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Higgy: Matches, Microphones and MS

Higgy: Matches, Microphones and MS

Alastair Hignell

My decision to beat a retreat was shared by the captain Bill Beaumont. We arrived back at our hotel to find a very worried and very young receptionist with a phone in her hand. She recognised Bill Beaumont as the captain and presumed that I ...
Cricket in Wales: 1. the History of Blaina Cricket Club - ...

Cricket in Wales: 1. the History of Blaina Cricket Club - ...

Andrew Hignell

Hanes Clwb Criced y Blaenau, wedi'i ysgrifennu gan Andrew Hignell, Archifydd Clwb Criced Sir Forgannwg. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Roy Lichtenstein (Penguin Special): How Modern Art Was Saved ...

Roy Lichtenstein (Penguin Special): How Modern Art Was Saved ...

Alastair Sooke

What do his paintings really tell us? And what is his legacy? This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, is a perfect introduction to the artist and his work.
Managing the Brief For Better Design

Managing the Brief For Better Design

Alastair Blyth

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blyth, Alastair, 1958- Managing the brief for better design / Alastair Blyth ...
Alastair Cook: Starting Out - My Story So Far

Alastair Cook: Starting Out - My Story So Far

Alastair Cook

Graham Gooch was head coach, leading some great players and big personalities, including Andy Flower and Ronnie Irani. It meant a lot to me to open the batting for Essex with Will Jefferson, with whom I had spent so much time in our ...
Henri Matisse: A Second Life

Henri Matisse: A Second Life

Alastair Sooke

Their medium? Coloured paper and scissors. This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, focuses on Matisse's extraordinary final decade, which he called 'a second life', after he had returned from the grave.
The Golden Age: Nostalgia in Word and Image

The Golden Age: Nostalgia in Word and Image

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In Alastair Bellany's words, 'the political elite [. ... taken by 2 Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern Englandࣟ: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1666 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 86.
Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in ...

Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in ...

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The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, second report (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 580 and passim. See: Alastair Northedge, 'Survey of the terrace area at Amman citadel', Levantxii (1980), pp. 150 ff.; Alastair Northedge, 'The Qasr of Amman', ...
Upgrading School Buildings in Mexico with Social ...

Upgrading School Buildings in Mexico with Social ...

Blyth Alastair

Teachers noted that they feel safer after the refurbishment. The roofing has an 8- year warranty. Photo 3: example of outdoor education spaces. © Alastair Blyth School Esperanza Villasana Heredia José Maria Pino Suarez, Alvaro Obregon,.
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself.
Pop Art: A Colourful History

Pop Art: A Colourful History

Alastair Sooke

Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement.
Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates

Rain Stops Play: Cricketing Climates

Andrew Hignell

A geographical history of cricket in England and Wales in a global context.
The Australian Cricketers in Wales

The Australian Cricketers in Wales

Andrew Hignell

This book is released prior to the first ever Ashes Test to be played at Glamorgan's Swalec Stadium in July 2009.
100 First-Class Umpires

100 First-Class Umpires

Andrew Hignell

This book covers a century of the best, most charismatic and most controversial men ever to don the white coat and stand for first-class cricket.
Local Historian

Local Historian

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JOHN CHAPMAN Running along the Rails A FAVOURIT GAME: CRICKET IN SOUTH WALES BEFORE 1914 by Andrew Hignell (University of Wales Press, 259 pp., 1992. ISBN 0 7083 1190 3), £17.95 From a number of viewpoints this is a ...
Geographies of Health: An Introduction

Geographies of Health: An Introduction

Anthony C. Gatrell

McCormack, G.R., Rock, M., Toohey, A., and Hignell, D. (2010) Characteristics of urban parks associated with park use and physical activity: a review of qualitative research. Health & Place, 16: 712–26. MacKian, S. (2000) Contours of coping: ...

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