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The book titled The Impressionists Handbook by the author Robert Katz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Until the middle of the 19th Century, control of the land was the key to power and wealth. This sometimes provocative book outlines the tax-gathering skills of the Anglo-Saxon Earldomen,...

The first bridge ever to be built of iron, in 1779, is perhaps the most important industrial monument in Britain. The bridge changed the pattern of communications in its area,...

Jane Clifford is in her early thirties, smart, attractive, and seemingly kitted out for life with a Ph.D., a job as a popular teacher at a midwestern college, and an...

The book titled The KGB's Literary Archive by the author Vitaly Shentalinsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English by the author Francis Turner Palgrave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Cults offers a balanced and informative insight into the beliefs, practices and personalities behind religious sects.

The Great Fire of London was the greatest ca tastrophe of its kind in Europe, with 13,200 houses and 87 c hurches destroyed. Stephen Porter examines the events leadin g...

This companion guide to the British countryside shows how to find and interpret the clues to the past which lie hidden in the countryside. At the heart of the book...

Against the backdrop of Japan's invasion of China in the late 1930s to the Tokyowar crimes trials in 1946 a drama of comples human relationships unfolds. Meira Chand's new novel...

When narcotics cop Jack Walsh accidentally kills the son of Mafia boss Johnny D'Angelo in a drunken road accident his life is effectively over. But when he comes out of...

How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819,...

"I've had thousands of problems in my life, most of which never actually happened." Mark Twain. As never before, our lives are bombarded with daily events that stir fear -...

The book titled The Sensual Touch: Lovers' Guide to Massage by the author Susan Mumford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A focus on Caravaggio's last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula , telling the story of an empowered female saint In early May 1610, Caravaggio finished painting The Martyrdom of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 `Nothing wilfully invented. Memory invents unbidden.' The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were...

The public's appetite for new and excitingly designed hotels is insatiable. Never before have hotels been so earnestly responsive to the zeitgeist. How else can we explain the latest trends...

It encompasses tees commissioned by fashion labels and bands, photographs of T-shirts worn by passersby on the streets of cities around the world, shirts specially created around the theme of...

This volume explores six key aspects of sports design with essays by prominent designers, writers and commentators. The impact of modern materials, high technology and the design of contemporary sports...

The book titled Warships from Galley to the Present Day: From the Galley to the by the author Konstam. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections...

This work is a record of Ireland's culture and traditions. It details the reminiscences of great lives and provides a fascinating insight into memories of evictions, the Black and Tans,...

The book titled The Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier, 1840-1900 by the author Joseph G Rosa. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled Flying: The Golden Years - A Pictorial Anthology by the author Rupert Prior. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Combat Aircraft of World War II by the author Bill Gunston, OBE. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner by the author Charles Osborne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A documentation of the Renault Centre (winner of four awards), describing how it was designed and engineered, using documentation from the Foster Associates' archives. The author argues that it is...

Hoggart is not afraid to address the big questions: the problem of faith, the conscience and its impact on our behaviour,the nature of society and class, family and friends, the...

A biography of controversial American film director Oliver Stone, based on interviews with family and friends, actors, and with Stone himself. Discusses Stone's early screenplays, and delves into the dark...

Britain seen through the eyes of travellers from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution.

This omnibus edition contains the author's five "Soldiers Fotofax" titles on the individual years of World War I. The book also contains new biographical notes on the leaders from each...

David Ogilvy is well known and respected as the most successful adman of all time. His bestselling book, Ogilvy on Advertising gives valuable advice to young hopefuls and veterans of...

In the confusion that reigned in post-war Europe many Nazis were able, through bribery and other means, to escape with the wealth that they'd stolen during World War Two. Kenneth...

For centuries, the spiritual life of the Australian Aborigines was concealed behind a veil of misunderstanding and prejudice. In this work, Cowan recounts some of the major myths and analyzes...

Translated by H.M. Bird With an Introduction by Tamsyn Barton. Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer....

Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles Winterborne. Her alternative choice proves disastrous, and in a moving...

'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,' 'Calico Pie' and 'The Pobble Who Has No Toes', together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years....

Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and "The Woman in White" is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in North...

The novelist and poet takes us on a tour of Britain's literary heritage and spiritual ancestry.

The book titled The Partnership by the author Charles Butler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of Nelson Mandela, a young black lawyer and found himself drawn deep into the fight for black freedom.

As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho...

Constantine is a drifter, a man with a lot of miles behind him and a lot more ahead and a number of jobs in between that never showed up on...

This text explains the role prophecy has played in history and how we can interpret prophets such as Nostradamus and Merlin. The topics covered include: the history of prophecy; ancient...

The book titled A History of Smoking by the author Egon Caesar,Count Corti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.