Victorian Magic, Lamb

Автор: Lawrence, Sandra Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Название: Kew - the magic of mushrooms
ISBN: 1787399060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787399068
Издательство: Carlton Books
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Описание: Featuring images of over 100 species, this book explains the folklore, science and occult of fungi, showing that from saving lives to expanding the mind, the potential of these fascinating organisms should not be underestimated.

Автор: Caveney Mike, Steinmeyer Jim
Название: The Magic Book mini
ISBN: 3836574160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836574167
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: Art of Enchantment
The world's greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950
Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility--whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by sleight of hand. Long before science fiction, virtual realities, video games, and the internet, the craft of magic was the most powerful fantasy world man had ever known. As the pioneers of special effects throughout history, magicians have never ceased to mystify us by making the impossible possible.

This book celebrates more than 500 years of the stunning visual culture of the world's greatest magicians. Featuring more than 850 rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings as well as paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Caravaggio among others, The Magic Book traces the history of magic as a performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s. Combining sensational images with incisive text, the book explores the evolution of the magician's craft, from medieval street performers to the brilliant stage magicians who gave rise to cinematic special effects; from the 19th century's Golden Age of Magic to groundbreaking daredevils like Houdini and the early 20th century's vaudevillians.

Автор: Paterson, Michael
Название: Brief history of life in victorian britain
ISBN: 1845297075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845297077
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of paradoxes.

Автор: Davies Owen
Название: Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
ISBN: 019960844X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199608447
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The 4000-year story of witchcraft and magic - from the ancient world to Harry Potter... and beyond...

Автор: Rodrick
Название: Self-Help and Civic Culture
ISBN: 0815396961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815396963
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 2004. Focusing on the city of Birmingham, and drawing on both local and national sources, Self Help and Civic Culture explores the changing nature of self improvement and citizenship in Victorian Britain.

Автор: Olmsted
Название: Victorian Painting
ISBN: 1138366625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138366626
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1983. This anthology of sixty-nine essays drawn from fourteen different journals was assembled in order to reproduce in convenient form some of the more important articles on British painting published from 1849 to 1860 in Great Britain.

Автор: Ward
Название: Victorian Oxford
ISBN: 1138657913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138657915
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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First published in 1965, this book explores Oxford in the Victorian period, providing accounts of the development in the constitutional organisation of the city and the political standing and the studies of the university. Employing a wide range of original material, this work paints a detailed and fascinating picture of nineteenth century Oxford.

Автор: Phillips
Название: Victorians at Home and Away
ISBN: 1138194840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138194847
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor, the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall of home entertainment, the growth of soccer, racing and cricket to national sports, the rise of public schools and new professions as well as the appeal of missionary work. It is argued that all this happened not because the Victorians were fools, hypocrites or villains, but because they sensibly adapted themselves to peculiar and novel circumstances. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Автор: Jackson
Название: A Victorian Childhood
ISBN: 1138641723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138641723
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1932. This title is a first-person account of growing up in Victorian England. The book examines many aspects of the British Empire, and the family life and education of the poet, writer and high society hostess Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff. A Victorian Childhood will be of interest to students of history.

Автор: Millstein
Название: Victorian Secrecy
ISBN: 1138250546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138250543
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with respect to a broad range of subjects, including the narrator in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John Henry Newman's autobiographical novel Loss and Gain, Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, modes of detection in Bleak House, the secret history of Harriet Martineau's role in the repeal of the Corn Law, and Victorian stage magicians. Taken together, the essays provide a richly textured account of which modes of hiding and revealing articulate secrets in Victorian literature and culture; how social relations are formed and reformed in relationship to secrecy; and what was at stake individually, aesthetically, and culturally in the Victorians' clandestine activities.

Автор: Owen, Davies
Название: Murder, Magic, Madness
ISBN: 1138407976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138407978
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In 1856, William Dove poisoned his wife, was tried and executed. Believing a fortune teller`s prediction that he would remarry a more attractive and richer woman, he made a pact with the devil, hired men to perform magic, and then murdered his wife. This book is a study on nineteenth century magic, murder and madness.

Автор: Owen Davies
Название: Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard
ISBN: 0582894131 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780582894136
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In 1856, William Dove poisoned his wife, was tried and executed. Believing a fortune teller`s prediction that he would remarry a more attractive and richer woman, he made a pact with the devil, hired men to perform magic, and then murdered his wife. This book is a study on nineteenth century magic, murder and madness.