Richard Tames Bücher

London um 1600: Richard Tames zeigt uns in diesem Zeitreiseführer, wie in der Hauptstadt von Großbritannien schon während der Renaissance das Leben pulsierte. Wir werden informiert über Anreise, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Küche - angereichert um Hintergründe aus Kultur und Geschichte. Neben Shakespeare lernen wir weitere berühmte Menschen der Zeit kennen, Ausflugtipps verhelfen zur Erholung vom Trubel der Themse-Stadt, ein Stadtplan erleichtert die Orientierung und ein farbiger Bildteil ergänzt die Informationen des Buches. Die mühelose Verständigung garantiert ein Sprachführer für Londoner Mundart. Eine faszinierende Zeitreise!

This volume describes a plethora of changes to daily life during the 20th century. It looks at how scientific and technological innovations, allied with changing attitudes, have helped reshape daily lives.

This book tells you all about the earliest civilizations. Although these early civilizations ended long ago, what they did still affects us today.

The book, first published in 2005, is part of the Routledge imprint under Taylor & Francis, focusing on academic and scholarly content. It provides insights into its subject matter, contributing to the field with research and analysis relevant to its themes.

A cultural and literary history of London, looking at the capital's development from Roman times to its modern-day role, as financial and tourist metropolis.

The famous son of a famous father, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest engineer in an era of engineering titans. He helped drive the first tunnel under a navigable river, built the first all iron ship, bridged the Tamar and Avon, constructed the first railway to run express services and launched the world's first true luxury liner - a vessel five times bigger than any previously attempted. Success was often bought at a high price - in money and men's lives. Brunel himself was nearly drowned in his father's Thames Tunnel. Over a hundred laborers were killed excavating Box Tunnel on the Great Western Railway. The Great Eastern bankrupted its backers. Brunel's experimental 'gaz engine' and atmospheric railway both proved costly failures. He died knowing only that the maiden voyage of the Great Eastern had ended in disaster and that the Clifton suspension bridge, his first major triumph was still uncompleted. In 2002 Brunel was voted second in a BBC poll of the ten greatest Britons of all time. This is his story.

Provides a narrative of the city and university, and a guide to visits within a short driving distance. This title features a variety of aspects ignored in other accounts - food and fashion, music and gardens, books and clubs, Cambridge contributions to poetry, theatre and sport, royal associations and links with the Arab world and China.