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The Essential Guide to English Wine

By: Susie Barrie,Peter Richards

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The Essential Guide to English Wine

By: Susie Barrie,Peter Richards

This pocket-sized monograph covers key aspects of English wine – from the history to modern developments via climate change, geology, grape varieties, viticulture, winemaking, recent vintages – while the core of the book profiles the country's leading producers. Wine tourism has its own section ('There's never been a better time to visit English wine country,' declare the authors), as does a listing of key overseas distributors to reflect the growing importance of exports. A map of the main wine regions, designed by Dr Alistair Nesbitt of Climate Wine Consulting, sits at the heart of the publication.

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International Wine & Food Society

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0900813032

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9780900813030

Interesting Stories about Curious Words

From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings

By: Susie Dent

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Interesting Stories about Curious Words

From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings

By: Susie Dent

Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language. Who was SWEET FANNY ADAMS? What's the dramatic true story behind STEALING THUNDER? Why is it CHANCING YOUR ARM when you take a risk? What do bears have to do with LICKING INTO SHAPE? Or robbers with PULLING SOMEONE'S LEG? Why are CIRCLES VICIOUS? And, what's so bad about a WHITE ELEPHANT? 'Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent' Gyles Brandreth

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384

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John Murray

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139981169X

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9781399811699

Images of the Tropics

Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia

By: Susie Protschky

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Images of the Tropics

Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia

By: Susie Protschky

Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe. Surveying a rich visual culture developed over a period of some 350 years of Dutch colonial engagement with Indonesia Susie Protschky demonstrates how views of the archipelago’s environment were far from simple topographical souvenirs. Rather, this book reveals how images of the tropics visually articulated colonial attempts to legitimize and historicize what were in fact continually changing and contested claims to Dutch territorial sovereignty in the Indies. Further, colonial images of nature were routinely inflected with diverse cultural preoccupations, among them the constitution of gender, class and racial boundaries in Indies society; the tenor of sexual mores in the tropics; and the political role of religion in the archipelago. Landscape art thus indexed colonial views on a range of pressing social and political concerns.

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184

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BRILL

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9004253602

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9789004253605

Artistic Circles

The Inspiring Connections Between the World's Greatest Artists

By: Susie Hodge

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Artistic Circles

The Inspiring Connections Between the World's Greatest Artists

By: Susie Hodge

I Know an Artist is a collection of 84 beautifully illustrated portraits that reveal the fascinating connections between famous artists throughout history.

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194

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White Lion Publishing

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0711255865

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9780711255869

Understanding the Victorians

Politics, Culture, and Society in Nineteenth-century Britain

By: Susie Steinbach

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Understanding the Victorians

Politics, Culture, and Society in Nineteenth-century Britain

By: Susie Steinbach

Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of the era, combining broad surveys with close analysis, and introduces students to the critical debates taking place among historians today. Focusing not just on England but on the whole of Great Britain and Ireland it emphasises class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This book encompasses the whole of the Victorian period giving equal prominence to social and cultural topics alongside the politics and economics. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming right up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate, the economy, gender, religion, the history of science and ideas, material culture and sexuality. Steinbach also provides much-needed chapters on consumption, which links consumption with production, on law, which explains the legal culture and trials of criminal and scandalous cases and on space which draws to together the most current research in Victorian studies"--Provided by publisher.

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309

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Routledge

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041577408X

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9780415774086

Period Living & Traditional Homes Escapes

By: Peter Brimacombe,Annie Bullen,Andrew Lilwall-Smith,Susie Hodge,Clare Collinson

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Period Living & Traditional Homes Escapes

By: Peter Brimacombe,Annie Bullen,Andrew Lilwall-Smith,Susie Hodge,Clare Collinson

A travel guide with a difference: a combination of regional tour and style file which presents the means of escape to the wonders of another age. Aimed at those who love travelling Britain to explore country houses and stately homes, or at a dedicated follower of historical architecture and style, this delightful book contains 500 illustrations and regional maps.

