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Discribes and illustrates the making of the precision timekeeper, at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. This handbook provides an insight to the enthusiast and watch-collector who, until its publication, had often been a...

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A beautifully illustrated catalogue to a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, exploring enslavement, rebellion, revolution and Abolitionism through art, 1750-1850. Drawing on new research, Rise Up and the accompanying exhibition ...

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This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the works of fine artist and printmaker, Tirzah Garwood (1908-1951), wife of artist Eric Ravilious. Tirzah Garwood (1908-1951) proved herself an artist of rare t...

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The Art of Breguet is the complete, illustrated history of the work of Abraham Louis Breguet by the late George Daniels, who has provided a detailed study of Breguet's horological philosophy that explains so many of the misunderstood aspects of hi...

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API development is becoming increasingly common for server-side developers thanks to the rise of front-end JavaScript frameworks, iPhone applications, and API-centric architectures. It might seem like grabbing stuff from a data source and shoving ...

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This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Described in 1923 as 'the most important woman painter in Europe', Bell was a pioneering modernist and founding me...

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Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists. As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the l...

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Discover the extraordinary stories of the Jewish people who designed, made and sold fashion in twentieth-century London, revealing their vital role in making it an iconic fashion city. While Jewish people have long been associated with making clot...

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Nominated for the 2019 Karel van Mander prize, this lavishly illustrated overview showcases some of the most significant Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles. Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decorat...

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The Tapu Garden of Eden is the story of an old man and his garden which occupies some now valuable real estate on the slopes of Maungawhau (Mount Eden) in Auckland, New Zealand. That a property developer is scheming to buy the land to build apartm...

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My Marian Year is about the daily life of a ten-year-old boy growing up in a Catholic working class family in suburban Auckland, New Zealand, in 1954. The story's interest lies in the way the narrator, John 'Johnny Boy' Little, gives us the petty ...

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This is the story of the few months the author and his wife spent working together as servants for a wealthy old couple in their large home of faded glory in The Little Boltons, one of the most desirable addresses in the Royal Borough of Kensingto...

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In a park in an antipodean city in the 1930s a teenaged boy starts work as an apprentice nurseryman.It's an idyllic world. Patient and unhurried, with a pace as predictable as the seasons. A miniature version of the pre-war colonial empire lying j...

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Nothing much ever happens in Robinson Street, Blythewillow, and for Phyllis, Graham, Karen, Charlie Downs and Monkey Oldfield, and most of the other residents of the New Zealand town, that's just the way they like it.With The Arclight cinema, The ...

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When Faith and her husband accidentally get involved in the weird life of Ponytail O'Gorman - a beguiling old fraudster - they have no idea how much he will disrupt their peaceful life in suburban Wellington, New Zealand. But he convinces them to ...

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Sometimes even the smallest kindness is rewarded, somehow; even if it takes a lifetime. Set in small-town provincial New Zealand, The Fine Art of Kindness is a gentle read about two old people who need to overcome their strange and secret past if ...

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Early in the twenty-first century a series of viruses killed eighty percent of the worlds population. Famine loomed. In New Zealand there was plenty of food but too few people to process it. The surviving city folk therefore fled to the countrysid...

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From an Auckland slum to the heights of a New York boardroom and, eventually, an obscure and unhappy old age, It's What Eddie Did records the rise and fall of Eddie Purvis, a rich and successful New Zealand advertising man, and his relationship wi...

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This atlas is ideal for use in the office, home or classroom. It is a combination of Philip's authoritative world mapping and colourful thematic maps, charts and diagrams. This edition is based on the latest digital cartographic technology.

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This map of shows Edinburgh and the unitary authority at 4.5 inches to the mile. The city centre is shown at a scale of 9 inches to 1 mile, from the Haymarket in the west to the palace of Holyroodhouse in the east. One-way streets, restricted turn...

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