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ISBN: 9781912476923
Published by : Origin
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the ‘simmer din’.

Ori... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781847012807
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Volume: 52
Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, character... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859621850
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Ricordando la Costituente: Cheli, De Siervo, Vacca, Amato
Giuseppe De Rita, Scuola italiana. Una disperata confusione
Nicola Lattanzi, Stato strategico e capacità dinamiche
Pietro Masci, Biden fra passato e futur... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856404555
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: VS | Verità Scomode
Volume: 4
Between 1968, a year marked by the invasion of Prague, and the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, some solitary heroes dared to challenge the “red giant” by resorting to the most extreme gesture: the immolation of themselves through fi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859621362
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Saverio Manetti (1723-1784), who was one of the founders of the Georgofili Academy, published in 1765 the treatise On the different species of wheat and bread as of bread making (...), divided into ten articles, with the purpose of solving ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781640140615
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 27 features the yearbook's first F... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859620709
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Centro Studi sulla Civiltà toscana fra ’800 e ’900 | Fondazione Spadolini Nuova Antologia
Volume: 79
Text in Italian.

Second tome of the massive correspondence between Luigi Guglielmo Cambray-Digny, one of the lead characters of the Italian pre-unification political events, and his wife Virginia Tolomei Biffi, daughter of the rich landow... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781912476787
Published by : Origin
Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fen... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781912476756
Published by : Origin
This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale fo... .... Learn More