Britains lost cities, Stamp, Gavin

Автор: Virginia McAlester
Название: Great American Suburbs Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas
ISBN: 0789209764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780789209764
Издательство: Abbeville Press
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Описание: Shows readers the architecture and culture of two of America`s earliest and most luxurious suburbs: Highland Park and University Park, Texas. Illustrated with over 280 photographs, 75 maps, graphs and archival images, this work covers the history and development of Dallas` suburbs, as well as the architects that designed them.

Название: Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined
ISBN: 1452149577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452149578
Издательство: Abrams
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Цена: 13850.00 T
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Описание: This unique coloring book features immersive aerial views of real cities from around the world alongside gorgeously illustrated, Inception-like architectural mandalas. Artist Steve McDonald's beautifully rendered and detailed line work offers bird's-eye perspectives of visually arresting global locales from New York, London, and Paris to Istanbul, Tokyo, and Melbourne, Rio, Amsterdam, and many more. The adult coloring book's distinctive large square format offers absorbingly complex vistas to color, the crisp white pages are conducive to a range of artistic applications, and a middle margin keeps all the artwork fully colorable. Complementing the cityscapes are a selection of mind-bending labyrinthine architectural illustrations for still deeper meditative coloring adventures and imaginative flights of fancy.

Автор: Buel Richard Jr.
Название: In Irons: Britains Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy
ISBN: 0300204981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300204988
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be "in irons." In this groundbreaking examination of Americas Revolutionary War economy, the phrase is an apt metaphor for the inability of that economy to free itself from the constraints of Britains navy. Richard Buel Jr. here investigates for the first time the influence of Britains navy on the American revolutionary economy, particularly its agricultural sector, and the damage that Britain inflicted by seizing major colonial centers and denying Americans access to overseas markets. Drawing on documents newly culled from American, British, and French archives, the author shows how the French alliance, naval operations in the Atlantic and Caribbean, military operations in North America, and the policies of state and continental authorities contributed to the collapse and then revival of the revolutionary economy. Buel places the American economy in international context and discusses how both Spain and France created the conditions-though sometimes inadvertently-that bolstered the economic survival of the infant republic.

Автор: Blume Lesley M M
Название: Let`s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition
ISBN: 1452105308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452105307
Издательство: Abrams
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Цена: 12860.00 T
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Описание: Let`s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition is a collection, organised by topic, of forgotten but wonderful words, phrases, names, insults and idioms including fascinating and funny anecdotes, etymologies and occasions for use.

Автор: Brown, Paul
Название: Britain`s historic ships
ISBN: 1844860930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844860937
Издательство: Anova
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Цена: 22000.00 T
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Описание: This lavish new volume explores twenty of the most celebrated and accessible ships and offers a comprehensive history of each vessel`s design, construction, active service and subsequent restoration and preservation. In addition to the featured entries, an appendix presents all of the necessary contact details and opening times where applicable.

Автор: Beckham Andrew
Название: Lost Christmas Gift
ISBN: 1616891025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616891022
Издательство: Abrams
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Цена: 18800.00 T
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Описание: Sixty years after his father left to be a mapmaker in the war in Europe, Emerson Johansson received a package that had been lost in the mail for decades. The package contained a most extraordinary gift: an exquisite book Johansson s father lovingly handmade detailing an extraordinary adventure they shared together just months before his departure. This book tells the tale of how father and son set out into the mountains on Christmas Eve to cut a tree, but get caught in a dangerous blizzard. Lost in the snow, they are helped by a mysterious figure, a silvery man who does not speak but leaves them a series of gifts that help them survive and who ultimately leads them home in an almost magical way. The enigmatic man's image is not captured in the photographs the boy took with his new camera, pictures he believed, until now, were long lost. Little did he know that his father had taken the photographs, and drawing on vellum overlays from his own memory of that night's events, meticulously reconstructed, mapped, and narrated their adventure, revealing that the curious man in the woods was, in fact, no stranger, but somebody well known to us all. This book, destined to become a Christmas classic, is a faithful facsimile of the magnificent handcrafted present Johnasson s father sent him, and a poignant reminder that the best gifts, of memory, family, and the kindness of strangers, transcend time but never our understanding.

Автор: Snape, Steven
Название: The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 0500051798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500051795
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: The first and only book to bring together all the Egyptian cities and towns in one comprehensive and authoritative overview.

Автор: Coe, Michael D.
Название: Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya
ISBN: 0500970408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500970409
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of his or her native country, defining the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state, large and small, and together they make up two-thirds of the worlds population. They range from mature democracies to religious autocracies and one-party states, from countries with a venerable history to those who only came into being in the 20th century. In order to get to grips with the national and cultural differences that both enliven and endanger our world, we need above all to understand different national viewpoints to read the always engaging and often passionate accounts given in this remarkable and unusual book.