Search Results: Titles starting with M from Emily Green Books

Vintage, 2000 Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes - everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into space by those stars' cataclysmic explosions and deaths. From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in the universe - the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale, against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold, brightness and darkness, space and time. But how did we discover the astonishing truth about our cosmic origins THE MAGIC FURNACE is Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life. It is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret… Read More

Watson-guptill Publications, 1978 An introduction to sharp focus realism demonstrates and explains the techniques for creating transparent, opaque, and acrylic watercolor paintings that focus the viewer's attention on the most minute detail of a subject. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Picador, 2009 From the acclaimed Booker Prizewinning author of Last Orders, this highly personal book is a singular and open-spirited account of a writers life. In Making an Elephant, Swift brings together richly varied essays, portraits, poetry and interviews, full of insights into his passions and motivations, and wise about the friends, family and other writers who have mattered to him over the years. Kazuo Ishiguro advises on how to choose a guitar, Salman Rushdie arrives for Christmas under guard, and Ted Hughes shares the secrets of a Devon river. There are private moments, too, with long-dead writers, as well as musings on history and memory that readers of Swifts novels will recognize and love. Making an Elephant is a book of encounters: between a son and his father, between an author and his younger selves, between writer and reader, and between friends. It brims with charm and candour, and reveals Swifts alertness to experience and his true engagement with words.. Hardcover. Very Good.

The Folio Society, 1980 Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Sceptre, 2012 About the book: On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christopher Marlowe reveals the truth: that his 'death' was an elaborate ruse to avoid being convicted of heresy; that he was spirited across the Channel to live on in lonely exile; that he continued to write plays and poetry, hiding behind the name of a colourless man from Stratford - one William Shakespeare. With the grip of a thriller and the emotional force of a sonnet, this remarkable novel in verse gives voice to a man who was brilliant, passionate and mercurial. A cobbler's son who counted nobles among his friends, a spy in the Queen's service, a fickle lover and a declared religious sceptic, he was always courting trouble. Memoir, love letter, confession, settling of accounts and a cry for recognition as the creator of some of the most sublime works in the English language, The Marlowe Papers brings Christopher… Read More

Doubleday, 2010 Hardcover. As New.

Jonathan Cape, 2011 Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that his marriage to Anne was annulled. It is not hard to see how this tangled web of relationships has given rise to rumours and misconceptions that have been embroidered over the centuries. In this, the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject and uncovers the facts about one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age. Her extensive, forensic research has facilitated a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore or the 'hackney' whom the King of France famously boasted of riding.… Read More

Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1987 Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Hilger & Watts Ltd, 1958 This book is in great condition, but has a previous owner sticker inside as this book was presented as a gift to them. See details in the photos.. Hardcover. Fine/Good.

The Folio Society, 1999 Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Adamant Media Corporation, 2005 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1867 edition by Andrews and Co.; etc., Durham.. Soft cover. Fine.

Faber and Faber, 2009 Soft cover. As New.

Routledge, 1993 How did ordinary people, caught up in the violent political and social dislocation of the English Revolution, perceive it? This book attempts an answer through a close study of some 500 newsbooks and pulp publications produced from 1640 to 1660. Like "The Great Cat Massacre" and "The Cheese and the Worms", this work enters the world of enchanted belief, superstition, folk religion and magic. Friedman investigates why Englishmen outside Parliamentary circles were only incidentally concerned with the political, economic and religious questions that have so preoccupied scholars of the period, and why instead, the bestselling issues concerned witches, prodigies, apparitions, divine curses, the re-admittance of Jews to England and an obsession with converting the Turks to Christianity. For the great majority of people the period seems to have caused an upswelling of credulous superstition and bizarre prophecy, rather than the radicalization often assumed. A picture… Read More

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1992 Soft cover. As New.

MIT Press, 1991 Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This new collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architecture. In the first four essays Colquhoun carefully examines some of the concepts classicism, romanticism, historicism, and rationalism that have prevailed in architectural discourse during the past two centuries. He observes that all theories of architecture have in fact developed within the context of the changing meaning of history and continue to do so: "even today, the positions taken up by the various protagonists of the present architectural debate are based, explicitly or implicitly, on assumptions about the role of history in the formation of modern cultural values." Colquhoun then… Read More

Atlantic Books, 2012 About the book: During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Over the next year he underwent the brutal gamut of modern cancer treatment, enduring catastrophic levels of suffering and eventually losing the ability to speak. Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New.

Folio Society, 1977 Hardcover. Fine.

Vermilion, 2008 A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve.Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. In 1960, he writes, I was given a transorbital, or ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some tests.' It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars. Fellow doctors called Freeman's technique barbaric: an ice pick like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15 percent of the operations Freeman performed) killed… Read More