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Light In The East: Ad 1000-1100
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Author: The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsLight In The East: China's Enlightened Empire; The Advent...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...
The World Of Rembrandt: 1606-1669
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Author: Robert Wallace And The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: TIME-LIFE INTERNATIONAL (NEDERLAND) N.V., 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling art history volume illuminates the profound artistic contributions presented...
Gay Life Stories
Author: Robert AldrichFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 310g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced...
My Life as Author and Editor
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The book titled My Life as Author and Editor by the author H. L. Mencken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
The Editor's Companion
As the knowledge economy takes shape, editors face many challenges. Technology is transforming publishing, text is losing out to graphics, and writing is distorted by cliche, hype and spin. More...
A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and
'Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm' Telegraph 'Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply...
A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir
'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and...
Stet: an Editor's Life
Widely regarded as one of the best publisher/editors in London, Diana Athill helped over almost five decades to shape some of the finest books in modern literature. She edited (and...
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Author: Sebastian JungerFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 180g, 176 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and...
What Remains: The absolutely unputdownable New York Times Editors' Choice
Author: Wendy WalkerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 230g, 256 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023'Absolutely splendid storytelling, a book to entertain, to immerse, and to challenge' AJ FINN'Wendy Walker...
Friends and Enemies: A Life in Vogue, Prison, & Park Avenue
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Shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulling no punches, Friends and Enemies traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society. From her early childhood...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth
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Life of Privilege, Mostly
Gardner Botsford grew up in a Manhattan town house under the benign eye of five live-in servants, a charming and cultivated stepfather, and a mother whose beauty and wit attracted...
Editing And Design: A Five-Volume Manual Of English, Typography And Layout; Book Three: News Headlines
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the world of print journalism, the headline is the editor's most powerful weapon — and Harold Evans, legendary editor of The Sunday Times...
Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty
All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events...
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. Mccormick 1880-1955
For most of his varied and colorful career, Colonel Robert R. McCormick was the self-proclaimed emperor of "Chicagoland," a Middle America of his own imagination, forever at odds with the...
From the Front: The Story of War Through Correspondence
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Discover the fascinating role journalism has played in war - in recording it, in helping determine its strategies, and in the final impressions of wars in history. This book gives...
Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn't
What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? RODHAM is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of AMERICAN WIFE, perfect for summer reading. BY...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of
When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard...
Last Resort: A New York Times Editor's Pick
Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture A...
How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book....
Heretics Of Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film
What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Heretics of Dune, the fifth book in one of the most influential series of all...
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year
Author: Alfons KaiserFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 740g, 384 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life...
The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in
Born in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, Frances Lovell Oldham left her hometown in her early twenties to pursue a journalism career in Europe. At a time when women rarely found...
The Dead Romantics
The bestselling magical rom-com now in a stunning hardback Collector's Edition featuring beautiful sprayed edges and designed endpapers! *** 'I LOVED this book! Funny, hopeful and dreamy' ALI HAZELWOOD 'An...
The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878
Josiah Gorgas was best known as the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Born in 1818, he attended West Point, served in the U.S. Army, and later, after marrying Amelia...
The Dead Romantics
The bestselling magical rom-com now in a stunning hardback Collector's Edition featuring beautiful sprayed edges and designed endpapers! *** 'I LOVED this book! Funny, hopeful and dreamy' ALI HAZELWOOD 'An...
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Year of the Water Horse: A Memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A warm and witty memoir about the ever-changing relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters that traverses two continents and multiple generations of...
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved...
The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the darkness can point the way to living beautifully in the midst of a tragic world....
Muse: Cicely Tyson and Me: A Relationship Forged in Fashion
" Friendship, love and a beautiful sense of togetherness sew together this gem of a book. B Michael...presents to us a portrait of a woman who was a rare gift...
Letters Of Charles Joseph La Trobe
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Author: L. J. Blake (editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: The Government of Victoria, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor rips to DJ. Tanning...
WW II: Time-Life Books History of the Second World War
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The book titled WW II: Time-Life Books History of the Second World War by the author Time-Life Books. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six...
Lincoln Lessons: Reflections on America's Greatest Leader
This title provides personal reflections on Lincoln's life and legacy. In "Lincoln Lessons", seventeen of today's most respected academics, historians, lawyers, and politicians provide candid reflections on the importance of...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Man from Babel
The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of...