Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
A West-India Fortune
Author: Richard ParesPublisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : Pinney Family
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The History of Huddersfield and Its Vicinity
Author: D. F. E. SykesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huddersfield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Sex of Architecture
Author: Diana AgrestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book brings together 24 provocative texts that collectively express the power and diversity of women's views on architecture today. This volume presents a dialogue among women historians, practitioners, theorists, and others concerned with critical issues in architecture and urbanism.
Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
Author: Derek WillanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780950946139
Category : Cancellations (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Cachets / numbered handstamps of Greece / cancellation types / Nummernstempel.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments
Author: Trevor HerbertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316631850
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses to which they have been put, and the importance they have had in classical music, sacred rituals, popular music, jazz, brass bands and the bands of the military. There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopedia spans the entire period from antiquity to modern times, with new and unfamiliar material that takes advantage of the latest research. From Abblasen to Zorsi Trombetta da Modon, this is the definitive guide for students, academics, musicians and music lovers.
Official U.S. Bulletin
Author: Nothing But Gold
Author: Robyn AnnearPublisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921799897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the mud of winter and dust of summer, the pluckiness of the women and children, the grog shanties, the flies, the mania of mining, the despair and the delirium, and the much hated licensing system which was to culminate in the Eureka Stockade. 'Robyn Annear tells the story of the 1852 gold rushes in imaginative detail ... she tells us how it felt to be there. You find yourself worrying about the problems long ago resolved, sharply aware of the gold diggers' hopes and ordeals, diverted by the high comedy of a chaotic life. Like all good narratives, it looks easy because it is so easily read and enjoyed ... She makes a mosaic out of small moments of experience ... The physical realities of the diggings are evoked, with all the ingenious ways of managing tent space, cooking, guarding gold, finding feed for horses, keeping off wind and rain, ants and mice.' Brenda Niall Robyn Annear was born in Melbourne in 1960. She spends her time writing and researching, typing for other people and looking after her family. She is also a part-time bookseller and President of the Friends of the Castlemaine Library. 'History from the inside; wonderfully entertaining.' Age 'A welcome addition to Australian history, pointing to badly needed ways in which history can be made more reader-friendly.' Quadrant
The Diary of Abraham De la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary
Author: Abraham DE LA PRYMEHistory of the Forest of Rossendale
Author: Thomas NewbiggingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description