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City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Landmark Library
A TLSBook of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedyis another book that everyone ought to read'Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is ... fun ... ingenious ... fascinating'Observer. 'A book worth savour ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
As a singer of other-worldly horror and celestial beatitude alike, Dante has no equal. Yet, in spite of our distance from medieval theology, the Florentine poet's allegorical journey through hell, purgatory and paradise remains one of the essential books of mankind. At least fifty English language versi ...Show more
Olympia - The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games by Robin Waterfield
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The story of the ancient Olympic Games, held in honour of Zeus at Olympia in the eastern Peloponnese, traditionally dated as starting in 776 BC, and held from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The victors of these ancient games may have been awarded crowns of olive leaves in recognition of thei ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
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Category: Design | Series: The Landmark Library
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
The Rite of Spring - The Music of Modernity by Gillian Moore
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Category: Film & Music | Series: The\Landmark Library
On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
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Category: History | Series: The Landmark Library
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
Versailles by Colin Jones
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of Versailles. Nothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became legenda ...Show more
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