adoption in lieu of discharge of a business debt. Lineage uncertain, plus the object(s) of her love turns out to be twins ... first Haine falls in love with older twin Takanari, author of a book she much admires, and secondly, unknowingly, with younger twin Shizumasa, who, because of his older brother's frail health, is oblidged to be his stand-in (the very slight difference between the two being one parts his hair to the left)., VIZ Media, 2008, 6, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009. Hardcover. New. This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the worldâs largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being âIndiaâs dreamtownâand its purgatory.â He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinationsâNehru Place, Rohini, Ghaziabad and Gurgaonâthat most writers ignore. Millerâs quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of callâthe ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhiâmake only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhiâs peopleâfrom a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass BandâMiller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the worldâs fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for lifeâs diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate peopleâs lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar. Printed Pages: 304., Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009, 6, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009. Hardcover. New. This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the worldâs largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being âIndiaâs dreamtownâand its purgatory.â He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinationsâNehru Place, Rohini, Ghaziabad and Gurgaonâthat most writers ignore. Millerâs quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of callâthe ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhiâmake only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhiâs peopleâfrom a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass BandâMiller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the worldâs fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for lifeâs diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate peopleâs lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar. Printed Pages: 304., Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009, 6, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009. Hardcover. New. This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the worlds largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being Indias dreamtownand its purgatory. He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinationsNehru Place, Rohini, Ghaziabad and Gurgaonthat most writers ignore. Millers quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of callthe ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhimake only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhis peoplefrom a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass BandMiller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the worlds fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for lifes diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate peoples lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar. Printed Pages: 304. Delhi: Adventures in a MegacitySam Miller9780670082315, Penguin Books India/Viking, 2009, 6, DK Children, 2005-09-05. Hardcover. Used:Good., DK Children, 2005-09-05, 0, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book is in nearly new condition aside from very minor shelf rubbing and that the book pages move more freely like the book has been read once before mindfully so as to not cause damage. 'In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story Lihaaf --The Quilt. The narrator of this story, a precocious nine-year old child, is sent to visit an aunt. This aunt, ignored by a husband whose only interest seems to lie in entertaining slim-waisted young boys, suffers from a relentless bodily itch, an itch, her niece discovers, no doctor can cure and only her maidservant can relieve. Frank and often wickedly comic, Chughtai's stories were the imaginative core of her life's work, drawn from memories of the sprawling Muslim household of her childhood. With her mastery of the spoken language, economy of form, and her fine eye for the details of the intricate and hidden world of women's experience, Chughtai captured the evolving conflicts of Muslim India. Her exploration of the myriad and subtle tyrannies of middle-class gentility, and, equally, of those unexpected moments of sexual liberation and spirit, is unrivalled in contemporary Urdu literature.' xi+149 pages. 6 x 9 inches.., Sheep Meadow Press, 1994, 3, Paperback / softback. As New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate, 5, New York, Oxford first edition - h/c in d.j. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the sterotypes, the author reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated. 242 x 160mm., pp.xv, 352, b/w plates, notes, index. Contents - no inscriptions, in d.j. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0192804839, New York, Oxford, 2003, 0<
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Paperback / softback. As New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight agai… Mehr…
Paperback / softback. As New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate, 5, Hardback. New. The Ruin of Kings begins an extraordinary fantasy adventure. Prophecy and magic combine in a powerful epic of imperial politics, dragons, gods and demons. And a young man discovers his fate will determine the future of an empire., 6, San Francisco, CA: VIZ Media, 2008. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Arina Tanemura (Author-Illustrator). VOLUME 5. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Book is read right-to-left. A longer than usual manga by author and artist Arina Tanemura (1978- ), whose works have been serialized on television. A complex tale set in the exclusive Imperial Academy. Heroine Haine discovers her birth family had given her up for adoption in lieu of discharge of a business debt. Lineage uncertain, plus the object(s) of her love turns out to be twins ... first Haine falls in love with older twin Takanari, author of a book she much admires, and secondly, unknowingly, with younger twin Shizumasa, who, because of his older brother's frail health, is oblidged to be his stand-in (the very slight difference between the two being one parts his hair to the left)., VIZ Media, 2008, 6, Hardback. New. German railroading revolutionized warfare during 1825-1918 by getting more men, horses, guns, and supplies to the various battlefronts quicker and more efficiently than any other Great Power until the Allies discovered how to do it also, and sometimes better. In order to gain the advantages over their enemies, strict timetables had to be followed!, 6, Paperback. New. Cyrus was fourteen when his gods were slain, his country invaded, and his parents--the king and queen--beheaded in front of him. After years held prisoner in the invader's court, a mysterious group of revolutionaries breaks him free and gives him the chance for revenge that he's always dreamed of. In exchange, he will become the figurehead of their rebellion. He will become a hero to unite the people and strike fear in the hearts of the imperials. He will take up the skull mask and swords to become the legendary Vagrant""-an unparalleled assassin of otherworldly skill. But all is not as it seems. Creating the illusion of a hero is the work of many, and Cyrus will soon discover the true price of his vengeance""--| Author: David Dalglish| Publisher: Orbit| Publication Date: Apr 05, 2022| Number of Pages: 512 pages| Language: English| Binding: Paperback| ISBN-10: 075955708X| ISBN-13: 9780759557086, 6, Paperback / softback. New. Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.This novel is the English language debut of the highly regarded Russian writer,nominated for GOLD DAGGER AWARD for Best Novel.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,monochrome photographic vignette illustrated dw/dj panels with black,grey and lettering to front and black lettered critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though toned are bright and clean,without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with no spine lean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-249pp [paginated] includes 16 numbered chapters+a Final chapter; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a 'Table of Ranks' - 19thC Russian authority and privilege formally structured in a hierachy of equivalent military and civil ranks and titles,introduced by the Emperor Peter the Great in January 1722. Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.He has been compared to Gogol,Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle,and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted. First in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia. Moscow 1876.A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens.Erast Fandorin, the brilliant, young and gifted detective is put on the case - a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left considerable assets.Fandorin's fearless investigation takes him from Moscow to Berlin and London,via St. Petersburg,as the suicide reveals a worldwide conspiracy. 'The Winter Queen' is a gripping literary page-turner whose power and appeal is enhanced by its vividly realistic historical setting.Boris Akunin's first UK publication marks the arrival of a startlingly original new talent in thriller writing. 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Book is in nearly new condition aside from very minor shelf rubbing and that the book pages move more freely like the book has been read once before mindfully so as to not cause damage. 'In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story Lihaaf --The Quilt. The narrator of this story, a precocious nine-year old child, is sent to visit an aunt. This aunt, ignored by a husband whose only interest seems to lie in entertaining slim-waisted young boys, suffers from a relentless bodily itch, an itch, her niece discovers, no doctor can cure and only her maidservant can relieve. Frank and often wickedly comic, Chughtai's stories were the imaginative core of her life's work, drawn from memories of the sprawling Muslim household of her childhood. 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The Last Great Quest : Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice by Max Jones - gebrauchtes Buch
ISBN: 9780192804839
Many have told the story of Sir Robert Scott's dramatic and, ultimately, tragic race to the South Pole. But in The Last Great Quest, Max Jones adds a new dimension to the story by probing… Mehr…
Many have told the story of Sir Robert Scott's dramatic and, ultimately, tragic race to the South Pole. But in The Last Great Quest, Max Jones adds a new dimension to the story by probing the nature of heroism in modern Britain as reflected in the strengths and weaknesses of Scott himself. In particular, he charts the cultural reverberations of Scott's death and sacrifice on the eve of the greatest slaughter in British history--the First World War. A dramatic opening leads to a compelling examination of the British traditions of exploration, the scientific ambitions of the expedition, the "race to the South Pole," and the disaster itself. Jones argues that Scott's death was a pivotal moment in British history, and central to this is his extraordinary journal--the ultimate expression of self-control and heroism in the face of death--which was immensely popular in the years before the war. This important and challenging interpretation of Scott's life and death re-evaluates the man and his sacrifice. Indeed, Jones shows that the story of Scott of the Antarctic is a key to understanding modern British history, connecting Scott with Dr. Livingstone, the Titanic disaster, and the ascent of Everest. In particular, Scott's story helps us to fathom the generation who fought and died in the Great War. The most important new contribution to our knowledge of this compelling story in nearly 25 years, and the first account that sets the story in a wider historical context, The Last Great Quest brims with original conclusions that are based on previously unavailable evidence. Media > Book, [PU: Oxford University Press]<
2003, ISBN: 9780192804839
[PU: Oxford University Press], 352 S.; Ill. Hardcover with dust jacket Like new. Shrink wrapped., DE, [SC: 0.00], gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 905g], Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Selbstabholung… Mehr…
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A dramatic opening leads to a compelling examination of the British traditions of exploration, the scientific ambitions of the expedition, the "race to the South Pole," and the disaster itself. Jones argues that Scott's death was a pivotal moment in British history, and central to this is his extraordinary journal--the ultimate expression of self-control and heroism in the face of death--which was immensely popular in the years before the war. This important and challenging interpretation of Scott's life and death re-evaluates the man and his sacrifice. Indeed, Jones shows that the story of Scott of the Antarctic is a key to understanding modern British history, connecting Scott with Dr. Livingstone, the Titanic disaster, and the ascent of Everest. In particular, Scott's story helps us to fathom the generation who fought and died in the Great War.
The most important new contribution to our knowledge of this compelling story in nearly 25 years, and the first account that sets the story in a wider historical context, The Last Great Quest brims with original conclusions that are based on previously unavailable evidence.
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780192804839
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0192804839
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Herausgeber: Oxford University Press
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Autor des Buches: cary max, jones
Titel des Buches: scott antarctic, last die, last great quest, great captains, the last
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