Art & Photography Books
Workman Publishing Niwaki Pruning Training and Shaping Trees the
Book SynopsisOver the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki. In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. After first discussing the principles that underpin the techniques, the author offers in-depth guidelines for shaping pines, azaleas, conifers, broadleaved evergreens, bamboos and deciduous trees. Throughout the text, step-by-step illustrations accompany the instructions, while abundant photographs and anecdotes bring the ideas surrounding niwaki vividly to life.Trade ReviewMore than a pruning manual, Hobson's guide encompasses the cultural implications of niwaki, an artistic custom integral to the gardening legacy of Japan. -- Alice Joyce Booklist 20070401 Of as much interest as the practical cutting points are the bits of history and lore woven into the chapters that stress the spiritual underpinnings of this ancient art. -- Marianne Binetti Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20070518 Any gardener would be fascinated, not only by the pruning and training techniques, but the background information about Japanese culture which the author weaves throughout the book. -- Karen Helfert Washington Gardener 20070701 Has wonderful illustrations and very specific directions that should prove useful to anyone who has garden subjects that need pruning. -- Linda Brazill Capital Times (Madison) 20070728 More marriages have gotten in trouble over the 'correct' way to prune shrubs than probably any other gardening task. We can't save your relationship, but we [can] suggest Niwaki - Pruning, Training, and Shaping Trees in the Japanese Way. -- Jill Sell Cleveland Plain Dealer 20070728 Easily the best book in English on this pristine type of pruning. ... Anyone who appreciates plants and Japanese culture will find more than they could have imagined in this unique book. -- Clear Englebert West Hawaii Today 20071202 Detailed drawings of the pruning methods, as well as numerous photos of Japanese examples, make this an eminently practical guide. SciTech Book News 20071201 Definitely has what it takes to impress serious garden nerds, [but] there's also plenty here for the rest of us. ... Niwaki is [Hobson's] first book; let's hope it's not his last. -- Josephine Bridges Asian Reporter 20091117
£27.00
Hurtwood Press Yoyo Munk Medusa
Book SynopsisBeautiful artist's book about Tin Drum's MR installation, Medusa. A meditation on emergent technologies, nature and architecture amidst the climate crisis with contributions from celebrated writers, academics and thinkers. The mixed reality Medusa installation began with the questions: is there even such a thing as non-physical architecture? What is the function of architecture without physical form? Directed by Yoyo Munk and produced by Tin Drum, it headlined the 2021 London Design Festival at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Yoyo Munk's first book is an exploration into Medusa's themes, reflecting on our changing relationship with architecture within the context of rapidly advancing technology and ongoing mass extinction. Featuring original artwork by Tin Drum, Medusa is a timely and moving artist's book about climate grief. Medusa includes fascinating conversations between Munk and Sou Fujimoto, the renowned architect and Medusa collaborator, James Bridle, author of Ways of Being; V
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Hurtwood Press Ltd Lucy Williams Radiant City
Book SynopsisLucy Williams (b. 1972, Oxford) studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. She has exhibited internationally with solo shows at McKee Gallery, New York and at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, and since 2016 has been represented by Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. Group shows have included Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2008); Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (2011); and Cut & Paste 400 Years of Collage, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (2019). Salena Barry is a writer from Toronto, Canada, who is based in London, UK. She was part of the inaugural cohort of Frieze New Writers in 2021 and, in 2022, she was Jerwood Writer in Residence. Throughout her career, she has written for institutions including Delfina Foundation, SITE Gallery and The Goldsmith's Company. Her exhibition reviews, interviews and feature articles have also appeared in publications including frieze, ArtReview, émergent magazine and CMagazine.Salena holds a BA in Art History and History from the University of Toronto and an MA in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Joseph Beckerserves as Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where his recent exhibitions includeArt of Noise(2024),Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes(2023),Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy(2023),Tauba Auerbach: S v Z(2022), The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism(201819) and Donald Judd: Specific Furniture (2018). He has written and contributed to numerous catalogues and publications. Becker's work explores the intersections of architecture, design, art and visual culture, with a focus on exhibition-making as a form of critical spatial practice. Kathryn Lloyd is a writer and editor from the North-West of England, who lives and works in London. She has written for numerous art publications and contributed texts to various exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and survey publications, includingVitamin Video(Phaidon, 2025)Vitamin Txt(Phaidon, 2024) andThe Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3(2024). Lloyd has delivered