The Times Lost Joy of Railways (Holland Julian)(Pevná vazba)

The Times Lost Joy of Railways (Holland Julian)(Pevná vazba)

Journey back to the 1950s and 60s with this nostalgic look at Britain's railways in their glory days. Packed with hundreds of photographs, journey logs, trainspotting notebooks and ephemera. This is a vivid recollection of the whole atmosphere of the railways during that glorious era. Organised by

Railways (Holland Julian)(Pevná vazba)

This is a collection of fascinating and diverse British railway facts and stories to read in any spare moment. Travel back to the age of steam and discover the world's oldest active steam locomotive before becoming up-to-date with railways in films, such as Harry

The Times Golden Years of Rail Travel (Holland Julian)(Pevná vazba)

Written by Britain's leading railway author this publication celebrates an evocative period in Britain's railway history, sadly gone forever but never forgotten. Highly illustrated with photographs and railway memorabilia that have been collected during the authors lifetime interest in the

Locomotives of the Isle of Wight Railways (Silsbury Roger)(Pevná vazba)

Cambrian Railways Gallery: A Pictorial Journey Through Time (Maidment David)(Pevná vazba)

This book in Pen & Sword's 'Gallery' series starts with a brief history of the Cambrian Railways' early years, followed by a magnificent comprehensive set of early photographs of Cambrian engines and Oswestry Works made available by the former Chairman of the Manchester Locomotive Society and the

Railway Rhymes (Ashley Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Divided up into chapters entitled Navigation, Engineering, Waiting, Travellingand Musing, Railway Rhymes is the perfect pocket companion for waiting room and train compartment

The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found (Gorrell Angela Williams)(Pevná vazba)

'My vocation was supposed to be joy, and I was speaking at funerals.' Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Angela Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew, only

Book of Joy. The Sunday Times Bestseller (Lama Dalai)(Pevná vazba)

The two men spent a week discussing a single burning question: how do we find joy in the face of suffering?This book is a gift from two of the most important spiritual figures of our

Lost Species (French Jess)(Pevná vazba)

Journey back in time and meet some of the world's most extraordinary lost creatures - from the awe-inspiring woolly mammoth and the ferocious Spinosaurus to the shy Chinese river dolphin and incredibly rare Pinta Island tortoise 'Lonesome

The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time (Barbour Julian)(Pevná vazba)

A radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of timeTime is among the universe's greatest mysteries. Why, when most laws of physics allow for it to flow forward and backward, does it only go forward? Physicists have long appealed to the second law of thermodynamics, held to

The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 (Ogle Vanessa)(Pevná vazba)

As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle's chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to

In Search Of Lost Times Volume 1 (Proust Marcel)(Pevná vazba)

In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel

Early Railways: A Guide for the Modeller (Chatham Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Early Railways, A Guide for the modeler will encourage and support the modelling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880; a period which for British modelers has scarcely been covered in book

Railway Breakdown Cranes - The Story of Steam Breakdown Cranes on the Railways of Britain (Tatlow Peter)(Pevná vazba)

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way (Proust Marcel)(Pevná vazba)

The greatest French literary masterpiece of all time is now available as a graphic novel. Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging, literary experiences. Now, in what renowned translator Arthur

Lost Railways of Limerick and the South West (Johnson Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

The Best of Me (Sparks Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's story of love, lost dreams and redemption'Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen.'In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell

For a Girl Becoming (Harjo Joy)(Pevná vazba)

Transformative moments in the cycle of life are a time for acknowledgment, a chance to guide a child's path in a positive and loving direction. Swirling images laden with both myth and personal meaning illustrate this unique, poetic tale of the joys and lessons of a girl's journey through birth,

Diary Of A Yorkshire Vet (Norton Julian)(Pevná vazba)

Consisting only of articles taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post, Julian Norton's The Diary of a Yorkshire Vet features anecdotes from his veterinary work in North

Railways Studios - How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand (Alsop Peter)(Pevná vazba)

On the 100th anniversary of its creation, this book celebrates Railways Studios--the design studio of the New Zealand Railways--and its role in helping build and connect New Zealand. It's a surprising story: a government agency that produced advertising for any-and-all clients, and dominated

A Piglet Named Mercy (DiCamillo Kate)(Pevná vazba)

The instant New York Times bestseller Every porcine wonder was once a piglet Celebrate the joy of a new arrival with this endearing picture-book prequel to the New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too

How Jack Lost Time (Lapointe Stphanie)(Pevná vazba)

Poignant, original, and vibrant, this contemporary nautical fable journeys into the heart of the human spirit, and will move readers young and old. Jack is not like other sea captains. Fishermen say he's weird, but Jack only cares about one thing: the grey whale with the scarred dorsal fin, the one

Battle of Britain: Book 2 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War (Holland James)(Pevná vazba)

Atlas of the Railways in South West and Central Southern England (Malthouse Stuart (Author))(Pevná vazba)