Angela John

Turning The Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda

Parthian Books, 2013. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; slight rubbing/ creasing to jacket edges. As with all of Angela John's books, this excellent biography offered me a rich mixture of history, political and social context and insight into a fascinating life. As someone who believes passionately in the value of equality, and the intrinsic worth of celebrating and utilising diversity , it is especially interesting to see how the arts and business were brought together by this remarkable woman. A recommended read for anyone interested in the development of journalism, of women's rights and the influence of Welsh culture and learning. (Reader review) 644 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: dscf11644.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Biography & Autobiography; Turning The Tide The Life of Lady Rhondda Angela John

Claude Johnson

The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era

Abrams Press, 2021. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781419744365 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; quarter inch closed tear to jacket at top of spine (front). "Claude Johnson has written a wonderful and thorough history of African Americans in basketball, providing exhaustive historical context and enlightening anecdotes. The Black Fives is outstanding and unprecedented. Bravo!"-- "Kadir Nelson" 480 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; ISBN/EAN: 9781419744365. Inventory No: dscf11153.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Sports & Pastimes; The Black Fives The Epic Story of Basketballs Forgotten Era Claude Johnson

Tana Johnson

Organizational Progeny: Why Governments are Losing Control over the Proliferating Structures of Global Governance

OUP, 2014. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780198717799 Clean unmarked pages, slight bump to top front corner, almost as new. 304 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; ISBN/EAN: 9780198717799. Inventory No: dscf10396.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Politics & Government; Organizational Progeny Why Governments are Losing Control over the Proliferating Structures of Global Governance Tana Johnson

Paul Jones

End to End SIGNED

Little Brown, 2021. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author,to a publisher's bookplate affixed to the half-title page, and inscribed "Days are where we live" . Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; small nick to front lower corner of jacket. The End to End record is the longest place-to-place cycling record in Britain. It is a daunting 842 miles and for the men and women who attempt to break the record, there can be no second place, only the binary outcome of total success or failure. Paul Jones decided to ride from Land's End to John O' Groats in an attempt to understand the relentless physical and mental challenges involved. End to End is a captivating and beautifully written narrative. A lyrical account of the journey sits alongside meetings with amazing cyclists; people like Eileen Sheridan; who covered the distance in under three days in 1954, or current men's record holder Michael Broadwith who did it in a scarcely believable 43 hours. Paul Jones reaches further back to the very first attempts in the 1880s, undertaken on penny farthings, fuelled by Victorian values and patent medicine. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; Signed by Author. Inventory No: dscf11726.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Travel & Places; End to End SIGNED Paul Jones

William Jordan

Spanish Still Life from Velazquez to Goya

National Gallery, 1995. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 9781857090642 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, feint remains of erased pencilled price to top corner of half-title page. Published to accompany the National Gallery's 1995 exhibition, this is a richly illustrated catalogue written by two of the foremost authorities in this field. The authors desribe the character of each artist's oeuvre, their relationship with other artists, interpret particular pictures, describing the circumstances of the commission, and give biographical information. Full colour plates illustrate the exhibited works, with additional black and white images. 224 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9781857090642. Inventory No: dscf11468.

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Joseph Miller, ed.

The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History

Princeton University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780691148533 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; slight shelfwear to jacket. The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History is a helpful guide to the rich scholarship that has emerged in the field of Atlantic history and reflects the field's diversity and variety. The volume makes abundantly clear that Atlantic world historians and scholars are not simply rehashing old-style 'colonial' histories in repackaged form. There is a lot of exciting and intellectually stimulating work being done as the field continues to evolve.---Abigail L. Swingen, Journal of Southern History 568 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780691148533. Inventory No: dscf10802.

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Keywords: BZDB229 History; The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History Joseph Miller ed

Joyce Brown, ed.

A Hundred Years of Civil Engineering at South Kensington: The Origins and History of the Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, 1884-1984

Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780852871508 Small (2cm) area of damage to head of spine, book's contents clean and unmarked. B&W photos, tables, appendices. 304 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; ISBN/EAN: 9780852871508. Inventory No: dscf10998.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Engineering, Industrial, Trade; A Hundred Years of Civil Engineering at South Kensington The Origins and History of the Department of Civil Engineering Imperial College 18841984 Joyce Brown ed

Jack Kagan

Novogrudok: The History of a Shtetl SIGNED/Inscribed

Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 2006. Softcover. Fine Condition. Inscribed by Author. SIGNED by the author, and inscribed "With Best Wishes" Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight wear to covers. This book is a moving testimony to a world that no longer exists. It recreates the richness of life in a Jewish shtetl before the German invasion without sentimentality. It documents the savage destruction of this Jewish world with the aid of documents, photographs, and family memoirs, and includes stories of extraordinary bravery and survival. --Dr Joanna Newman, Executive Director, London Jewish Cultural Centre 287 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inscribed by Author. Inventory No: dscf11834.

