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A Little History Of British Gardening

A Little History Of British Gardening

Jenny Uglow

Coloured by Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, and brought to life in the many vivid illustrations, it deals not only with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, but tells you, for example, how the ...
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Jenny Uglow

In this superbly illustrated biography, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come.
The Shadow on the Mountain

The Shadow on the Mountain

Jenny Arnesen

Jenny Arnesen. The Shadow on the Mountain Jenny Arnesen Copyright © 2010 by Jenny Arnesen. Library of Congress Control.
The Shadow and the Rose

The Shadow and the Rose

Jenny Arnesen

Jenny Arnesen. The Shadow and the Rose Jenny Arnesen Copyright © 2010 by Jenny Arnesen. Library of Congress Control.
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

Jenny Uglow

and Merton, 3 vols (1783–89) SchimmelPenninck Christiana C. Hankin (ed.), The Life of Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck, 3rd edn, (1860) Schofield Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society (Oxford, 1963) Schofield Priestley Robert E. Schofield, ...
The Pinecone

The Pinecone

Jenny Uglow

In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way.
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British ...

Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British ...

Jenny Uglow

A brief coda turns to a fourth kind of relationship, the writers and artists who collaborate from the start, beginning with Dickens and Phiz. Illustrated throughout with a wide variety of examples, this is a book to pore over and enjoy.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Jenny Uglow

Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and ...
William Hogarth: A Life and a World

William Hogarth: A Life and a World

Jenny Uglow

William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books.
Hogarth: A Life and a World

Hogarth: A Life and a World

Jenny Uglow

Traces the career of the English artist and satirist, and depicts life in eighteenth-century England
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

Jenny Uglow

A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, racked with plague, fire and war, in which the risks the king took ...
George Eliot

George Eliot

Jenny Uglow

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about.
The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810

The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810

Jenny Uglow

Blending science, art and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals, launched balloons, named plants, gases and minerals, changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms, and plotted to revolutionize its soul." --Book Jacket.
Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays ...

Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays ...

M. Merck

Jenny Sundén, “What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg,” Feminist Media Studies 2 (2001); also Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson Elm, “Introduction,” in Malin Sveningsson Elm and Jenny Sundén, ...
Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Jenny Randles

Jenny Randles. pnl'aneoud HUMAN CUMBUSTION Janny Randles and Peter Hough Spontaneous Human Combustion Jenny Randles and Peter Hough. Front Cover.
Oman, UAE & Arabian Peninsula

Oman, UAE & Arabian Peninsula

Jenny Walker

Jenny Walker, Terry Carter, Lara Dunston. Oman, UAE & Arabian Peninsula Jenny Walker Stuart Butler, Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Frances Linzee Gordon O M A N G U L F O F.
You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds

You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds

Jenny Lawson

At her signings, fans show up with printouts of these drawings for Jenny to autograph. And inevitably they ask her when will she publish a whole book of them. That moment has arrived. You Are Here is something only Jenny could create.
Unforgettable

Unforgettable

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Callie Vernon has never shared much with Jenny Humphrey, her younger, rosy-cheeked roommate at elite Waverly Academy, but when Jenny steals Callie's long-term boyfriend, Easy Walsh, Callie feels little guilt about kissing him behind Jenny's ...
Fast Animals (Enhanced Edition): A Children's Book About the ...

Fast Animals (Enhanced Edition): A Children's Book About the ...

Jenny Lillystone

A Children's Book About the Speed of Animals Jenny Lillystone. |FAST "A- ***... . - - %. - * * %: * '%'. ' '''''', * ''' ''' - *: Jenny Lilly stone Enhance C. E.Cition Table of Contents Fast Animals List ofVideos Famous Animal Racers. Front Cover.
My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

Helen Edwards

Inspirational and moving, My Secret Sister by Helen Edwards and Jenny Lee Smith, is the story of two women brave enough to confront their past, and strong enough to let love not bitterness define them.
Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment

Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment

Jenny Sundén

In "Material Virtualities," Jenny Sunden explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters.
What We Hide

What We Hide

Marthe Jocelyn

This is Jenny's chance to finally stand out, so accidentally, on purpose, she tells a lie. In the small world of Ill Hall, everyone has something to hide. Jenny pretends she has a boyfriend. Robbie and Luke both pretend they don't.
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: ...

Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict: ...

Jenny George Daccache

In this interdisciplinary study, Jenny George Daccache and Brandon Valeriano analyze Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet. 1997 saw the releases of Red Corner, Seven Years in Tibet, and Kundun, all of which were condemned ...
Sex as Crime?

Sex as Crime?

Preview

A similar discursive reduction, this time relating to age, is found in the processes described by Jenny Davidson and Elena Martellozzo and by Jenny Kitzinger (see below), whereby in the one case adolescent victims of sex offences are ...
Scottish Girls About Town: And sixteen other Scottish women ...

Scottish Girls About Town: And sixteen other Scottish women ...

Jenny Colgan

Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors.
Quilt Africa

Quilt Africa

Jenny Williamson

In this book, the sisters Jenny and Pat give instructions for quilts that have an essence of Africa about them.
Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia

Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia

Jenny Schmid

Text by Lisa Fischman, Ben Ehrenreich.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me

Jenny Slate

View our feature on Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Millions of people have fallen in love with Marcel.
Military Cargo Planes (Enhanced Edition)

Military Cargo Planes (Enhanced Edition)

Jenny Lillystone

Jenny Lillystone. U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Chad Chisholm A C130J Hercules releases containers. U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Mike Meares C17 Globemaster III airdrop. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson U.S. Air ...
Lyme Stones

Lyme Stones

Richard Noble

There was noone close to them and so Victoria told Simon about the strange goings on at Jenny's the day before and the visits to the shop by Tom Shields and Bill Wilder. She found it strange to see Jenny using a safe. “But surely it is normal  ...

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