Women Garden Designers: 1900 to the Present
Book
Women Garden Designers presents twenty-seven of the most important and influential women garden...
The History of the Welsh Pony
Book
The Welsh Pony, or Welsh Section B as it is commonly known, is the most recently developed of the...
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Fat chance!
It's not long before they become embroiled in yet another mystery following the appearance (and subsequent disapperance of) a mysterious stranger, who claims to be able to lead them to an Egyptian Queen's lost tomb.
Told, as before, thorugh Amelia's eyes, this also (eventually) brings Emerson's brother Walter and his wife Evelyn - who are going through a rough patch - back to Egypt where they first met and fell in love, as well as depicting the teenaged interactions/arguments/jealousies between Amelia's precocious son Ramses and their just-as-precocious ward Nefret.
The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to Live by, from One Generation of Remarkable Women to the Next
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Adriana Trigiani's two remarkable grandmothers, Lucia and Viola, lived through the 20th century from...
Jacob Mincer: The Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics
Book
The original book published with the IZA, this work presents and analyzes the work of one of the...
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea
Teffi, Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg
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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William...
Your Private Sky R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science
Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein
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Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the...
Design Objects and the Museum
Liz Farrelly and Joanna Weddell
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Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and...
Rick Steves' Iran
Podcast
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In Rick...