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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch
off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the
engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape and
copper wire? The 1920s heralded the age of motoring with the
arrival of the 'affordable' Austin Seven and the increasing
popularity of Morris Motors in Britain. Yet the first edition of
the Highway Code would not appear for another decade and the rules
of the road were rudimentary to say the least. This charming and
practical guide provides enduring advice to novice motorists on how
to cope with such hazards as skidding, headlight dazzle and sheep
on the road, much of which is still instructive on today's car
journeys. Many of the author's observations will strike a chord
with the modern driver: 'When driving, look on all other drivers as
fools...'. Others evoke the style and etiquette of a glamorous
bygone era: 'A good chauffeur... will save his employer a great
deal of expense'; 'an average speed of twenty miles per hour...
allows you and your passengers to see something of the
countryside'. Covering such topics as unscrupulous second-hand car
dealers, women drivers and 'dashboard delights', this little book
provides all the information needed to get maximum enjoyment out of
the open road, complete with leisurely picnics and a little light
motor-car maintenance.
When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the
end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the
local population with a sense of euphoria. However, the French soon
began to resent the Americans for their display of wealth and
brashness, while the US soldiers found the French and their habits
irritating and incomprehensible. To bridge the cultural divide, the
American generals came up with an innovative solution. They
commissioned a surprisingly candid book which collated the GIs'
'gripes' and reproduced them with answers aimed at promoting
understanding of the French and their country. The 'gripes' reveal
much about American preconceptions: 'The French drink too much',
'French women are immoral', 'The French drive like lunatics ', 'The
French don't bathe', 'The French aren't friendly' are just some of
the many complaints. Putting the record straight, the answers cover
topics as diverse as night-clubs, fashion, agriculture and
sanitation. They also offer an unusual insight into the reality of
daily life immediately after the war, evoking the shortage of food
and supplies, the acute poverty and the scale of the casualties and
destruction suffered by France during six years of conflict.
Illustrated with delightfully evocative cartoons and written in a
direct, colloquial style, this gem from 1945 is by turns amusing,
shocking and thought-provoking in its valiant stand against
prejudice and stereotype.
'Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary
movement.' Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik
Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the
power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used
his words to launch a soaring critique of imperialist society and
to theorize the development of the world's first socialist state.
Much of his writing was translated into English in order to further
the Socialist cause. This book is a compilation of some of Lenin's
most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and
recorded conversations. They expose his views on topics ranging
from democracy to terrorism, from religion to Stalin's
untrustworthiness and from education to music. Accompanied by a
range of arresting images, including contemporary propaganda
posters, photographs, portraits, illustrations and Soviet art,
these aphoristic proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere
of pre- and post-Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the
twentieth century's most defining political figures.
"I have decided to prepare for, and if necessary to carry out, an
invasion against England."--Adolph Hitler, July 16, 1940
Operation Sealion was the codename for the Nazi invasion of Britain
that Hitler ordered his generals to plan after France fell in June
1940. Although the plan ultimately never came to fruition, a few
sets of the Germans' detailed strategy documents are housed in the
rare book rooms of libraries across Europe. But now the Bodleian
Library has made documents from their set available for all to
peruse in this unprecedented collection of the invasion planning
materials.
The planned operation would have involved landing 160,000 German
soldiers along a forty-mile stretch of coast in southeast England.
Packets of reconnaissance materials were put together for the
invading forces, and the most intriguing parts are now reproduced
here. Each soldier was to be given maps and geographical
descriptions of the British Isles that broke down the country by
regions, aerial photographs pinpointing strategic targets, an
extensive listing of British roads and rivers, strategic plans for
launching attacks on each region, an English dictionary and phrase
book, and even a brief description of Britain's social composition.
Augmenting the fascinating documents is an informative introduction
that sets the materials in their historical and political context.
A must-have for every military history buff, "German Invasion Plans
for the British Isles, 1940" is a remarkable revelation of the
inner workings of Hitler's most famous unrealized military
campaign.
Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat-trips down the river
Thames in Oxford, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has become one
of the most famous and influential works of children’s literature
of all time. It is hard to imagine Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland without picturing the illustrations made by Sir John
Tenniel for the first edition of the story. Sir John Tenniel
(1820–1914) was the principal satirical cartoonist for Punch
magazine for over fifty years and much in demand as an illustrator
in Victorian Britain. At Lewis Carroll’s request, he illustrated
the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published
by Macmillan in 1865. In 1889, he made coloured versions of the
drawings for The Nursery Alice, an adaptation of the story created
especially for 0-5 year-olds. Ten years later, Gertrude E. Thompson
modified Tenniel’s illustrations for a card entitled ‘The New
and Diverting Game of Alice in Wonderland’. These unforgettable
illustrations, including the Mad Hatter, the Mock Turtle and the
Queen of Hearts, among many others, are featured in these special
journals. Beautifully produced in hardback with lined paper,
coloured page edges, ribbon marker and printed endpapers, this
Alice in Wonderland journal is the perfect gift for Wonderland
fans.
The Bodleian Library's exciting new range of journals showcases
gorgeous illustrations from our collections on the covers. Designed
to be easily portable or to fit in a small bag, each hard cover
journal is 207 x 140mm, with 160 lined pages of high quality paper.
