The digital revolution has brought with it a wider range of options for creating and producing print on paper products than ever seen before. With the growing demand for skills and knowledge with which to exploit the potential of digital technology, comes the need for a comprehensive book that not o[...]

Any peacock would be proud of these gorgeous designs to color. Many of the 31 dazzling drawings were inspired by traditional arts and antiquities as well as vintage wallpapers, mosaics, and pottery motifs, while others are all-original illustrations created by the imaginative artist Marty Noble.
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More than 2000 full-color drawings the result of extensive research into paintings, photographs, and the accessories themselves reproduce each original item in meticulous detail, accompanied by a complete description. The book covers every kind of high-fashion male and female accessory for both day [...]

Fashion Sourcebooks is a series of beautifully illustrated paperbacks presenting the renowned costume drawings of John Peacock. Fashion in the 1980s tended towards the functional and the formal. The typical 'power dressed' woman of the period wore her shoulders wide, her skirts short and her heels h[...]

An expanded edition of the BBC Television costume designer's historical guide to English costume design includes examples from more than one thousand years of history, in an illustrated reference that is organized by monarchy periods and offers insight into specific analogous developments in the U.S[...]

This book - according to the Antiques Roadshow's jewelry expert Geoffrey Munn - is 'an essential for every student and collector of jewelry, irrespective of their particular interest or budget'. Featuring over 1,500 colour, specially commissioned illustrations of all kinds and styles of jewelry from[...]

This bumper edition combines all seven books in John Peacock's renowned "Fashion Sourcebooks" series, which charts in meticulous drawings the development of women's and men's clothing in the 20th century. It will become an indispensable part of the library of fashion students, historians and collect[...]

This revised edition of John Peacocks classic book has been updated to include 155 entirely new drawings. From the styles of the early 1900s to those of the 21st century, Peacock traces the development of womens fashion in all its aspects: couture wear, underwear, leisure wear, day wear, evening wea[...]

Thomas Love Peacock, 1785-1866, is known as the author of half a dozen brief satiric 'novels' which caricature men and movements of the early nineteenth century. Dr Mills' critical study treats Peacock as a man who was particularly alive to the important literary development and the general movement[...]

This book is a success story. It explains two long-running puzzles of the theory of natural selection. How can natural selection favour those, like the ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favour of the public-spirited ways of the commune? How can it explain the peacock?s tail, flamboyant and a burd[...]

In this volume, Sir Alan Peacock, one of Britain's most noted public economists, poses the question as to whether the history of economic thought is an essential part of the training of public finance economists. He argues that the perspective gained by studying the origins of public choice analysis[...]