Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University
Author: Harvard Law School. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Treasures of Merton College
Author: Steven J. GunnPublisher: Third Millennium Information
ISBN: 9781906507961
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This richly illustrated book will feature archival and architectural highlights spanning the 750-year life of Merton College.
Behind Diplomatic Lines
Author: Patrick WrightPublisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1785903454
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Patrick Wright's memoir opens on a diplomatic crisis. A growing number of countries are threatening to boycott the Commonwealth Games in protest of the British government's handling of South African apartheid. And the problems only get worse. Patrick Wright was one of the pre-eminent diplomats of his day, putting him at the forefront of some of the late twentieth century's most important global events. His six years at the FCO found him dealing with the backlash from the Falklands War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, strained relations with the EU, the First Gulf War and, perhaps most challenging of all, the 'fire and glares' of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Lord Wright's account is not only an essential documentation of a significant historical period, but witty and entertaining throughout. He revels in gossip, despairs at the mischievous press 'painting lurid pictures of Britain versus the Rest', recalls numerous amusing scenarios and is rather brutal in his assessment of various high-profile political figures.
Fresh from the Farm 6pk
Author: RigbyOutlandish Knight
Author: Minoo DinshawPublisher:
ISBN: 9780141979472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia 'As rich, funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time ... Dinshaw writes with wit and elegance, and the most elegiac passages of Outlandish Knight evoke a lost society London and way of life' Ben Judah, Financial Times 'This dazzling young writer is a mine of fascinating, memorable and totally useless information... I have been riveted by this book from start to finish, and leave the reader with one word of advice. Watch Minoo Dinshaw. He will go far' John Julius Norwich, Sunday Telegraph The biography of one of the greatest British historians - but also of a uniquely strange and various man In his enormously long life, Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His friendships, curiosities and intrigues entangled him in a huge array of different artistic movements, civil wars, Cold War betrayals and, above all, the rediscovery of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. He was as happy living in a remote part of the Inner Hebrides as in the heart of Istanbul. He was obsessed with historical truth, but also with tarot, second sight, ghosts and the uncanny. Outlandish Knight is a dazzling debut by a writer who has prodigious gifts, but who also has had the ability to spot one of the great biographical subjects. This is an extremely funny book about a man who attracted the strangest experiences, but also a very serious one. It is about the rigours of a life spent in the distant past, but also about the turbulent world of the twentieth century, where so much that Runciman studied and cherished would be destroyed.
Essays on Fiction
Author: Nassau William SeniorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description