Pamphlet. Zustand: Good +. 5 x 7 in. Paper wraps. Condition is GOOD+ ; slit at spine but cover holding. Text has some stains but is readable. PO' has written two further candy recipes in back. Cook. Stax.
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 160 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 31 cm. ; ISBN: 0954433416; 9780954433413 LCCN: 2004-353274 ; LC: DA731.2; Dewey: 914.29/0486 ; OCLC: 52566751 ; golygwyd gan Steve Benbow a Peter Gill ; rhagair gan Bryn Terfel ; ysgrifennwyd gan David Williams. ; Photographs from the Photolibrary Wales collection ; "This is the second title in a series of photographic books about Wales. This title captures the varied moods and seasons of the Welsh landscape. It portrays the people who work on the land and those who enjoy its immense pleasures during their leisure time." ; 300 x 250 mm ; Contents: Anglesey -- Northern Snowdonia -- Llyn Peninsula -- Conway Valley -- Vale of Clwyd -- Llangollen and the Dee -- Lakes and waterfalls -- Southern Snowdonia -- Roling uplands -- Cardigan Bay -- Brecon Beacons -- Historic borderlands -- Black Mountains -- The Valleys -- Teifi Valley and Pembrokeshire -- Pembrokeshire coast -- Carmarthenshire -- Gower -- Vale of Glamorgan -- Severn, Wye and Usk -- Geology of Wales -- Index -- Map -- Facts and figures -- Photographers ; Photographers include Aled Hughes, Andrew Davies, Danrew McCartney, Andrew Orchard, Andy Stoyle, Billy Stock, Brian Woods, Chris Colclough, Chris Gallagher, Chris Warren, David Angel, Dave Newbould, David Williams, DAvid Woodfall, Derec Owen, Derek rees, Duncan Miller, Geraint Wyn Jones, Graham Morley, Harry Williams, Janet Bord, Colin Bord, Jeff Morgan, Jeremy Moore, John Kinsey, Kathy de Witt, Ken Dickinson, Kent Price, Neil Turner, Paul Kay, Pierino Algieri, Ray Wood, Rex Moreton, Rob Stratton, Steve Benbow, Steve Lewis, Steve Peake ; FINE. Book.
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780669280029, 066928002X OCLC 31890473 LCCN 94076841 LC DG533 .M27 1995 Dewey 945/.05 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; This collection of readings offers the best of contemporary Italian Renaissance scholarship, classic studies, and excerpts from a great variety of important primary sources in a single volume. Unique to this text is the presentation of conflicting interpretations of major issues in Renaissance history ; Contents: Pt. 1. The Renaissance problem -- 1. The Renaissance problem -- The culture of the Italian Renaissance / Jacob Burckhardt -- Did women have a renaissance? / Joan Kelly -- pt. II. The material world -- 2. The plage and public health -- The plague strikes Orvieto / Elisabeth Carpentier -- Medical reputations and the Black Death / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages / Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasett -- 3. The economy of city and countryside -- Landed property and trade in medieval Siena / Giuliano Pinto -- The preconditions for luxury consumption / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- Women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- 4. Urban needs and opportunities -- The Italian urban experience / Marvin B. Becker -- Social mobility in Florence / David Herlihy -- The urban territory of a Florentine merchant, 1400 / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- pt. III. Political forms -- 5. Renaissance Venice and Florence emerge -- Guild republicianism in Trecento Florence / John M. Najemy -- The Venetian aristocracy takes control / Frederic C. Lane -- 6. Forms of government in Renaissance Italy -- Communes and despots in late-medieval Italy / P.J. Jones -- The rise of the Medici / Dale Kent -- 7. Machiavelli's world -- The prince : political science or political satire? / Garrett Mattingly -- Machiavelli's advice to princes / Quentin Skinner Pt. IV. Humanism -- The beginnings of humanism / Ronald G. Witt -- Petrarch and the discovery of human nature / Hans Baron -- 9. Humanism serves the state -- In defense of civic humanism / Hans Baron -- The significance of civic humanism / Albert Rabil, Jr -- The moral philosophy of a Venetian humanist, Giovanni Caldiera / Margaret L. King -- 10. Schools of humanism -- Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Antiquity versus modernity / Charles Trinkaus -- pt. V. Urban society and culture -- Maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Wives and husbands in late medieval Venice / Stanley Chonjnacki -- 12. Conspicuous consumption -- The building of Renaissance Florence / Richard A. Goldwaite -- Sumptuary law and social relations in Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- 13. Spirituality and ritual -- Ritual behavior in Renaissance Florence / Richard Trexler -- Art and pageantry in Renaissance Venice / Edward Muir -- 14. The end of the Renaissance? -- Changing assumptions in later Renaissance culture / William J. Bouwsma -- Clerics and laymen in Italian literature / Carlo Dionisotti ; FINE. Book.