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Steven Spielberg's sci-fi horror movie "Night Skies"; David Lynch's "Ronnie Rocket", Terry Gilliam's "Watchmen"; and Ridley Scott's "I am Legend" - these are just some of the legendary sci-fi films covered in this book. Legendary because none of them...

An illustrated encyclopedia of model making techniques, which provides coverage of four main themes - landscapes, figures and animals, structures, and machinery - and information on techniques which can be applied to various materials.Book...

An illustrated autobiography.Book InformationISBN 9780747210450Author Diana RossFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 965g

Following "Giles: A life in cartoons" and "The Giles family", the third in this tribute concentrates on Giles' wartime cartoons. He describes his experiences to Peter Tory, and chooses 150 of his favourite wartime cartoons.Book InformationISBN...

Around Bristol and Bath is one of 20 titles in the new Philip's Cycle Tours series. The series is directly derived from the highly successful Ordnance Survey Cycle Tours series, but has been updated and improved, with a new focus on the needs of cyclists...

This delightful, small-format activity book is bursting at the seams with creative and imaginative activities that are specially designed for the Easter period. Enchanting and wonderfully evocative, this sunny springtime book will charm any child and...

This is an easy to use guide to a wide range of art 'isms'. From the isms of the Renaissance to the isms of now, it gives a practical introduction to all the significant isms that have shaped art history. For each ism, there is a definition, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517588642Author Schuyler G. ChapinFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Random House Value PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1157g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517585672Author Marcia KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

Skulking beneath London's tacky veneer live a bunch of seedy creatures that thrive in the murk. We once knew very little about them, but that was before Gus - our fox on the frontline. Gus's Scrapbook is a collection of snippets and scribblings,...

Stunning bestseller now in paperback! This is an essential book on using paper and metal in textile art and embroidery. Interest in new and exciting surfaces in textile art continues unabated and this is still the best book on the subject by two leading...

The London Stone at Staines marks the ancient western boundary of the jurisdiction of the City of London. The Lord Mayor and Corporation's conservancy of the Thames extended east from there as far as Yantlet in Kent. This is the stretch of the river...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712698009Author Geoffrey GoddenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Barrie & JenkinsPublisher Vintage

A 4-colour illustrated guide with approximately 100 step-by-step diagrams on how to make your own curtains with all the trimmings.Book InformationISBN 9780712646970Author Lady Caroline WreyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ebury PressPublisher Ebury...

The traditional drawing room is the heart of the home and also a room in which aesthetic preferences and individuality of taste can be indulged and satisfied. This book contains chapters on the general character and disposition of the drawing room and...

Sayings, prayers and stories drawn from the life and teachings of the Dalai Lama - one of the world's greatest spiritual teachers - are collected in this volume as reflections for each day of the year.Book InformationISBN 9780712608985Author Renuka...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711967212Author Carol BarrattImprint Chester MusicPublisher Chester Music

A collection of photographs of the ancient and spiritual lands of Indochina: Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia taken during a lifetime of travelling and living there by Tim Page. They provide an account of a deeply religious society whose age-old Buddhist...

Headwaters visits the sources of more than fifty rivers in Great Britain, from the longest and best known to some of the shortest and most eccentric. Phil Clayton describes a series of walks ranging from long treks over Scottish mountains and through...

This book is a visual celebration of old and new Dublin. Leading photographer Paul Barker shows us the graceful streets, squares and monuments of Georgian Dublin, now restored to their former elegance. He takes us to Dublin Castle and Trinity College, to...

The Southern Fells include the highest, roughest, grandest fells in Lakeland including the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike. Wainwright - a fell-walking legend in his own lifetime - knew the terrain and conveyed its grandeur and beauty like...

Francis Bacon's powerful and disturbing images of the human figure have had a profound impact on the art of the 20th century. A lifelong student of colour, form and brushwork, he created an art at once classical and modern, ordered and chaotic, in which...

The Peak District has a network of over 1600 miles of footpaths, and offers some of the toughest walking in Britain. Each of the 40 varied and circular walks described in this book, with route directions and maps, can be completed by a reasonably fit...

A professional art school course for both students and amateurs alike. The book begins with the basics of the figure and guides the reader through the complexities of anatomy, proportion and perspective with simple instructions to provide essential...

Soar above the earth. Look down. And what do you see? Water and land, trees and buildings, people and animals. And more, so much more. Let the remarkable aerial photographs of Yann Arthus-Bertrand take you to a whole new world of discovery and adventure...

London is an exciting, vibrant and often noisy city but this busy metropolis also has a quiet side. Siobhan Wall encourages Londoners and visitors to the capital to wander away from the crowds and discover calm amid the hustle and bustle. This is a guide...

Stretching along the bordering counties with England - Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire - the Welsh Marches are made up of a mixture of mountains and moorlands, farms and wooded river valleys. The densest concentration of...

Picasso's name has become synonymous with creative genius, but who was he - a public figure who lived his life in the headlines, or a private person, unpredictable and filled with secrets? This intimate portrait traces his life from the early years in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500200940Author Peter MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd

We can all recall a little rule bending in our schooldays - the Geography teacher who preferred to talk football than fold mountains; the sixth form head who let out the odd swear word. But pity the poor students who encountered the educators in this...

In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated guide, Cyril Aldred surveys nearly 3000 years of Egyptian architecture, painting and sculpture. His "eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account...

The late Sir John Betjeman described this volume as "a gem of a book...condensed knowledge without being stodgy, affectionate without being mawkish." From the Saxon simplicity of the little church of St. Lawrence at Bradford-on-Avon to the late...

This book covers every significant medium of art, from painting, sculpture and printmaking to medieval goldsmiths' work and stained glass. Here will be found clear, up-to-date information on hundreds of artists and on more general topics such as schools,...

Anyone Can Knit sets out to prove its claim with a treasury of know-how and ideas appealing to every skill level. This beautiful full color title is packed with step-by-step instructions in essential knitting skills as well as stylish projects. Includes...

Love and desire are fundamental to human experience. These most powerful of emotions have been universal themes of myth, art and literature for millennia. In Love & Desire, William Ewing has selected photographs which take us to the heart of...

The poster as we know it dates back no further than 1870, for it was then that the perfection of techniques in color lithography first made mass production possible. Yet in little more than a hundred years it has come to be recognized as a vital art...

Surrealism was a revolution. Unlike other modern movements such as cubism and geometrical abstraction, it was not based purely on artistic innovation; its aim was nothing less than the liberation, in art and in life, of the resources of the subconscious...

A study of the life and works of Joseph Mallord William Turner. A precocious talent, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of 15, an institution that was to play a major part in his life, recognizing his genius and supporting him against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) is widely considered one of the most influential writers on the history of architecture in the 20th century. He is best known for...

Over 300 photographs of Russia from 1894 to 1994, most of them previously unpublished, and very few seen before in the West, have been culled from dozens of archives, museums, private collections and previously closed files. Together they provide a...