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John Channon and Brass-inlaid Furniture, 1730-1760

By: Christopher Gilbert,Tessa Murdoch,Victoria and Albert Museum

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John Channon and Brass-inlaid Furniture, 1730-1760

By: Christopher Gilbert,Tessa Murdoch,Victoria and Albert Museum

A reinvestigation of brass inlaid furniture made between 1730-1760, usually attributed to the Channon workshop. Research indicates that there were five London cabinet makers specializing in this furniture. This is the catalogue for an exhibition in Leeds on 22nd September 1993 and later in London.

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Yale University Press

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0300058128

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9780300058123

A Dress of Violet Taffeta

By: Tessa Arlen

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A Dress of Violet Taffeta

By: Tessa Arlen

A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle Époque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique design from the USA Today bestselling author of In Royal Service to the Queen. Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted by her wealthy husband, Lucy is left penniless with an aging mother and her five-year-old daughter to support. Desperate to survive, Lucy turns to her one true talent to make a living. As a little girl, the dresses she made for her dolls were the envy of her group of playmates. Now, she uses her creative designs and her remarkable eye for color to take her place in the fashion world—failure is not an option. Then, on a frigid night in 1912, Lucy’s life changes once more, when she becomes one of 706 people to survive the sinking of the Titanic. She could never have imagined the effects the disaster would have on her fashion label Lucile, her marriage to her second husband, and her legacy. But no matter what life throws at her, Lucy will live on as a trailblazing and innovative fashion icon, never letting go of what she worked so hard to earn. This is her story.

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Penguin

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0593436857

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9780593436851

Coming Up from the Streets

The Story of the Big Issue

By: Tessa Swithinbank

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Coming Up from the Streets

The Story of the Big Issue

By: Tessa Swithinbank

The success story of The Big Issue is both inspirational and paradoxical; rather than a charity, it is a flourishing commercial enterprise, but one that genuinely benefits those involved. The magazine is sold by homeless and vulnerable people and, in return, they achieve financial independence and status and self-reliance. The story of the paper's development has a practical angle; it should offer help and insights to NGOs and governments involved with the homeless, or to those businesses wishing to set up enterprises for the common good.

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Routledge

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1136534318

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9781136534317

Recipes and Dreams from an Italian Life

By: Tessa Kiros

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Recipes and Dreams from an Italian Life

By: Tessa Kiros

Published in 2012 by Murdoch Books Pty Limited"--T.p. verso.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449425216

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9781449425210

Falling Cloudberries

A World of Family Recipes

By: Tessa Kiros

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Falling Cloudberries

A World of Family Recipes

By: Tessa Kiros

The author includes autobiographical memories, a family tree and portraits, and personal commentary with the recipes, explaining that she was, "born in London to a Finnish mother and a Greek-Cypriot father, when I was four we moved to South Africa. I now live in Italy.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740781529

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9780740781520

The Creole Archipelago

Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean

By: Tessa Murphy

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The Creole Archipelago

Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean

By: Tessa Murphy

In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of European nations used maritime routes to forge social, economic, and informal political connections that spanned the eastern Caribbean. Focusing on a chain of volcanic islands, each one visible from the next, whose societies developed outside the sphere of European rule until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, Murphy argues that the imperial frameworks typically used to analyze the early colonial Caribbean are at odds with the geographic realities that shaped daily life in the region. Through use of wide-ranging sources including historical maps, parish records, an Indigenous-language dictionary, and colonial correspondence housed in the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States, Murphy shows how this watery borderland became a center of broader imperial experimentation, contestation, and reform. British and French officials dispatched to Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Tobago after 1763 encountered a creolized society that repeatedly frustrated their attempts to transform the islands into productive plantation colonies. By centering the stories of Kalinagos who asserted continued claims to land, French Catholics who demanded the privileges of British subjects, and free people of African descent who insisted on their right to own land and enslaved people, Murphy offers a vivid counterpoint to larger Caribbean plantation societies like Jamaica and Barbados. By looking outward from the eastern Caribbean chain, The Creole Archipelago resituates small islands as microcosms of broader historical processes central to understanding early American and Atlantic history, including European usurpation of Indigenous lands, the rise of slavery and plantation production, and the creation and codification of racial difference.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812299973

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9780812299977

Apples for Jam

A Colorful Cookbook

By: Tessa Kiros

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Apples for Jam

A Colorful Cookbook

By: Tessa Kiros

Tessa Kiros shares a bevy of diverse and easy-to-prepare dishes playfully themed in colored chapters. An index references both specific foods and recipes. With memories of daisy chains, ice cream cones, circuses, and four-leaf clovers, Kiros shares her belief that good food sparks cherished memories that intensify life's melting pot of flavor. --publisher.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740769715

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9780740769719

Venezia

Food and Dreams

By: Tessa Kiros

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Venezia

Food and Dreams

By: Tessa Kiros

First published in 2008 by Murdoch Books Pty Limited"--Colophon.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740785168

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9780740785160

On the Frontiers of History

Rethinking East Asian Borders

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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On the Frontiers of History

Rethinking East Asian Borders

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of East Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these ‘minor pasts’ tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of ‘Tartary’, through nineteenth-century racial theorising, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.

