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Messiah: The Landmark Library by Jonathan Keates
39.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
29.99 AUD
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
45.00 AUD
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents, acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Sinfonia Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony (Beethoven's Third Symphony) by James Hamilton-Paterson
39.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
34.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more
Stonehenge by Francis Pryor
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A concise, beautifully illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose - place of worship, sacr ...Show more
The Arab Conquests: The spread of Islam and the first caliphates by Justin Marozzi
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he h ...Show more
The British Museum - Storehouse of Civilizations by James Hamilton
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Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
A concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linn ...Show more
The French Revolution by David Andress
26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and the demand for liberty, equality and fraternity central to modern politics. In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it ...Show more
The French Revolution by David Andress
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In this miraculously compressed, incisive book David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefitted far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has domi ...Show more
The Rite of Spring by Gillian Moore
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, rece ...Show more