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Keywords: BZDB229 History; Novogrudok The History of a Shtetl SIGNEDInscribed Jack Kagan

Pablo Casals/ Albert Kahn

Joys and Sorrows

Eel Pie Publishing, 1981. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Light surface wear/creasing to covers,light age spotting to upper text block, pages lightly age toned at the edges. Scarce life-story of the famed cellist. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: dscf11093.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Biography & Autobiography; Joys and Sorrows Pablo Casals Albert Kahn

Pablo Casals/ Albert Kahn

Joys and Sorrows

Macdonald, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean unmarked pages, age spotting to top edge, light handling wear to jacket. Scarce life-story of the famed cellist. 314 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: dscf11109.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Biography & Autobiography; Joys and Sorrows Pablo Casals Albert Kahn

Laura Kasischke

Where Now: New and Selected Poems

Copper Canyon Press, 2017. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fine. Discolouration/stain to lower closed page block (see image), pages otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket protected by clear removable wrapper. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laura Kasischke unapologetically explores the dark and humorous realities of our lives. 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: dscf11866.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Poetry; Where Now New and Selected Poems Laura Kasischke

Jean-Paul Kauffmann

The Struggle with the Angel: Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of Good and Evil

Da Capo Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781568582436 Clean unmarked pages, slight creasing to upper edge of jacket. In The Struggle with the Angel, Jean-Paul Kauffmann -- a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for his The Black Room at Longwood -- wrestles with good and evil. His muse is The Struggle of Jacob with the Angel, a Delacroix painting in Paris's Saint-Sulpice. In this painting, Delacroix, a narrative artist of the mid 19th century, portrayed one of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis. It was said to be his "spiritual testimony," and it took him eight years to complete. In the manner of an intuitive detective, Kauffmann investigates the painting and the church that houses it. Stroke by meticulous stroke, he uncovers the painting's deeper meaning the struggle with God for the artist and for himself, as he attempts to put his own troubled past into perspective. Color photos and illustrations accompany this meditation on humanity's struggles with God. 192 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9781568582436. Inventory No: dscf10110.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Art & Design; The Struggle with the Angel Delacroix Jacob and the God of Good and Evil JeanPaul Kauffmann

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann

European Foundations of the Welfare State

Berghahn Books, 2012. Hardcover. As New. 9780857454768 A clean unmarked copy in as new condition. Even though the chapters were originally published separately, they fit well together and complement each other well... The book gives a thorough and solid overview not only of the European welfare state concept in itself but also sets it in an international context by including the United States and the former Soviet Union. - Isabelle Kürschner, Hanns-Seidel-Foundation 400 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; ISBN/EAN: 9780857454768. Inventory No: dscf10997.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Politics & Government; European Foundations of the Welfare State FranzXaver Kaufmann

Terry Keegan

The Heavy Horse: Its Harness and Harness Decoration SIGNED/Inscribed

Pelham Books, 1973. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. SIGNED by the author,with an inscription to the previous owner. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, clean bright jacket. This is a superbly detailed, highly informative book. It has excellent drawings and interesting facts on both the British Heavy Horses and the parts of the Harness and Harness Decoration. It also tells you what the pieces of the harness are called and what and how and what they are used for. It even has illustrations of the formations in which a team of three or four Heavy Horses are harness together (Reader review) 216 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Inventory No: dscf11824.

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Richard Kendall

Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement

Royal Academy of Arts, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781905711680 Small stain on lower closed text block, 2" roughened narrow strip to edge of flyleaf, contents otherwise clean bright and unmarked. Sumptuously illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of filmfromthe period, this beautiful book follows the development of Degas’s ballet imagery. The renowned Degas scholars Richard Kendall and Jill Devonyar examine the artist’s innovative approach to the subject, fromhis documentarymode of the early 1870s to the sensuous and expressivemanner of his late work. Parallel advances in photography and early filmare also explored, placing Degas’s lifelong engagement with the figure inmovement in a contemporary context. 280 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9781905711680. Inventory No: dscf10845.

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Keywords: BZDB229 Art & Design; Degas and the Ballet Picturing Movement Richard Kendall