(Music Minus One). Along with lyricist Hal David, Burt Bacharach penned some of the best pop songs and standards of all time. These superb collections let solo instrumentalists play along with: Alfie * Blue on Blue * Do You Know the Way to San Jose * I Say a Little Prayer * Magic Moments * This Guy'[...]

(Music Minus One). Along with lyricist Hal David, Burt Bacharach penned some of the best pop songs and standards of all time. These superb collections let solo instrumentalists play along with: Alfie * Blue on Blue * Do You Know the Way to San Jose * I Say a Little Prayer * Magic Moments * This Guy'[...]

Record your spending dreams and dramas, from the minute to the monumental, in this week-byweek logbook of splurges and savings. This journal is charmingly illustrated by Obsessive Consumption author Kate Bingaman-Burt, beloved by DIYers for her whimsical take on everyday life.[...]

Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral and Airport. But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions brilliantly realised in Viscontis The Leopard as w[...]

Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral and Airport. But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions - brilliantly realised in Visconti's The Leopard - a[...]

What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was cons[...]

This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1993; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books.And with good reason. Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, the author descri[...]

This volume brings to completion the reissue of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships, and it covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about the Roy[...]

An accessible guide to a key scientific concept explores the origins and impact of Darwin's theory of evolution, from the first attempts to date fossils to the modern-day mapping and coding of DNA using supercomputers. Original.[...]