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City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall - Rome and the Limits of Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy
$20.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to the west coast of the northern part of Britannia, it ...Show more
Olympia - The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games by Robin Waterfield
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
The story of the ancient Olympic Games, held in honour of Zeus at Olympia in the eastern Peloponnese, traditionally dated as starting in 776 BC, and held from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The victors of these ancient games may have been awarded crowns of olive leaves in recognition of thei ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
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Category: railway | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents, acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Sinfonia Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony (Beethoven's Third Symphony) by James Hamilton-Paterson
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Category: Music | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
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Category: Architecture | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more
Stonehenge - The Story of a Sacred Landscape by Francis Pryor
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Category: United Kingdom | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose - place of worship, sacrificial arena, giant calendar - is unknown, but its story is one of the most extraordinary of any of the world's prehisto ...Show more
The British Museum - Storehouse of Civilizations by James Hamilton
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Category: Art | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linn ...Show more
The Rite of Spring - The Music of Modernity by Gillian Moore
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Category: Music | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
Tobit Transplanted by Stella Benson
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Category: Hardback fiction | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: good-very good
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