Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


« professor robert fox »

1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « professor robert fox »
Skip side bar filters
  • Thomas Garnett

    Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth Century Britain

    Thomas Garnett was a man of science and physician whose career took him from rural obscurity in 18th-century Westmorland to metropolitan prominence as the first professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the newly founded Royal Institution in London in 1799. His rise to the summit of British science was far from straightforward, but is brought to life in vivid detail by Robert Fox.Fox gives ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    par Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Lunar Men

    The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

    par Jenny Uglow ...
    Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Dictionary People

    The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

    par Sarah Ogilvie ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.“Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • What's in a Surname?

    A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

    par David McKie ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’ pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald, Evans, Patel). And some – Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof – offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric.All ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • One Hot Summer

    Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

    par Rosemary Ashton ...
    A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “The Great Stink” togetherWhile 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Queer Enlightenments

    A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers

    A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA ground-breaking history delivered in a refreshing new voice, Queer Enlightenments details eleven overlooked stories of eighteenth-century queer people who lived extraordinary lives of resistance and joyQueer people have always existed. In an era when this basic truth faces undue scrutiny, here is a dazzling work of restorative history that reveals the hard-won ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

    par Paul Bew ...
    Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the popular touch. None the less, from the late 1870s until his fall and death in 1891, he held the whole of ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Sensation

    The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

    par James A. Secord ...
    Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When V estiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • 142 Strand

    A Radical Address in Victorian London

    par Rosemary Ashton ...
    142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray; Americans like Emerson and refugees from revolutionary Europe like Mazzini. In 1851 Chapman brought Marian Evans - the future George Eliot - to London where her arrival caused rows in ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Censoring Queen Victoria

    How Two Gentlemen Edited a Queen and Created an Icon

    par Yvonne M. Ward ...
    'Fascinating' BBC History'Remarkable and clever'New York Times'Original and important' Sir David CannadineWhen Queen Victoria died, two gentlemen were commissioned with the monumental task of editing her vast correspondence. It would be the first time that a British monarch's letters had been published, and it would change how Victoria was remembered forever.The men chosen for the job were ... ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • This Sporting Life

    Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960

    par Robert Colls ...
    Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football? In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport as one of England's great civil cultures. The lived experiences of people from all walks of life are reclaimed to tell England's ... En savoir plus

    $13.39 CAD