Artists Making Landscapes in Post-War Britain (Garlake Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

Artists Making Landscapes in Post-War Britain (Garlake Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers--many of them

1946: The Making of the Modern World (Sebestyen Victor)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling account of a crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling The

Picture of Cornwall - Contemporary Artists and the Inspirational Landscape (Backwill Ray)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing Landscapes (Eggleton Margaret)(Paperback)

Artists of all skill levels will find much to inspire them in this redesigned edition of Margaret's Eggleton's highly successful Drawing Masterclass: Landscapes. Bestselling author and artist Margaret Eggleton takes the reader through easy-to-follow drawing stages, and gives advice on using

Great Britain (Halliday Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Great Britain unearths the hidden legends, laws, landscapes, discoveries, adventures and locations that have shaped Britain's compelling, and at times, tumultuous

Post-Modern Buildings in Britain (Harwood Elain)(Pevná vazba)

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style--and its finest examples. Postmodern architecture, which emerged in the 1980s, has been much maligned--but in this book historians Elain Harwood and Geraint Franklin celebrate the genre with a fascinating discussion of its background and

Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality: 1950-1965 (Nuvolo)(Pevná vazba)

Britain's Railways in the Second World War (Foley Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a

A Writer's Britain (Drabble Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman. Here, the renowned author Margaret Drabble presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods, illuminating the ways in

Policy Agendas in British Politics (John P.)(Pevná vazba)

Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds new light on key points of change in

Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty (Lansley Stewart)(Paperback)

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet. Based on exclusive access to the

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

Brutal London: A Photographic Exploration of Post-War London (Phipps Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A photographic exploration of the post-war modernist architecture of London.This collection of unique and evocative photography of Brutalist architecture by Simon Phipps casts the city in a new light. Arranged by inner London Borough, BRUTAL LONDON takes in famous examples such as the Trellick

Chalk Boy (Wild Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

A soulful and heartwarming story about what happens when a pavement artist's drawing comes to

Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Russell S. Garnett)(Pevná vazba)

Emerson's Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea (Green Tyler)(Pevná vazba)

Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emerson's seminal 1836 essay is at once a meditation on the ways artists influence each other and a timely cri de coeur to cherish and preserve America's

Ruin and Renewal - Civilising Europe After the Second World War (Betts Paul)(Pevná vazba)

A major new history of post-war

Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain (Muir Robin)(Pevná vazba)

One hundred photographs explore Lee Miller's prolific fashion photography during World War II. Lee Miller 'has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue's history,' wrote British Vogue editor Audrey Withers in the summer of 1941. Despite this,

Never Again: Gardens of Peace: A Landscape and Architectural History of War Cemeteries (Racine Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale (Smith Dai)(Paperback)

Raymond Williamswas the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full use of Williams's private and unpublished papers and by placing him in a wide social and cultural landscape, Dai Smith, in this highly original and much praised biography,

Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past (Jobson Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of

Brutalism: Post-War British Architecture (Clement Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

The term Brutalism is used to describe a form of architecture that appeared, mainly in Europe, from around 19451975. Uncompromisingly modern, this trend in architecture was both striking and arresting and, perhaps like no other style before or since, aroused extremes of emotion and debate. Some

Summer of the Three Pagodas (Moran Jean)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliantly exotic saga set in post-war Hong Kong and Korea, where Dr Rowena Rossiter longs to follow her heart, and her love, but the shadows of a violent past threaten to engulf her. Hong Kong,1950: Rowena's daughter, conceived during the horrors of the Japanese invasion, is safely at boarding

The Silver Blonde (Ross Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

For fans of Ruta Septys and Monica Hesse comes a lush historical mystery set in post-World War II America against the flashy backdrop of Hollywood's film studios about a shocking murder that threatens to unearth the ghosts of a young German immigrant's past. Hollywood, 1946. The war is over, and