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Great Britain
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Michael Leapman
This "Eyewitness Travel Guide" to Great Britain offers detailed street finder maps giving access to districts, streets and buildings. Opening times, telephone numbers, prices and hotel recommendations are all covered. The information is revised annually and kept up to date.
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London
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"Eyewitness Travel Guides" provide travellers with illustrated guidebooks where every significant location, building, museum and gallery, as well as major shops, hotels and restaurants, are shown. In addition, "Eyewitness Travel Guides" contain specially commissioned 3-D aerial maps and diagrams, visual guides to currency, tickets and ...
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Great Britain
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Michael Leapman (Contributions by)
Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, Eyewitness Travel Guides are the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautiful commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell.
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London
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Aproveche al maximo su experiencia viajera utilizando las conocidas Guias de Viajes de Dorling Kindersley. Las fotografias, cuidadosamente seleccionadas, revelan el encanto y la belleza de cada ciudad o pais que usted visita. La armonia y belleza de sus obras arquitectonicas, como son sus catedrales, museos, palacios, etc., pueden ser apreciadas ...
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Madrid
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Ingenious Mr. Fairchild: The Forgotten Father of the Flower Garden
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Michael Leapman
Thomas Fairchild, a practical nurseryman in Georgian London, shook the horticultural world by revealing the sexual reproduction of plants. Although alarmed at the prospect of interfering with God's natural design, he could not resist the inevitable consequence of his discovery - the selective breeding of plant varieties. This early form of genetic ...
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Master race : the Lebensborn experiment in Nazi Germany
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Catrine Clay, Michael Leapman
During World War II, many Polish children were stolen from their families by the Nazis as part of "Lebensborn" - the programme to create racially pure Aryans. This book investigates the history and ideology of racial hygiene and interviews some of the children whose lives were ruined by the war.
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Companion Guide to New York
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Michael Leapman
Written with unfailing common sense, as well as insight and affection...the perfect guide to this tremendous city OBSERVER A true traveller's companion and friend SUNDAY TELEGRAPH For more than thirty years Michael Leapman has been intimately involved with New York as a journalist, resident or frequent visitor. Here he takes readers with him on a ...
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Witnesses to War: 8 True Life Stories of Nazi Persecution
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Joseph Steiner and his sister were eight and eleven when the Jews were rounded-up from the Warsaw ghetto. For weeks they hid in abandoned warehouses, escaping only hours before the ghetto was obliterated. When Alexander Michelowski was ten, he was taken from his home in Poland by the Gestapo and sent away for "Germanization", and later to a Hitler ...
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Inigo: The Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of English Renaissance
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Michael Leapman
The first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a Smithfield cloth worker was to bring classicism to England and his surviving buildings - including the Banqueting House in Whitehall and the Queen's House at ...
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Arrogant Aussie: The Rupert Murdoch Story
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Witnesses to War: Eight True-Life Stories of Nazi Persecution
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Eight children who grew up during the Second World War tell their stories. Chapters include growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto, hiding in a convent, being stolen from one's country for "Germanization", and Gypsies being sent to concentration camps. A chapter is included on Anne Frank, since her legacy is so vital.
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The Book of London: The Evolution of a Great City
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Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance
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One of the first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a Smithfield cloth worker was to bring classicism to England and his surviving buildings - including the the Banqueting House in Whitehall and the Queen's House ...
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The Book of London
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Michael Leapman
An illustrated study of London and its expansion from Roman times to the present day.
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London's River: A History of the Thames
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Michael Leapman
London owes its very existence to its great river. In the first century AD the Romans built the first wooden crossing there, and a trading post sprang up at its northern end. Ever since then the Thames has flowed like a great artery through the colourful pageant of the city's history. When the Romans left Britain, it was along the Thames that ...
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Barefaced cheek : the apotheosis of Rupert Murdoch
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Broker of death : an insider's story of the Iranian arms deals
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Hermann Moll, Michael Leapman
Hermann Moll was an international arms dealer who became enmeshed in the Iran-Contra affair. When he was caught he protested that Washington had sanctioned his deals, but only when the Iran-Contra scandal broke was he believed. The book describes the world of the arms dealers, the enormity of the deals made, the corruption inherent in the system ...
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Barefaced cheek : Rupert Murdoch
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More Signs of the Times: A Further Selection of Comic Signs from "The Times Diary"
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Treacherous Estate: The Press After Fleet Street
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Michael Leapman
This book looks at the recent history of the British newspaper industry. It examines the changing roles and powers of proprietors and editors, the print unions and the Wapping phenomenon, the vanishing middle gorund newspaper-buying market, gutter journalism, the Press Council, royals and the press, press censorship and the lobby system.
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Yankee doodles
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Portrait of Britain
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Michael Leapman
This portrait of Britain is intended as a pictorial souvenir and a guide to Britain for the next millennium. Britain is celebrated in all its diversity, from the streets of London to the Lake District. The varied landscape is featured region by region, with picture essays on the most dramatic areas. Every place of interest is visited, from ...
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World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation
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Michael Leapman
Conceived as a showcase for Britain's burgeoning manufacturing industries and the exotic products of its Empire, the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was Britain's first national spectacle. This book examines the story of how the exhibition came into being; the key characters who made it happen (from Prince Albert, who was credited with the ...
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The World for a Shilling: The Story of the Great Exhibition of 1851
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Conceived as a showcase for Britain's burgeoning manufacturing industries and the exotic products of its Empire, the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was Britain's first truly national spectacle. This book examines the intriguing story of how the exhibition came into being; the key characters who made it happen (from Prince Albert, who was ...
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