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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...

At the height of the Victorian period, a passion for the Gothic style swept England and spread far beyond. Gothic architecture, associated with the social and cultural ideals of the...

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...

To many, Patrick O'Brian was the greatest British novelist of the twentieth century. The fifteen volumes of the series set in the Royal Navy of the beginning of the nineteenth...

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....

Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the...

The book titled Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance by the author C.F. Black. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There's an astonishing range of peaceful countryside within easy reach of the city, and this book is the key to it. Londoners longing to escape the city for just a...

May 1195, and Sir John de Wolfe is faced with a strange series of serial murders, which begins with the suffocation of a Jewish money-lender and proceeds through that of...

Your blood type is much more important than you think. In Live Right 4 Your Type, Dr Peter J. D'Adamo shows how living according to blood type can help you...

Now that she's executive producer of Special Reports, Robin Hudson is feeling (relatively) settled. She is fairly content to be a sympathetic ear to her insane girlfriends and to be...

This book is designed as a companion to the author's book about the association between Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll - "Gardens of a Golden Afternoon". Lutyens was a humanist...

A travel book which aims both to convey what it is like to live in Tuscany from the viewpoint of an Englishman who has made it his home for more...

The book titled Gertrude Jekyll by the author Sally Festing. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Floater by the author Joseph Koenig. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Garden Triumphant: A Victorian Legacy by the author David C. Stuart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled A Guide to Tuscany by the author James Bentley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jackson Payne is at it again in another crazy adventure! This time, he's visiting his Nan and Pop's farm, and it's chaos everywhere, as Jackson tries to find the culprit...

Andrew Chapman is one of Australia's foremost rural documentary photographers. He has been taking pictures of woolsheds and other elements of the wool industry in Australia and New Zealand for...