The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea
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When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by...
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind
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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They...
USS Constitution Pocket Manual
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Launched in 1797, USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United...
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)
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Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of...
Observations on Modern Gardening, by Thomas What - An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden
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Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study...
Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed
Roy Strong and Clive Boursnell
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The garden at the Laskett in Herefordshire is always described as the largest formal garden laid out...
The Royal Abbey of Reading
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Reading Abbey was built by King Henry I to be a great architectural statement and his own mausoleum,...
Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965 - 1982
Clarrie Wallis, Andrew Wilson and Jo Melvin
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The sculptor Barry Flanagan (1941-2009) was best known for his bronze hare sculptures that walk,...
Basic Watercolour: How to Paint What You See
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Watercolour has an anomalous position in the visual arts. Its association with Victorian...
George Stubbs and the Wide Creation: Animals, People and Places in the Life of George Stubbs 1724-1806
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Far more than a fine horse portraitist, George Stubbs was a painter and a printmaker of the highest...