Home & Garden Books

Book SynopsisA stylishly illustrated compendium of 100 herbs, designed to enrich our understanding of all their uses. This isn't just a book for the kitchen it's for the greenhouse, the medicine cabinet, the coffee table... Award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand's Herbarium is a 21st-century reboot of the traditional herbal compendium. The visual genius behind the international bestseller The Geometry of Pasta, she has created abstract forms and vibrant colours to illustrate 100 essential herbs and to reveal their hidden properties. From bergamot, comfrey and dill to sassafras, vervain and wasabi, all types of herbs are covered; each is explained through the fascinating history of their uses and symbolism. There are tips on how to use them as seasonings and how to create healing potions, as well as advice on when and how to grow them. Herbarium celebrates all facets of herbs and all their life-enhancing properties.Trade Review'An exquisite and inspirational book' - Nigella Lawson'I need three copies of this book: one to reach for in the kitchen, one to read in bed and one (if it’s not sacrilege?) to cut up to decorate my walls with. This is a book which is informed, useful and completely divine. It’s a must for anyone with an interest in the beauty of herbs or the boldness of great design' - Yotam Ottolenghi'A chic illustrated compendium of 100 heavenly herbs … I love this book!' - Psychologies'Every kitchen should have one' - The Lady

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Book SynopsisAn engaging overview of the changing styles and uses of brooches and badges from the Middle Ages to today, illustrated with rare and luxurious examples.Trade Review'A handsome addition to any jewelry collector’s library' - JCK OnlineTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. ‘Send…letters, tokens, brooches, and ranges’ 1000–1500 • 2. ‘Rich Apparell, precious Jewells’ 1500–1800 • 3. ‘Any number of brooches, up and down and everywhere’ 1800–1900 • 4. ‘The new jewel has been born’ 1900–1920 • 5. ‘Clips are going like wildfire’ 1920–1940 • 6. ‘Almost anything goes’ 1940–1960 • 7. ‘Precious stones have won their freedom’ 1960-1990 • 8. ‘The shock of beauty’ 1990–The Present • References; Glossary; Further Reading; Notes; Major Collections Featuring Brooches and Badges Acknowledgments; Author’s Biography; Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary ceramicists working in Britain, including Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry, and Edmund de Waal, are part of a broader international group of artists experimenting with clay, considering how it intersects and works in dialogue with other art forms and culture at large. Recent experimentation with the medium owes much to the rapid evolutionof ceramics into an expanded field, and to the work of mid- to late 20th-century potters and their reinvention of ceramics as a radical and contemporary art practice. The pioneering methods and rethinking of form in the work of exponents such as Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and Alan Caiger-Smith?whose reference points were drawn from East Asia, Africa, the ancient Mediterranean, and the Middle East as much as from their own heritage?continue to influence and inspire contemporary makers.In his introductory essay, Alun Graves provides all lovers of ceramics?collectors, practitioners, historians, and those interestedin modern and contemporary art and crafts?with historical context, documenting the medium?s shift into an expressive, and sometimes interventionist, art form. A visual chronology and subsequent A?Z of artists feature illustrated biographical entries on almost 300 major British ceramicists since 1900.Trade Review'Graves has created a volume that lays bare over a century of ceramic innovation … an excellent addition to the canon of ceramic research and will surely become an indispensable resource for curators, students and collectors' - Decorative Arts Society'Magnificent' - Art Mag'A joy to behold …Graves demonstrates how much the world of British studio ceramics has changed, or transformed' - Anne Lyles, The Art Newspaper'Magnificent' - Emerging PottersTable of ContentsForeword by Tanya Harrod Preface by Alun Graves Studio Ceramics in Britain Timeline of Ceramics A-Z of Artists