talks at Central Saint Martins and Jerwood Space and has appeared on theArt Monthly Radio Show. She is Contemporary Art Editor atThe Burlington Magazineand was previously Editorial Manager at Central Saint Martins. Charlotte Mullins is an art critic and broadcaster. Her latest book, The Art Isles: a 15.000-year story of art in Britain and Ireland is published by Yale University Press. Recent titles include ALittle History of Art(Yale, 2022) andA Little Feminist History of Art(Tate, 2019). She writes a weekly column forCountry Life, is the presenter of the podcastMaking a Markand a reviewer for BBC Radio 4's Front Row. She also regularly writes catalogue essays for artists including Clare Woods, Ali Banisadr, Yinka Shonibare, Vicken Parsons and Rachel Lumsden. Dr Ben Street is an art historian, educator and writer based in London. He is the author of several books for general audiences, including How to Enjoy Art (Yale, 2021) and the award-winning children's book How to Be an Art Rebel (T&H, 2021). He has contributed essays on monographs on Edward Boccia (2025), Agustín Fernández (2025), Patrick Caulfield (2023), Henry Ward (2021), Christopher LeBrun (2018), Benjamin Senior (2015) and Gunnel Wåhlstrand (2013). He is a contributing writer on contemporary art to Apollo, Gagosian Quarterly, ArtReview and the Times Literary Supplement.
£40.00
Blast Books,U.S. Deaths of Artists
Book SynopsisStarving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room… Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone… Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange scrapbooks packed with century-old newspaper obituaries of painters, illustrators, sculptors, and photographers, famous and forgotten alike. Somber death notices of luminaries like Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin are preserved on their crumbling pages, side by side with tragic and often grisly stories of obscure artists who met their demise as victims of accident, murder, poverty, and disease. Compiled from 1906 to 1929, the scrapbooks not only memorialize the subjects of these obituaries: they also record graphic and sensationalized news reporting from the heyday of yellow journalism. Who collected the artists’ obituaries? What was their purpose for the Met Museum? Were the scrapbooks assembled in a nod to Giorgio Vasari’s bestselling sixteenth-century magnum opus,
£26.09
The University of Chicago Press Imaginable Worlds
Book SynopsisA collection of essays offering a creative look at crises past, present, future, and speculative. Starting with the shared experience of crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and a planet sieged by disaster, Imaginable Worlds transforms tragedy into a framework for research and art, imagining a shared world beyond a global experience of emergency. Produced by the Smart Museum of Art and the Projects/Processes essay collection series, an initiative launched by the Serendipity Arts Foundation in New Delhi, this volume brings together the voices of artists, authors, and public intellectuals from a range of fields and locations. Suraj Yengde, named one of the 25 Most Influential Young Indians by GQ Magazine; Siyanda Mohutsiwa, the brain behind the viral hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar; and Ho Tzu Nyen, the acclaimed artist behind the ongoing Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia project, are among the diverse contributors who have come together to critically engage with ideas and pTable of ContentsPessimistic Futures: Black Worlding through Games by Patrick Jagoda and Ashlyn SparrowAssembling in Isolation: The Politics of Virtual Performance in Amitesh Grover’s The Last Poet by Trina Nileena BanerjeeUntitled by Uzodinma Iweala We Are Safe Here by Leticia BernausDalit Art by Suraj YengdeAll Women Are Workers, Not All Work is Waged: Three Tales of Surviving the Pandemic in Puducherry by Meena Kandasamy How to End It: Algeciras to Tangiers, 2019 by Jeet Thayil Texts from the End of the World by Siyanda Mohutsiwa H for Humidity – Keywords for a Project on the History of Water Engineering in Singapore by Tzu Nyen Ho
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San Diego Museum of Art OKeeffe and Moore
Book SynopsisThis elegant exhibition catalog is presented by The San Diego Museum of Art to accompany the 2023 major exhibition O’Keeffe and Moore, which explores the evolution of Modernism through the work of Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore. Featuring essays from prominent scholars, including representatives of both the Henry Moore Foundation and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the catalog’s richly illustrated text delves into each artist’s motivation and methodology, and the parallels between them, in particular, the inspiration both took from nature and organic forms, such as bones and seashells. The publication serves as an essential companion to the exhibition. In addition to explorations of the artists’ studios that provide further insight into their working methods, the catalog presents drawings, paintings, and sculpture that illustrate the organic roots of Modernism developed independently, yet concurrently, by O’Keeffe and Moore. Thematic sections of the catalogue include the Real and the Surreal; The Artists’ Studios; Bones; Stones; Seashells, Flowers, and Internal/External Forms; and Landscapes of Forms. Essay topics include Henry Moore: Modernism, Nature, and National Identity; “A Revelation of the Perfect Relation”: The Influence of D.H. Lawrence on the work of Henry Moore and Georgia O’Keeffe; and Finding the Form and the publication will also include a comparative chronology of the lives and careers of the two artists.
