The Crafting of the 10, 000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-century China
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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in...
1940: Britain Stands Alone
John Christopher and Campbell McCutcheon
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1940 As the period of the 'Phoney War' came to an end, the Nazis unleashed their Blitzkrieg tactics,...
Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art
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Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beauty in...
Mark Tobey: Threading Light
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The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Mark Tobey in forty years, this book traces...
The Best Present Ever: A Celebration of Schwinn Bicycles
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For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel...
Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour
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This new publication explores the whole career of Winifred Nicholson with a special emphasis on her...
A Captain's Duty
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8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United...
A Clean Break: My Story
Christophe Bassons, BenoIt Hopquin and Peter Cossins
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Christophe Bassons is a former professional cyclist. His career was a successful one albeit never in...
A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940
Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson
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Gladys Langford (born in 1890) was a free spirit, an aspiring writer (though not published in her...