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Book SynopsisLooks into the private dwellings of the creative talents in Paris individuals from the music, fashion, design, film and art worlds. This title includes coverage that ranges from elevated bohemianism of the Left Bank to the trendy Marais and edgier Belleville and 13th and reflect the cosmopolitan melting pot that influences Paris' design trends.Trade Review'Twenty-seven great Parisian flats, every one modern, interesting and full of good design ideas that we would do well to copy on this side of the Channel' - Sunday Telegraph'Discover fresh, continental home inspiration as you peek into the private dwellings of some of the most exciting talents in Paris' - Mail on Sunday'This is all about le bon chic … it is graphic, inventive, personal' - Vogue LivingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Style in the City • I II III IV Arrondissements: Bianca Lee Vasquez+Vincent Freym stylist, textiles company director • Sarah+Marc Lavoine interior designer, actor • Isabelle Stanislas, architect • Josephine+Emmanuel Gintzburger, interior designer, fashion director • Hervé Sauvage, set designer • Ora-Ïto, product designer • Corrado deBiase, fashion designer • Armel Soyer+Gilles Pernet, gallerist, photographer • Valérie Mazerat, architect • Arrondissements V VI VII IX Jean-Philippe+Sophie-Anne Delhomme, illustrator, author • Mathilde l’Ecotais+Thierry Marx photographer, chef • Florence Lopez+Patrick Hernandez, antiques dealer, architect • Pierre Yovanovitch interior designer • Stéphane Ghestem architect • Sacha Walckhoff fashion designer • Éric Allart antiques dealer • Arrondissements X XI XII XIII: Jean-Christophe Aumas creative director • Yvan Mispelaere creative director • Régis Dho interior designer • Victoria Wilmotte product designer • Philippe+Patricia Jousse gallerists • Stéphane Parmentier interior designer • Arrondissements XIV XV XVI XVII XX: Sophie Le hat artist • Élisa+Michael Catoir interior designers • Florence Baudoux interior designer • Martha Bedoya jewelry designer • Hélène+Laurent Chapuis graphic designer, marketing director • Directory

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Book SynopsisLondon is the world's leading creative hub, aided by the winning combination of British sophistication and capital cosmopolitanism. In this title, the thirty-four houses are arranged by location - West to East - taking in the city's grooviest, on-the- edge neighbourhoods, from Shoreditch to Shepherd's Bush, London Fields to Hampstead Heath.Trade Review'Packed with ideas you’ll want to steal' - Grand Designs'Don’t read this book unless you want a serious dose of decorator-envy' - Evening Standard

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Book SynopsisThe late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of elegance and extravagance for Russians ruling tsars and the wealthy families with whom they were linked by marriage, and nowhere are these tastes more apparent than in the imperial jewels. This book uncovers the stories behind the jewels and the people who wore them.Trade Review'A visual treat as well as a fascinating read' - The Jewellery EditorTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; Recollections of Romanovs; 1. The Last Tsar and his Close Family; 2. Romanov Relations; 3. Jewelled Stars; 4. St Petersburg and Paris; 5. The Downfall of the Tsar; 6. Dispersal and Survival; Acknowledgments, Sources of Illustrations, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisDesigners, stylists and artists from across the country and around the globe make London their home, finding inspiration in its quirky British style and lively cosmopolitanism. The New Creative Home is a celebration the city's rich mix of living spaces from a spacious, contemporary flat in trendy Clerkenwell to a stylish Victorian terrace in Notting Hill. This exclusive peek into the personal spaces of the world's most ingenious talents offers lifestyle and interior inspiration for any home, whatever your style.Trade Review'A visual delight' - Period Living'An homage to London’s centuries-old reputation as an artistic idyll' - AnOther Magazine'Plenty of inspiration to be gleaned from this book' - House & Garden'Beautiful photography and inspiration' - House Beautiful'Every living space offers inspiration' - Homes & GardensTable of ContentsIntroduction • Chris Dyson • Owen Pacey • Alice Gomme • Nina Litchfield • Caroline Legrand • Alex Eagle • Jessica McCormack • Francis Sultana • Matilda Goad • Lee Broom • Hubert Zandberg • Laura Myers • Clements Riberio • Basso & Brooke • Carina Cooper • Gillian Hyland • Adam Brown • Matthew Williamson • Nikki Tibbles • Camille Walala • Rebecca Louise Law • Serafina Sama • Kevin Torre • Sophie Ashby • Daniela Cecilio Hayley Newstead • Fydor Golan • Directory