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ANU Press

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1760463701

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9781760463700

Now & Then

A Collection of Recipes for Always

By: Tessa Kiros

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Now & Then

A Collection of Recipes for Always

By: Tessa Kiros

Beloved food writer Tessa Kiros's definitive reflection on a lifetime of cooking and eating, combining past meals and recipes with food that excites and nourishes her family today. A collection of recipes for always. This is beloved food writer Tessa Kiros's definitive reflection on a lifetime of cooking and eating. With characteristic generosity of spirit, Tessa invites us into her kitchen to share what she's cooking now: an exciting blend of new discoveries and enduring favourites that connect the threads of her life. While the Tuscan countryside has been Tessa's home for more than 20 years, her culinary influences are wonderfully diverse: her childhood in South Africa, travels to Mexico and New Orleans as a young adult, frequent visits to family in Thailand and Greece, all overlaid with a growing appreciation for lighter, more grounded, plant-focused eating. Part memoir, part travel guide, part food odyssey, this collection of more than 150 new recipes is accompanied by Tessa's personal reflections and favourite food memories. Longtime fans will rejoice in her best work yet, and aspiring cooks will discover how and why she has redefined the modern cookbook.

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654

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Allen & Unwin

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1761187775

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9781761187773

Latin American Society

By: Tessa Cubitt

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Latin American Society

By: Tessa Cubitt

First published in 1995. This book serves as an introduction to Latin American society. As it covers a very broad topic, the aim is to acquaint the reader with some of the major issues and debates concerning Latin American society, offering references which can be used to follow up points in more detail if desired.

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Routledge

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1317893204

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9781317893202

Mindfulness in Wild Swimming

Meditations on Nature & Flow

By: Tessa Wardley

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Mindfulness in Wild Swimming

Meditations on Nature & Flow

By: Tessa Wardley

Mindfulness in Wild Swimming explores how swimming in rivers, lakes and seas is the epitome of conscious living, guiding the reader through practical mindful exercises and technique tips, and reveals how wild swimming can be the ultimate physical meditation.

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Leaping Hare Press

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0711288208

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9780711288201

Re-inventing Japan

Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Re-inventing Japan

Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.

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Routledge

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1317461150

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9781317461159

Wellbeing in Dementia

An Occupational Approach for Therapists and Carers

By: Tessa Perrin,Hazel May,Elizabeth Milwain

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Wellbeing in Dementia

An Occupational Approach for Therapists and Carers

By: Tessa Perrin,Hazel May,Elizabeth Milwain

The authors, specialists in the UK, draw on developmental theory to propose a model of practice specifically for dementia care. The number of people who suffer from dementia is increasing and in consequence the problems it presents are affecting a growing number of therapists and carers. Many of these problems are peculiar to dementia and the models of care used with other client groups have proved inadequate when dealing with the provision of quality of care to people who have dementia. This revised edition contains a new opening chapter which brings our understanding of dementia up-to-date. The book looks at the relationship between occupation, wellbeing and dementia and examines the critical role of the carer in developing therapeutic interventions. - Proposes a realistic model of practice for dementia care which centres on the unique occupational potential of the person with dementia. - Offers positive strategies to improve wellbeing. - Current information on assessment tools. - Written by therapists with extensive experience in working with this client group.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702037036

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9780702037030

Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

By: Tessa Morrison

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Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

By: Tessa Morrison

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella’s Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy’s Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author’s political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht Dürer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts:

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Routledge

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1317005562

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9781317005568

Excavate!

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

By: Tessa Norton,Bob Stanley

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Excavate!

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

By: Tessa Norton,Bob Stanley

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world. 'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.' DAVID PEACE 'Mind blowing . . . there is so much to enjoy in this brilliant book.' TIM BURGESS 'A container sized treasure trove . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.' MAXINE PEAKE 'The most wonderful, unashamedly intellectual, pretentious, ridiculous, exciting hymn to this incredible group.' ANDY MILLER, BACKLISTED Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation. Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work. Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, EXCAVATE! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.

