Auction catalogue, books of Edward Mounsey ... [et al.], 19 to 20 March 1928
Author : Sotheby & Co. (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Sotheby & Co. (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : George Milbry Gould
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Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Abnormalities, Human
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Author : Odoric Y. K. Wou
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1978
Category : China
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Author : Richard Moody
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 9781862393110
The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.
Author : Christina Scull
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Designed to be the essential reference works for all readers and students, these volumes present the most thorough analysis possible of Tolkien's work within the important context of his life. The Reader's Guide includes brief but comprehensive alphabetical entries on a wide range of topics, including a who's who of important persons, a guide to places and institutions, details concerning Tolkien's source material, information about the political and social upheavals through which the author lived, the importance of his social circle, his service as an infantryman in World War I -- even information on the critical reaction to his work and the "Tolkien cult." The Chronology details the parallel evolutions of Tolkien's works and his academic and personal life in minute detail. Spanning the entirety of his long life including nearly sixty years of active labor on his Middle-earth creations, and drawing on such contemporary sources as school records, war service files, biographies, correspondence, the letters of his close friend C. S. Lewis, and the diaries of W. H. Lewis, this book will be an invaluable resource for those who wish to gain a complete understanding of Tolkien's status as a giant of twentieth-century literature.
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion)
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Author : William Harrison Ukers
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1935
Category : House & Home
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Author : Ron George
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Lorton Vale (England)
ISBN : 9780973323900
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2000-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0312299346
Musical Women in England, 1870-1914 delineates the roles women played in the flourishing music world of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England, and shows how contemporary challenges to restrictive gender roles inspired women to move into new areas of musical expression, both in composition and performance. The most famous women musicians were the internationally renowned stars of opera; greatly admired despite their violations of the prescribed Victorian linkage of female music-making with domesticity, the divas were often compared to the sirens of antiquity, their irresistible voices a source of moral danger to their male admirers. Their ambiguous social reception notwithstanding, the extraordinary ability and striking self-confidence of these women - and of pioneering female soloists on the violin, long an instrument permitted only to men - inspired fiction writers to feature musician heroines and motivated unprecedented numbers of girls and women to pursue advanced musical study. Finding professional orchestras almost fully closed to them, many female graduates of English conservatories performed in small ensembles and in all-female and amateur orchestras, and sought to earn their living in the overcrowed world of music teaching.