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  • Under the Spell of Mathematics
    Rik Verhulst / Dirk Van Hemeldonck / Glyn Hughes
    This book, which is aimed at general readers interested in maths as well as professional mathematicians, addresses numerous aspects of this spell-binding science. In particular, the book shows how mathematics is structured and how it works. Practical examples are discussed as well as the general role of maths in culture and art, in nature and in everyday life. The topics covere...
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    66,68 €

  • The Very Surprising History of Fish and Chips
    Glyn Hughes
    It’s entirely about Fish and Chips. In the course of which it’s also about the Bar-Kokhba revolt of 136AD, the potato-related causes of the French Revolution, a Durham coal-owner’s predilection for Hannahs, the British Camel Corps, the Grímsvötn Volcano, George Washington, the fighting Belgian of Dundee and the execution of Queen Elizabeth’s doctor. You will not be bored. ...
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    14,65 €

  • The Big Book of Brexit
    Glyn Hughes
    Europe eh? Curved bananas made illegal!11 inch pizzas banned!Acres outlawed!Ambulances turn yellow for Europe!Army’s gun salute banned as too noisy!Bagpipes to be made illegal!Brandy Butter Banned!British lav to be replaced with Euro-loo! British rhubarb to be straight! Brussels threatens walnuts! Carved horns to be banned! Chocolate to be ’vegelate’!... these important observa...
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    28,15 €

  • The Lost Foods of England
    Glyn Hughes
    English food as it once was.The foods we’ve lost and forgot,with more than one thousand original receipts to make them ...
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    36,73 €

  • Squashed Philosophers
    Glyn Hughes
    45 Classics of Philosophy, in their own words, abridged into readable little epitomes. Including: The Ancient Greeks, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Aristotle, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, St Augustine, Severinus Boethius, Thomas More, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Isaac Newton, John Locke, G...
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    34,52 €

  • The Hundred Books
    Glyn Hughes
    There’s a set of books which you’re just supposed to know about, at least if you live in The West and fancy the idea of being thought ’educated’. There’s the Bible, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Walter Scott and Machiavelli. Dr Jekyll, Tiny Tim, Starbuck, Socrates, Mr. Scrooge, Raskolnikov, Einstein and Enkidu. The Brontes and Boswell, Wordsworth, Newton Confucius and Don Quixote.H...
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    45,74 €

  • The Lost Feast of Christmas
    Glyn Hughes
    Food historian Glyn Hughes rediscovers the Old English Christmas, and the Older English Yule. Here are Kings and Puritans, Yule Babies, Christmas Pottage, Queen Victoria's mincemeat recipe, Christmas Cheese and Salmagundi. Here is Durham Fluffin, Pepper Cake, the shape for mince pies and nearly one hundred actual, original, dishes gleaned from from half-a-thousand years of Eng...
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    14,49 €

  • The Forme of Cury
    Glyn Hughes
    Receipts from the Master Cooks of King Richard II, rendered into Modern English by Glyn Hughes.Not only lasagna, macaroni, bacon and beans, rice pudding and scrambled eggs on toast, but also porpoise, fake hedgehogs, deer broth and novelty edible flower-pots.In this, the first new edition since 1780, food historian Glyn Hughes has made this ’first English cookbook’ sufficiently...
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    14,71 €