Biography

ISBN: 9781921394836
Published by : Macmillan Art Publishing
Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and then at the Slade in London. As grandson of the founder of Dav... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975974
Published by : Maney Materials Science
The fascinating autobiography by the discoverer and early commercial developer of stainless steel includes a collection of photographs, both past and present, illustrating some of the achievements and episodes in Harry Brearley's ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893125
Published by : Lutterworth Press
This book reveals- for the first time ever - the extraordinary impact of Huldah the prophet on our Bible. She was both a leader of exilic Jews and a principal author of Hebrew Scripture. She penned the Shema: the ardent, prayerful... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893019
Published by : Lutterworth Press
Kilvert’s World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856402667
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was an extraordinarily versatile scientist: a physiologist, pathologist and hygienist; a traveller, anthropologist, photographer, ethnologist and psychologist. He was constantly in contact with Charles... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781921816130
Published by : ATF Asia
After almost 60 years, first as the father and later as dean of Chinese archaeology, Li Chi has left indelible contributions to the science of humankind and of history, and his thinking still dominates his discipline in China. Born in Hupei, he gr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856402605
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The journalist and writer Umberto Cecchi, long-standing friend of Oriana Fallaci, gives us with his book a recollection, a long interview, a novel. The protagonist is the “private” Oriana, away from the reflectors and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859611875
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
In January 1997 the La Pira Foundation realized a book with Polistampa Editions ( Giorgio La Pira: immagini di storia – Giorgio La Pira: images of history ) with the intent – as Pino Arpioni, Fioretta Mazzei e Antinesc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859611745
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
The private letters of Raffaello Ramat (1905-1967), preserved in Florence’s National Central Library, allow us to retrace his correspondence with culturally and politically relevant personalities, especially between 1930 and... .... Learn More