FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution & one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician & poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order & the changes it has wrought in him, & is torn between love for his wife & family, & the passionate, beautiful Lara. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago was nonetheless published covertly in Russian by the CIA & translated into many languages. In 1958 Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship & suppression to influence decades of thought & artistic expression. ...

The London Evening Press & Star is a local newspaper holding its own in a time of fast-moving, celebrity-obsessed, click-bait global news. & the unnamed narrator of this book is one of its reporters, an old-school journalist dedicated to his community & his craft. But with every news item there is a bigger, more complex tale, & drawing on his notebooks he reveals the stories behind the stories, & the journeys he has taken to discover their hearts. Meet Eddie Roll, karaoke-barge proprietor, & find out how he keeps his business afloat on the city`s canals. Hear how Batman & Robin leapt from the pages of a comic book to come to the rescue of someone in need. Discover what links Elvis Presley & meals on wheels, learn of Kermit The Hermit of Hampstead Heath, spend time in the company of a generous Irishman from NW1. & read about the life & death of the enigmatic Doctor Zipp, a marine biologist & inter-species language expert who believed we could learn a lot from the octopus. If a city is its people & their stories, then this is London at its warm-hearted, eccentric best. ...

Genealogists & local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death & census record available, & are adept at using the internet for research. However, once they have learnt everything they can from them, the next step is reading & understanding older documents. These can be hard to find (not many are online), are often written in challenging handwriting & use legal & other unfamiliar terms. Some will be in Latin, antiquated English or Scots. Readers need to be able to understand the nature & intent of a range of documents as well as the palaeography (the handwriting) & orthography (the `shape` of the contents). In Understanding Documents for Genealogy & Local History, Dr Bruce Durie, the celebrated author of Scottish Genealogy, details how to find & comprehend documents from 1560 to the 1860s
- wills, testaments, contracts, indentures & charters, land records (retours, sasines & manorial custumals), personal letters, official records, Church papers, trust dispositions, deeds & others. Also covered are the complexities of dates, numbers, calendars, measurements & money, abbreviations, transcription conventions, letter-forms & glossaries.A Latin primer completes the tool kit the genealogist & family historian will need to further their research.
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The mysterious powers of mathematics & science & its application to art were a favorite study of the quintessential Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519). His delicately shaded illustrations of polyhedrons appears in Luca Pacioli`s 1509 book De divina proportione. These shapes were thought to be related to the elements: the cube to Earth, tetrahedron to fire, octahedron to air, icosahedron to water, & dodecahedron to heavenly ether. The h&-crafted joints of solid wood are finished with distressed French honey tones. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Dodger is a tosher
- a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone
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Roll Up! Roll Up! Read All About It! Ladies & Gents, Sir Jack Dodger brings you a most excellent Guide to London! Did you know...? If a Victorian couldn`t afford a sweep, they might drop a goose down their chimney to clean it! A nobby lady`s unmentionables could weigh up to 40lbs! Parliament had to be suspended during the Great Stink of 1858! From the wretches of the rookeries to the fancy coves at Buckingham Palace, Dodger will show you every dirty inch of London. Warning:

Includes:: `orrible murders, naughty ladies & plenty of geezers!

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Dodworth in 1904 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Dodworth, just west of Barnsley, including High Street, church, Church Hill, Lambert Fold, Dodworth Bottom, Dodworth Hall, Rose Hill Colliery, North Field, Dodworth Grange, etc. A major feature is Old Silkstone Collieries, shown with full track layout, with the GCR Barnsley Branch with Dodworth station. The map stretches westward to Silkstone Fall Colliery & Champany Hill. On the reverse are directories for Dodworth in 1901 & 1912. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Do animals have mothers too? Of course they do
- just like me & you! Meet the little joey whose Kangaroo mother carries him in
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The ultimate guide to animal flatulence: the perfect gift for anyone who has ever farted. Dogs do it. Millipedes do it. Dinosaurs did it. You do it: I do it. Octopuses don`t (and nor do octopi). Spiders might do it: more research is needed. Birds don`t do it, but they could if they wanted to. Herrings do it to communicate with each other. At the beginning of 2017, an innocent question on twitter about snakes formed the hashtag doesitfart & spread pungently across the internet
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- as dozens of experts weighed in on which animals do & don`t fart, & if they do, how much, how often, what it`s made from, what it smells like, & what it`s for. Does it Fart? is the result: the fully authoritative, fully illustrated guide to animal flatulence, covering the habits of 80 animals in more detail than you ever knew you needed. What foods make hyena farts smell especially bad? What is a fossa, & does it fart? Why do clams vomit but not fart? What is a fart, anyway? With contributions from dozens of biologists, Does it Fart? is a book that will allow you to shift the blame onto all kinds of unlikely animals for years to come.

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The ultimate guide to animal flatulence: the perfect gift for anyone who has ever farted. Dogs do it. Millipedes do it. Dinosaurs did it. You do it: I do it. Octopuses don`t (and nor do octopi). Spiders might do it: more research is needed. Birds don`t do it, but they could if they wanted to. Herrings do it to communicate with each other. At the beginning of 2017, an innocent question on twitter about snakes formed the hashtag doesitfart & spread pungently across the internet
- & major newspapers
- as dozens of experts weighed in on which animals do & don`t fart, & if they do, how much, how often, what it`s made from, what it smells like, & what it`s for. Does it Fart? is the result: the fully authoritative, fully illustrated guide to animal flatulence, covering the habits of 80 animals in more detail than you ever knew you needed. What foods make hyena farts smell especially bad? What is a fossa, & does it fart? Why do clams vomit but not fart? What is a fart, anyway? With contributions from dozens of biologists, Does it Fart? is a book that will allow you to shift the blame onto all kinds of unlikely animals for years to come.

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