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Magic Stones | |||
| The Secret World of Ancient Megaliths |
Ancient History Archaeology |
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| Jan Pohribny | ||||
| Merrell 2007 304 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1858944139 | ||||
| Published Price £29.95 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| During a 17-year pilgrimage around Europe, from the far north of Scandinavia to the Mediterranean islands, the award-winning Czech photographer Jan Pohribny captured the magic of megalithic architecture of tombs and temples and standing stones. Beginning with the enigmatic single standing stones - with examples from the Czech Republic, Wales and Majorca as well as the famous menhirs of Brittany - the book contains over 250 magnificent photographs, with an introduction by the archaeologist and broadcaster Julian Richards. | ||||
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The Art of Street Jewellery | |||
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Design Social & Industrial History |
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| Christopher Baglee; Andrew Morley | ||||
| New Cavendish 2006 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1872727646 295x245mm | ||||
| Published Price £35.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| During the 19th century, as manufactured produce began to replace some home-made or locally-produced food and wares, the race to advertise began; and in the 1870s the colourful enamel sign emerged as the advertisers' favourite medium. In this definitive work on the subject, Baglee and Morley describe the history, manufacture, and evolving styles of enamel signs. The book illustrates over 2,400 of them, with familiar brands like Cadbury's, Pear's Soap and Michelin alongside products such as Swastik Lamps and Zebra Grate Polish that have long since disappeared. | ||||
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London Art Deco | |||
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Design |
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| Arnold Schwartzman | ||||
| Hudson Hills 2006 156 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1555952828 212x225mm | ||||
| Published Price $45.00 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
| Hailed as the first truly international design movement, Art Deco flourished through the 1920s and 1930s, with each country developing its own style in terms of design, materials and techniques. In Britain, Art Deco reflected imperial status and the national love of architectural detail. Many of the capital's greatest examples are captured here by graphic designer and photographer Arnold Schwartzman. Ranging from factories and corporate buildings to fine decorative detail, these images catalogue a distinctive moment in London's architectural and design history. | ||||
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Churches | |||
| Explore the Symbols, Learn the Language and Discover the History |
Architecture Religion |
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| Timothy Brittain-Catlin | ||||
| HarperCollins 2008 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0007263066 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| An architect and architectural historian, Timothy Brittain-Catlin presents a richly detailed and beautifully illustrated guide to the wealth of social, religious and cultural history embedded in our churches and cathedrals. He explains how to identify and interpret every element of church buildings and decoration - from the location of the village church to heraldic symbolism in stained glass windows - and concludes with a look at churches worldwide and works by 20th century architects, such as Le Corbusier's Notre Dame-du-Haut. | ||||
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London's Dead | |||
| A Guided Tour of the Capital's Dead |
British Isles Social & Industrial History |
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| Ed Glinert | ||||
| HarperCollins 2008 310 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0007254970 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Anarchists at the King Bomba cafe in Old Compton Street, Lord Haw-Haw hanged for treason in Wandsworth Prison, ten workmen dead during the building of Brunel's Thames Tunnel in the 1840s, 51 drowned in the Marchioness disaster in 1989... Ed Glinart tells the stories of remarkable deaths in London. The book is arranged by the capital's traditional postcodes - EC1 to W14 (where Marcus Garvey suffered a stroke at 53 Ralgarth Road in 1940) - and ends, fittingly, with the Underground. | ||||
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Villa Gardens of the Mediterranean | |||
| From the Archives of Country Life |
Gardening Travel & Places |
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| Kathryn Bradley-Hole | ||||
| Aurum 2006 208 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 184513124X 305x250mm | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| Despite its essential Britishness, Country Life has for over a century featured exceptional gardens of Continental Europe. The Ottoman splendour of Mustapha Superieur, Edith Wharton's garden at Hyeres, the Villa Cypris on Cap Martin, the garden created by William Walton on Ischia in the Bay of Naples... This impressive book draws on the magazine's archives to present photographic portraits, with commentary by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, of over 30 gardens in Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. | ||||
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