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated history of the paints and colours used over three centuries of interior decoration.Trade Review'Patrick Baty is the most influential of our paint experts, whose breadth and depth of knowledge is unrivalled' - Homes & Gardens'An insightful, passionate, technicolour history lesson' - The English Home'This intricately researched, sumptuously colourful book is not just pretty, it is a bible of paints and paintwork through the ages – a must for any vibrantly inclined homeowner today' - House & Garden'Fascinating' - Evening Standard'A beautifully illustrated compendium' - City AM'Dazzling' - Daily Telegraph'The work of a lifetime … a sumptuous 350-page encyclopaedia' - Observer'Dazzling' - This England'Absorbing and detailed … will change the way you see the world' - RIBA Journal'A wealth of colour lore' - World of Interiors'Inspirational … lavishly illustrated with stunning photographs' - History Today'A mighty volume' - Country Life'Astonishing' - Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster TodayTable of ContentsAvant Propos by Josef & Anni Albers • An Introduction to Historical Colour • PART I. Interiors & The Use of Colour 1650–1799: i) The House Painter & the Colourman; ii) Traditional Pigments; iii) Traditional Paints; iv) Traditional Brushes • PART II. Interiors & The Use of Colour 1800–1899: i) Colour Systems & Standards; ii) Industrialization of Paints and Pigments • PART III. The Standardization of Colour 1900–1959: i) Colour Standards 1900–1939; ii) The 1930s Colour Palette; iii) Colour Standards 1938–1959; iv) The 1950s Colour Palette

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Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind: a dazzling overview of the overlooked art of male jewelry, an increasingly popular requisite of the welldressed contemporary man.Trade Review'Exquisite … in the alphabet of the aesthetic, ‘D’ is for Desire' - The Lady'A valuable resource for anyone with a passion for these precious accessories' - Revolution'The must-have jewellery book for men' - Jewellery EditorTable of ContentsForeword • Introduction • 1. Rings • 2. Cufflinks and Dress Studs • 3. Stick Pins, Studs and Slides • 4. Lapel Pins and Brooches • 5. Bracelets and Cuffs • 6. Chains and Pendants

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Book SynopsisCelebrates the earliest history of the Islamic world's great textile traditions through fifty beautiful carpets and fragments. A wave of these beautiful textiles has reached the West since the turn of the 21st century, and here they are divided into variants featuring birds, mammals, and mythological creatures, which retain their glowing colors and lively charm.Trade Review'The long awaited work is finally here ... fills substantial gaps in the early history of knotted rugs' - Carpet Collector

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Book SynopsisA global survey of a wide variety of homes, offering the perfect balance between the inspirational and the practical.

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Book SynopsisThis is the definitive catalog of an unparalleled collection of Indian jewelry and jeweled luxury objects made at the height of the Mughal empire and Deccan sultanates in the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection, widely regarded as one of the finest in the world, was assembled by Sheikh Nasser and Sheikha Hussa al-Sabah for The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, and reveals the beauty, sophistication and diversity of Indian jeweled arts.The Indian subcontinent is naturally rich in gems. From ancient times master jewelers developed a wide array of unique techniques and made it home to the most sophisticated jewels on earth. Exotic birds and animals, flowers, trees, and mythological scenes rendered in precious gemstones, gold and enamel demonstrate these artists? prodigious imagination and skill. They produced not only an unmatched range of jewelry to adorn the body but also ritual and household items of astonishing refinement and luxury, as well as extravagantly large engraved gemstones to serve as symbols of their princely patrons? royal power?including a spinel of nearly 250 carats demonstrated to be the legendary Timur Ruby.This volume includes not only the finest and most valuable pieces in the collection?some familiar to connoisseurs, others publishedhere for the first time?but also many previously unknown types that extend our understanding of artistic output in the region. With specially commissioned photography giving unprecedented new views of more than 300 jeweled objects, this is a publication of historic importance and beauty, for all lovers of jewelry, the arts of India and of the Islamic world.

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Book SynopsisSalam Kaoukji is curator and collection manager of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, and an editor of Thames & Hudson's long-running and acclaimed series of catalogues. Her previous books include Precious Indian Weapons and other Princely Accoutrements (2017) and Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals (with Manuel Keene, 2001).

