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Travels in the land of serpents and pearls
The intrepid Venetian traveller's observations of a thirteenth-century India filled with lavish jewels, chaste princes, superstitions and naked armies.
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780141398358
- Collation
- 56 p. ; 14 cm
- Series Title
- Penguin little black classics
- Call Number
- 910 POL t
Things that disappear
Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in social attitudes, Erpenbeck's sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail, and her nuanced perspective on her country's history and her own writing lifeimbue these short pieces with lasting power.
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780811238113
- Collation
- 71 p. ; 16 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 920 ERP t
Things in nature merely grow
Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781250437976
- Collation
- 172 p. ; 21 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 920 YIY t
The cost of living
What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in the world not arranged to her advantage?
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781635573534
- Collation
- 134 p. ; 21 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 920 LEV t
Shakespeare
Find out about Shakespeare’s childhood in the English countryside and how it inspired his works. Discover Shakespeare’s lasting influence on everything from films and festivals to musicals and cartoons. See inside the original Globe Theatre and learn how a play was set up and performed.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780241523032
- Collation
- 48 p. ; ill. ; 28 cm
- Series Title
- Eyewitness
- Call Number
- 920 DOR s
Prehistoric people
Who were our earliest ancestors and how did they live? Step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page... Learn to hunt mammoth and reindeer, make clothes from animal skins and paint on cave walls.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034529
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 930 JEU p
Atlas of the earth
See how wins, water and ice sculpt valleys and mountains. Witness a new island being born as a volcano erupts. Find out how landscapes are formed over millions of years
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034062
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 910 JEU a
Egyptian tombs
Light up the past as you enter an Egyptian tomb. What do the strange hieroglyphics mean? Who is inside the sarcophagus? How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781851034291
- Collation
- unpaged. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- My First Discoveries
- Call Number
- 932 DEL e
Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780812987492
- Collation
- 380 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 921 NEW a
A short history of the world in 50 failures
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes.
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789297089
- Collation
- 288 p. ; ill. ; 18 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 909 GAZ a
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