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Central Birmingham Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this major city. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of its well-known streets and famous faces, and what they meant to the people of this area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741925122Author Heidi FroehlichFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Stirlingshire is central to Scotland and its history. Spanning the boundary between the Highlands and Lowlands, and standing at the heart of Scotland, the town of Stirling was 'the key of the Highlands'. Granted city status in 2002 as part of the Queen's...

From the famous castle to St George's Quay, Jon Sparks takes us on a tour of Lancaster, explaining the history behind the well-known landmarks of this historic town. Lancaster has lost a few treasures over the centuries since its foundations as a Roman...

Colchester Memories is an evocative collection of reminiscences recording life in Colchester during the early to mid-twentieth century. The memories have been transcribed from recorded interviews and appear here in the contributors' own words. Various...

Sacred Ground is a sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans's legendary cemeteries. Robert S. Brantley celebrates the otherworldly landscapes, intricate ironwork, evocative memorials, and stately monuments as vibrant sites of remembrance. New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617433Author S.A. LeleuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 17mm

This work examines the cultural impact of photography in Argentina following the end of the country's military dictatorship in the early 1980s. The interpretive study surveys nine modern photographers in Argentina - Marcelo Brodsky, Gabriel Valansi,...

Montana native Gordon Sullivan will take you to postcard-perfect venues in what is arguably America's most photogenic national park. Sullivan is the photographer/author of calendars and coffee table books about Glacier, and here he shares his secrets and...

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom. Built during the Victorian age and early twentieth century, they hark back to a romanticised British coastal holiday - donkey rides on the beach,...

Covering 25 years, Burmese Shadows is an unprecedented body of work which highlights, with stunning photographs, the reality of living and fighting for survival for ordinary people in Burma. These harsh realities, however, are juxtaposed against the...

The Area of Outstanding National Beauty known as the Cotswolds is famous for its range of rolling green hills and quaint English towns and villages, filled with honey-coloured stone cottages and hosting bustling weekend markets. This beautiful vast...

Compelling and prophetic, Dorothy Day is one of the most enduring icons of American Catholicism. In the depths of the Great Depression and guided by the Works of Mercy, Day, a journalist at the time, published a newspaper, the Catholic Worker, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789730190854Author Alexandru CiobanuFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Alexandru Cristian CiobanuPublisher Alexandru Cristian CiobanuWeight(grams)...

Flowing between Devon and Cornwall, the beauty of the River Tamar is ever changing. Every turn brings something new; deer, otters, seals, stoats and, in the past, even the occasional dolphin. Rich with trees, flowers and insects, there is something...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987084101Author Ingetje TadrosFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Ingetje TadrosPublisher Ingetje TadrosWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change. Many towns and cities were redeveloped with projects that dramatically affected the character of the place. People's shopping habits were altered as supermarkets took over from traditional...

Bedouins, who refer to themselves simply as Arabs (originally, "Arab" was synonymous with "Bedouin"), are nomads who live in the desert, mainly on the Arabian Peninsula, raising sheep, camels and goats. Unencumbered by excessive possessions, and without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983248088Author Tav FalcoFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Solar BooksPublisher Solar Books

The pandemic serves as background to this story of human life and dynamics in a period of great individual and global uncertainty. From self portraits taken at the height of the lockdown to street photography in New York, Europe and Argentina, Trapped...

The magic and majesty of America's greatest western fly-fishing rivers. Flywater brings us to the iconic creeks, springs, freestone rivers, and tailwaters that make the American West the world's premier destination for fly fishing. Grant McClintock's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684199112Author Reader in Government David McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint McKay Photography IncPublisher McKay Photography IncWeight(grams)...

This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Canterbury's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England...

The city of Sheffield has long had a worldwide reputation as 'Steel City', the home of steel products of every description from cutlery to special steels for the nuclear, petrochemical and aerospace industries. But this city of more than half a million...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741925283Author Anthony HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Thousands of remarkable monuments and relics fill the land of Syria from the coast of the Mediterranean to its desert borders, dating back to the dawn of human history. The sites include: Bronze Age ruins, Roman temples and necropolises, churches and...

Donald Richie takes the reader on a revealing tour of the different districts of Japan's capital city. Starting from the original centre of Tokyo - the Imperial Palace - Richie branches outwards, taking in other areas such as Yoshiwara, the original...

Durham City is one of the North East's hidden gems, rich in history with its Norman cathedral and castle, built on a rocky peninsula and surrounded on three sides by the River Wear. Its medieval market place and street plan remain almost untouched, and...

Greenwich was home to a royal palace from medieval times and was a particular favourite of the Tudor monarchs, and the Royal Observatory was built in Greenwich Park in the reign of Charles II. Lying on the River Thames in South East London, it has a...

The Lancashire market town of Preston boomed during the Industrial Revolution to become a major textile manufacturing centre. The population soared as families came to work in the cotton mills and the town spread rapidly. New housing, churches and civic...

This is the much anticipated third volume of Dorothy Bentley Smith's highly successful series of Past Times books. This title covers a period of five years and, like the previous two, is a collection of the articles that she wrote for the Macclesfield...

The Everglades region is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the U.S., and M. Timothy O'Keefe will help you find and photograph this natural wonder-from great blue herons to rare American crocodiles, from sparkling beaches to mangrove swamps...

This inspiring and informative guide will show you 100 of the best places to photograph in New York City and the best way to capture these unique and iconic settings for your scrapbook or Web page. The guide covers all of the Big Apple-from Lower...

Montauk's beautiful beaches, and its location just over 100 miles east of Midtown Manhattan, make it a go-to destination for city dwellers seeking summer bliss. More than 100 photos offer viewers an unfiltered peek into the all-American charm of this...

A-Z of Southend delves into the history of the Essex coastal town of Southend-on-Sea. Originally Southend was a small collection of buildings at the south end of the village of Prittlewell, but in the late eighteenth century the area became popular as a...

This book is the first to consider the outpouring of photo-based art created in China since the mid-1990s. Ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, these works reflect the turn toward media-based art that characterizes the 'next generation' of...

This particular volume consists of articles that were wholly or partially published when the author, local history expert Dorothy Bentley Smith, was a columnist for the Macclesfield Express from March 2010 to mid-2012. In these articles, Dorothy covers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588342386Author Joan MyersFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Although its first inhabitants were medieval monks, Birkenhead began to grow during the nineteenth century because of its links with Liverpool. Later, trade from all over the world began to flow through the docks and the town became a centre for...

The ancient city of Bath in Somerset was founded on the site of hot springs, which the Romans named Aquae Sulis, and their magnificent Bath House buildings still stand today. In the Middle Ages the wool trade brought great prosperity to Bath and the...