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  • Your Life, Uploaded

    The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity

    "A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."-Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc.Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital revolution. Our daily life started becoming digital a decade ago. Now much of what we do is digitally recorded and accessible. This trend won't stop. And the benefits are astonishing.Based on ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Whitby, Pickering & Scarborough Railway

    by Gordon Bell ...
    The Whitby to Pickering railway opened in 1836 with George Stephenson as its engineer. At first, carriages were horse drawn before being replaced by `travelling engines' when the line was extended to Scarborough and York. Gordon Bell brings together documents published at the time with drawings for the railway commissioned from Stephenson's assistant surveyor, George Haydock Dodgson. Hugh Dodgson, ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Northern Seascapes and Landscapes

    Early Victorian Watercolours, Prints and Drawings

    The north of England has repeatedly inspired painters to protray its scenery and ways of life. This was especially true at the turn of the nineteenth century when an upsurge of interest in its people, places and events was fuelled by affordable pictures and prints. These were the years before the widespread use of photography, when images were handmade by artists and engravers for a rapidly ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

    Theory and Roots

    series Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
    Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies of social inequalities in media and communication. The volume is a theoretical exploration of the ... Read more

    £39.99

  • Francis Nicholson

    Lithographs and Engravings of Georgian Britain

    by Gordon Bell ...
    Hailed by his contemporaries as the “Father of watercolour painting in this country”, Francis Nicholson’s career spanned nine decades. He witnessed the founding of the Royal Academy, the opening of the first public ‘Picture Gallery’, the founding of the National Gallery, and the Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Watercolours of which he was a founder member. He was born in ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Victorian Ships

    John Ward was a self-taught artist,the son of a Master Mariner, who began his career apprenticed to a house and ship painter in Hull. Having completed his term by 1819, aged 21, he exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy twleve years later. By the early 1840's, he had begun to explore printmaking to produce ship portraits of local vessels and to gather material for a Manual of Marine ... Read more

    £6.99

  • H B Carter and Sons

    by Gordon Bell ...
    This fully illustrated book traces the careers of Henry Barlow Carter (1804 - 1868) and his sons Henry Vandyke Carter (1831 - 1897) and Joseph Newington Carter (1835 - 1871). The hope of all the contributors to this book is that it will provide fresh light and original material from which readers can make their own assessments of the work and influence of these notable artists. Gordon Bell began ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Francis Nicholson (1753 - 1844)

    by Gordon Bell ...
    Hailed by his contemporaries as the 'Father of Water Colour painting in this country', Francis Nicholson's career spanned nine decades. He witnessed the founding of the Royal Academy, the opening of the first public 'Picture Gallery', the founding of the National Gallery, and the Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours of which he was a founder member. He was born in ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Pre-race Tensions

    by Gordon Bell ...
    A high-octane adventure set in the fast-paced world of Formula 1. It's only a few days until the British Grand Prix, the closing race of the Formula One season and Ray Swan, Britain's Top Driver, is missing! Pre-race tensions have rarely been greater! ... Read more

    £1.99

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  • I Never Knew That About London

    Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis I Never Knew That About London unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city's compelling, and at times, ... Read more

    £8.99

  • Constable

    John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable’s originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which ... Read more

    £4.99

  • Bradshaw’s Handbook

    Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off, it was the first national tourist guide specifically ... Read more

    £6.99