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  • The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide

    • ASIN: 0711234191
    • ISBN: 0711234191
    • Brand: Frances Lincoln
    • Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln

    Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world and the ancient world. Their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and universally copied. During the past few years Italy has awoken to a realization of its gardens. In a gardening renaissance, interesting new gardens are being create... [Read More]

  • An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

    • ASIN: 1250034140
    • ISBN: 1250034140
    • Brand: Square Fish
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the f... [Read More]

  • Rick Steves Best of Europe

    • ASIN: 1631218034
    • ISBN: 1631218034
    • Manufacturer: Rick Steves

    Hit Europe's can't-miss art, sights, and bites with Rick Steves Best of Europe!Expert advice from Rick Steves on what's worth your time and moneyItineraries for one to four days in the top destinations in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and SwitzerlandRick's tips for beating the crowds, skipping lines, and avoiding tourist ... [Read More]

  • Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series)

    • ASIN: 0812217519
    • ISBN: 0812217519
    • Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded, the classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon of witchcraft, taking into ... [Read More]

  • Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

    • ASIN: 0801869943
    • ISBN: 9780801869945
    • Brand: Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

    Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical AssociationWeapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history ... [Read More]

  • The Garden Lover's Guide to France (Garden Lover's Guides to)

    • ASIN: 1568981287
    • ISBN: 1568981287
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton Architectural Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press

  • Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)

    • ASIN: 081221787X
    • ISBN: 9780812217872
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ... [Read More]

  • Nationalism in Europe 1789-1945 (Cambridge Perspectives in History)

    • ASIN: 0521598710
    • ISBN: 0521598710
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Timothy Baycroft explains what characterises modern nations, what the theoretical roots of nationalism are, and what interaction there has bee... [Read More]

  • Drinking In the Culture: Tuppers' Guide to Exploring Great Beers in Europe

    • ASIN: 0990961001
    • ISBN: 0990961001
    • Brand: CulturAle Press
    • Manufacturer: CulturAle Press

     Title: Drinking In the Culture: Tuppers' Guide to Exploring Great Beers in EuropeBinding: PaperbackPub date: October 1, 2015 Like Beer? Love to travel? Discover 24 of Europe's best cities and towns for exploring and savoring the local beer and brewing culture Book description:  Drinking In the Culture is the first ever guide to finding, not j... [Read More]

  • War in the Middle Ages

    • ASIN: 0631144692
    • ISBN: 0631144692
    • Brand: Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
    • Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell

    Covering the ten centuries following the fall of Rome, War in the Middle Ages engages all aspects of its subject, including the military customs and conditions of the various Western European states; armor and weaponry recruitment; and rules of combat developed to limit bloodshed. Philippe Contamine writes with an awareness that, in both theory an... [Read More]

  • No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945

    • ASIN: 0143114093
    • ISBN: 0143114093
    • Brand: Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating well-established facts and pointing out lesser-known ones, No Simple Victory asks readers to reconsider what they know about the war, and how that knowledge might be biased or incorrect. Nor... [Read More]

  • La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

    • ASIN: 0812235932
    • ISBN: 9780812235937
    • Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetr... [Read More]

  • Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (New Approaches to European History)

    • ASIN: 0521691435
    • ISBN: 9780521691437
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This original book brings a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called "the century of sex" and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead em... [Read More]

  • A History of the University in Europe: Volume 2, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) (v. 2)

    • ASIN: 0521361060
    • ISBN: 0521361060
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This is the second volume of a four-part History of the University in Europe, written by an international team of scholars under the general editorship of Professor Walter RÜegg, which covers the development of the university in Europe (both East and West) from its origins to the present day. Volume 2 attempts to situate the universities in their ... [Read More]

  • In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

    • ASIN: 030740885X
    • ISBN: 030740885X
    • Brand: Erik Larson
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chi... [Read More]

  • Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to Present: A Narrative History with Documents

    • ASIN: 0312406991
    • ISBN: 0312406991
    • Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's

    Offering a twenty-first century perspective on twentieth-century Europe, pre-eminent scholar Bonnie Smith's engaging new synthesis is the first text to provide both a thorough integration of social and cultural material with political history and substantive treatment of Europe's broader global context. Each of the twelve chapters combines compelli... [Read More]

  • Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present (Critical Issues in History) (Critical Issues in World and International History)

    • ASIN: 0742533875
    • ISBN: 0742533875
    • Brand: Rowman Littlefield Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

    The only comprehensive, singlevolume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe from antiquity to the present. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly... [Read More]

  • Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions

    • ASIN: 0815624417
    • ISBN: 0815624417
    • Brand: Brand: Syracuse University Press
    • Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press

    Most people know of Valhalla, the World-Tree and the gods of Norse mythology, or the strange hunts and voyages of the ancient Irish tales. Yet, few people realize the significance of the similarities and contrasts between the religions of the pre-Christian people of north-western Europe. The Celts and Germans and Scandinavians had much in common in... [Read More]

  • The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

    • UPC: 046442127417
    • ASIN: 0618127410
    • ISBN: 0618127410
    • Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make for fascinating reading. Among his pea plants Heni... [Read More]

  • Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages

    • ASIN: 0812217861
    • ISBN: 0812217861
    • Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    During the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into everyday culture, including the rituals of the Church. The rise of the practice of "white magic" in the twelfth century became so popular that it caused a widespread determination in the Church to condemn any unsanc... [Read More]

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