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An impetuous character, Judith Paris arouses feelings of both tenderness and despair in those around her and excites the passions of two very different men: the sturdy, affectionate Reuben, her...

This is an outline of the history of the Macmillan family, its rise, triumphs and misfortunes. The core of the book is the personality and career of Harold Macmillan, but...

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

The book titled Parallelogram by the author Thomas Caplan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Immerse yourself in the culture, food and history of Tuscany and Umbria.

Alessandra, the daughter of the powerful Lorenzo Medici, sits for her portrait - a wedding gift for the man her father is forcing her to marry. But Alessandra is determined...

Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it...

The book titled The Age of Chaos by the author Jonathan Wylie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital. Lacking dignity, unity, and a...

This book is an account of an almost completely neglected archaeological epic, the uncovering and restoration of all the classical monuments of Rome during the French occupation (1809-14). This was...

'Heatherwick is a Leonardo da Vinci of our times' Sir Terence Conran. Still just two decades into his career, British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the...

The book titled Michelangelo: His Life, Work and Times by the author Linda Murray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This unusually well-written, skillfully organised introductory text provides an exhaustive survey of ordinary differential equations - equations which express the relationship between variables and their derivatives. In a disarmingly simple,...

Among the most stirring works of labor history ever written, this autobiography of Mother Jones (nee Mary Harris) chronicles the life of a woman who was considered a saint by...

Set in England during the Wars of the Roses, this swashbuckling historical novel tells of a young man betrayed by his brutal guardian and forced to seek the help of...

What is the difference between art anatomy and Bridgman's concept of the human machine? The human machine is the body as not only a fixed framework but also as a...

"Today, change flashes across the landscape like lightning. Simple, single-focus fix-it schemes no longer work, and isolated, unintegrated, one-time improvement efforts fail miserably. Organizations require periodic revolution, not just constant...

"[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And...

Filled with political intrigue and emotional tension, Carleson s riveting novel features a teenage refugee caught in a web of deceit and conspiracy. "PW, " starred review When her father...

Focusing on the refreshing process of design with which Will Alsop engages, Tom Porter reveals and traces the process, from public consultation to the privacy of Alsop's painting studio, from...

The "Encyclopedia of the City" complements Routledge's strong list of readers and textbooks in urban studies and the city. Focusing on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in...

In 1961, the Metropolitan Museum in New York paid $2,3000,000 for the painting "Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer" by Rembrandt. It was the highest price ever paid for a...

By the middle of fourth century AD, Britain and the Roman Empire had been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors. Now, at last, with the force of the state...

The book titled The Blue Suit by the author Richard Rayner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . . When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram's beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation-on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting-from the...

While the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s resulted in the destruction of much of England's built fabric, it was also a time in which many new initiatives emerged....

Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city's most important patron of art and...

How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? In this stimulating book, Jules Lubbock answers this question by focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced...

A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address 'just to check a girl's okay'. There's no explanation, just a name - Angelique - a reward and the chilling...