Best Gardens In Europe - April 2024

The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide

Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world and the ancient world. Their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and universally copied. During the past few years Italy has awoken to a realization of its gardens. In a gardening renaissance, interesting new gardens are being created all over Italy, and there has been exemplary restoration of some historic gardens. In this pioneering new book, Kirsty McLeod and Primrose Bell celebrate over a hundred of the finest Italian gardens open to the public. They take the reader with the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0711234191
• ASIN: 0711234191
• ISBN: 0711234191
• Brand: Frances Lincoln
• Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln

An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow, and keep themselves safe? Along the way, they meet Peter, a Canadian navigator who risks his own capture to save the family. As Michael Morp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250034140
• ASIN: 1250034140
• ISBN: 1250034140
• Brand: Square Fish
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

Rick Steves Best of Europe

Hit Europe's can't-miss art, sights, and bites with Rick Steves Best of Europe!Expert advice from Rick Steves on what's worth your time and moneyItineraries for one to four days in the top destinations in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and SwitzerlandRick's tips for beating the crowds, skipping lines, and avoiding tourist trapsThe best of local culture, flavors, and haunts, including walks through the most interesting neighborhoods and museumsTrip planning strategies like how to link destinations and design your itinerary, what to pack, where to stay, and how to get a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1631218034
• ASIN: 1631218034
• ISBN: 1631218034
• Manufacturer: Rick Steves

Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Middle Ages Series)

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded, the classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon of witchcraft, taking into account the remarkable scholarship since the book's publication almost thirty years ago.Spanning the period from 400 to 1700, the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many newly transla... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812217519
• ASIN: 0812217519
• ISBN: 0812217519
• Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical AssociationWeapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology―and challenging past assumptions about Europe's "gunpowder revolution"―Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of challenges, he finds, from Europe's lack of naturally occurrin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0801869943
• ASIN: 0801869943
• ISBN: 9780801869945
• Brand: Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

The Garden Lover's Guide to France (Garden Lover's Guides to)

• ASIN: 1568981287
• ASIN: 1568981287
• ISBN: 1568981287
• Brand: Brand: Princeton Architectural Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)

Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day.Most European prosecutions for the crime of witchcraft occurred between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the peak coming in the hundred years after 1560. This volume brings together the large amount of re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 081221787X
• ASIN: 081221787X
• ISBN: 9780812217872
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

Nationalism in Europe 1789-1945 (Cambridge Perspectives in History)

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Timothy Baycroft explains what characterises modern nations, what the theoretical roots of nationalism are, and what interaction there has been with other significant theories. The book alsot presents reasons for the overwhelming importance of nationalism in the development of modern European history. The result is a concise description of the ways in which nationalism spread through Europ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0521598710
• ASIN: 0521598710
• ISBN: 0521598710
• Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

Drinking In the Culture: Tuppers' Guide to Exploring Great Beers in Europe

 Title: Drinking In the Culture: Tuppers' Guide to Exploring Great Beers in EuropeBinding: PaperbackPub date: October 1, 2015 Like Beer? Love to travel? Discover 24 of Europe's best cities and towns for exploring and savoring the local beer and brewing culture Book description:  Drinking In the Culture is the first ever guide to finding, not just good beer, but good beer places, in two dozen of the best cities in the world to drink local beer.  From the universities of Sheffield, England, to the historic palaces of Prague, from the well-known beer mecca of Brussels to the little Bavarian... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0990961001
• ASIN: 0990961001
• ISBN: 0990961001
• Brand: CulturAle Press
• Manufacturer: CulturAle Press

War in the Middle Ages

Covering the ten centuries following the fall of Rome, War in the Middle Ages engages all aspects of its subject, including the military customs and conditions of the various Western European states; armor and weaponry recruitment; and rules of combat developed to limit bloodshed. Philippe Contamine writes with an awareness that, in both theory and fact, medieval warfare was constantly evolving. He opens with a chapter on Roman military disintegration and the practice of warfare in the barbarian kingdoms erected on the empire's ruins. He then shows how feudalization multiplied conflicts, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0631144692
• ASIN: 0631144692
• ISBN: 0631144692
• Brand: Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
• Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell

No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945

One of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome A clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II that offers new insight by reevaluating well-established facts and pointing out lesser-known ones, No Simple Victory asks readers to reconsider what they know about the war, and how that knowledge might be biased or incorrect. Norman Davies poses simple questions that have unexpected answers: Can you name the five biggest battles of the war? What were the main political ideologies that were contending for supremacy? The answers to these questions will surprise even those who ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143114093
• ASIN: 0143114093
• ISBN: 0143114093
• Brand: Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens, Origo and her husband, Antonio, purchased the dilapidated villa in 1924, soliciting the help of English architect and family friend Cecil Pinsent to reawaken the natural magic of the property. Pinsent designed the structure o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812235932
• ASIN: 0812235932
• ISBN: 9780812235937
• Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (New Approaches to European History)

This original book brings a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called "the century of sex" and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual desires and behaviours, the ambivalences surrounding sexual freedom, and the difficulties encountered in securing sexual rights. Incorporating the most recent scholarship on a broad range of conc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0521691435
• ASIN: 0521691435
• ISBN: 9780521691437
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

A History of the University in Europe: Volume 2, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) (v. 2)

This is the second volume of a four-part History of the University in Europe, written by an international team of scholars under the general editorship of Professor Walter RÜegg, which covers the development of the university in Europe (both East and West) from its origins to the present day. Volume 2 attempts to situate the universities in their social and political context throughout the three centuries spanning the period 1500 to 1800.

• ASIN: 0521361060
• ASIN: 0521361060
• ISBN: 0521361060
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 030740885X
• ASIN: 030740885X
• ISBN: 030740885X
• Brand: Erik Larson
• Manufacturer: Crown

Best Choice Products Outdoor Round Bar Height European Style Cast Aluminum Bistro Table, Copper

Form and function in one, this elegant bistro table features a beautiful European style that makes a statement in any outdoor area. Watch the sunrise with your morning coffee or enjoy an afternoon brunch with

• UPC: 150079151
• Color: Brown
• Rating: 4.833

London's Green Walks : 20 Walks Around London's Best Parks, Gardens and Waterways

No city in the world has such a rich diversity of beautiful green spaces as London, which provide a wealth of opportunities to exercise and commune with nature year round. Whether you're a nature lover,

• UPC: 802864545

Keep Calm for Mental Health: Coloring Book for Adults and Children (Mandalas, Best Animals, Horse, Cats, Dog, Flowers, Butterfly, Garden, Forest an

limited time offer -30%Enjoy the simplest and fascinating way of stress relief with "Keep Calm for Mental Health!"Created with love and care, this bestselling coloring book for adults is designed to give your brain a

• UPC: 463027866

The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide

In this pioneering new book, Kirsty McLeod and Primrose Bell celebrate over a hundred of the finest Italian gardens open to the

• UPC: 22043458

Actress Pamela Bellwood posing in her garden with her dog. She is best known for

• UPC: 143549040111
• Category: Movies
• Price: 14 USD