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Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of British imperialism. For the next thirty years, their journeys...

Wolverhampton Grammar School was founded in 1512 and has been on its present site since 1875. This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs and other documents presents a pictorial record of this rich history, concentrating on the years since the...

From moorland taverns to ancient coaching inns, and from harbourside hostelries to backstreet beerhouses - the history of Devon's pubs is as rich, diverse and colourful as that of the county itself. Over 450 of Devon's pubs - some long gone, some still...

Wales is the home of three National Parks and five areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; its landscape is enchanting, attracting over 13 million visitors each year. Drawing upon his eclectic postcard collection, David Gwynn offers a fascinating glimpse...

Often called the last wilderness of southern Britain, Dartmoor is one of the National Parks of England and Wales. It combines wild open moorland, granite tors and wooded river valleys with areas of spectacular landscape. This collection presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910401347Author John DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint GOST BooksPublisher GOST BooksWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 221mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879252Author Edward GrazdaFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

The spa town of Bath has drawn visitors since the Roman's built baths and a temple at the site of hot springs in the Avon valley. Bath Abbey was founded in the seventh century but it was in the eighteenth century that the town became the fashion centre...

Every year millions of travellers arrive in Athens eager to catch a glimpse of the ancient city and savour its classical heritage. But what about the late nineteenth century Athens with her neoclassical buildings, wide avenues and literary salons? An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879269Author John CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879306Author Leo GoldsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Executive Order is a trenchant look at corporate America, featuring portraits and office interiors shot during the 1970s in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. A daring critique of wealth and power, Ressler wields photography with humor and insight, and...

In Ground, Bill McDowell has assembled a series of "killed" negatives from the FSA archives, many of which have never before been published. These include several photographs from 1936 that Walker Evans had made for Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, the...

Visual representations are an essential but highly contested means of understanding and remembering the Holocaust. Photographs taken in the camps in early 1945 provided proof of and visceral access to the atrocities. Later visual representations such as...

A fascinating account of the avant-garde photo-based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished images Finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category Following the 1917 Russian Revolution,...

The seventies in America were a time of social and cultural ferment, and Ira Resnick was there with his camera to capture it all. Now he is opening his archives to reveal hundreds of rare celebrity photos-many never seen since their original publication...

Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the visual culture of the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status of photography as archival or objective - or are they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915098Author "Newark Advertiser"Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Since Apollo 11's first ground-breaking moon landing in 1969, the world has been engrossed in space exploration and infinitely curious about how we got there and what might be next. What enables us to break free from Earth's gravitational well? What does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781019393642Author Rand McNallyFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900404Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Over the course of the twentieth century, travel experienced an unprecedented boom. As ocean liners broke speed records, aerodynamic trains roared down tracks, and stylish boat-plane clippers evolved into jumbo jets, travel transformed from a cushioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953946013Author Keith BatchelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Weight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900060Author Alan JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874538011Author Rayner RosserFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Old Bakehouse PublicationsPublisher Old Bakehouse Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953357703Author Arthur WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Arthur WardPublisher Arthur Ward

The landscape of Britain is dotted with remarkable features - Neolithic burial chambers, enigmatic hill carvings, standing stones and 15th-century memento mori. This book captures these mysteries and recounts their histories and the tales that surround...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902487014Author Colin C. HoughtonPage Count 28Imprint Darien-Jones PublishingPublisher Darien-Jones Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859371831Author Terence SackettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.

The photographs in this fascinating selection document the changes which overtook the county town of Staffordshire in the century following the discovery of photography. They evoke a time before the advent of the motor car, when the pace of life was so...

Upminster: The Story of a Garden Suburb is the story of how Upminster grew from a small village, regarded as an Essex beauty spot, to a thriving London suburb. It builds on previous histories and tells the story of the people and events that helped to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684815548Author Rob CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MangoPublisher MangoWeight(grams) 1474g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859373798Author Dennis NeedhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs and other documents records the vanished rural community of Norton as it was in the first half of the twentieth century. The old parish of Norton extended over a much wider area than present-day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905900145Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954209629Author Chris MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tanners Yard PressPublisher Tanners Yard Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984518934Author Diane GleasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986282145Author Chris WemmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Brg ScientificPublisher Brg ScientificWeight(grams) 803g

Blackpool has seen massive changes in the last 120 years. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was the leading holiday resort in England, famous for the entertainment on offer, its Illuminations and the Pleasure Beach, which drew millions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634994972Author Stephen MosierFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 9g