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  • Shakespeare's Gardens

    Shakespeare's Gardens is a highly illustrated, informative book about the gardens that William Shakespeare knew as a boy and tended as a man, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in April 2016. This anniversary will be the focus of literary celebration of the man's life and work throughout the English speaking world and beyond. The book will focus on the gardens ... Leer más

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  • Anatomy for Anaesthetists

    Jubilee edition of the classic text first published in 1963Anaesthetists require a particularly specialized knowledge of anatomyThe anaesthetist must know intimately the respiratory passages, the major veins and the peripheralnerves to deliver safe and effective pain control.As one of the great teachers of anatomy, Professor Harold Ellis is eminently qualified to elegantlyprovide the anatomical ... Leer más

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  • Class and the Making of American Literature

    Created Unequal

    Edición de Andrew Lawson ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of ... Leer más

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  • How To Be a Tudor

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    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice SelectionAn erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review).On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Fruits

    The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables

    In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich heritage of fruit and vegetables. Take Newton Wonder apples, for instance, first discovered around 1870 allegedly growing in the thatch of a Derbyshire pub. Or the humble gooseberry which, among other things, helped Charles Darwin to arrive at his theory of evolution. Not to mention ... Leer más

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  • A Biography of English Gardens and Their Flowers

    de Janet Merza ...
    A book for both armchair gardeners and the more active variety. It describes the way English gardens evolved over the centuries, reflecting the social changes experienced from the earliest times to the turn of the nineteenth century. It also gives a brief history of nearly 50 of the most popular garden flowers, telling the stories behind their arrival in England and the ways we used them before ... Leer más

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  • Food and Feast in Tudor England

    de Alison Sim ...
    This book provides an excellent overview of Tudor food and eating habits. Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets.Alison Sim shows that dining habits in the sixteenth century were not the same as those of the Middle Ages ... Leer más

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  • The Domestic Revolution

    How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything

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  • Landskipping

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