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Book SynopsisA completely revised edition, covering every period and development to the present, the designers and makers, the woods and other materials, the architecture and decoration. 2,000 photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis text contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy, as well as practical advice. It is illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2000 gardens that Church designed during his career.Table of ContentsPreface MICHAEL LAURIE Selected Bibliography MICHAEL LAURIE Foreword GRACE HALL Design 1 Introduction Discussion of historical precedent and the current attitude toward gardens. 2 The Site Affects Design Organization of the garden related to the characteristics of the site, its topography and soil, orientation and views, existing features and trees adjoining the property, and climatic conditions. 3 Design Principles Involving the principles affine art, unity, function, simplicity, and scale. Family needs, specific tastes and interests, upkeep. 4 Garden Architecture The house, entrance and other structures, pergola, pool house, steps, gazebo, etc. must interrelate with the design of the garden in terms of materials and forms. 5 The Palette Gardens are composed of a variety of materials and components. In this chapter these are illustrated as a vocabulary of design, including paving, pattern, plant materials, shadow, sculpture and water. 6 Swimming in the Garden A Garden Tour 7 Town and Country Gardens An informal walk through the gardens showing how some of the initial problems were solved, and how the application of good design principles produced the desired effect. 8 The Author's Garden Index

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Book SynopsisAims to convey the diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrates how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. This book includes sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species.Trade Review"This book not only tells you all about hundreds of these beautiful plants but -- most important -- how and where to deploy them to great effect." San Jose Mercury News "This excellent book is a must-read for anyone interested in cultivating native plants and working them into a landscape plan." -- Robert Walch Salinas Californian "Here's a beautiful and very informative book that any gardener who lives in California will love reading." -- Robert Walch Bookloons.com "A beautiful and very informative book." -- Robert Francis Aptos Times

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Book SynopsisA guide for both experienced and novice gardeners in California. It covers trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs, grasses, and vines, and also includes a plant selection guide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments GARDENING WITH NATIVE PLANTS California Plant Habitats Designing a Native Garden Propagation and Planting Tending a Native Garden PLANT DESCRIPTIONS Trees Shrubs Perennials Annuals Bulbs Vines Grasses PLANT SELECTION GUIDE Glossary Resources Art Credits Index

