“christopher lloyd”

In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella, how the Earth’s collision with another young... More

Christopher Lloyd shares a lifetime of experience growing and studying perennials. In an A-Z encyclopedia of plants, readers learn about flower and foliage, scent and color, size and shape, soil and cultivation, and much more. Full color.Christopher Lloyd knows perennials as well as anyone else aliv... More

In "The Structures of History" Christopher Lloyd questions whether narration on its own can provide a real understanding of history, and addresses in philosophical and practical terms the fundamental problems of whether it is possible to know and to explain the history of human societies, and if so ... More

The series has always been highly regarded for its insight and authority, providing an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each volume contains an introductory essay, forty-eight full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illust... More

This marvellously illustrated book charts the evolution of his painting, and celebrates his compositional brilliance, technical skill and innovatory approach.The series has always been highly regarded for its insight and authority, providing an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in... More

MEET JACKDadness. Women have a sixth sense for it. To them, you're like an old bull in a field at the side of the motorway, harmlessly chewing the cud, watching the world race by, nothing like the wild buffalo stock from which you came. And that's how it should be, of course, after seven years of ma... More

Set during the dawn of the twenty-first century, "The March is the story of Justin Jaeger, a man who inspired a nation with the promise of brilliant leadership into the new millennia.Set during the dawn of the twenty-first century, "The March is the story of Justin Jaeger, a man who inspired a natio... More

Shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807.Shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807.... More

This book is about how people behaved during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, and more specifically about how individuals from different social and political backgrounds recorded and reflected on their experiences during and after these tragic events. The book focuses on ... More

A gorgeously illustrated and wholly comprehensive timeline of the Earth's entire history, "What on Earth Happened?" covers how everything--from the mountains and flowers to the Iraq war and the oil under the Arctic--is all wonderfully, complexly interconnected.A gorgeously illustrated and wholly com... More