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The Roman Forum by David Watkin 9781861978059 [USED COPY]
€25.79There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the... -
The Roman Forum David Watkin 9781861978059
RRP: €10.70€7.68There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the... -
Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle by Tom Quinn 9781785904790
RRP: €23.80€17.23For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens, wayward children, royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. This remarkable building has served as the stage for some of... -
The Livery Halls of the City of London Anya Lucas 9781858946702
RRP: €53.55€43.32For more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing a particular craft or profession, were originally... -
The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future Jonathan Hill 9781138367784
RRP: €47.59€42.20The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin... -
Modernist Escapes: An Architectural Travel Guide by Stefi Orazi
RRP: €35.69€34.32Modernist fans will want to dive right into the pages of this guide to remarkable buildings designed by famous architects from Alvar Aalto to Charlie Zehnder. Featuring over 130 unique structures that span the globe, this book covers the full spectrum of... -
The Liverpool Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett
RRP: €20.22€15.66A colourful tribute to one of the UK's most iconic cities with a foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. With its historic port and unique docks next to the mighty river Mersey, Liverpool enchants tourists and locals alike. Its bustling music scene, past and... -
Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England by Simon Phipps
RRP: €21.41€14.45During the post-war years the North of England saw the building of some of the most aspirational, enlightened and successful modernist architecture in the world. For the first time, a single photographic book captures those buildings, in all their power... -
The Birmingham Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett 9781912934256
RRP: €20.22€15.66The Birmingham Art Book is a tribute to a unique city whose visionary scientists and inventors made it famous as a manufacturing powerhouse. From heavy metal industry - here is where the first steam trains were built - to heavy metal music - Black... -
Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Adam Sharr
RRP: €10.70€7.68Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental... -
Unbuilt: Radical visions of an architectural future that never arrived by Christopher Beanland
RRP: €29.75€21.59Unbuilt tells the stories of the plans, drawings and proposals that emerged during the 20th century in an unparalleled era of optimism in architecture. Many of these grand projects stayed on the drawing board, some were flights of fancy that couldn't be... -
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues Roger Lytollis 9781472146137
RRP: €23.80€15.89This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them.As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool's... -
Samurai Castles: History / Architecture / Visitors' Guides Jennifer Mitchelhill 9784805313879
RRP: €20.22€14.21Japan's ancient castles provide deep insights into the country's compelling military history. Discover the secrets of Japan's feudal past by exploring the most famous castles of the Samurai era. The enormous stone walls, multi-level towers, and... -
A History and Guide to Scottish Castles by Jenna Maxwell
RRP: €26.18€18.59At one time, Scotland was home to more than 4,000 castles. It's an extraordinary number for such a small country and today, around 3,000 still stand. Some are world famous, others have inspired great works of literature, while others have lit up the... -
Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited New Edition by Sarah Quill 9781848221796
RRP: €29.74€23.56In Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited, photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from Ruskin's The Stones of Venice and has linked them to her own photographs of Venetian architecture, so creating a fascinating guide that fuses Ruskin's vision of... -
Shed Heaven: A place for everything by Anna Groves
RRP: €11.89€7.90A celebration of some of Britain's most important and beloved buildings - its sheds. From the humble to the not so humble. 'An eloquent exploration of the creative, reflective and innovative space of the shed via some of the UK's... -
Country Church Monuments by C B Newham
RRP: €47.60€36.64A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and WalesDeep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These... -
The Short Story of Architecture: A Pocket Guide to Key Styles, Buildings, Elements & Materials by Susie Hodge
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Great Pyramids to high-tech, sustainable skyscrapers. Accessible and concise, the book links the 50 key works to the... -
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World by Simon Thurley
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Excellent . . . Fresh, learned, readable and full of life' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday Houses of Power is the result of Simon Thurley's thirty years of research, picking through architectural digs, and examining financial accounts, original plans and... -
Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016 by Sarah Lupton
RRP: €61.88€50.34Guide to JCT Intermediate Contract 2016, the new edition of Sarah Lupton's ever popular Guide to IC11, is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Intermediate Contract suite 2016.All of the contract's provisions, procedures and... -
How to Read Houses by Will Jones
