Europe 1450-1789

$866.25

This detailed set explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. The set's 1,082 articles, written by eminent scholars, cover major topics in art, government and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. In addition, the set covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish inquisition, Utopia and others. Each volume includes an eight-page color insert. Features include approximately 575 black-and-white photographs, 60 maps, a year-by-year chronology, a topical outline, and a comprehensive index.

Sleepy Time Lullabies with CD (Audio)

Favorite lullabies and warm illustrations come together to make the perfect bedtime book, with a CD tucked right into the cover. Snuggle up and sing along with the lyrics in this padded board book as the CD softly soothes little ones to sleep. A wonderful way to establish a comforting nighttime ritual with a child, Sleepytime Lullabies book and CD contains ten songs at an amazing value. Sleepy Time Lullabies with CD (Audio)
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Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions

From hoop skirts to gowns with softly draped bustles, Tom Tierney captures the extravagant fashions worn from the 1860s through 1910. Carefully researched, accurately rendered illustrations depict opera capes, frock coats, trousers, top hats, and knitted swimwear for men; the ladies' styles include narrow-skirted walking suits, bathing outfits that completely cover the figure, and billowing bloomers for bicycling. This splendid archive for theatrical designers, fashion historians, and style mavens offers delightful entertainment for colorists of all ages. 29 black-and-white illustrations. Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions
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Better Reading Spanish by Jean Yates, ISBN 0071391371

A unique method of learning and sharpening your Spanish language skills

For the advanced beginner or intermediate-level learner, reading offers you the most convenient way to practice and sharpen your Spanish and monitor your progress: the more you read, the greater your knowledge of the language. However, you probably don't have the time, patience, or interest to tackle original literary works or course textbooks.

"Better Reading Spanish brings you short passages that reflect real-life, contemporary issues and situations, taken from magazines, the Internet, books, and newspapers.

Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic--cuisine, music, sports, cinema and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history--with each piece becoming more challenging as the section progresses. Here you will find an article about the Seattle Mariners' Edgar Martinez, a tourist pamphlet from Honduras, a recipe for gazpacho, and more than fifty other selections to help...

Better Reading Spanish by Jean Yates, ISBN 0071391371

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Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London by Paul Griffiths, ISBN 0719051525

Events such as the Fire of London and the Plague, and historic locations like the Globe Theatre, are part of London's heritage. Yet until recently, the history of the city between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. During this period, London's population soared from around 50,000 to nearly half a million--the demographic explosion transformed the city to a metropolis. London became a center of new social and sexual identities and a solvent of older, more hierarchical forms of social organization. The essays in this volume cover the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption. Within these themes are thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, "great quantities of gooseberry pye," and the taxing question of fresh water. Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London by Paul Griffiths, ISBN 0719051525
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The Last Survivor by Timothy Ryback, ISBN 0679758267

In The Last Survivor, journalist Timothy Ryback explores the surprising--and often disturbing--ways the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of us associate with gas chambers and mass graves. A grandmother recalls the echo of wooden shoes on cobblestone, the clip-clop of inmates marched from boxcars to barracks under the cover of night. A mother-to-be opts to deliver in a neighboring town, so that her child's birth certificate will not be stamped DACHAU. An "SS baby," now middle-aged, wonders about the father he never knew. And should you visit Dachau, you will meet Martin Zaidenstadt, an 87 year-old who accosts tourists with a first-hand account of the camp before its liberation in 1945. Beautifully written, compassionate, wise, The Last Survivor takes us to a place that bears the mark of Cain--and a people unwilling to be defined by the past, yet painfully unable to forget. The Last Survivor by Timothy Ryback, ISBN 0679758267
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