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Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0760361584
Precious old books found in unlikely places, from the family that avoided foreclosure through a book in their attic to a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle in a local fundraiser.
Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0760361576
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors" --
Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2015
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ISBN :
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors"--
Author : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0500772983
The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniques Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs—even their brains—survive. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in regions with large areas of raised bog: Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past. Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. Glob’s seminal publication The Bog People, published in 1969, in the light of vastly improved scientific techniques and newly found bodies. Approached in a radically different style akin to a criminal investigation, here the bog victims appear, uncannily well-preserved, in full-page images that let the reader get up close and personal with the ancient past.
Author : Leah Lax
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 163152996X
Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and hasidic motherhood as, all the while, creative, sexual, and spiritual longings tremble beneath the surface.
Author : Lori Foster
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488025614
A sizzling fan-favorite tale from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster After a blaze on his block results in an overturned Dumpster, firefighter Harris Blackfinds a shoebox filled with striking nudes and a handwritten note admitting to the woman'slove for…him? Who is the enigmatic woman in the photos, and how does she know him sowell? His next door neighbor and best friend, P.I. Clair Caldwell, is the perfect personto help him solve the mystery. Except that Clair is already more involved than he evercould have guessed…
Author : Lin Enger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452965714
Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness On a cold November afternoon in northern Minnesota, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson finds his hunting partner—his father—sprawled on the forest floor, dead of a rifle wound. Authorities rule it a suicide, but Jesse is not convinced. Haunted by the ghost of his dad, and compelled by recently unearthed secrets, he is forced to wrestle with questions of justice and retribution even as he tries to hold his family, and himself, together.
Author : Pradeep Sebastian
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9357314199
Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching legends from the world of books. Meet the biryani chef guarding a prized Ottoman manuscript, track the mysterious 'Book Prince' of Kolkata, and visit the cottage in Kodaikanal that lures book collectors with its siren song. Discover how an emperor's defeat brought illuminated manuscripts into sixteenth-century India, how a rare 1865 edition of Alice in Wonderland surfaced in an Indian bazaar, and much more. An Inky Parade is a window into the charming world of antiquarian book trade in India and around the world, as well as an ode to the book as an object of art, sure to delight every reader.
Author : Michelle Faubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 3319927868
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the “Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.” In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132 enslaved Africans overboard to their deaths. Uncovered by Michelle Faubert at the British Library in 2015, the letter is reproduced here, accompanied by her examination of its provenance and significance for the history of slavery and abolition. As Faubert argues, the British Library manuscript is the only fair copy of Sharp’s letter, and extraordinary evidence of Sharp’s role in the abolition of slavery.
Author : Kazuhisa Fujie
Publisher : DH Publishing Inc
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1932897097
Molly, who recently emigrated with her family from Russia to New Jersey, learns about birthday parties and who her real friends are.