A History of Amersham

A History of Amersham
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Publisher : The History Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780750991568
ISBN-13 : 0750991569
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Amersham by : Julian Hunt

In this entertaining book the author identifies each of the old coaching inns which provide ample evidence of Amersham's importance as a stopping place on the great coach road from London to the Midlands. He traces the history of all the town's tanneries and proves that Weller's brewery is much older than previously believed and that its many maltings were selling vast quantities of malt to London brewers in the 17th century. He does not neglect the townspeople themselves, not least the Drakes of Shardeloes who dominated the political, religious and social life of Amersham for 350 years. Here he is able to draw on the unique knowledge of Barney Tyrwhitt Drake, a direct descendant. Julian Hunt's well-researched narrative is both comprehensive and easy to read. Splendidly illustrated, it is a significant contribution to the published history of Buckinghamshire and will be warmly welcomed in and around old Amersham itself.

Streets with a Story

Streets with a Story
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0951187104
ISBN-13 : 9780951187104
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Streets with a Story by : Eric A. Willats

Deep Locational Criticism

Deep Locational Criticism
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9789027267269
ISBN-13 : 902726726X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Deep Locational Criticism by : Jason Finch

A lively series of spatial turns in literary studies since the 1990s give rise to this engaged and practical book, devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of location. Among the many concrete examples explored are texts created between the early seventeenth and the early twenty-first centuries, in genres ranging from stage drama and lyric poetry to television, by way of several studies of fiction definable in a broad way as realist. Writers and thinkers discussed include Michel de Certeau, Edward Casey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Christina Rossetti, Dickens, J. Hillis Miller, Lynne Reid Banks, Heidegger, Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Stephen C. Levinson, Bernard Malamud, E.M. Forster, Thomas Burke and Samuel Beckett. The book is underpinned by the philosophical topology of Jeff Malpas, who insists that human life is necessarily and primarily located. It is aimed at students and teachers of literary place at all university levels.

Palace of Treason

Palace of Treason
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 608
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ISBN-10 : 9781476793757
ISBN-13 : 1476793751
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Palace of Treason by : Jason Matthews

Red Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! The thrilling sequel to Red Sparrow—CIA insider Jason Matthews’s compulsively readable New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner—featuring Russian spy Dominika Egorova and CIA agent Nate Nash “shimmers with authenticity. The villains are richly drawn...the scenes of them on the job are beyond chilling” (The New York Times Book Review). Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service despises the oligarchs, crooks, and thugs of Putin’s Russia—but what no one knows is that she is also working for the CIA. Her “sparrow” training in the art of sexual espionage further complicates the mortal risks she must take, as does her love for her handler Nate Nash—a shared lust that is as dangerous as treason. As Dominika expertly dodges exposure, she deals with a murderously psychotic boss, survives an Iranian assassination attempt and attempts to rescue an arrested double agent—and thwart Putin’s threatening flirtations. A grand, wildly entertaining ride through the steel-trap mind of a CIA insider, Palace of Treason is a story “as suspenseful and cinematic as the best spy movies” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—one that feels fresh and so possible, in fact, that it’s doubtful this novel can ever be published in Russia.

Lord Emsworth

Lord Emsworth
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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1585672777
ISBN-13 : 9781585672776
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Lord Emsworth by : P.G. Wodehouse

"Nine stories include a crime wave at Blandings Castle; Ukridge appearing on Corky's doorstep at 3 in the morning, wearing his yellow mackintosh and requesting a whisky and soda; and the Oldest Member warning of the folly of driving into the father of the girl you loved"--Publisher's description.

AQA GCSE (9-1) Geography

AQA GCSE (9-1) Geography
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 1471859924
ISBN-13 : 9781471859922
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis AQA GCSE (9-1) Geography by : John Widdowson

AQA approved Stretch and challenge your students to achieve their full potential with learning materials that guide them through the new content and assessment requirements; developed by subject experts with examining experience and one of the leading Geography publishers. - Enables students to learn and practise geographical, mathematical and statistical skills through engaging activities specifically designed for the reformed 2016 curriculum - Helps higher ability students boost their knowledge and understanding via suitably challenging extension tasks that go beyond the core content - Develops students' skills responding to a range of questions with topic-specific Question Practice in each section, supplemented by practical insight from skilled teachers with examining experience - Incorporates possible fieldwork enquiries throughout with unrivalled advice on the changed fieldwork assessment from authors specialising in this key area - Reduces your research time by providing a bank of contemporary case studies that includes numerous UK examples for the revised criteria

Bellman & Black

Bellman & Black
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781476711997
ISBN-13 : 1476711992
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Bellman & Black by : Diane Setterfield

Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.

Arcadia for All

Arcadia for All
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Publisher : Five Leaves Publications
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015070898112
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Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Arcadia for All by : Dennis Hardy

From Canvey Island to Jaywick Sands, from Peacehaven to Pitsea; in the first 40 years of last century, thousands of English families made their own place in the sun, without benefit of councils, planners, architects, building societies, or even builders. Were they, as many planners and environmentalists suggested, making rural slums and seaside eyesores, or were they providing a unique example of unaided self-build housing, with lessons for us all today? Here Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward uncover the history of the 'plotlands' of South-East England, telling the fascinating detail of the places people built for themselves on the coast and in the country, and of what happened to them since, drawing parallels with similar developments in other parts of the world.