Long typecast as the hotrods of the sea - fast but dangerous - modern cruising multihulls actually are among the safest and most comfortable cruising sailboats available. This book supplies the reader with information about design, construction, rigs, seamanship, safety, and rebuttal of the 'accepte[...]
A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2014 11pm, Tuesday 4 August 1914: with the declaration of war London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers pass through the capital on their way to the front; wounded men are brought back to be treated in Lon[...]
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers of all sorts who sought to capture the essence of the place.
Acclaimed historian Jerry White has c[...]
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This book explores London's history over the nineteenth century as a whole. It shows the destruction of old London and the city's unparalleled suburban expansion.[...]
Explores how and to what extent Londoners negotiated and repaired these open wounds. This book introduces us to shopkeepers and prostitutes, men and women of fashion and genius, street-robbers and thief-takers, as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London.[...]
By talking to people who grew up in Rothschild Buildings in the 1890s and after, and using documentary evidence from a wide range of public and private sources, Jerry White re-creates the richly detailed life of that community and its relations with the economy and culture around it.[...]
Reviewers continue to rave about "And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets To Purity." But the greatest proof of it's effect is in the lives of tens of thousands of young women who've embraced the book's proven "How-to-wait" skills. Each chapter of "And the Bride Wore White" begins with a narrative o[...]
A key figure in the Toronto New Wave of the 1980s, Peter Mettler is one of the most intriguing and audacious filmmakers in English Canada, known not only for his work as a director but also as a cinematographer and editor. His films are distinguished by an innovative approach to the medium, regardle[...]
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically to the work they did together, examines the way they expanded the possibilities of cinema by usi[...]
London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. This title explores how and to what extent Londoners negotiated and repaired these open wounds.[...]