![]() ![]() Norwich was the host of the BBC radio panel game My Word! from 1978 to 1982. Robbins Landon wrote Five Centuries of Music in Venice. His books included The Normans in the South, A History of Venice, The Italian World, Venice: A Traveller's Companion, 50 Years of Glyndebourne: An Illustrated History, A Short History of Byzantium, Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History, and A History of France. He was a historian, travel writer, and television personality. In 1964, he resigned from the Foreign Service to become a writer. In 1954, he inherited the title of Viscount Norwich. ![]() ![]() After graduation, he joined the Foreign Service and served in Belgrade, Beirut, and as a member of British delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. John Julius Norwich was born in London and served in the Royal Navy before receiving a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Moonshots by Piers Bizony![]() ![]() Moonshots is the definitive photographic chronicle of NASA space exploration, featuring more than 200 remarkable large-format photographs from that eventful era. ![]() The social and spiritual shock of that photographand those which followednever fully diminished, even as Apollo missions followed at an incredible pace, including the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 captured images depicting Earth hanging like a lonely fruit in the vast darkness of space. Paperback tocommemorate the50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASAs archivestaken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras. Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras Book Information: ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The reading gaol![]() ![]() Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling, spine a bit soiled, otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL (1872-1957) on the front pastedown First edition, ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum.įirst edition, retaining the understandably rare thin plain jacket. Mason 372 Cinnamon-colored cloth, vellum spine. ![]() An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. His plays were so very brilliant, and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's, so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later, during WWI, she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France. the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. of Hertfordshire Press, 2012), Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest, and wrote later: ". According to her biographer, Margaret Leask (Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress LENA ASHWELL (1872-1957), who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891, later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem, written while he was imprisoned, in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. ![]() First edition, ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The strange case of origami yoda![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, you might have a few folks avoid it because there appears to be a Star Wars reference on the cover, but c'mon. It's been a while since I found a book that can truly be called genderless (in that it has wide appeal across the board). That's sort of how I approach The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. If the book is strong, the premise believable, and the characters well developed then you're gonna have fans of all sorts, regardless of gender. Boys read Babymouse all the time and girls dig Diary of a Wimpy Kid. "Oh, boys won't read anything with a pink cover." "Oh, girls won't pick up a book unless there's some romance in it." Phooey. You see these stereotypes referred to all the time. By which I mean, the novel that perfectly balances out the stereotypical vision of what boys like in a book versus what stereotypical girls like in a book. Let us now sit back and consider what the ultimate boy/girl middle grade novel would contain. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Down the garden path book![]() ![]() For every angelic Miss Hazlitt there is an insufferable Miss Wilkins waiting in the wings. ![]() Beverley Nichols proudly declares his status as a newcomer to "The best gardening books should be written by those who still have to search their brains for the honeysuckle's languid Latin name." As unforgettable as the plants in the garden is the cast of visitors and neighbors who invariably turn up at inopportune moments. The secret of this book's success-and its timelessness-is that it does not seek to impress the reader with a wealth of expert knowledge or advice. ![]() Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story. Down the Garden Path has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Dust by patricia cornwell![]() ![]() ![]() The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesĪfter working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The twenty-first book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. ![]() The twenty-first Kay Scarpetta thriller, from the No.1 bestseller who has sold over 75 million books worldwide ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Marjory's Book by Marjory Fleming![]() ![]() ![]() Shop Worldwide: | .uk | Amazon.ca Order of Books » Characters » Order of D.I. ![]() Fleming and her team must find out which of these possibilities is correct, while the community anxiously waits for justice to be served. Could it be vandals, drug-related or was it someone who wanted so badly to kill one person that they took two others at the same time? If the latter is the case, who was the target? D.I. Tam MacNee determines that this was no accident. Marjory Fleming’s journals Portrait of Marjory Fleming during her last illness Marjory Fleming was a Scottish child of the early 19th century, who died of meningitis one month before her ninth birthday and got posthumous fame from her writings: three journals, several poems and letters. The wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat and the death of its crew has hit the small Scottish town hard. She gained appreciation from Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie Stephen, Mark Twain and possibly Walter Scott. The Darkness & the Deep is the second book in the D.I. Marjorie Fleming (also spelt Marjory 15 January 1803 19 December 1811) was a Scottish child writer and poet. ![]() Marjory Fleming Synopses: In Cold in the Earth by Marjory Fleming (book 1 of the series), Marjory Fleming is on her first case, but in order to make it to her second case, she must uncover an evil presence that has been lying in wait for a very long time. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The lost world conan doyle novel![]() ![]() ![]() They soon find Professor Challenger's lost world, an isolated plateau inhabited by dinosaurs, primitive humans, and savage ape-men, but when the bridge back to the outer world collapses, their journey of discovery becomes a fight for survival. He sets off on an expedition to prove his find, accompanied by a skeptical colleague, Professor Summerlee the cool-headed sportsman Lord John Roxton and the narrator, young reporter Edward Malone. Pugnacious Professor Challenger claims that he's found a place in the Amazon cut off from the rest of the world and housing all kinds of species previously believed to be extinct. ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle moved from detective stories to more fanciful fare with this 1912 novel of adventure and discovery. For the Jurassic Park novel, see The Lost World (1995). ![]() ![]() Hence the new catch phrases such as ‘death of distance’ and ‘conquest of location’.Īt one level, this trend defies the conventional theory of economics. But what is new is that increasingly white-collar jobs, once considered safe from foreign competition, are now being offshored.Īdvances in telecom technology and decline in costs have made it possible for workers from any part of the planet to provide services seamlessly to clients in rich countries. That blue-collar jobs shift across geographic boundaries in pursuit of cheap hands has long been part of conventional wisdom. In the era of knowledge-propelled globalisation, it is possible for countries to overcome these handicaps by exploiting their comparative advantage in human resources. No longer is a country’s destiny tied down to its geographical location or its physical resources. Received wisdom today is that geography is irrelevant. This ‘geography is destiny’ theory which ruled for much of our recorded history is now seriously challenged by the latest sweep of IT-enabled globalisation. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Second place rachel cusk![]() ![]() Having read most of Cusk’s novels, and being aware of her propensity for transplanting scenarios from her life into her fiction, I found myself wondering who the painter at the heart of the story was, for he’s a figure of such narcissism and arrogance that I assumed he must be out there somewhere, annoying people. ![]() Sadly, the garment in question does not appear to bring luck, as Cusk didn’t win the prize and M is confronted by something so upsetting that it’s among the highlights of the book. I was reminded of this while reading Second Place when M, a novelist, goes to have her portrait painted by L, and chooses her own wedding dress for the sitting. Being an unreconstructed middle-aged man, I dared to compliment her on her outfit and she surprised me by saying that it was, in fact, her wedding dress. ![]() A few years ago, I attended a literary awards ceremony in Toronto where Rachel Cusk, one of the shortlisted authors, arrived wearing the most stunning white dress. ![]() |