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  • The Curious World of Wine

    Facts, Legends, and Lore About the Drink We Love So Much

    by Richard Vine ...
    The Curious World of Wine is a fascinating miscellany about the colorful characters, celebrated places, and quirky events surrounding wine-making. Recounting wine tales that are by turns amusing, surprising, and occasionally a bit naughty, wine expert Richard Vine reveals little-known facts such as:• The oldest vineyard still producing grapes is thought to be in Maribor, Slovenia, where vines up ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Liu Shiming

    Sculpting Empathy

    by Richard Vine ...
    Liu Shiming (1926–2010) is a revered Chinese artist whose works have had a distinct impact on the course of modern Chinese sculpture. Born in Tianjin in 1926, Shiming attended the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he was part of the first generation of sculptors trained by the People’s Republic of China to study both traditional Chinese art and French modernist ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling

    Edited by Tom Vine, Sarah Richards ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book advances social scientific interest in a field long dominated by the humanities: stories, and storytelling. Stories are a whole lot more than entertainment; oral narratives, novels, films and immersive video games all form part of the sociocultural discourses which we are enmeshed in, and use to co-construct our beliefs about the world around us. Young children use them to learn about ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Soviet-East European Relations as a Problem for the West

    Edited by Richard D. Vine ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Foreign Policy
    Soviet-East European Relations as a Problem for the West (1987) analyses the evolution of Eastern Europe both internally and in its relationship with the Soviet Union, the development of relations between the two superpowers, and the equilibrium between the two security systems. It examines how these changes have altered Western policy options, how internal Western frictions, arising from ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Winemaking

    From Grape Growing to Marketplace

    Edited by Ellen M. Harkness, Sally J. Linton, Richard P. Vine ...
    Over the past several decades, consumer interest in the fine vintage wines produced by small "boutique" vintners across the United States has grown to rival that of many European estates. This attention continues to intensify, especially for the truly good wines that are reasonably priced. Consumers are, however, unforgiving especially wine enthusiasts. Second-class wines do not succeed just ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Ethnographic Research and Analysis

    Anxiety, Identity and Self

    Edited by Tom Vine, Jessica Clark, Sarah Richards, David Weir ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the experiential use of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    The Last Enemy

    An inspiring story of World War Two from a Battle of Britain hero

    by Richard Hillary ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Vine, Sebastian Faulks ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    The thrilling and moving classic memoir of a spitfire pilot in World War Two, read by broadcasting legend Jeremy Vine.This is the true story of Richard Hillary, immortalised in Sebastian Faulks' bestselling triple biography, The Fatal Englishman. In The Last Enemy, Richard Hillary tells his extraordinary story in his own words. Shot out of the sky in the Battle of Britain, Hillary spent months in ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Spitfire Pilot

    by Flight-Lieutentant David M. Crook, DFC ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    At the outbreak of the Second World War D. M. Crook, of No. 609 Squadron AAF, was at Yeadon, still undergoing his training; by the winter of 1939–40, he had his wings.Successfully applying to return to his Squadron, then on defense duties in northern England, Crook began to familiarize himself with their new fighter: the Spitfire.Soon they were posted to RAF Northolt, and it was at this time that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Girls Who Went to War

    Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces

    by Duncan Barrett, Calvi ...
    Narrated by Tania Rodrigues ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 55 min

    The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost twice the size of ours from which to draw new waves of soldiers. Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn’t going to be ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Shanzhai

    Deconstruction in Chinese

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Philippa Hurd ...
    Series Book 8 - Untimely Meditations
    Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Return to Dragon Mountain

    Memories of a Late Ming Man

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • IELTS Writing Task 2. 'What Can I Write About This Question?' Book 2 Education

    by Kristina Rennig ...
    Series Book 2 - IELTS Writing Task 2. 'What Can I Write About This Question?'
    In this second book I have concentrated on the theme of ‘Education’. Many essays in the IELTS test are based on this theme. Use the plans to give you ideas or to help with style. Write an essay from each plan and then compare your essay with the model at the end of the book. ... Read more

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