This sumptuously produced book, with stunning pictorial layout, covers Peter's rise from dyslexic slow learner, to one of the great success stories in Australia's fashion industry.
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A woman who is slowly losing her sight and hearing chronicles her amazing life—from trying to hide her disability as a teenager to fully embracing life as an adult with humor and gratitude, completing a 600-mile bike race and hiking the ...
Being the near relative of Mr. Christian Curwen, long member of Parliament for Carlisle, and himself a native, he was well known in the neighbourhood.')41 After all, a curious house, mostly hidden by trees, on an island in those lakes ...
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic ...
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific ...
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"This volume is not a study of the 'greatest' commanders; rather, it is an examination of commanders who should be considered great.
Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world's main ...
I never learned the old top ropes, I was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing, more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and slow as farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso!
Since his debut with “The Church in the High Street” (1962), he has written a series of novels and stories on the themes of possession and the supernatural, notably Needing Ghosts (1990) and Strange Things and Stranger Places (1993), ...