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Book SynopsisDocuments twelve successful urban farm programs, from an alternative school for girls in Detroit, to a backyard food swap in New Orleans, to a restaurant supply garden on a rooftop in Brooklyn. This title offers practical advice such as composting and keeping livestock in the city, decontaminating toxic soil, and changing zoning laws.Table of ContentsForeword by Mark Winne Preface by David Hanson Introduction by Edwin Marty 1. P-Patch Community Garden Program, Seattle, Washington * The Neighborhood Garden HOW TO: Change Your City's Urban Agriculture Zoning Codes 2. Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, California * The Farm as Therapy HOW TO: Grow Good, Safe Food 3. Fairview Gardens and the Center for Urban Agriculture, Santa Barbara, California * The Historic Farm HOW TO: Plant Perennial Fruit Trees in the City 4. Denver Urban Gardens, Denver, Colorado * The Garden as Community HOW TO: Turn Your Waste into Black Gold Compost 5. Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture, Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri * The Farm for Profit HOW TO: Access Start-Up Capital for Urban Food Projects 6. Versailles Community, New Orleans, Louisiana * Backyards of Bounty HOW TO: Develop a Congregational Urban Farm 7. Jones Valley Urban Farm, Birmingham, Alabama * The Education and Production Farm HOW TO: Engage the Community with Education Programs 8. Greensgrow, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * The Nonprofit, For-Profit Farm HOW TO: Rehabilitate Contaminated Soils 9. Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, Brooklyn, New York * The Rooftop Farm HOW TO: Convert Rooftops to Residential Gardens and Urban Farms 10. Catherine Ferguson Academy, Detroit, Michigan * The Alternative Curriculum Farm HOW TO: Raise Urban Livestock 11. Growing Home's Wood Street Urban Farm, Chicago, Illinois * The Job Training Farm HOW TO: Extend the Growing Season with Hoop Houses and Greenhouses 12. Sandhill Organics and Prairie Crossing, Grayslake, Illinois * The Peri-urban Farm HOW TO: Start an Urban Farm Conclusion by Edwin Marty Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisReveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community.Trade Review"The book is a tour de force, essential reading for all who want to know more about the Californian landscape." British Journal of Sociology "...illuminates social organization of the region far beyond gardens, with obvious significance outside Southern California." Gender & Society "Illuminating and provocative ... pushes urbanists and gardeners alike to see their work from new and unexpected angles." -- Priscilla P. Ferguson Social Forces "Paradise Transplanted provides an absorbing narrative about how gardens are spaces where the past and the future merge, and where the local and global meet to form new practices and possibilities." City and Community "A worthwhile read." -- Peter Catron International Migration Review "Hondagneu-Sotelo renders a powerful narrative that provides readers with an easy visualization of the natural spaces...One can imagine teaching Paradise Transplanted to undergraduates as both methodological example and illustration of C. Wright Mills's clarion call for the sociological imagination." American Journal of Sociology "...offers a timely, creative, and highly readable study of plants and people in the California landscape...an ingenious and unusual research design, one that crosscuts social classes, ethnic groups, immigrant generations, and organizational contexts." Contemporary Sociology "...a brilliant contribution to migration studies, history, urban planning, geography and landscape studies." Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space "How can we bring our cityscapes closer to the paradise that we yearn for? Paradise Transplanted pushes urbanists and gardeners alike to see their work from new and unexpected angles. Our cities will be the better for it." -- Priscilla P. Ferguson Social ForcesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Gardens of Migration 2. Ellis Island on the Land 3. The Gardeners of Eden 4. "It's a Little Piece of My Country" 5. Cultivating Elite Inclusion 6. Paradise, Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Biopolitics of Beauty is gripping in its empirical narrative and in its theoretical framework, which demonstrates that empirical attention to beauty can bring together theories about medicalization and theories about affect. . . . Jarrín demonstrates that affect and biopolitical discourse shape how patients and plastic surgeons engage each other around questions of beauty, health, and social mobility." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Biopolitical and Affective Dimensions of Beauty 1. The Eugenesis of Beauty 2. Plastic Governmentality 3. The Circulation of Beauty 4. Hope, Affect, Mobility 5. The Raciology of Beauty 6. Cosmetic Citizens Conclusion: Thinking of Beauty Transnationally Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis, the first volume of Medieval European Coinage, surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable 'national' political units in the tenth. It starts with the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and other Germanic invaders of the Empire, whose coins were modelled on contemporary issues of the Western or Eastern emperors. The coinage of the Franks is followed from early Merovingian times through to the establishment and subsequent fragmentation of the Carolingian empire. Italy is represented by the coinages of the Ostrogoths, Lombards, Carolingians and popes down to the Ottoman conquest in the mid-tenth century. The coinage of the Anglo-Saxons is traced from the introduction of minting in the early seventh century to the emergence of a united kingdom during the first half of the tenth century, including the aberrant coinages of Northumbria and the Anglo-Viking coinages of the Danelaw.Table of ContentsForeword Graham Pollard; List of plates; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on spelling; 1. Introduction; 2. The Vandals; 3. Odovacar and the Ostrogoths, 476–552; 4. The Visigoths; 5. The Lombards; 6. Minor Germanic peoples; 7. The Franks and Frisians in the Merovingian period; 8. The Anglo-Saxons: sixth–mid eighth centuries; 9. The Carolingians; 10. The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings: eighth–tenth centuries; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of Medieval European Coinage deals with the coinage of south Italy, Sicily and Sardinia between the mid-tenth century, when Volume 1 ended, and the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic, on the threshold of the modern era. The complex background to the history of this region makes its coinages among the most interesting of medieval Europe.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'With its careful analysis and exhaustive bibliography, this volume will serve well as a handbook for the historian dealing with the economy of medieval southern Italy as well as for the numismatist classifying its coinage. When all of the volumes of the series are available, we will at least have the basis for a comprehensive view of the monetary development of medieval Europe.' Journal of European Economic HistoryTable of ContentsList of plates; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on spelling; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-Norman coinages, and minor states subsequently; 3. The Normans: from the conquest to the kingdom; 4. The Hohenstaufen, 1194–1266; 5. Charles I of Anjou, 1266–85; 6. Naples under the Angevins, from Charles II to René of Anjou, 1285–1442; 7. Sicily under the Aragonese, 1282–1416; 8. Sardinia, from the twelfth century to 1416; 9. The Aragonese dominions of Sicily, Sardinia and Naples (1416–1516); 10. Naples and south Italy, 1458–1504: Ferrante to Louis XII; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Concordances; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThis 1937 book provides an authentic sketch of the history of English gun production, from their first use in the fourteenth century down to the time of Marlborough's campaigns in the early eighteenth century. This will be of value to anyone interested in English history and the development of guns.Table of ContentsPreface Lord Cottesloe; Author's preface; Plates; Illustrations in text; 1. Introduction; 2. Manufacture; 3. Guns of iron and brass; 4. Gun-foundries in London and Calais; 5. Foundries of Douai and Woolwich; 6. Foundries of Sussex; 7. The Carron Foundry; 8. Powder and shot; 9. Proof and range; 10. Extracts from historical documents; 11. List of gun-founders of England and the Continent; 12. Bibliography; 13. Index.

