Gall: 149 books

This volume contains two lives of Charles the Great, or Charlemagne (for both forms of the name will be used indifferently in this introduction); both written within a century after his death; both full of admiration for the hero of whom they treat; both written by ecclesiastics; but resembling one...

In 1877, when Russia attacks the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdülhamit II must fight a devastating war to preserve his ethnically diverse territories that stretch across three continents. At home, he feels threatened from within by Mithat Pasha, a respected reformer, who has popular support for a constitution...

An icon in the Art Nouveau movement, Émile Gallé (1846-1904) sought to portray the beauty and simplicity of nature in his glass art. His designs, referred to as “poetry in glass”, range from fine pottery to jewellery to furniture. Everything Gallé produced contains traces of his masterful technique...

This book is an account of Sandy Gall's last trip to Afghanistan in 1986 to report the war. It tells of his journey, with all its hardships and dangers, as well as explaining the background to the war including some dramatic pictures of the fighting. Sandy Gall chose to revisit the man he regards...

Une icône dans le mouvement Art Nouveau, Émile Gallé (1846-1904) a cherché à montrer la beauté et la simplicité de la nature dans ses oeuvres en verre. Ses créations, appelées « Poésie de verre », vont de la poterie, aux bijoux et au mobilier. Tout ce que Gallé a produit contient une...

La Condition humaine et L’Espoir d’André Malraux sont deux grands romans du XXe siècle, centrés, au-delà de l’arrière-plan historique (le début de la Révolution chinoise pour l’un, la guerre civile d’Espagne pour l’autre), sur le thème de la lutte tragique de l’homme contre son...

A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times). Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed...

The Zulu Army of Birimigham City occupies a unique place in the annals of terrace violence: Britain's biggest multi-racial football firm. BBC Journalist Caroline Gall was granted unprecedented access to the gang and spent a year interviewing Zulu leaders and footsoldiers. She traces how they...

International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property. The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the establishment of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and...

There are many Tarot decks. However, there is only one Tarot de Marseille. Tarot de Marseille is not a Tarot among many others. IT IS THE ORIGINAL TAROT, coming from very far in the past, with a strong message of ancient wisdoms. If you want to discover the true Tarot de Marseille, this book is for...

Dossier : De quoi Fillon est-il le nom ? → François Fillon, l’homme des trois droites par Franz-Olivier Giesbert Franz-Olivier Giesbert retrace le parcours politique de François Fillon, homme à la fois libéral et conservateur. Il synthétise pour lui les trois droites : légitimiste,...

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), eine Ikone des französischen Jugendstils, versuchte die Schönheit und Einfachheit der Natur in seinen Glasarbeiten festzuhalten. Dabei schuf er Kunstwerke, die auch als „Poesie in Glas“ bezeichnet werden und von der innovativen Kraft seiner Arbeit als Künstler und...

Chris Gall's vibrant artwork with dynamic comic book aesthetic will grab both parents and monster-loving kids! Includes Read Aloud/Read to Me feature where available. The troublemaking students of Ms. Jenkins' class arrive at school one day to discover a substitute creacher has come...

Paris, 1975; Chelsea, 1984; Birmingham, 1985; Bradford, 1986; Bournemouth, 1990. Many of the most shocking incidents in British football history have involved the hooligan followers of one club: Leeds United. For 40 years they have run riot across the country, punching their way to international notoriety,...