£999.99
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Aria Dean
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Zone Books La Jetée
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Illinois State University, University Galleries Aram Han Sifuentes We Are Never Never Other
Book SynopsisChronicling the community-based projects of a prolific Californian fiber artistChicago-based artist Aram Han Sifuentes (born 1986) makes textiles and participatory works confronting disenfranchisement. This monograph focuses on four community-based projects: A Mend, U.S. Citizenship Test Sampler, Protest Banner Lending Library and Official Unofficial Voting Station.
£24.29
White Lane Press Robert Lenkiewicz Paintings and Projects
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£23.75
Film & Video Umbrella Plans and Spells Adam Chodzko
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£9.95
Film & Video Umbrella Remote Viewer Graham Gussin
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£9.95
Atmosphere Publishing Dartmoor
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£999.99
Wagtail Press On the Trail of Red Squirrels
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£18.52
Wagtail Press Northumberlands Lost Houses
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£18.52
OXBRIDGE PORTFOLIO CLASSICAL ADVENTURE
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£27.00
The Mainstone Press Suzanne Cooper
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£999.99
Drag City The Portable February
Book SynopsisMusician, poet and cartoonist David Berman's first collection of illustrations.
£15.29
Primary Information Modern Love
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£14.25
Aquaterra Publishing Beautiful Dorset
Book SynopsisBeautiful Dorset is a book that showcases photographically the most beautiful places in this southwest county. Divided into six chapters, the first is a mix of text and photos, the remainder a series of photo essays.
£10.44
Blue Crow Media Art Deco London Map
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£9.50
Brand Nu Limited Book of Ideas 2 a journal of creative direction
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£18.04
Counter-Print Cruz Novillo Logos
Book SynopsisCruz Novillo: Logos provides a comprehensive guide to an important facet of Pepe Cruz Novillo's output, his logo design; and in doing so proves the importance of this body of work, both to Spain and the global design community. This book offers inspiring content for any designer in this field and those looking to explore Spanish corporate design.
£21.25
Dashwood Books Portrait of J
£47.70
David Zwirner The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Book Synopsis“The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness.” —Roy DeCaravaThe Sweet Flypaper of Life is a “poem” about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew, and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes’s heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. As she guides the reader through the lives of those around her, we imagine the babies born, families in struggle, children yet flourishing. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem as seen through her
£16.16
Cambridge University Press The Nile Delta
Book SynopsisThe first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology.
