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This book outlines the history of theatres and music halls from the late 16th century to the present time, noting changing fashions in entertainment and evolving official attitudes to safety...

Peony is the cherished only child of the first wife of a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Yet she is betrothed to a man she has never met and as her sixteenth...

Until just a few years ago, we knew surprisingly little about the 150,000 or so years of human existence before the advent of writing. Some of the most momentous events...

The book titled Exploring Oxford by the author Michael De-la-Noy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Chillers for Christmas by the author Richard Dalby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Skallies, a row of tumbledown houses built on the windlashed coast, was a wild and curious place. A place for people down on their luck. A place where people...

Mastering Words provides weekly units of work containing spelling lists, word play, word origin, punctuation, grammar essentials and discussion questions.

New York City 1867: repulsed by the revelation that the conversion of black souls into merchandise has not ceased after the Civil War, a veteran finds himself drawn into the...

An original and knowledgeable take on child rearing, using cutting-edge research it will show you how you can be the best possible parent and rmake sure that your child becomes...

A dazzling novel of love, family and independence, from the bestselling author of THE TOUCH and THE THORN BIRDS Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in PRIDE...

Ashley Ormond's ?rst best-selling book showed you how it's possible to give your kids $1 million dollars without it costing you a cent. In his new book, $1 Million For...

Mechanical toys transcend categories of age with their universal appeal. Whether the mechanism is hidden or revealed, simple or complex, the cycle of movement allows you to simply turn a...

Using detailed, fully illustrated step-by-step instructions, Techniques and Tips for Covering Cakes provides practical guidance on how to cover a variety of cakes using six different types of cake coverings....

This handbook is for everyone who wants to observe and understand plants and the differences between them, but is particularly aimed at botanical artists. It explains the most important diagnostic...

Aston Martin is a marque that holds a special place in the British motor industry. As a manufacturer of cars for over 100 years, its history is tied up with...

New in paperback for 2022, this book aims to show how and why- the horses muscles work and explains how this knowledge can be put to good use in all...

The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third Reich....

London at the outset of war in 1939 was the greatest city in the world, the heart of the British Empire. The defiant capital had always been Hitler's prime target...

The book titled Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla by the author John Gay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This illustrated book provides a complete assessment of the architecture of Cromwell's England. Key to the puritan minimalist classicism of the time was the work of Inigo Jones, and this...

In 1931 A. Wainwright and three companions walked through the Lake District on a route planned that every lake, every valley and every mountain would be seen, if not actually...

The book titled Wild in London by the author David Goode. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life - demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed,...

This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon s documentation of John Pawson s stellar career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It...

The essential guide to the story of London's acclaimed museum - from its origins in the 1980s to its pivotal move in 2016 London's Design Museum is entering an exciting...

In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a few last half-hearted labels ('pattern painting',...

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the...

?Jean Simeon Chardin (1699 1779) was arguably the most talented French painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his original still lifes. Composed of simple, everyday objects, these works...

Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture in the last decade. The period 1965-1988...

Denys Lasdun (1914-2001) was one of Britain's most eminent architects, whose career spans the entire period of Modernism in British architecture. His notable buildings include the Royal College of Physicians...

A celebration of the work of architect, Nicholas Grimshaw. It includes his plans for the new Stock Exchange in Berlin, and the new railway terminus at Waterloo in London. It...

The book titled William Alsop: Buildings and Projects 1989-1992 by the author Mel Gooding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A fully illustrated guide which examines the interiors of London houses of differing periods, types and styles. Each interior is represented by a colour photograph and text which explains its...

Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) was in his time a renowned antiquary, connoisseur and man of science, although he is perhaps better known today as the husband of Nelson's mistress Emma....

In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from...

The English Civil Wars fought between 1642 and 1651 have left an indelible mark on the landscape of Britain if one looks carefully. Castles and town walls bear the marks...

This work tells the story of Cuthbert's life and of the efforts to rejuvenate his cult in late-12th-century Durham. It also focuses on one of the most sumptuously decorated "Lives"...

Peter Dazeley has gained access to the hidden interiors of some of London's most iconic buildings, from Tower Bridge to Battersea Power Station, Big Ben to the Old Bailey. His...

'This lavishly illustrated compendium suggest that the age of elegance endures' Mail on Sunday The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they...

The book titled Career-tracking: 26 Successful Shortcuts to the Top by the author J. Calano. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An authentic and entertaining first-hand account of life in the Australian bush from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under the Mulga follows Jim Gasteen's childhood adventures, marriage and his life-long...

When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...

State Library of Queensland's Margaret Lawrie Torres Strait collection has been included in the Australian Register: UNESCO Memory of the World program. These stories were obtained at thirteen islands, within...

Capricious, vibrant, and volatile, Vesuvius has been and remains one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. In its rage, it has destroyed whole cities and buried thousands alive. In its...

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to...

The book titled Federico Garcia Lorca by the author Gibson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.