Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a...... mehr

Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.

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Fourth book in the groundbreaking "Played In Britain" series. It guides the reader on an intimate tour of the city's lesser known sporting treasures, from the...... mehr

Fourth book in the groundbreaking "Played In Britain" series. It guides the reader on an intimate tour of the city's lesser known sporting treasures, from the site of the 19th century Liverpool Olympics to Britain's first municipal swimming baths.

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Some of the world's great cities are linked in the popular mind with their river and, for reasons both ancient and modern, Liverpool and the Mersey are...... mehr

Some of the world's great cities are linked in the popular mind with their river and, for reasons both ancient and modern, Liverpool and the Mersey are inseparable. Treacherous and fast flowing, with a huge tidal range, the Mersey nevertheless formed part of the chain that carried the trade of the world, linking large parts of northern and midland England with markets and sources of supply across the globe. For centuries, this traffic passed through Liverpool, the landing point for imports and the port of dispatch for goods sent overseas or around the coast. Liverpool developed to serve a growing national and international trading network and for many decades handled more of the cargoes of Britain's maritime empire even than London. In Liverpool, the warehouse represents the essential function of the city and nowhere else can the evolution of this important building type be studied in such depth from surviving buildings.

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Liverpool's place in English football's hierarchy is recognised around the world and almost every high-profile star on the move gets linked with...... mehr

Liverpool's place in English football's hierarchy is recognised around the world and almost every high-profile star on the move gets linked with the Anfield club. Under manager Rafa Benitez, a fifth European championship was achieved in 2005 and whilst title No. 19 remains the Holy Grail, cup success is a common theme. From Alan Hansen and Graeme Souness through Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Jamie Redknapp to Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, few clubs can boast as many people with so much to say for themselves, especially in the case of ex-manager Bill Shankly, football's most quoted man. Liverpool have a proud tradition and a very loyal support, and this book aims to capture the flavour of both.

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A witty portrait of Liverpool 8 that escorts us among old-fashioned, small-time English shops, Arab and Indian muzak-filled supermarkets,...... mehr

A witty portrait of Liverpool 8 that escorts us among old-fashioned, small-time English shops, Arab and Indian muzak-filled supermarkets, Pakistani newsagents and Chinese chip-shops.

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This collection of essays is the first serious attempt to conceptualise the transplantation of English migrants and culture in the New World as a...... mehr

This collection of essays is the first serious attempt to conceptualise the transplantation of English migrants and culture in the New World as a Diaspora.

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Liverpool's landscape, both in the city centre and throughout its historic suburbs, is studded with institutional buildings, some - like the great...... mehr

Liverpool's landscape, both in the city centre and throughout its historic suburbs, is studded with institutional buildings, some - like the great hospitals - very prominent, others - like Sunday Schools and chapels - punctuating ordinary street scenes. All, however, tell the story of how charity and public authorities responded to the desperate need of the poor and vulnerable in the 19th century. Attractively illustrated by photographs and drawings, this book emphasises the importance of institutional buildings to our understanding of Liverpool's character and demonstrates how new uses can be found to ensure that they continue to form part of the city's historic environment.

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"Liverpool-to-Liverpool" tells the story of an epic journey by artist Simon Faithfull from Liverpool, England to Liverpool, Nova...... mehr

"Liverpool-to-Liverpool" tells the story of an epic journey by artist Simon Faithfull from Liverpool, England to Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Faithfull made roughly six drawings each day throughout his journey, documenting the minutiae of daily life on land and sea with his Palm Pilot. This book includes more than one hundred digital drawings as well as Faithfull's wry, imagist commentary on the landscapes he was passing through and the people he encountered as he drew them--from English Liverpudlians crouched under umbrellas to Canadian Liverpudlians with mustachioed lips and pick-up trucks. Both the words and images in this fascinating book attest to the survival of the individual texture and detail of everyday lives even in our restlessly mobile world.

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A study of the richest and most extensive collection of public sculpture of any English city outside London. It includes the vast Victorian legacy and...... mehr

A study of the richest and most extensive collection of public sculpture of any English city outside London. It includes the vast Victorian legacy and also twentieth-century works by figures such as Sir Jacob Epstein.

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An English pastor recounts travels through the East and Midwest, cutting himself off abruptly to focus on his true interest, Christianity and religion...... mehr

An English pastor recounts travels through the East and Midwest, cutting himself off abruptly to focus on his true interest, Christianity and religion in America.

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An English pastor recounts travels through the East and Midwest, cutting himself off abruptly to focus on his true interest, Christianity and religion...... mehr

An English pastor recounts travels through the East and Midwest, cutting himself off abruptly to focus on his true interest, Christianity and religion in America.

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The Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least themselves, pastiches in verse and...... mehr

The Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least themselves, pastiches in verse and prose of the romantic tales of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus. This book marks the English translation, placing them and their writers in their literary and historical contexts.