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Book SynopsisSince the eighteenth century Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest of all violin makers. Stradivari provides a fascinating biography of this legendary maker, as well as a detailed study of the tools he used. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the book includes colour photographs of 16 famous Stradivari instruments.Trade Review'… this is a masterly study by an acknowledged expert …' The Tablet' … for practitioners and teachers of any of the instruments investigated - the book is an extremely important tool in understanding the history and development of those instruments. It contains a great deal of useful resources: three appendices, extensive routes on primary and secondary sources, and a splendid bibliography. it is very much a book to be dipped into time and time again. Music TeacherTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Historical background; 2. Stradivari's workshop materials; 3. The violin forms and patterns; 4. Violin fittings and setup; 5. The dance master's kit; 6. The viola da gamba and viola d' amore; 7. The lute; 8. The mandola and mandolino; 9. The guitar; 10. The harp; 11. The workshop; Appendices: 1. The Hill Bass-Bar collection; 2. Thomas Salmon's 'The Theory of Musick Reduced to Arithmetical and Geometric Proportions' from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1705; 3. A case study: The 'Messiah'; Color plates.

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Book SynopsisThe James Beard Award winner returns with a dazzlingly photographed collection of her favorite recipes for relaxed entertaining (American edition). Every month, Katie Quinn Davies’s award-winning blog, What Katie Ate, receives hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the globe, and her world-class photographs are adored by many of the most prominent names in food. Davies’s acclaimed debut cookbook, What Katie Ate, won the 2013 James Beard Award for photography. In this superb follow-up, What Katie Ate on the Weekend, Davies focuses on her favorite simple dishes for weekend entertaining. More than a hundred delicious new recipes for flavor-packed pizzas and pastas, tapas, cocktails, and decadent desserts are included here, along with stories from Davies’s own dinner parties and Sunday brunches. Readers will learn how to minimize their time spent in the kitchen and maximize the enjoyment of delicious meals shared wi

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Book SynopsisHouse plants aren't just for decoration, they offer a rare opportunity to find joy by caring for another living being.

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Book SynopsisOne man's quest to seek out - and be inspired by - the great historic kitchens of Canada and the USA.

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Book SynopsisThis little book of cleaning is both giftable and unique, and provides easy, practical and sustainable tips to turn your space into a healthy, calm and organized environment. Improve your personal wellness with a clean home.Let this ultimate book on all things cleaning bring order and calm to your life as you learn the best and most efficient cleaning solutions, from natural and organic cleaning tips to ways to reduce germs and create a healthy living space. Whether you are an experienced cleaner or a beginner, this compact book will provide useful tips and tricks to keep your space clean, decluttered and calm. Perfect gift for new homeowners, recent college graduates and for those seeking to declutter their home and create a peaceful space Practical schedules for daily, monthly and yearly cleaning Focus on natural and organic cleaning tips with solutions one can even find in their own pantry Compact and uniq

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Book SynopsisIn Acquired Tastes, Peter Mayle, the erudite sojourner and New York Times bestselling author of A Year in Provence, sets off once more, traveling the world in search of the very best life has to offer. Whether telling us where to buy the world’s best caviar or how to order a pair of thirteen-hundred-dollar custom-made shoes, advising us on the high cost of keeping a mistress in style or the pros and cons of households servants, he covers everything the well-heeled—and those vicariously so inclined—need to know to enjoy the good life.   From gastronomy to matrimony, from the sartorial to the baronial, Acquired Tastes is Peter Mayle’s most delicious book yet—an irreverently spiced smorgasbord of rich dishes you’re sure to enjoy. Praise for Acquired Tastes   “Mr. Mayle is a writer who never fails to entertain. If he were told to go forth and write about doorknobs, he would return

