![]() ![]() Hours of business: Mon-Fri 10 to 6 Number 46 is at the northern end of Shepherd Market, formerly the location of Shepherds bindery, a five minute walk from Green Park tube station (Jubilee, Victoria and Piccadilly lines) and only slightly more from Bond Street station. We also display a selection of stock at our Mayfair shop: 46 Curzon Street ![]() Number 48 is on the south side of Bedford Square, a five minute walk from Totten ham Court Road or Goodge Street underground stations and a ten minute walk from Russell Square. Great Britain Hours of business: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 5 Our primary address is our Bloomsbury shop: This book shows that John Harrison was like the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, he was poor hence, self-educated. Dava lays out the historical background and competing interests. Stock Code: 234950 Members of: Antiquarian Booksellers Association Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association International League of Antiquarian Booksellers by perfecting the marine chronometerthus solving the problem of measuring longitude at seawhich was an accomplishment that profoundly. Longitude is a fascinating history of the development of a mechanical chronometer. ![]() Inscribed by the author to the half title page: "For Roger, Greetings from the Board of Longitude, Dava Sobel 22 October 1997". Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ![]()
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It’s also useful to those of us who study preservation professionally, to bring our insistence that buildings are just as alive as plants-and just as worthy of careful, affectionate attention-into the broader cultural conversation about urban spaces. McAlester’s book is excellent for the layperson who wants to wander about the neighborhood with a bit more authority, or perhaps for the homeowner who can’t decide what kind of windows might look best. “The most authoritative dictionary of the language spoken by the built environment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Far from the outside world and society's rules, his place in Emily's life, as steadfast now as the light, will forever change their futures. But Andrew proves himself an enormous help and soon wins the hearts of the Lowry family. At first, Emily is intensely wary of this strange, charming man, whose very presence there is highly illegal. ![]() Unexpected help arrives when a runaway slave named Andrew washes up on their beach. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but to take charge of Wreckers' Cay and her husband's duties tending the light to support her three children-and a fourth on the way. One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends the lighthouse. In the tradition of Leila Meacham and Dorothea Benton Frank comes a stunning debut novel about a well-born Southern woman who finds courage and strength to overcome tragedy with an unexpected new love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.Īs Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. ![]() Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. ![]() ![]() Charles stepped onto the scaffold and gave his last speech, declaring his innocence of the crimes of which parliament had accused him, and claiming himself as a "martyr of the people". A large crowd had gathered to witness the regicide. On 30 January, he was taken to a large black scaffold constructed in front of the Banqueting House, where he was to be executed. ![]() Ĭharles spent his last few days in St James's Palace, accompanied by his most loyal subjects and visited by his family. On Saturday 27 January 1649, the parliamentarian High Court of Justice had declared Charles guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people" and he was sentenced to death by beheading. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War, leading to the capture and trial of Charles I, the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The execution of Charles I by beheading occurred on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall. Based on the earliest European depiction of the execution. Contemporary German print of the execution of Charles I outside the Banqueting House. ![]() ![]() ![]() The graphic novel would later become the definitive story of Arkham Asylum, a critical part of the Batman mythos. ![]() Morrison's narrative and Dave McKean's artistic style were described as more mature, unique, psychologically-driven and horror-oriented take on the Batman mythos and the distinctiveness from other conventional superhero works. Upon its release, the graphic novel garnered commercial and wide critical acclaim and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Batman stories of all time, and one of the best works in Grant Morrison's career. As Batman ventures deeper, he discovers the origin of how the asylum was established, the history of its founder Amadeus Arkham, and the supernatural and psychological mystery that has been haunting the mansion. Inside, Batman confronts many of his enduring rogues gallery, such as the Joker, Two-Face, and Killer Croc. The story follows the vigilante Batman, who is called upon to quell a maddening riot taking place in the infamous Arkham Asylum, a psychiatric hospital housing the most dangerous supervillains in Gotham City. ![]() Cover of Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.Īrkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (often shortened to Batman: Arkham Asylum) is a Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Contemporary literary representations of World War II and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe do not merely extend or replace older practices of remembrance and testimony, but reflect on these now defunct or superseded narratives. ![]() These shifts point to new commemorative cultures shaping up ‘after memory’. The present volume posits that literature as a medium can help us understand the shifting attitudes towards World War II and the Holocaust in post-Communist Europe in recent years. The fierce debates on how to deal with the past among the newly constituted nation states in these regions have already received much attention by scholars in cultural and memory studies. After Memory: World War II in Contemporary Eastern European Literatures – Media and Cultural Memory edited by Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller, Heike WinkelĮven seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the commemorative cultures surrounding the War and the Holocaust in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe are anything but fixed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. ![]() Book Synopsis A 2019 Booklist Editors Choice A 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year A 2019 Parents Magazine Best Childrens Books of the Year Ryan Andrewss This Was Our Pact is an astonishing, magical-realist adventure story for middle-grade readers. Together, Nathaniel and Ben will travel farther than anyone has ever gone, down a winding road full of magic, wonder, and unexpected friendship and a talking bear-Provided by publisher. ![]() The plan is to follow the river on their bikes for as long as it takes to learn the truth, but it isnt long before the pact is broken by all except for Ben and (much to Bens disappointment) Nathaniel, the one kid who just doesnt seem to fit in. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, theyll soar off to the Milky Way and turn into brilliant stars, but could that actually be true? This year, Ben and his classmates are determined to find out where those lanterns really go, and to ensure success in their mission, theyve made a pact with two simple rules: No one turns for home. ![]() About the Book Its the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. ![]() ![]() In this way, chocolate represents of the desire for control many of the characters within the book wrestle with. Leon’s belief that his “special” students will be able to carry out the increased demands of the sale with no problem demonstrates his voracious desire for control over the student body and the fate of the school alike. Moreover, each boy will be responsible for selling double his quota from previous years-each boy must sell fifty boxes rather than twenty-five. At the start of the novel, the untrustworthy Brother Leon announces that this year, the stakes for the sale are higher than ever the school is in financial jeopardy, its Head is ill, and to compensate Brother Leon has secured-possibly through shady channels-a massive amount of Mother’s Day chocolate, the ribbon-adorned boxes of which will be sold at double the price of previous years’ sales. Throughout the novel, chocolate is a shifting but ever-present symbol-the book’s whole plot is structured around a schoolwide chocolate sale, in which the all-male student body of Trinity high is yearly made to sell chocolate to raise funds for the institution. ![]() ![]() ![]() "There is nothing convincing about The Leavenworth Case, and the suspected but innocent persons are not very interesting but there is a good deal of ingenuity in the plot, and, as the law proceedings introduced are American law proceedings, we do not know whether the author has avoided the perils that environ lady novelists - and, indeed, gentlemen novelists also - who meddle with criminal procedure." - The Spectator.How many of Poe's marvellous tales could be put into this volume ! Still, The Leavenworth Case is a meritorious effort." - The Spectator "Compression, too, might have been applied, with much benefit.(.) Green (1846-1935), whose smooth prose remains fresh, makes Gryce an interesting enough character to leave fans of traditional whodunits eager to see more of the detective in reissues of his further exploits." - Publishers Weekly "(T)his atmospheric and suspenseful mystery well deserves a modern audience. ![]()
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