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Ada Lovelace The Making of a Computer Scientist
ISBN: HB: 9781851244881, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2018
128 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.
Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron and his highly educated wife, Anne Isabella, is sometimes called the world's first computer programmer and has become an icon for women in technology. But how did a young wom...
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£20,00
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Revolution! Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
ISBN: PB: 9781851244706, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2017
112 pp., 19x17 cm, 50 colour illus.
"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement". Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used...
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£9,99
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Wilfred Owen An Illustrated Life
ISBN: HB: 9781851243945, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
144 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 60 colour illus.
Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime...
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Roy Strong Self-Portrait as a Young Man
ISBN: HB: 9781851242825, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2013
296 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 48 black&white illus.
These are the memoirs of a cultural icon. Here, told for the first time, is the story of the formative years of Sir Roy Strong, "a young man from nowhere who went somewhere". For nearly half a century, Roy Strong has been at the forefront of the ar...
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£25,00
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Curious World of Dickens
ISBN: HB: 9781851243846, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2012
112 pp., 19x19 cm, 95 colour illus.
Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter expl...
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Titanic Calling Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
ISBN: HB: 9781851243778, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2012
192 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
With complete transcripts of the distress messages, "Titanic Calling" vividly brings to life the voices of the individuals in this drama, retelling the legendary story as it was first heard. The narrative begins with warnings of ice, including sever...
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Shelley's Ghost Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
ISBN: PB: 9781851243396, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 83 colour illus.
Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle way by the selective release of literary manuscripts...
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£19,99
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Englishwoman in California The Letters of Catherine Hubback, 1871-1876
ISBN: HB: 9781851243440, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to California on the Transcontinental Railroad and settled in Oakland, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay...
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John Fuller and the Sycamore Press A Bibliographic History
ISBN: HB: 9781851243235, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to publishing established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, t...
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£29,99
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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford Ms Bodley 13a, a Facsimile with Introduction and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851243150, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2006
112 pp., 25x17.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
Among the many gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth during her week-long visit to Oxford in the summer of 1566, none is more remarkable than this manuscript history of the University illustrated with exceptionally fine drawings of its buildings. Though...
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