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Book SynopsisThe first cookbook from homesteaders and co-stars of Discovery’s Alaska: The Last Frontier Eve and Eivin Kilcher features appealing recipes for anyone looking to live more sustainably, healthfully, and independently, regardless of where and what they call home.  Eve and Eivin Kilcher, stars of the hit Discovery show Alaska: The Last Frontier, are experts in sustainable living. Homesteaders by choice, the couple has had to use their self-reliance skills to survive harsh winters in the Alaskan wilderness and raise a thriving family. In their debut book, the Kilchers share 85 original family recipes and advice on gardening, preserving, and foraging. The tips and techniques they have cultivated from their family and through necessity will help anyone looking to shrink their environmental footprint and become less dependent on mass-produced food and products. Stunningly photographed in and around their handmade home and farm, Homestead Kitchen illustrates that taking on small-scale sustainable projects is not only possible in a suburban/urban setting, but ultimately a more responsible and gratifying way to live.

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Book SynopsisSpruce up any outfit with your best accessory—your hair! You don’t need to be a professional to get show-stopping hair. Hairstyled presents 75 deceptively simple techniques for creating your favorite high-fashion hairstyles. Dress up your everyday look with a ballerina bun or accessorize with a scarf bow. Turn heads at special occasions with the woven crown braid or a regal bouffant. Each style has how-to photographs that are easy to follow, and chapters dedicated to a variety of hair lengths and textures help you update your look whether you have a pixie cut or long, curly tresses. With product tips and countless ideas for accessorizing your ’do and inventive variations on classic styles, Hairstyled is your guide to getting gorgeous hair every day.

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Book SynopsisBorn in Burma and brought up in Northern Ireland, Dick Strawbridge has had more than twenty years' distinguished service in the army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. In 1993 he was awarded an MBE. Dick is regularly on screen, appearing in many television programmes including Planet Earth Challenge, Coast, The Reinventors, The Big Idea, Planet Mechanics and Scrapheap Challenge.Trade Reviewan inspirational guide to a greener, and hopefully, more rewarding future * Manchester Evening News *...for most of us it genuinely isn't always easy being green; the book's strength is to confirm that it is always worth trying * Gardens Illustrated *

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Book SynopsisYou don''t even need a garden to enjoy growing beautiful plants as a pot or window box can be squeezed in anywhere. Whether you want to have colourful flowers or homegrown veg, Gardeners'' World 101 Pots is packed with fantastic planting recipes to try. All are easy to do and will produce great results without any hassle. There are ideas to create stunning displays for each season of the year, plus easy ways to grow veg in pots so your own homegrown produce is just outside your kitchen.You''ll never be stuck for ideas of what to plant with this handy little book.Gardeners'' World Magazine is Britain''s biggest selling gardening magazine, providing fresh ideas and clear advice every month. From plants and flowers to gardens and design, allotments and kitchen gardens to shopping guides and tried and tested reviews, Gardeners'' World Magazine features the top names in BBC gardening, such as Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh, Carol Klein and the Gardener

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Book SynopsisAfter falling in love with gardening as a little girl, Ceri has been lucky enough to pursue her passion as a career. She studied horticulture at the University of Reading and the Royal Horticultural Society's garden in Wisley, Surrey before joining Practical Gardening magazine as a garden writer. This led her to work as a writer at Gardeners' World Magazine and as an editor at bbc.co.uk/gardening and Easy Gardening magazine.

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Book SynopsisThis unique box set contains 50 stunning postcards which showcase both the unique specimens and architectural gems of the Natural History Museum.