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328

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Jarrold Publishing

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0711735948

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9780711735941

Nikolaus Pevsner

The Life

By: Susie Harries

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Nikolaus Pevsner

The Life

By: Susie Harries

Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedicated scholar who pursued a promising career as an academic in Dresden and Göttingen. When, in 1933 Jews were no longer permitted to teach in German universities, he lost his job and looked for employment in England. Here, over a long and amazingly industrious career, he made himself an authority on the exploration and enjoyment of English art and architecture, so much so that his magisterial county-by-county series of 46 books on The Buildings of England (first published 1951 - 74) is usually referred to simply as 'Pevsner'. As a critic, academic and champion of Modernism, Pevsner became a central figure in the architectural consensus that accompanied post-war reconstruction; as a 'general practitioner' of architectural history, he covered an astonishing range, from Gothic cathedrals and Georgian coffee houses to the Festival of Britain and Brutalist tower blocks. Susie Harries explores the truth about Nikolaus Pevsner's reported sympathies with elements of Nazi ideology, his internment in England as an enemy alien and his sometimes painful assimilation into his country of exile. His Heftchen - secret diaries he kept from the age of 14 for another sixty years - reveal hidden aspirations and anxieties, as do his numerous letters (he wrote to his wife, Lola, every day that they were apart).Harries is the first biographer to have read Pevsner's private papers and, through them, to have seen into the workings of his mind.Her definitive biography is not only rich in context and far-ranging, but is also brought to life by quotations from Pevsner himself. He was born a Jew but converted to Lutheranism; trained in the rigour of German scholarship, he became an Everyman in his copious commissions, publications, broadcasts and lectures on art, architecture, design, education, town planning, social housing, conservation, Mannerism, the Bauhaus, the Victorians, Zeitgeist, Englishness and how a nation's character may, or must, be reflected in its art. His life - as an outsider yet an insider at the heart of English art history - illuminates both the predicament and the prowess of the continental émigrés who did so much to shape British culture after 1945.

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884

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Random House

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1446433331

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9781446433331

Understanding the Victorians

Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Susie L. Steinbach

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Understanding the Victorians

Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Susie L. Steinbach

Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of an era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates on the nineteenth century taking place among historians today. The volume encompasses all of Great Britain and Ireland over the whole of the Victorian period and gives prominence to social and cultural topics alongside politics and economics and emphasizes class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This third edition is fully updated with new chapters on emotion and on Britain’s relationship with Europe as well as added discussions of architecture, technology, and the visual arts. Attention to the current concerns and priorities of professional historians also enables readers to engage with today’s historical debates. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming up to the start of World War I in 1914, thematic chapters explore the topics of space, politics, Europe, the empire, the economy, consumption, class, leisure, gender, the monarchy, the law, arts and entertainment, sexuality, religion, and science. With a clear introduction outlining the key themes of the period, a detailed timeline, and suggestions for further reading and relevant internet resources, this is the ideal companion for all students of the nineteenth century. Discover more from Susie by exploring our forthcoming Routledge Historical resource on British Society, edited by Susie L. Steinbach and Martin Hewitt. Find out more about our Routledge Historical resources by visiting https://www.routledgehistoricalresources.com.

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321

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Taylor & Francis

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1000898962

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9781000898965

Creative Kids: Art for All Seasons

By: Susie Alexander

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Creative Kids: Art for All Seasons

By: Susie Alexander

Provides ideas for art activities for parents and children (or teachers in the classroom) to make using easily obtainable materials. The activities have varying degrees of difficulty so they can be completed by children from a wide range of ages.

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074393198X

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9780743931984

Needlecraft

By: Susie O'Reilly

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Needlecraft

By: Susie O'Reilly

Surveys the history of embroidery and other types of decorative needlework, introduces basic techniques, and suggests embroidered, appliquéd, and quilted projects.

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156847220X

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9781568472201

The Essential Guide to English Wine

By: Susie Barrie,Peter Richards

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By: Susie Barrie,Peter Richards

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Lucky Louie

By: Susie Steiner

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Lucky Louie

By: Susie Steiner

This is a delightful story about the special relationship between grandchildren and grandparents, ideal for a family who just got a puppy or is thinking about it and all who love puppies. Susie Steiners casual writing makes the reader feel like a friend is telling you a true story about what just happened in their family. This is a wonderful gift from a grandparent to a grandchild.

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1543479278

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The Essential Guide to English Wine

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Interesting Stories about Curious Words

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Images of the Tropics

Images of the Tropics

Artistic Circles

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Understanding the Victorians

Understanding the Victorians

Period Living & Traditional Homes Escapes

Period Living & Traditional Homes Escapes

Nikolaus Pevsner

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Understanding the Victorians

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Creative Kids: Art for All Seasons

Creative Kids: Art for All Seasons

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The Essential Guide to English Wine

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