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From contemporary deployments of taxidermy, magic lanterns and microscopy to the visualization of forgotten lives, marginalized narratives and colonial histories, this book explores how the work of artists including Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare, Tessa Farmer, Mark Dion, Dorothy Cross and Ingrid Pollard reimag(in)es the Victorians in the `present¿. Examining how recent paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films revisit and re...

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Based on Peter Elstob's own wartime experiences, Warriors for the Working Day follows one tank crew as they proceed from the beaches of Normandy into newly liberated Western Europe, brilliantly evoking the claustrophobia, heat and intensity of tank warfare.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Excerpt from A Trip to Kilkenny, From Durham by Way of Whitehaven and Dublin, in the Year 1776: Containing Remarks on the Situations and Distances of Places, The Customs and Manners of the People, Interspersed With Short DigressionsAt my fetting outi had not the leafi defign of committing any thing to paper but my expences: But I was foon induced, by the variety of fcenes and objects which came in my way, to fiep out of this narrow track. In d...

Excerpt from An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory: Anciently Used in the English-Saxon Church, Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English From Paganism to Christianity, Translated Into Modern English, With Notes, &C, See Dr. Hishes s Apoiogy for the Saxon teaming hoth m his leffer Grammar, and his larger Thefaurm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

A Trip to Kilkenny - From Durham by way of Whitehaven and Dublin, in the Year MDCCLXXVI is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1779. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists a...

Europe Restoredis a highly personal account of the fall of the Iron Curtain, written from an unusual viewpoint. Eric Elstob was director of various investment trusts in the City during the years before and after the collapse of Communism, with a special interest in European affairs. But he also travelled as an ordinary tourist in eastern Europe, and this book juxtaposes vividly the vignettes of everyday life that he encountered with his high-l...

Excerpt from A Trip to Kilkenny, From Durham by Way of Whitehaven and Dublin, in the Year 1776: Containing Remarks on the Situations and Distances of Places, The Customs and Manners of the People, Interspersed With Short DigressionsAt my fetting outi had not the leafi defign of committing any thing to paper but my expences: But I was foon induced, by the variety of fcenes and objects which came in my way, to fiep out of this narrow track. In d...

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Excerpt from An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St. Gregory: Anciently Used in the English-Saxon Church, Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English From Paganism to Christianity, Translated Into Modern English, With Notes, &C, See Dr. Hickes's Apology for the Saxon teaming both in his lcfler Grammar, and his larger Thefau'rm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

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This is the full story of the Battle of the Ardennes. In the last weeks of 1944 the German armies in the West, after a continuous retreat since the Battle of Normandy five months earlier were regrouping in what they thought was to be the last battle in defence of the Fatherland. But Hitler had other plans--to mount an offensive through the Ardennes that would deal such a blow to the Western Allies that they would be willing to negotiate a sepa...