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For more than a decade, the intrepid team from Pilot Guides has travelled the world in search of the most flamboyant festivals, spectacular beaches, adventurous treks and happening places on...

The course of true love never did run smoothly. For a girl who shares her name with a princess (a.k.a Aurora from Sleeping Beauty), Aurora Skye's life seem fathoms away...

The inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force and its people in an action-packed period of air power from East Timor and the Bali bombings to the wars...

The book titled Australian Strategic Management: Concepts, Context and Cases by the author Geoffrey et al. Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian Car celebrates some of thiscountry's iconic vehicles as sophisticated objects of art and design. From Australia's earliest steam- and petrol-driven automobiles to specialised...

The book titled You and Your Bike by the author Brian Crichton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book is an appraisal of current offshore industrial relations, and safety regulations instituted after the 1988 Alpha disaster in the North Sea. This text discusses the oil industry's attempts...

What is the secret of beauty in architecture Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four...

Florence has for centuries attracted writers, bewitched by the beauty of its surroundings, the quality of its light, and the treasures it houses in its palaces, churches and museums. These...

The book titled The Whiskies of Scotland by the author R. J. S. McDowall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this illustrated history of the architecture of Renaissance Europe, David Thomson demonstrates how Renaissance architecture attracted much contemporary criticism for its excessive display of personal wealth and status. The...

The architecture of the Edwardian period and of the 1920s and 1930s is of growing interest to a new generation of architects and historians. The career of W.D. Caroe spanned...

Faithful Friends, forever true . . . hearts together, me and you! From the time they are babies, some little girls reach out to those around them, smiling, laughing, playing,...

Meet the Friendship Fairies - sisters Emme, Holly and Jess. They're just like regular girls, always messing and having fun, but they're also fairies. Their mum works as a spy...

Many buildings erected during the Victorian age had no precedents, such as railway stations, large hotels and factories. New structures had to be planned from first principles and architectural styles...

Wallpaper * City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.

From the early Etruscan settlement on the hill of Fiesole to the thriving cultural and artistic center under the Medici rule of the Quattrocento through to the present, Florence has...

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) who was well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered less important than Giotto and his followers....

This is a glorious overview of the human figure as it has appeared on or in ceramic form from prehistoric times up to the present. The human form was one...

Devised as temporary housing after World War II, prefabricated homes fitted with all 'mod cons' represented the new way of living in post-war Britain. The fact that war-damaged aircraft were...

The book titled Companion to Scottish History from the Reformation to the Present by the author Ian Donnachie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled London Street Names by the author Gillian Bebbington. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The twelfth novel featuring Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the Roman spheres of poetics and banking. When a rich banker family becomes patron to a group of struggling writers...

Marcus Didius Falco and his friend Petronius find their local fountain blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are found in aqueducts and sewers. The...

From the author of THREE HANDS IN THE FOUNTAIN and TIME TO DEPART, a crime story featuring Marcus Didius Falco who is determined to solve the mystery of a young...

A milestone in the history of interior design, Eighteenth Century Decoration provides a highly original and authoritative account of the appearance of rooms at all levels of society and how...

The book titled In Stony Places by the author Kay Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Lively Form of Death by the author Kay Mitchell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Without Trace by the author Katherine John. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Whisper by the author William Leonard Marshall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Originally presented as Slade Lectures at Oxford University, the chapters of this book address a non-specialist readership and do not hesitate to condemn familiar but second-rate buildings like the British...

The book titled People of the Lie: Hope for Healing Human Evil by the author M. Scott Peck. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Victorian Taste by the author John Steegman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Country London by the author John Talbot White. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 2nd by the author Liza Cody. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

in the absence of the sun is a poetry collection that explores our midnight thoughts--the "nightmares" and "dreams" that haunt us when we are unable to sleep. This collection takes...

Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed Hadrian...

Intended by medieval builders to be the greatest of the High Gothic cathedrals, Saint-Pierre Beauvais has achieved notoriety among historians because it was indeed the tallest structure of its kind...

In the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints, on the grounds that they were both the most powerful and the...

The book titled Red Slayer: Being the Second of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother by the author Paul Harding. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Using thousands of hours of previously concealed tapes, a stunning revelation into the infamous Nixon White House and how far the administration went to cover up the abuse of power....

The book titled Shinju by the author Laura Joh Rowland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view. But the theory...

The question of whether true friendship could exist in an era of patronage occupied Renaissance Florentines as it had the ancient Greeks and Romans whose culture they admired and emulated....