English Fairy Tales, Jacobs

Автор: Jacobs J
Название: Irish Fairy Tales
ISBN: 1840224347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781840224344
Издательство: Wordsworth
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Описание: The Celtic roots of Irish folklore are enriched with Nordic legend and colour. Here gathered in this collection are tales of giants and warriors, of old hags and fair maidens, and of the boyhood of the great hero Fionn Mac Uail (Finn MacCool).

Автор: Jacobs, A.j.
Название: Year of living biblically
ISBN: 0099509792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099509790
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history`s most influential book with new eyes.

Автор: Jacobs Kate
Название: Friday night knitting club
ISBN: 0340933844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340933848
Издательство: Hodder
Цена: 6060.00 T
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Автор: Anna Jacobs
Название: Beyond the sunset
ISBN: 0340954086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340954089
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Set in Lancashire and Western Australia in the 1860s, Anna Jacobs` entrancing new saga follows the fortunes of the family that first appeared in FAREWELL TO LANCASHIRE

Автор: Jacobs Diane
Название: Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
ISBN: 0345465067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345465061
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 17170.00 T
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Описание: For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.

"Never sisters loved each other better than we."--Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776

Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife, Abigail. But few know of the equally strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody, accomplished women in their own right. Now acclaimed biographer Diane Jacobs reveals their moving story, which unfolds against the stunning backdrop of America in its transformative colonial years.

Abigail, Mary, and Elizabeth Smith grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the close-knit daughters of a minister and his wife. When the sisters moved away from one another, they relied on near-constant letters--from what John Adams called their "elegant pen"--to buoy them through pregnancies, illnesses, grief, political upheaval, and, for Abigail, life in the White House. Infusing her writing with rich historical perspective and detail, Jacobs offers fascinating insight into these progressive women's lives: oldest sister Mary, who became de facto mayor of her small village; youngest sister Betsy, an aspiring writer who, along with her husband, founded the second coeducational school in the United States; and middle child Abigail, who years before becoming First Lady ran the family farm while her husband served in the Continental Congress, first in Philadelphia, and was then sent to France and England, where she joined him at last.

This engaging narrative traces the sisters' lives from their childhood sibling rivalries to their eyewitness roles during the American Revolution and their adulthood as outspoken wives and mothers. They were women ahead of their time who believed in intellectual and educational equality between the sexes. Drawing from newly discovered correspondence, never-before-published diaries, and archival research, Dear Abigail is a fascinating front-row seat to history--and to the lives of three exceptional women who were influential during a time when our nation's democracy was just taking hold.

Advance praise for Dear Abigail

"In a beautifully wrought narrative, Diane Jacobs has brought the high-spirited, hyperarticulate Smith sisters, and the early years of the American republic, to rich, luminous life. . . . A stunning, sensitive work of history."--Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra

"Jacobs is a superb storyteller. In this sweeping narrative about family and friendship during the American Revolution, Abigail Adams emerges as one of the great political heroines of the eighteenth century. I fell in love with her all over again."--Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of A World on Fire

"Beauty, brains, and breeding--Elizabeth, Abigail, and Mary had them all. This absorbing history shows how these close-knit and well-educated daughters of colonial America become women of influence in the newly begotten United States. Jacobs's feel for the period is confident; so is her appreciation of the nuances of character."--Daniel Mark Epstein, author of The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage

Автор: Kate Jacobs
Название: Comfort food
ISBN: 034095325X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340953259
Издательство: Hodder
Цена: 6060.00 T
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Автор: Woolf, Virginia
Название: Jacob`S Room
ISBN: 1935554360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935554363
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: An important early experimental book in Virgina Woolf's cannon.

Автор: Jacobs Lynn F.
Название: Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptychs Reinterpreted
ISBN: 0271048409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271048406
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: A study of Netherlandish triptychs from the early fifteenth century through the early seventeenth century, covering works by Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Hieronymus Bosch, and Peter Paul Rubens. Explores how the triptych format structures and generates meaning.

Автор: Jacobs, Jane
Название: Death And Life Of Great American Cities
ISBN: 0712665838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780712665834
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The author of this study argues that the vitality of cities lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable.

Автор: Jacobs, Kate
Название: Comfort food
ISBN: 0340922206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340922200
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Spice up your life with the new novel from the author of THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB

Автор: Jacobs, Anna
Название: Farewell to Lancashire
ISBN: 034095406X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340954065
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Saga storytelling at its finest for all Catherine Cookson fans

Автор: A J Jacobs
Название: Drop Dead Healthy
ISBN: 0434020109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780434020102
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: "New York Times "bestselling author and king of "immersion journalism" A.J. Jacobs tackles his most challenging experiment yet: a yearlong mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind--from his brain to his fingertips to his abs.Having lifted his spirit in "The Year of Living Biblically" and sharpened his mind in "The Know-It-All," A.J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to become the healthiest man in the world. He doesn't just want to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far, far greater.

The task was massive. First, he had to tackle a complicated web of diet and exercise advice, most which is nonsensical, unproven, and contradictory. Second, he had to consult a team of medical advisers. And finally, he had to subject himself, over the course of two years, to a grueling regimen of exercises, a range of diets and nutritional plans, and a brutal array of techniques and practices to improve everything from his hearing to his sleep--all the while testing the patience of his long-suffering wife.

This latest book""bursts with hilarity and warmth, all the while testing our culture's assumptions and obsessions with what makes good health and allowing the reader to reflect on his or her own health, body, and eventual mortality.