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The People's Chef - Alexis Soyer, A Life in Seven Courses (Paperback): Ruth Brandon The People's Chef - Alexis Soyer, A Life in Seven Courses (Paperback)
Ruth Brandon
R291 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R34 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Alexis Soyer, a Frenchman from Meaux, was the most famous cook in London. A combination of chance, talent and social conscience took him into many of the great events of his time. Born in 1810, he cooked his was through the Paris July Days in 1830; he oversaw the building of Londona s most modern kitchen at the Reform Club, where he ran the kitchen from 1837--1850; he designed a model soup--kitchen which he took to Ireland, at the Lord Lieutenanta s request, during the 1847 famine; he opened Londona s first Parisian--type restaurant in conjunction with the Great Exhibition in 1851; and in 1855, he went to the Crimea to take over the running of the kitchens in Florence Nightingalea s hospital at Scutari. When he died in 1858, Soyer was helping Miss Nightingale reform British army catering.

Wrongful Imprisonment - Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences (Hardcover): Ruth Brandon, Christie Davies Wrongful Imprisonment - Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences (Hardcover)
Ruth Brandon, Christie Davies
R2,932 Discovery Miles 29 320 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. The authors spent three years collecting material from newspaper reports, trial transcripts, books, lawyers, the Home Office and - most important - interviews with the persons concerned. As a result, they have been able to analyse objectively the existing system of justice; they have isolated and identified the areas in which the system is at fault, and the successive hazards which may confront the innocent man suspected of a criminal offence; they have also revealed the many obstacles which have to be overcome by the wrongfully imprisoned man seeking to establish his innocence and regain his liberty. This topical and convincingly argued book should appeal not only to students of law and sociology, or to lawyers, policemen, criminals, and others involved in the system of criminal justice, but also to the man in the Wormwood Scrubs omnibus.

Spellbound by Marcel - Duchamp, Love, and Art (Hardcover): Ruth Brandon Spellbound by Marcel - Duchamp, Love, and Art (Hardcover)
Ruth Brandon
R616 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world.  This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and—almost incidentally—changed art forever.  In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York.  In the few months between their arrival—and America’s entry into the war in April 1917—they pushed back the boundaries of the possible, in both life and art.  The vortex of this transformation was the apartment at 33 West 67th Street, owned by Walter and Louise Arensberg, where artists and poets met nightly to talk, eat, drink, discuss each others’ work, play chess, plan balls, organise magazines and exhibitions, and fall in and out of love.  At the center of all this activity stood the mysterious figure of Marcel Duchamp, always approachable, always unreadable.  His exhibit of a urinal, which he called Fountain, briefly shocked the New York art world before falling, like its perpetrator, into obscurity.  Many people (of both sexes) were in love with Duchamp. Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood were among them; they were also, briefly, and (for her) life-changingly, in love with each other.  Both kept daily diaries, which give an intimate picture of the events of those years.  Or rather two pictures—for the views they offer, including of their own love affair, are stunningly divergent.   Spellbound by Marcel follows Duchamp, Roché, and Beatrice as they traverse the twentieth century. Roché became the author of Jules and Jim, made into a classic film by François Truffaut.  Beatrice became a celebrated ceramicist. Duchamp fell into chess-playing obscurity until, decades later, he became famous for a second time—as Fountain was elected the twentieth century’s most influential artwork.  'Breezily entertaining...There's a fabulous cast of supporting characters on this busy stage' - The Spectator 'A delicious and deeply researched portrait of its time' - New York Times 'Part drama, part page-turning history, this paints the complexities of art and love in a seductive light' - Publishers Weekly

God'S Power in the Mountains - How God Worked in and Through Me for 10 Years in Asia (Paperback): Ruth Brandon God'S Power in the Mountains - How God Worked in and Through Me for 10 Years in Asia (Paperback)
Ruth Brandon
R513 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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