The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People 9781471176005, 9781471175992

Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People 9781849948586

Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years lea

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The English: a portrait of a people 978-0-141-92239-3, 0141922397

Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are t

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A Sourcebook of Indian Civilisation

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Petitions and Power: A Story of the Migrants of a Dam in China (China Perspectives) [1 ed.] 1138613282, 9781138613287

Using the way of storytelling, this book examines the petitions of the migrants of a dam in China. With the intensive an

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A Portrait of Isaac Newton

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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People 9780300263138

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present

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The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants [2]

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The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants [1]

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A Portrait of Mendelssohn 9780300127867

Since his death in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn’s music and personality have been both admired and denigrated to extraordinar

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The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film 9780889629158, 0889627428

No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background,

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