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In this invaluable book acclaimed plantswoman and bestselling author Carol Klein explains how to get the most from your garden by taking inspiration from what works in the wild be it in a meadow, woodland, hedgerow, seaside or exposed setting....
The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera
Book - 2001
The history and social context of opera is explored by a group of leading British and American scholars in this volume. The core of the book is a historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
The Oxford History of Byzantium
Book - 2002
This volume provides coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Essays and illustrations portray the development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
Book - 2001
This work provides an illustrated account of the Bible story. It tells how and why a collection of writings in the Semitic languages and Greek that we now call the books of the Bible, came to be written over a period of about 800 years.
The Cambridge Companion to Saussure
eBook - 2004
Ferdinand de Saussure is widely considered to be the founder of both modern linguistics and structuralism. The first to establish the structural study of language, he identified the difference between the system of language ('Langue') and the...