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The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667)
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This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society...
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Turning the Tide
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This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Second...
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett
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Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths,...
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Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
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The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers...
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Inland Waterways of Germany
Barry Sheffield, Catherine Best, John Best and Robert Thomas
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This is the only comprehensive directory to the entire navigable German waterway system available in...
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An A-Z of Hellraisers: A Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety
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"An A-Z of Hellraisers" is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this...
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Just a Minute: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Game: Series 75
Paul Merton, Nicholas Parsons and B.B.C. Radio
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Nicholas Parsons chairs six more episodes of the evergreen BBC Radio 4 panel game. Fresh from...
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
William Shakespeare and Peter Swaab
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Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble...
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More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Liza Kirwin and Richard J Wattenmaker
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Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't...
Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975
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Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the...