RRP: €15.46€11.65A comprehensive pocket-sized guide to domestic architectural styles and movements. How to Read Houses is an insider's guide to recognising and appreciating the diversity of domestic architecture that reflects the location, the fashion, and the... -
How to Read Castles: A Crash Course in Understanding Fortifications Malcolm Hislop 9781912217687
RRP: €15.46€10.82The essential companion to discover the styles, architecture, form, significance and historical impact of castles from all over the world. How to Read Castles is a travel-size primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture,... -
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €13.08€9.25Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed... -
Blood and Fireflies: An absolutely enthralling historical mystery B. M. Howard 9781804362709
RRP: €11.89€7.66A dark murder. A secret brought to light...June, 1797. From his headquarters at the Villa Mombello near Milan, the French revolutionary army's young general, one Napoleon Bonaparte, dictates peace terms to Europe's monarchies with breath-taking ease and... -
London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer by Hugh Meller 9780750996532
RRP: €29.75€22.06London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, each entry includes the address, the date of foundation, the owner, the size, a note on its history, development... -
Rock Lighthouses of Britain & Ireland by Christopher Nicholson 9781849955447
RRP: €29.69€25.30Rock Lighthouses of Britain & Ireland is a new edition of the classic work on the subject - but with some of the most famous Irish rock lighthouses included. The text has been updated to include the modern technology being used by the lighthouse... -
Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age by Arnold Lewis 9780486252506
RRP: €22.60€15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486252506Author Arnold LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great Fire of 1834 by Caroline Shenton 9780198707202
RRP: €17.84€13.03When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century... -
Wiltshire by Julian Orbach
RRP: €71.40€59.15The indispensable guide to the architectural heritage of Wiltshire With hundreds of buildings added to the new gazetteer, this volume offers a fully revised and updated guide to Wiltshire. From prehistoric Stonehenge and thirteenth-century Salisbury... -
The Oxford Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett 9781906860844
RRP: €20.22€15.66A colourful showcase of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Inspired by Oxford's unique architecture and historic university, over 50 artists have produced a unique collection of contemporary images illustrating all aspects of the city and... -
War Memorials by Roger Bowdler 9781445691015 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€7.14The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials continues unabated. The tragic impact of world events on local communities over the past century has... -
War Memorials by Roger Bowdler
RRP: €10.70€7.16The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials continues unabated. The tragic impact of world events on local communities over the past century has... -
The Little Book of New York by Orange Hippo
€9.25New York City is one of the most visited cities in the world, attracting about 65 million visitors every year. On first impression, it is loud, busy, and expensive, with New Yorkers fighting against the crowds to get to the other side of 42nd Street and... -
The Bristol and Bath Art Book: The City Through the Eyes of its Artists by Emma Bennett
RRP: €20.22€15.66The Bristol and Bath Art Book portrays two very differenct cities. The beautiful images in the book capture the breath-taking landscape of rivers, hills and gorges which they share, but also the cities' sights that are so unique. Bristol is painted as... -
The English Castle: 1066-1650 by John Goodall 9780300110586
RRP: €71.40€62.61From coast to coast, the English landscape is still richly studded with castles both great and small. As homes or ruins, these historic buildings are today largely objects of curiosity. For centuries, however, they were at the heart of the kingdom's... -
Pyramids: The Real Story Behind Egypt's Most Ancient Monuments Joyce Tyldesley 9781804363690
RRP: €15.46€9.73The extraordinary mysteries of the pyramids - revealedFrom the development of monumental architecture around 3,000 BC to the fabulous edifices that rose up from the desert plains of Giza, these are amongst the most remarkable structures in world history... -
Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn by Pamela Hartshorne
RRP: €15.41€10.57The world's oldest theatre site in continuous use, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane has been at the heart of Covent Garden for more than 350 years. Audiences have flocked to the Lane to see the greatest stars of the day in spectacular productions ranging... -
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric, and Culture David Brown 9780300208184
RRP: €89.25€77.00For over a millennium, Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (1093-1133) marking it as an internationally significant masterpiece in the history of architecture. Its setting, perched on a peninsula... -
Christopher Wren London Map: Guide to the architecture of Christopher Wren in London Owen Hopkins 9781912018208
RRP: €11.31€10.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018208Author Owen HopkinsPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 2mm -
Porto: Gateway to the World by Dr. Neill Lochery
RRP: €17.84€16.71'I fell in love with Porto and I love it still. The city's spectacular bridges, its vertiginous riverbanks, steep with ancient buildings, the old port houses, the wide squares: I was entranced by them all.' J.K. ROWLING One of the oldest cities in...