Journey Matters - Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style (Glancey Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Journey Matters - Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style (Glancey Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

A celebration of the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century, by the bestselling author of Spitfire: The

Spitfire - The Biography (Glancey Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

How to Read Towns and Cities - A Crash Course in Urban Architecture (Glancey Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Three Letters from the Andes (Fermor Patrick Leigh)(Paperback / softback)

The celebrated twentieth-century travel writer's remarkable journey through the high Andes of

Twentieth-Century Design (Woodham Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians,

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism (Anonymous)(Paperback)

Now in a fully corrected edition, one of the true spiritual classics of the twentieth century. Published for the first time with an index and Cardinal Hans Urs von Balthasar's afterword, this new English publication of Meditations on the Tarot is the landmark edition of one of the most important

30-Second Twentieth Century - The 50 most significant ideas and events, each explained in half a minute (Reynolds Jonathan T.)(Paperback / softback)

Concorde - The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner (Glancey Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Burnside John)(Paperback / softback)

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth

Dictators - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Dikotter Frank)(Paperback / softback)

London in the Twentieth Century - A City and Its People (White Jerry)(Paperback / softback)

Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and

Croton: Journey Into the Afterlife (Tadevosyan Artur)(Paperback)

Henry is a middle-aged, happily married man in the twentieth century. After suffering a sudden heart attack, Henry finds himself in the unknown realm of the afterlife. Lost, alone, and confused, he meets Croton. As they embark on their journey together, Croton opens Henry's eyes to all the beauty

Thinking the Twentieth Century (Snyder Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics (Teller Edward)(Paperback)

Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind the headlines--passionate and humorous, devoted and loyal. Never before has Teller told his story as fully as he does here. We learn his true position

Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century (House Jonathan M.)(Paperback)

For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful military systems and technologies. In the process, the 'art of war' has truly become the art of combined arms warfare, in which infantry, artillery, air support, intelligence, and other key elements

Vsevolod Meyerhold (Pitches Jonathan)(Paperback)

Vsevolod Meyerhold considers the life and work of the extraordinary twentieth-century director and theatre-maker. This compact, well-illustrated volume includes: a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's life a clear explanation of his theoretical writings an analysis of his masterpiece

Albigensian Crusade (Sumption Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful. This title examines the roots of the

Bit Rot (Coupland Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and

Viking at School (Strong Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Sigurd, the Viking from the tenth century, is still stuck in the twentieth century. He lives with his friends the Ellis family in a seaside hotel and constantly causes chaos. When Tim and Zoe Ellis take him to school with them, a series of seriously funny disasters

Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain (Nash David)(Paperback)

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie

Children born of war in the twentieth century (Lee Sabine)(Paperback)

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis- -vis children born of war

Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (Mller Jan-Werner)(Paperback)

In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the century. This book is the first major account

Servants - A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain (Lethbridge Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Journey (Michener James A.)(Paperback)

One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures