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Learn to paint colorful, uplifting watercolor scenes with the step-by-step projects and techniques in this beginner-friendly guide. Welcome to the wonderful world of watercolor! Paint with Me: Vibrant Watercolor introduces beginning artists to the...

Renowned botanical artist and professional gardener, Carolyn Jenkins combines her love of art and gardening to create stunning compositions (often very different from traditional botanical painting) with vibrant colours that leap from the page. The...

Capture your happy place with embroidered portraits of landscapes. Learn everything from making a design from memory or photograph to stitching realistic details and basic embroidery stitches. Stitch various textures, from foliage and water to...

David Williamson's text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them. With a rich selection of images, anecdotes, comprehensive fact boxes and clear family trees, National...

An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland This easy-to-use, full-colour guide describes and illustrates 178 of the most commonly spotted birds in Ireland. Specially designed for people with a general interest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650741Author Daniel HahnFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639380503Author Publications International LtdPage Count 104Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914934230Author Margaret Anne AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm)...

This important book presents a comprehensive history of St Bartholomew the Great, the oldest parish church in London. In 2023, the Priory Church and Hospital will celebrate the 900th anniversary of their foundation.At the heart of the Smithfield area,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249753Author Hiroshi UnnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books

Meet Scamp the squirrel and her woodland friends in this puzzle-packed activity book. Use the special pen provided to join the dots, solve mazes, spot differences and trace the dotted lines, then wipe the pages clean and repeat. This is the perfect way...

This elegant book invites readers to lift up their eyes while strolling throughout Paris s streets and boulevards to pause, discover, and appreciate the facades of its buildings and the delicate artworks that are their windows, doors, and balconies...

Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made.From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016),...

A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body Anatomy, Exploring the Human Body is a visually compelling survey of more than 5,000 years of image-making. Through 300 remarkable works, selected and curated by an international panel of...

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 When Les and Chris Humphreys moved to Ardnamurchan 15 years ago, little did they realise they would be sharing their home with some of Britain's most elusive and misunderstood mustelids. Amongst all the...

Art has always been inspired by the wildlife around us. Since earliest times we have been continually fascinated by both wildlife and the challenge of representing it. This book sets the scene of how wildlife has been portrayed in art and guides the...

How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in...

A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours is a collection based on the Bird of the Month column in The Oldie, which is written by an instigator of the magazine, John McEwen and illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Carry Akroyd. In this beautiful new...

"Charming, surprising, and beautiful. The perfect Yosemite guidebook for history buffs." -Andrea Wulf, author The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Every day, Yosemite National Park welcomes people from around the world who seek a...

Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications.And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular...

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...

Despite the famously uncooperative Irish weather, John Hinde's postcards of Ireland featured bright sunshine and blue skies, a country seemingly peopled entirely with redheads, happy donkeys carrying turf, and charming cottages that appeared to grow...

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed "lively." This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture-from portraits to funeral monuments, book...

Sketch Your Style is a fully interactive guided sketchbook for anyone who loves fashion and loves to doodle, sketch, and draw. Inside, you&;ll find step-by-step instructions for drawing and personalizing figures, and more than 50 inspirational exercises...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781796974089Author One Color Coloring BookFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas. The Shipping Forecast is a national institution, relied upon by mariners but also strangely comforting and poetic to landlubbers...

Christian images have a long history within the Western art tradition from the narrative and devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the radical new interpretations of the twenty-first century. This fascinating new book explores the...

'For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life. A role-model of reconciliation and forgiveness, he stretched out his hands in love, acceptance and healing.' The Queen's Christmas Broadcast, December...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943105513Author Quinn DolanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Edition ReussPublisher Edition ReussWeight(grams) 1024g

Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639380176Author New SeasonsPage Count 64Imprint New SeasonsPublisher New SeasonsWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 213mm * 10mm

Art and architecture are mirrors of a society. They reflect the state of its values, especially in times of crisis or transition. Upon this premise Paul Zanker builds an interpretation of Augustan art as a visual language that both expressed and...

This book provides all the advice you need for taking the world by storm, from the inimitable Lisa Congdon. In this illustrated guide to life-perfect for graduates and other seekers-acclaimed artist and educator Lisa Congdon offers up wisdom and...

Precisely rendered to dazzle the eye with their botanical accuracy, the sumptuous arrays of fruit and flowers by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) were among the most avidly collected paintings of the 18th century. The arrangements were...

The British Museum's vast collections include wonderful images of birds from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in realistic detail, going about their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640606302Author Kenneth StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113g

Collection of Tessa Newcomb's paintingsBook InformationISBN 9781911408772Author Tessa NewcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Sansom & CoPublisher Sansom & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626982109Author Henri J.M. NouwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482093Author Michael SchubertFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 1837gDimensions(mm) 320mm...

This beautiful book explores the world of colour in the plant kingdom and introduces the artist to effective practical methods of using colour in botanical painting. It focusses on the relevance of making accurate observations of colour in botanical...