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The Thames and Hudson dictionary of fashion and fashion designers / Georgina O'Hara Callan.
Published 2007Full text (Wentworth users only)
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The prehistory of Australia / [by] D.J. Mulvaney.
Published 1969“…Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) ;…”
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Finding time for the old Stone Age : a history of Palaeolithic archaeology and Quaternary geology in Britain, 1860-1960 / Anne OConnor.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Before the Stone Age existed -- Arguments over the Ice Age -- Ancient dwellers of the Thames Valley -- Riverdrift men and cave men -- Eoliths : an earlier phase of the Stone Age? …”
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Understanding the Neolithic / Julian Thomas.
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface to the second edition; AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE; BEYOND THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM; READING MONUMENTS; PITS, POTS AND DIRT: A GENEALOGY OF DEPOSITIONAL PRACTICES; PORTABLE ARTEFACTS: THE CASE OF POTTERY; MORTUARY PRACTICE; REGIONAL SEQUENCES: THE STONEHENGE AREA; REGIONAL SEQUENCES: THE UPPER THAMES VALLEY; REGIONAL SEQUENCES: THE AVEBURY DISTRICT; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The Ice Age by Jürgen Ehlers.
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…-- Ice in the ground - the formation of the periglacial regions -- Hippos on the Thames - the history of the warm periods -- Sequence of deglaciation -- Wind, sand and stones - the aeolian processes -- What happened to the rivers? …”
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Waterborne pageants and festivities in the Renaissance : essays in honour of J.R. Mulryne / edited by Margaret Shewring ; Linda Briggs, assistant editor.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…7 Water Policy and Water Festivals: the Case of Pisa Under Ferdinando de' Medici (1588-1609)8 Arbitrary Reality: Fact and Fantasy in the Florentine Naumachia, 1589; 9 Lepanto Revisited: Water-fights and the Turkish Threat in Early Modern Europe (1571-1656); 10 Mary, Queen of Scots' Aquatic Entertainments for the Wedding of John Fleming, Fifth Lord Fleming to Elizabeth Ross, May 1562; 11 Looking Again at Elvetham: An Elizabethan Entertainment Revisited; 12 The Ice Festival in Florence, 1604; 13 The Thames en Fête; 14 Royal River: The Watermen's Company and Pageantry on the Thames…”
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Rivers lost, rivers regained : rethinking city-river relations / edited by Martin Knoll, Uwe Lübken, and Dieter Schott.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Rivers, industrial cities, and hinterland production in Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Stéphane Castonguay -- The Seine as a Parisian river : its imprint, its ascendancy and its mutual dependencies in the eighteenth through the twentieth century / Sabine Barles -- Watershed democracy or ecological hinterland? : London and the Thames River Basin, 1857-1989 / Vanessa Taylor -- Part II. …”
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Landscapes and Landforms of England and Wales edited by Andrew Goudie, Piotr Migoń.
Published 2020Table of Contents: “….– granite geomorphology -- 17 Karst of Mendip Hills -- 18 The Cotswolds -- 19 Geomorphology of London -- terraces of the Thames -- 20 Periglacial heritage of East Anglia -- 21 The soft coast of Norfolk -- 22 The Fens -- 23 Peak District -- 24 Mam Tor and other landslides of the Dark Peak -- 25 Lake District -- 26 Limestone pavements and other karst features of the Yorkshire Dales -- 27 Brimham Rocks -- 28 The Whin Sill, Dolerite dykes and Hadrian’s Wall -- 29 Gower Peninsula -- 30 Brecon Beacons -- 31 Glacial landforms of Snowdonia -- 32 Geomorphological conservation and management -- Index.…”
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Rivers of Britain : Estuaries, tideways, havens, lochs, firths and kyles.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…36 River Forth37 River Tyne; 38 River Hull; 39 River Ouse (Humber); 40 River Trent; 41 River Nene; 42 New Bedford River; 43 River Bure; 44 River Yare; 45 River Waveney; 46 River Alde; 47 River Deben; 48 River Orwell; 49 River Stour; 50 River Colne; 51 River Blackwater; 52 River Crouch; 53 River Roach; 54 River Thames; 55 River Medway; 56 River Great Stour; 57 River Ouse (East Sussex); 58 River Adur; 59 River Arun; 60 Chichester Channel; 61 Portsmouth Harbour; 62 Southampton Water; 63 Poole Harbour; 64 The Fleet; 65 River Exe; 66 River Dart; 67 River Tamar; 68 Lynher River; 69 River Fowey.…”
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Blood of the Celts : the new ancestral story / Jean Manco.
Published 2015Full text (Wentworth users only)
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The atlas of disappearing places : our coasts and oceans in the climate crisis / Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros ; maps and illustrations by Christina Conklin.
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Shanghai, China : sink, sank, sunk ; Hampton Roads, Virginia : bye, bye, birdies ; Ben Tre, Vietnam : doing more with less ; The Thames Estuary, Britain : from Gravesend to Allhallows ; Ise, Japan : tradition for the future -- What's next? …”
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Sailing around the UK and Ireland / Roger Oliver.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Cruising the Irish west coast: Dingle to InishbofinNorth-west Ireland: Inishbofin to Portrush; On to Scotland: Portrush to Tobermory; North-west Scotland: Tobermory to Loch Inver; Rounding Cape Wrath: Loch Inver to Stromness; Cruising the Orkneys: Stromness to Stonehaven; Down the north-east coast: Stonehaven to Whitby; Gales on the east coast: Whitby to Felixstowe; The Thames Estuary and the Goodwin Sands: Felixstowe to Dover; Homeward bound: Dover to Portsmouth; Up the Irish Sea: Milford Haven to Gigha, Scotland; Appendix The east coast of Ireland to the Outer Hebrides; Index; A; B; C; D; E.…”
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A Hat a Kayak and Dreams of Dar.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Intro; Dedication; Contents; List of maps; Preface; Thanks; Prologue; Chapter 1; A hat on the hippie trail; Chapter 2; How to escape without a passport; Chapter 3; A kayak called Amandla; Chapter 4; A shambolic departure from Chiswick; Chapter 5; Sand, mud & the Thames estuary; Chapter 6; Fog, a tidal surge & a nudist colony; Chapter 7; Incognito into the French canal system; Chapter 8; In the wake of Robert Louis Stevenson; Chapter 9; An anniversary dinner to remember; Chapter 10; Aqueducts & terror on the Rhône; Chapter 11; Avignon, a water rat & rosé; Chapter 12.…”
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East sails West : the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 / Stephen Davies.
Published 2014Full text (Wentworth users only)
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