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The book titled Chronicle of Aviation by the author Bill Gunston, OBE. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Whistler, Munnings, Sargent, Steer, John, Orpen, Bateman, the New English Art Club, the war artists, the Royal Academy, the fight against Modernism. Scandals and crises, the Chelsea Arts Ball ....

This magnificent looking big hardback has something for everyone and will create quite a stir when it hits the book stores. It's a selection of 100 of the most important,...

The book titled Skeleton Coast by the author Amy Schoeman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Beautifully packaged and designed, and richly illustrated with insightful commentary from an international body of peers, this book harnesses the thinking and philosophies behind some of the world's most influential...

In a world where computer graphics provide a more professional finish to both good and bad design, the distinguishing factor is the strength of the core idea. This volume offers...

The book titled Drawing and Sketching by the author Stan Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Australia's Best Film Makers by the author Richard Linden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a satire on a society memorial service for a rather special masseur. Clive Dunlop's 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his...

No. 9 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, formed in 1914, went to the second great war on 4 September 1939. The Squadron's Wellington aircraft and crews were the first to hit...

Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. This has not, however, been a uniform change from one phase...

The book titled Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life by the author Richard Garnett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Braybrook explains the impact of jet engines, swept wings, supersonic aerodynamics, weapon systems, variable-geometry and advanced structures within the Soviet combat aircraft industry. Basic information on the performance of combat...

This is a book about beginnings, some more famous than others, and about the men who took new aircraft into combat for the first time. Aircraft reputations were often cruel...

The book titled Fairey Firefly by the author W. A. Harrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is an analysis of British fighter planes during World War II. The book looks at the pace of the development of the planes during the war when production difficulties...

The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs offers a vision of the future for the Middle East. He sees a reconstructed region free of past conflicts, set to take its place...

Frida Kahlo (1907-1958) is an artist with a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death,...

The book titled Airport by the author Arthur Hailey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Adrian Mole from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries - The First Ten by the author Sue Townsend. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare,...

She makes the case that Ho's significance within the Comintern has been overstated by both leftist and anti-communist scholarship; she shows that there were other forces and personalities who played...

A fascinating insight into the lives and work of a remarkable range of contemporary artists Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK's most distinguished art writers, these intimate and...

Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her...

This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Command's pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAF's first attempts...

Napoleonic artillery can usually be divided into two types: field, or light artillery which was employed by the armies on campaign and in the field and siege, or heavy artillery,...

Written by a Commando veteran of World War II, this is a remarkable, vivid and honest account of the battles and actions behind the award of the thirty eight Battle...

In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings. Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the rugged,...

Only edition in print This volume, which collects the four books of "nonsense" published by Lear during his lifetime, contains all of his most celebrated verse and prose productions, from...

Deserts are extreme environments. Occupying about 20 per cent of the world's land surface, they are subject to some of the harshest conditions on the planet, being places of minimal...

A quietly powerful presence in American fiction in during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart neurotic...

The obituaries that appear in The Economist are remarkable because of the unpredictable selection of people to be written about, the surprising lives they lead - but also for the...

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s...

Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the...

"I strongly believe that this book will soon become a 'standard reference' in studies of Albanian society, Albanian migration, immigration to Italy (and possibly to Greece)." * Panos Hatziprokopiou Analysing...

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...

Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha...

Shakespeare: the most famous writer who ever lived; a man whose career arouses heated controversy. Stanley Wells, described as the world's leading Shakespeare scholar, chats with the Bard about life,...

While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies...

The war between Caesar and Pompey was one of the defining moments in Roman history. The clash between these great generals gripped the attention of their contemporaries and it has...

This beautifully presented book captures the spirit of a little known war where the Royal Navy played a peripheral but crucial role. The power of the British Empire was at...

The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men - and women - who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war....

The book titled Fighter Aircraft by the author Francis Crosby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This text attempts to answer the question: how much of what we do is the result of conscious and deliberate decisions and how much originates in unconscious, unthought out, automatic...