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The Venerable Bede--theologian, historian, and scientific cosmologist--played an undeniable role in laying the foundations of the modern world. From his...... mehr

The Venerable Bede--theologian, historian, and scientific cosmologist--played an undeniable role in laying the foundations of the modern world. From his quantitative approach to questions of science to his introduction of the Anno Domini system of dating and his critical methods of biblical analysis, Bede both anticipated and influenced our modern ways of thinking. "Bede: On Genesis" is the first English-language translation of Bede's Latin commentary on the book of Genesis--the opening chapters of which he regarded as the foundational narrative of the world and through which he derived the theoretical basis for his scientific treaties and his notion of the English as the chosen people of God. Accompanied by an informative introduction that makes Bede's commentary accessible to anyone with an interest in his work, this volume is an essential contribution to ecclesiastical history.

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Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in...... mehr

Volume 4 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary is the most substantial study of the German home front in World War II available in English. It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in wartime Germany: government and party, law and terror, welfare and social planning, sex and population policy, women, youth, propoganda, morale and resistance.

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"It is strange," Proust wrote in 1909, "that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so...... mehr

"It is strange," Proust wrote in 1909, "that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American." In the spirit of Proust's admission, this engaging and critical volume offers the first comparative reading of the French novelist in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In addition to examining Proust's key American influences--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, and James McNeill Whistler--"Proust and America" investigates the previously overlooked influence of the American neurologist George Beard, whose writings on neurasthenia and "American nervousness" contributed to the essential modernity of the author's work.

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W E Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. Covering the statesman's long political life from the first Reform Act to the last decade of...... mehr

W E Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. Covering the statesman's long political life from the first Reform Act to the last decade of the nineteenth century, this title discusses topics as diverse as parliamentary reform and free trade, Gladstone's English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents.

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In 1959, Bill Shankley began turning Liverpool Football Club into the most successful English team to date. From the successes of the 1960s to...... mehr

In 1959, Bill Shankley began turning Liverpool Football Club into the most successful English team to date. From the successes of the 1960s to the remarkable trio of Worthington, FA, and UEFA Cups in 2001, this book celebrates the triumphs and the players that achieved them. With text by prolific local writer Phil Thompson and photographs by the award-winning Steve Hale, it is an essential purchase for any follower of the Reds.

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The romances in this volume exemplify two different traditions of Arthurian stories developed in the Middle Ages, and are among the finest English...... mehr

The romances in this volume exemplify two different traditions of Arthurian stories developed in the Middle Ages, and are among the finest English medieval narrative poems. The texts have been edited for readers who have little or no training in Middle English; they deserve a wider readership simply for what they are, first-rate works of art. They are also essential reading for the student of the Arthurian legend and of the culture of the late medieval period. The Stanzaic Morte Arthur engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere; the Alliterative Morte Arthure with those of the aspirations of militant chivalry espoused by Arthur and his knights.

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CHAPTER I. No city or town in Great Britain, and few in IreIand, contains so many Catholics within its boundaries aa the city of Liverpool. This is due...... mehr

CHAPTER I. No city or town in Great Britain, and few in IreIand, contains so many Catholics within its boundaries aa the city of Liverpool. This is due to its close proximity to Ireland. Indeed, it may be said with t r u t h t h a t Liverpool would not have risen into prominence at such an early date had not mccessive English monarchs from Henry the Second to William the Third recognised the great convenience afforded by the Mersey for the conquest of Ireland. In turn the Anglo-Irish difficulty and its consequences filled Liverpool with an enormous Irish population, which carried inta an essentially Protestaut community the ancient faith, and renowed in some forty churches the ritual and devotions which for many centuries were practised and observed in the pre-Reformation churches of iSralton, St. Marys del Key, and Bt. Nicholas. An Anglican weekly, commenting on the pageant festivities of 1907, observed that the Church of England did not figure as prominently as was desirable in the processions and tableaux that there was too much prominence assigned to events and incidents connected with the Roman Catholic Church in and around Liverpool. The complaint was well founded, though, had it been otherwiw, the pageant would have been shorn of much of its beauty, and, what is more important, would have been an untruthful representation of the past history of the town. Why, however, the Benedictine priory of Birkenhead was made so prominent a feature, and the ancient parish church of Walton ignored, puzzled many people who knew local history, to say nothing of no reference to the first church erected in the town, S t . Nary of the Quay. Save for the beautiful banner of St. Nicholaa, the oldWorked by Mrs. Sacob and presented to St. Nichohs Pro-Clathodral, Copporas Rill, by Councillor A E. Jacob, J. P. A church in Chapel Street was set aside as if it had never existed, unless it be that St. Wicholas was not regarded as a parish church, as it was subject to Walton until the year 1699. The church of St. Mary at Walton dates

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"Invisible Men" is the most comprehensive study to date of the lives and work of English police constables on foot patrol in the early part of the...... mehr

"Invisible Men" is the most comprehensive study to date of the lives and work of English police constables on foot patrol in the early part of the twentieth century. Joanne Klein has plumbed previously unstudied archives of police departments in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool to offer a fascinating insider's view of the working-class men charged with protecting the citizens of these rapidly growing cities during a period of great change in both the life of the city and the nature of police methods and training. "This is an excellent book. It is well-written and extremely interesting, filling a gap in a historical literature which is dominated by official and institutional perspectives, by illuminating the daily and working lives of constables."-Lucinda McCray Beier, Appalachian State University

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