33 results for '"Einhard"'

Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman EmpireCharlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval...

A fascinating piece of literary detective work about star-crossed lovers in Nazi Germany.Rudolf Kaufmann, a young Jewish geologist, met Ingeborg Magnusson, a young Swedish woman gifted in languages,...

Although the musical achievements of the Franco-Flemish school have attracted many writers, this book is the first to show how the artists and composers of Bruges worked side by side to shape their...

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to today Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built...

Chinese Imperial City Planning is the first synthesis of what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from earliest times to the present. It explains...

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Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —Wall Street Journal The Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading...

Award-winning writer/illustrator Reinhard Kleist's Starman is a full-color graphic novel biography of David Bowie's transformation into Ziggy Stardust, the genesis and near apocalypse of a rock 'n'...

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral...

History and culture

Im Herbst des Jahres 9 n. Chr. wurde das mehr als drei Legionen - über 18.000 Mann - starke Heer des Publius Quinctilius Varus, Legat des Kaisers Augustus, in einen Hinterhalt gelockt und innerhalb...

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*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of...

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from...

Slight shelf and edge wear. Tiny edge tears mostly at edges. Some pencil marking on some pages. Most of the pages are clean. Binding is tight.