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Book SynopsisThe weird and wonderful lifestyle of orchids, the most diverse and widespread of plant families, featuring stunning artwork by the Bauers, Sydney Parkinson, Arthur Church and more.Trade Review"Botanist and writer Sandra Knapp… confesses to having been both ‘fascinated and slightly repelled’ by orchids, put off by this garishly dressed family—the second largest in the world with over 30,000 species. But the sweep, intelligence and research on display in Extraordinary Orchids, a lavish, oversize volume, will surely push the reluctant closer to admiration." Wall Street Journal

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Book SynopsisA box of 50 postcards based on Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, the taxonomic guide to colour which has been cherished by naturalists and anthropologists for over two centuries.

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Book Synopsis1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain''s most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the great delta-winged machines are also equipped with state of the art electronic warfare devices that jam American radar systems. Evading the fighters scrambled to intercept them, the British aircraft target Washington and New York, reducing them to smoking ruins. They would have done, at least, if this were not an exercise. This extraordinary raid (which actually took place) opens James Hamilton-Paterson''s remarkable novel about the lives of British pilots at the height of the Cold War, when aircrew had to be on call 24 hours a day to fly their nuclear-armed V-bombers to the Western USSR and devastate the lives of millions. This is the story of Squadron-Leader Amos McKenna, a Vulcan pilot who is suffering from desires and frustrations that are tearing his marriage apart and making him question his ultimate loyalties. Trade ReviewUnder the Radar is fascinating to read and superbly written. Hamilton-Paterson is among our finest prose stylists, and we are fortunate to have him. -- Ian Thomson Financial Times Hamilton-Paterson has written an intelligent, stylish story about a war fast fading from our collective memory. -- Antonia Senior The Times This book is a must for RAF buffs and conspiracy theorists. But more importantly it is a testament to the unsung heroes of the skies who stood between us and a nuclear strike. Daily Mail An absorbing fictionalisation of a fascinating few years ... Hamilton-Paterson has done is a terrific job recreating a credible atmosphere of the air force base, with its tensions between the old guard and the new, between the past and the future, ratchet and release, between men and women. -- Toby Clements Daily Telegraph In Empire of the Clouds, Hamilton-Paterson conjured up a magisterial account of the vanished glories of British jet aviation. While this novel is not a sequel, it focuses on a small part of that story with remarkable clarity and pathos ... As a riveting recreation of a period, it is a moving elegy with graceful prose and acute characterisation. The Lady

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Book SynopsisHelping the amateur grasp the concepts of this ancient Chinese ideology, this title includes an introduction about the philosophy of Feng Shui and explains terms such as Ch'i in easy to understand language. Each room of a house is given its own chapter and contains ideas for creating ideal living space.

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Book SynopsisFrom being the sole and secret preserve of the ancient Chinese Emperors, the art of Feng Shui has been discovered and successfully applied in the West. Now it is widely accepted as really useful and beneficial. This book helps you build the application of Feng Shui around you.

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Book SynopsisHelps you in identifying examples of decorative woodwares in antique shops, at auctions or as exhibits in museums or galleries.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION, 7; TUNBRIDGE WARE - THE PRE-MOSAIC PERIOD; Chapter 1 - Tunbridge - the Well and the Ware, 13; Chapter 2 - The London Tunbridge Ware Industry, 21; Chapter 3 - The Brighton Tunbridge Ware Industry, 29; Chapter 4 - Tunbridge Ware Production and Sale at Other Centres, 35; Chapter 5 - The Nature of Tunbridge Wares Prior to c1830, 42; MOSAIC TUNBRIDGE WARE c1830-1939; Chapter 6 - The New Mosaic Wares, 63; Chapter 7 - The Victorian Tunbridge Ware Industry 1830-75, 69; Chapter 8 - Methods of Production, 82; Chapter 9 - Victorian Tunbridge Ware Designs and their Sources, 99; Chapter 10 - The Industry in Decline 1875-1939, 116; Chapter 11 - Modern Craft Workers in Tunbridge Ware, 130; Chapter 12 - Tunbridge Ware Makers, 135; RELATED DECORATIVE WOODWARES; Chapter 13 - Killarney Inlaid Woodwares, 177; Chapter 14 - Spa Woodwares, 196; Chapter 15 - Sorrento Woodwares, 209.

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Book SynopsisAnyone can reverse facial aging using the author's six-step programme and the products that he recommends. In his book, the author presents the truth about the causes, prevention and treatment of facial ageing. It presents the accessible, basic technical information that readers need to empower themselves.

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