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Steam-driven locomotives played a major role in the 19th century where they took over the heavy haulage tasks from horses and ushered a new era in the history of transport. This book celebrates the many remarkable examples of these vehicles. It features...

Luis Valdez studies the life and work of this Chicano playwright, director, performer, and producer along with the implications of his legacy for Chicana/o/x communities and for all who engage with his work.Valdez’s work broadened the scope of theater...

The ultimate reference to knitting - for knitters of all levelsWith over 90 essential stitches and patterns explained, this indispensable knitting guide is guaranteed to inspire your next project and help you complete it to perfection. Whether you're...

The Bible contains many doublets: conflicting accounts of the same event. These are a challenge to faith: if the Bible is the Word of God, how can it differ from itself? It was proposed that the first five books of the Old Testament were formed from...

A guidebook to trekking in Norway north of the Arctic Circle, including the Lofoten Long Crossing in the region's south-west and the Finnmarksvidda in the far north-east. From 48-165km (30-103 miles) in length and taking between 4 and 10 days to walk,...

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.To achieve sustainability, cities choose their own goals and develop the...

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.To achieve sustainability, cities choose their own goals and develop the...

Popular author, speaker, and pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, Chad Veach tackles one of the Christian's greatest foes: an obsession with self. Ego often sneaks up on us in varying forms of narcissism, subtly turning so much of our attention to our...

This publication examines the transmission of knowledge between art and design, focusing on the reciprocal exchange of knowledge between artistic and non-artistic objects. It starts from the assumption that knowledge may circulate in different forms...

The Girl Who Became a Rabbit, is a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story. Examining reclaimed narratives of...

A collection of poems by the first English woman to publish secular poetry under her own name. Isabella Whitney (c. 1547–after 1624) was the first English woman to publish original secular poetry under her own name. She published two poetic miscellanies...

For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that literary traditions mattered and regarded poetic form as something embedded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988532934Author G. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Colorado Music ExperiencePublisher Colorado Music Experience

Jews and Christians have interacted for two millennia, yet there is no comprehensive, global study of their shared history. This book offers a chronological and thematic approach to that 2,000-year history, based on some 200 primary documents chosen for...

"And then he said it's just a dog's birthday party.""Dump him."Barbie isn't perfect-far from it. Honestly, she's just like us. Barbie has bad hair days. She's late to work (that oat latte had nothing to do with it). Nothing is fitting right. She's also...

First published in 1947, Over the Hills and Far Away takes the reader back to the holidays of olden times and then in the footsteps of the first holiday-makers on the European Continent in the 17th century. We watch the slow opening up of holiday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093067Author Vincent A. Matatumua VermeulenFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd.Publisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd.

Board games are increasingly recognized as an artform of their own, but their design and aesthetics are just as important as their gameplay mechanics. In this handbook, art director and graphic designer Daniel Solis offers his 20+ years of expertise in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093043Author Vincent A. Matatumua VermeulenFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd.Publisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd.

You shouldn't follow someone you don't trust, and you can't trust someone you don't know. So if you want to follow Jesus more closely, you need to know him more intimately. How do you do that? Well, how do you get to know anyone? By hearing their story,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888975985Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

When the Comedy Pet Photography Awards announced a contest for the funniest pet photos, they received thousands of entries from all over the world. Now its creators Paul Joyson-Hicks and Tom Sullam showcase the best of the best - as well as some...

“Scotland” is another essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s leading literary journal. The issue is a cultural state-of-the-union for Scotland in the aftermath of the 2014 Referendum, with some incisive politics and a section of poems by...

Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importance of architecture as an expression of broad, complex social drivers is complemented by the equally...

Discover the blacksmithing techniques used to make 10 traditional Japanese objects with insights from the artisans and rare glimpses inside their workshops. The art of blacksmithing and steel processing didn't reach Japan until more than 1,000 years...

Pittman was not just an observer but was an active participant in the places and events that shaped pop culture as we know it the goings on at Andy Warhol s Factory, the women s liberation movements of the 1970s, the VIP room at Studio 54, and the...

Ezequiel Farca looks to the work of the late design icon Luis Barragan for inspiration, blending tradition with modernity. He focuses on the importance of collaborating with indigenous artisans who work in age-old Mexican crafts, to create...

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge...

This is a fascinating study of rare Siamese illuminated manuscripts of two kinds, biological and cosmological. Beautiful in themselves, they are produced under unusual conditions and no one of these manuscripts is like another, though they draw on a...

Crochet the holy family and their visitors at Christmas: Step-by-step instructions and patterns for Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, three wise men, angel, sheep, cow, and donkey. Bianca is the designer behind Crocheniacs. Crochet the holy family and their...

Hyper-individualism and consumerism are failing to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which real community is increasingly hard to find. The culture wars have been painful and polarising and have proved a poor way to agree any...

Split Subject, an early project by architect Frida Escobedo, deconstructs a fraught allegory of national identity and architectural modernism in Mexico. Unpacking this project and tracing its enduring influence throughout Escobedo’s career, Frida...

The much-anticipated second installment in Mark Ryden's incredible gallery of creaturesIn his Pacific Northwest studio during the isolation of COVID-19, Mark Ryden began a new series of his iconic half-animal, half-plush creatures that further explored...

Mori's Family Adventures World Traveling Coloring Book is not your typical coloring book. This book is a geography coloring book with informative cultural history, flags, cities, and countries. Educators, librarians, children, and parents will enjoy...

Between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI, France in the 1900s was a gilded moment of peace and prosperity. The authors Sabine Arqué and Marc Walter curate this collection of vintage photographs, postcards, posters, and photochromes. From the Paris World’s...

Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an existence which had, for a very long time, been self-sustaining and tranquil.The Loom is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788688925Author Lonely PlanetFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Lonely Planet Global LimitedPublisher Lonely Planet Global LimitedWeight(grams) 422g

Discover the art of slow stitch fabric journaling with this practical guide to creating a fabric journal from textile artist, Jessie Chorley. Learn how to stitch your own stories in fabric and thread to create a hand-stitched journal. Jessie encourages...

Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, Contemporary Humanistic Judaism collects the movement’s most important texts for the first time and answers the oft-raised question,...

From humble beginnings, Edwards Coaches has become the largest family owned and independent public transport operator in South Wales. At its base in Llantrisant, it proudly employs around 800 staff and operates in the region of 300 vehicles to fulfil...