£40.84
CRC Press Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks
Book SynopsisMastering UI Mockups and Frameworks: A Beginner''s Guide sets the standard for studying wireframes, mockups, and different tools along with their unique features. This book comprehensively analyzes the design, portability, and efficiency of these tools. As a beginner's guide, Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks addresses various methods to use these types of tools. This book will help you shape your understanding of UI and UX tools regardless of your skill level. Wireframes and mockups are standard tools used during the design process. A mockup is a visual presentation of a website or an app. Designers always use mockups to highlight their website's layout and functionality to their prospective clients. Choosing a particular tool at the right stage will help you ensure that the correct level of effort is invested so that you can deliver functionality that solves an actual customer requirement. Mastering UI Mockups and Frameworks helps you accomp
£106.25
Taylor & Francis Urban Design
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£19.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Town and Country Planning in the UK
Book SynopsisTown and Country Planning in the UK provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices. This 16th edition has been substantially revised and re-organised to provide an up-to-date overview of the planning systems in the four nations of the UK, supported by analyses, interpretations, illustrations and examples from planning practice.The new edition features: details of the legislative and policy changes since 2015 and discussion of their implications, including the early stages of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, 2023 discussion of environmental policies and programmes and the impact of Brexit on environmental regulatory landscape in Britain changes to climate change and resilience policies, notably the government's Net Zero' agenda and their implications for planning updates to the substantive issues in plan-making, especially
£64.79
Taylor & Francis Ltd LO TECH POP CULT
Book SynopsisThis edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and more.This book represents new vectors in screendance studies, featuring contributions by both artists and theoreticians, some of the most established voices in the field as well as the next generation of emerging scholars, artists, and curators. It builds on the foundational cartographies of screendance studies that attempted to sketch out what was particular to this practice. Sampling and reworking established forms of inquiry, artistic practice and spectatorial habits, and suspending and reorienting gestures into minoritarian forms, these conversations consider the affordances of scr
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Music Technology Essentials
Book SynopsisMusic Technology Essentials provides an overview of the vocabulary, techniques, concepts, and devices used in contemporary music production and guides readers through the essential fundamentals of music technology so that they can create their own music productions at home.This highly accessible book covers sound fundamentals and theory, as well as practical topics like hardware, software, MIDI, digital audio, synthesis, computer notation, and audio-visual applications, to equip the reader with the principles they need to achieve professional-sounding results. Each chapter is accompanied by real-life examples and exercises that can be applied to any digital audio workstation software, to put the lessons into practice. This book will also help readers evaluate their requirements for home music production while working within a sensible budget. Music Technology Essentials is the ideal textbook for beginners inside and outside of the classroom, including tTrade Review'Music Technology Essentials methodically covers everything needed for developing music creators to build a home studio and get the best results out of their gear. Maz’s book provides historical context, clear but detailed explanations, and hands-on activities for each chapter.' Dr. Linda Antas, Associate Professor of Music, Montana State UniversityTable of Contents1. The Home Studio 2. What Is Sound 3. Digital Audio 4. Computers 5. Digital Audio Workstations 6. Audio Effects 7. Audio Hardware 8. MIDI 9. Synthesis and Sampling 10. Computer Music Notation 11. Growth and Development
£35.99
Taylor & Francis The Darkroom Cookbook
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of this comprehensive guide to darkroom photography is fully revised and updated, placing analog and traditional methods into the context of a digital world and contemporary workflows.Including invaluable analog photography techniques, chemicals, and equipment, supported by visual examples. The DCB5 has 180 updated recipes for darkroom experiments, and tips for mastering the darkroom. It includes the chemicals used to develop, stop, fix, tone, and archivally process films and prints. DCB5 contains invaluable information on making enlarged digital negatives, planning a darkroom, and safely handling photographic chemicals. It features new sections on split-printing, solarization, and making your own gelatin emulsion. The fifth edition includes contributions and stunning black-and-white imagery by established artists such as Bruce Barnbaum, Tim Rudman, Christina Z. Anderson, John Sexton, and more.This is the essential guide for any practiti
£51.29
Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera a History of the Impossible Genre
Book SynopsisOpera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera.Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones its focus on a representative opera and composer, and provides discussion on historical and political context. With further reading lists, key term definitions, and composer biographies to support learning, this book covers the fundamental elements of the genre, including: subject matter, musical structure, aria and ensemble forms, singing styles, orchestra, and the structure of the libretto. The book will also help readers develop an appreciation of opera as a form of musical entertainment, which, despite seemingly insurmountable financial, philosophical, and artistic hurdles, has overcome the impossible to become one of the most popular and thrilling types of music heard on stage today.Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre is an approachable undergraduate textbook for students of opera and survey courses.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experiencing Translationality