Every journal is finished with a sturdy elastic band closure,
ribbon marker and elastic pen holder. An expanding wallet for
storing papers is also included on the inside back cover. Produced
to a high standard with careful attention to finishing and details,
they make the perfect gift for all writers and stationery lovers.
"Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the
rooms as ornaments."
" "
"Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may
catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him."
Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power
struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Men and women have long
struggled to figure each other out--and the misunderstandings can
continue well after they've been joined in matrimony. But long
before "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," couples turned to
self-help booklets such as "How to Be a Good" "Husband "and "How to
Be a Good Wife," two historic advice books that are now
delightfully reproduced by the Bodleian Library.
The books, originally published in the 1930s for middle-class
British couples, are filled with witty and charming aphorisms on
how wives and husbands should treat each other. Some advice is
unquestionably outdated--"It is a wife's duty to look her best. If
you don't tidy yourself up, don't be surprised if your husband
begins to compare you unfavorably with the typist at the
office"--but many other pieces of advice are wholly applicable
today. They include such insightful sayings as: "Don't tell your
wife terminological inexactitudes, which are, in plain English,
lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor
departures from the truth"; "After all is said and done, husbands
are not terribly difficult to manage"; or "Don't squeeze the tube
of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom. This is one
of the small things of life that always irritates a careful
wife."
Entertaining and charmingly illustrated, "How to Be a Good Husband"
and "How to Be a Good Wife"offer enduringly useful advice for all
couples, from the newly engaged to those celebrating their golden
anniversary.
"Don't be too ready to listen to stories told by attractive women.
They may be acting under orders." This was only one of the many
warnings given to the 30,000 British troops preparing to land in
the enemy territory of Nazi Germany nine-and-a-half months after
D-Day. The newest addition to the Bodleian Library's bestselling
series of wartime pamphlets, "Instructions for British Servicemen
in Germany, 1944" opens an intriguing window into the politics and
military stratagems that brought about the end of World War
II.
The pamphlet is both a succinct survey of German politics, culture,
and history and a work of British propaganda. Not only does the
pamphlet cover general cultural topics such as food and drink,
currency, and social customs, but it also explains the effect of
years of the war on Germans and their attitudes toward the British.
The book admonishes, "The Germans are not good at controlling their
feelings. They have a streak of hysteria. You will find that
Germans may often fly into a passion if some little thing goes
wrong." The mix of humor and crude stereotypes--"If you have to
give orders to German civilians, give them in a firm, military
manner. The German civilian is used to it and expects it"--in the
text make this pamphlet a stark reminder of the wartime fears and
hopes of the British.
By turns a manual on psychological warfare, a travel guide, and a
historical survey, "Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany,
1944" offers incomparable insights into how the British, and by
extension the Allied forces, viewed their fiercest enemy on the eve
of its defeat.
In 1934 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott began work on designs for a
substantial new library building opposite the Old Bodleian Library
site in Broad Street, Oxford in order to provide much-needed space
for the growing numbers of books housed in the library and the
number of readers using them. Opened in 1946 (having been delayed
by the Second World War), for seventy years the New Bodleian served
the academic community and readers visiting Oxford, housing 3.5
million items. Scott's innovative designs meant that the New
Bodleian became a Grade II-listed building in 2003. In 2009, thanks
to a generous bequest from the Garfield Weston Foundation, plans
got underway for a complete refurbishment of the building to meet
the needs of twenty-first-century research and the Bodleian's
expanding collections. The architects Wilkinson Eyre were appointed
to develop the project adapting the Grade II listed building for
its new use as a special collections library while keeping the
facade intact. Their brief was to redesign reading rooms for the
consultation of rare books, manuscripts, archives, music and maps,
provide new research facilities (including support for digital
scholarship), new teaching facilities, improved conservation
laboratories, state-of-the-art storage for Bodleian Libraries'
valuable special collections and enhanced public access through a
new entrance hall and exhibition space. This book tells the story
of how the vision for the Weston Library was realized. Like the
project itself, it represents a collaboration between clients and
consultants as they place the project in context, describing in
detail the many architectural, academic, curatorial and heritage
issues addressed throughout the process, and the challenges of
meeting the needs of an internationally renowned,
four-hundred-year-old institution in the twenty-first century.
"Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the
rooms as ornaments."
" "
"Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may
catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him."
Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power
struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Men and women have long
struggled to figure each other out--and the misunderstandings can
continue well after they've been joined in matrimony. But long
before "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," couples turned to
self-help booklets such as "How to Be a Good" "Husband "and "How to
Be a Good Wife," two historic advice books that are now
delightfully reproduced by the Bodleian Library.
The books, originally published in the 1930s for middle-class
British couples, are filled with witty and charming aphorisms on
how wives and husbands should treat each other. Some advice is
unquestionably outdated--"It is a wife's duty to look her best. If
you don't tidy yourself up, don't be surprised if your husband
begins to compare you unfavorably with the typist at the
office"--but many other pieces of advice are wholly applicable
today. They include such insightful sayings as: "Don't tell your
wife terminological inexactitudes, which are, in plain English,
lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor
departures from the truth"; "After all is said and done, husbands
are not terribly difficult to manage"; or "Don't squeeze the tube
of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom. This is one
of the small things of life that always irritates a careful
wife."
Entertaining and charmingly illustrated, "How to Be a Good
Husband" and "How to Be a Good Wife"offer enduringly useful advice
for all couples, from the newly engaged to those celebrating their
golden anniversary.
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