The Houses of Ireland: Domestic Architecture from the Medieval Castle to the Edwardian Villa

The houses of Ireland: Domestic architecture from the medieval castle to the Edwardian villa

De Breffny, Brian

Thames and Hudson

314 PLATES 58 IN COLOR,286 PAGES WITH INDEX.

A Concise History of Costume

Arts & Photography

LAVER, James

Fashion

The National Gallery of Canada

Boggs, Jean Sutherland

In "The Druids" Piggott first defines the limits of what can be known about any pre-literate people such as the Druids, and how it can be known. This is not, as so many other books on the topic turn out to be, a romantic description of an ancient people, but rather a history first of the archeological, then the contemporary historical, and finaly the historiographic records of the Druids, who they may have been, and what they may have been about.

The Druids

PIGGOTT, Stuart

1967. First Published in GB. 304 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Laminated jacket. Contains black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light marks to boards. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces.

The Dance Through The Ages

WALTER SORELL

The Children of the Dream

The children of the dream

Health, Fitness & Dieting

BETTELHEIM, BRUNO

Psychology & Counseling

What star is that?

Lancaster-Brown, Peter

150p hardback, dustjacket, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library

A complete descriptive guide to British monumental brasses

Le STRANGE, Richard

, 200 pages, with illustrations throughout, in both colour and black &amp; white, photographs by Susan Jellicoe, plans and maps by Gordon Patterson

The Gardens of Mughul India: A history and a guide,

History

Crowe, Sylvia

Haywood, Sheila

Asia

G. J. Whitrow (1912-2000) begins this classic exploration of the nature of time with a story about a Russian poet, visiting London before the First World War. The poet's English was not too good and when he asked a man in the street, 'Please, what is time?' he received the response, 'But that's a philosophical question. Why ask me?'. Starting from this simple anecdote, Professor Whitrow takes us on a good-humored and wide-ranging tour of the thing that clocks keep (more or less). He discusses how our ideas of time originated; how far they are inborn in plants and animals; how time has been measured, from sundial and hourglass to the caesium clock, and whether time possesses a beginning, a direction, and an end. He coaxes the diffident layman to contemplate with pleasure the differences between cyclic, linear, biological, cosmic, and space-time, and he provides frequent diversions into fascinating topics such as the Mayan calendar, the migration of birds, the dances of bees, precognition, and the short, crowded lives of mu-mesons, particles produced by cosmic-ray showers that exist for just two millionths of a second.This reissue of the classic and authoritative What is Time? includes a new introduction by Dr J. T. Fraser, founder of the International Society for the Study of Time, and a bibliographic essay by Dr Fraser and Professor M. P. Soulsby of the Pennsylvania State University.

What is time?

Science & Math

Whitrow, G. J.

Physics

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