Book SynopsisThis innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.To gain a fresh perspective on the work of translation in the complex processes of meaning-making across physical, social and cultural domains (conceptualized as translationality), Piotr Blumczynski revisits one of the earliest and most fundamental senses of translation: corporeal transfer. His study of translated religious officials and translated relics reframes our understanding of translation as a process creating a sense of connection with another time, place, object or person. He argues that a promise of translationality animates a broad spectrum of cultural, artistic and commercial endeavours: it is invoked, for example, in museum exhibitions, art galleries, celebrity endorsements, and the manufacturing of musical instruments. Translationality offers a way to reimagiTable of ContentsTable of contentsList of figuresAcknowledgements Introduction1. What does translation do? 2. Squaring the circle: episcopal translations3. Holy bones: translations of relics 4. From gift shops to the Custom Shop: translationality for sale 5. The experience of translationalityReferencesIndex
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CRC Press The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics
Book SynopsisBlenderTM is a free Open-Source 3D Computer Modeling and Animation Suite incorporating Character Rigging, Particles, Real World Physics Simulation, Sculpting, Video Editing with Motion Tracking and 2D Animation within the 3D Environment.Blender is FREE to download and use by anyone for anything.The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling and Animation, Eighth Edition is a unified manual describing the operation of the program, updated with reference to the Graphical User Interface for Blender Version 3.2.2, including additional material covering Blender Assets, Geometry Nodes, and Non-Linear Animation.Divided into a two-volume set, the book introduces the program's Graphical User Interface and shows how to implement tools for modeling and animating characters and created scenes with the application of color, texture, and special lighting effects.Key Features:
£107.03
Taylor & Francis Architectures of Ageing in Place
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis The Green Studio Handbook
Book SynopsisMaking the complexities of green architecture accessible to the design studio, The Green Studio Handbook remains a must-read for current and future architects. The heart of this book provides 43 comprehensive design strategies covering the building envelope, lighting, heating, cooling, energy & electricity, and water & waste â each with a description, key architectural issues, implementation considerations, and a step-by-step design procedure for integration early in the design process. Each design strategy has been thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the latest evidence-based guidance, best practices, and standards in consideration of all climatic zones.In addition to more than 80 building examples provided throughout, 10 in-depth case studies illustrate successful integration of numerous strategies.All case studies are brand-new to this fourth edition and include a wide range of building types, from the USA, Colombia, Rwanda, Malaysia, Denmark, B
£59.84
Taylor & Francis Milestones in Actor Training
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus
Book SynopsisAn Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus explores artistic work with the iconic image of the fetus and the personal consequences of the image by analyzing the so-called public fetus within a feminist approach.This book develops a deeply interdisciplinary body of research, engaging with feminist debates on reproductive technology and imagery, art theory, visual histories of anatomical imagery, cultural critiques of the myth of the artistic genius, Gestalt understandings of perception and memory, and anthropological theories of liminality. Through blurring the artistic with the scientific, it explores the potential of autoethnography to serve as a form of consciousness raising through which to create new images and stories that counter the public fetus in support of reproductive autonomy and social justice.This book will be useful to feminist scholars who work with issues related to gender, reproduction, sexuality, and autoethnography. At the same time, the
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CRC Press Demystifying Game Studies
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£49.99
Taylor & Francis How Good Are Parklets
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£35.99
Blurb, Inc. Mahjong Tiles
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£26.46
Welbeck Publishing Group Limited The Little Guide to Versace
Book SynopsisA guide to one of the most iconic and influential fashion houses of all time.
£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers More Money than Bills Part Two
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Austin Macauley Publishers Prelude to Change Hong Kong of the 1950s
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£21.45
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Kings Painter
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£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Victorian and Edwardian Locomotive Portraits
Book SynopsisThe Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an hour. The book starts with an introduction dealing with the main lines of development in the north of Britain and that is followed by a picture section with over a hundred photographs. Each illustration has an extended caption giving details of the engine and its history. The material is arranged geographically, with sections dealing with the north of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and a separate section on light railways. The photographs are all of the locomotives in their working days, many showing them in action on both passenger and goods trains. This splendid collection shows the rich diversity of Britain's railways and how different companies and their engineers produced engines of great individuality. This is a book that will be enjoyed by all lovers of the golden age of steam rai
£21.25
Taylor & Francis The Hidden Lives of Algorithms
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