Capability Brown: Designing English Landscapes and Gardens
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Widely acknowledged as the most influential land- scape designer of his age, Lancelot Capability...
The Duchesses: The Story of Britain's Ultimate Steam Locomotives
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The Duchesses tells the story of the ' Princess Coronation' class of locomotives -the streamlined...
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...
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,...
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...
Celestina and the Human Condition in Early Modern Spain and Italy
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Winner of the 2015 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and...
A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War
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This title was shortlisted for inspirational book of the year at the 2014 Garden Media Guild Awards....