Other Prose: From C 1900
"Even as We Speak"New Collection
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A collection of essays, both illuminating and humourous, by Clive James. He focuses on Australian poetry, television, the rise and fall of various icons, the holocaust, the state of culture in the 1990s, and the death of Diana. Paperback, 400 pages. Size: 216 x 135 mm. Weight: 455g.
Author: James, Clive
ISBN: 0330481762
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Date: 2001 (UK)
Readership: General Other Prose: From C 1900
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"Time Bites"
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A wonderfully warm, funny, nostalgic collection that ranges across many decades and subjects. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 197 x 130 mm. Weight: 267g.
Author: Lessing, Doris
ISBN: 0007179863
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Other Prose: From C 1900
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"The Essential Spike Milligan"
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When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history - as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. This posthumous anthology provides a comprehensive guide to Milligan's work. With illustrations. Paperback, 352 pages. Size: 197 x 130 mm. Weight: 282g.
Author: Milligan, Spike
ISBN: 0007155115
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Other Prose: From C 1900
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"Wild Ducks Flying Backward"
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A collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction from the author of 'Villa Incognito'. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 235 x 156 mm. Weight: 407g.
Author: Robbins, Tom
ISBN: 1842431447
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Other Prose: From C 1900
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"On the Other Side"Letters to My Children From Germany 1940 -46
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Features letters written (but never posted) by a 60 year-old woman, to her children living abroad, about the experience of living in Hamburg during the war. Discovered in a drawer in the 1970s, they were translated by her daughter, the late Ruth Evans, and first published in England and Germany in 1979. Paperback, 232 pages. Size: 192 x 138 mm. Weight: 305g.
Author: Wolff-Monckeberg, Mathilde
ISBN: 1903155657
Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Other Prose: From C 1900
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"By Any Means Necessary"
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"Malcolm X Speeches & Writings" series; With photographs, index. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 196 pages. Size: 210 x 127 mm. Weight: 305g.
Author: X, Malcolm
ISBN: 0873487540
Publisher: Pathfinder
Date: 1992 (United States)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Other Prose: From C 1900
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"Album of Armenian Paleography"
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Provides a selection of 200 definitively dated, hand-written texts, sampled from among the 30,000 manuscripts preserved in the major public collections of Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR and North America. This work presents selected specimen pages from these manuscripts in chronological order, spanning the period from AD 862 to 1911. With illus. Hardback, 554 pages. Size: 375 x 280 mm. Weight: 6237g.
Author: (Stone, Michael Edward, ed.)
ISBN: 8772885564
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Date: 2002 (Denmark)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"The Disappearance of Writing Systems"Perspectives on Literacy and Communication
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Gathers papers from the conference held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. This work features case studies from the Old and New Worlds, ranging over periods from the first millennium BC. It offers a perspective on approaches to writing that can be helpful for the understanding of writing systems. With 63 b&w figures. Hardback, 384 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 811g.
Author: (Baines, John, ed.)
ISBN: 1845530136
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd,Sw11
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"The Invention of Cuneiform"Writing in Sumer
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Bahrani, Zainab (trans.) Returning to early Mesopotamian texts that have been little studied or poorly understood, this book traces the development of writing from the earliest attempts to the sophisticated system of roughly 640 signs that comprised the Sumerian repertory by about 3200 B.C. With 109 illustrations. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 365g.
Author: (Glassner, Jean-Jacques, ed.)
ISBN: 0801887577
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"Reading the Past"Ancient Writing From Cuneiform to the Alphabet
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"Reading the Past" series; This work contains six titles from the Reading the Past series and provides an introduction to the systems of writing used in the Ancient World. Illustrated throughout, it covers cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the early alphabet, linear B and related scripts, Greek inscriptions and Etruscan. With 200 b&w illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 384 pages. Size: 241 x 171 mm. Weight: 973g.
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ISBN: 0714180777
Publisher: British Museum Press
Date: 1996 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"Latin Palaeography"Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Croinin, Daibhm O. (trans.) A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the history of Latin script, containing a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. It is designed as a textbook and contains a full bibliography. With 23 plates, bibliography. Paperback, 303 pages. Size: 228 x 151 mm. Weight: 560g.
Author: Bischoff, Bernhard
ISBN: 0521367263
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 1990 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"Linear B and Related Scripts"
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"Reading the Past" series; With 41 b&w illustrations. Paperback, 64 pages. Size: 241 x 171 mm. Weight: 182g.
Author: Chadwick, John
ISBN: 0714180688
Publisher: British Museum Press
Date: 1987 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"From Memory to Written Record"England, 1066-1307
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A study of the history of the written word in the Middle Ages, concentrating on the formative period between the Norman Conquest and the death of Edward I, when documents first came into common use and literate habits were established. With 0. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 432 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 607g.
Author: Clanchy, M.T.
ISBN: 0631168575
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date: 1992 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs"A Step-By-Step Guide to Teach Yourself Hieroglyphs
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A practical teach-yourself course on ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for the general reader. In this text, the grammar of ancient Egypt is introduced using the inscriptions found on monuments, with an emphasis on learning to read and translate accurately. With 32 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 160 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 542g.
Author: Collier, Mark Manley, Bill
ISBN: 0714119105
Publisher: British Museum Press
Date: 1998 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Palaeography (History of Writing)
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"Greek Inscriptions"
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"Reading the Past" series; With 57 b&w illustrations. Paperback, 64 pages. Size: 240 x 160 mm. Weight: 177g.
Author: Cook, B.F.
ISBN: 0714180645
Publisher: British Museum Press
Date: 1987 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Palaeography (History of Writing)
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