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Faber & Faber

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0571358357

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9780571358359

Grandparenting Grandchildren

New Knowledge and Know-How for Grandparenting the Under 5’s

By: Dr Jane Williams ,Dr Tessa Grigg

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Grandparenting Grandchildren

New Knowledge and Know-How for Grandparenting the Under 5’s

By: Dr Jane Williams ,Dr Tessa Grigg

With people staying healthier for longer, grandparents are increasingly involved in raising their grandchildren. Grandparenting Grandchildren is the first guide of its kind written specifically for grandparents, and aims to help you raise well-rounded, ready-to-learn, happy grandchildren, even if you only look after them for a few hours a week. By explaining the latest neuro-developmental and neuro-educational research in accessible, applicable ways, it will reaffirm what you instinctively know, while providing new tools to build your grandchild’s imagination, creativity and curiosity. Combining the authors’ practical experience as childhood development professionals with international research, this book helps grandparents understand the key influences on healthy development in the first 5 years: movement, music, sleep and food. Grandparenting Grandchildren gives practical advice on how to integrate these ‘super brain foods’ best in your grandchild’s life. This has been proven to have many positive benefits, including improving the ability to think creatively, building speech and language skills, promoting social skills, and driving curiosity. Learn to build a loving, supportive relationship that helps grandchildren feel positive about their future, while constructing essential life skills that ensure they are well-rounded, happy and capable, confident learners.

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Exisle Publishing

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1775594823

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9781775594826

The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming

Reflections for Zen Seekers

By: Tessa Wardley

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The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming

Reflections for Zen Seekers

By: Tessa Wardley

“Turn your outdoor bathing into an enriching meditation with this exploration into the emotional benefits of swimming in nature.” —Health & Fitness The Mindful Art of Wild Swimming explores how swimming in rivers, lakes, and seas is the very epitome of conscious living. Zen-seeker Tessa Wardley reconnects the physical and spiritual cycles of life to the changing seasons and flow of wild waters worldwide and leads the reader on to a mindful journey through the natural world. Combining expert insight and personal anecdote, she shares with sparkling clarity why our relationship with open water is so fundamental to pure wellbeing, and reveals how wild swimming can be the ultimate Zen meditation. “Tessa Wardley is a keen and knowledgeable guide” —Times Literary Supplement

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Quarto Publishing Group USA

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178240628X

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9781782406280

Food from Many Greek Kitchens

By: Tessa Kiros

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Food from Many Greek Kitchens

By: Tessa Kiros

Tessa Kiros presents a beautiful collection of traditional and modern Greek recipes, complete with stunning photography from the country, in her signature style.

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Allen & Unwin

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1741966841

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9781741966848

Tessa Kiros: The recipe collection

By: Tessa Kiros

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Tessa Kiros: The recipe collection

By: Tessa Kiros

Over 130 family-friendly recipes from some of Tessa Kiros's most-popular cookbooks.

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Allen & Unwin

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1743316763

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9781743316764

Limoncello & Linen Water

A trousseau of Italian recipes

By: Tessa Kiros

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Limoncello & Linen Water

A trousseau of Italian recipes

By: Tessa Kiros

Much-loved author Tessa Kiros celebrates the heritage of Italy, the country she has chosen to call home, in Limoncello and Linen Water. This whimsically feminine book is a tribute to the women in our lives - mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers - and the important lessons we learn from them. With accessible, delicious recipes ranging from robust family dishes to quirky cakes and old-fashioned preserves, this book is a precious heirloom to treasure.

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Allen & Unwin

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1743364067

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9781743364062

Piri Piri Starfish

By: Tessa Kiros

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Piri Piri Starfish

By: Tessa Kiros

A beautiful exploration of the food and culture of Portugal from beloved cookbook author Tessa Kiros.

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257

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Allen & Unwin

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1740459091

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9781740459099

Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture 1530-1780

By: Tessa Murdoch

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Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture 1530-1780

By: Tessa Murdoch

A beautifully illustrated, wide-ranging study of Huguenot craftsmanship and trading networks This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. Indeed, George Washington (along with 20 other presidents) was a descendant of Huguenots. First-generation Huguenot refugees included hundreds of trained artists, designers, and craftsmen. Beyond the French borders, they raised the quality of design and workshop practice, passing on skills to their apprentices; sons, godsons, cousins, and to successive generations, who continued to dominate output in the luxury trades. Although silver and silks are the best-known fields with which Huguenot settlers are associated, their significant contribution to architecture, ceramics, design, clock and watchmaking, engraving, furniture, woodwork, sculpture, portraiture, and art education provides fascinating insight into the motivation and resolve of this highly skilled diaspora. Thanks to a sophisticated network of Huguenot merchants, retailers, and bankers who financed their production, their wares reached a global market.

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