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  • Labubu and the Carnival of Wonderlost

    A Tale of Forgotten Dreams and Found Wonder

    by JOHN LAW ...
    Do you hear the whistle in the wind?Labubu lives in a cozy treehouse tucked inside the whispering woods—surrounded by strange creatures, secret paths, and the scent of star-thistle tea. But everything changes when a haunting whistle lures him to a mirror hidden deep in the forest.Through the glass lies the Carnival of Wonderlost—a magical world built from forgotten dreams, glowing lanterns, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Buses and Trams Around Leeds

    by John Law ...
    The history of affordable public transport in the Yorkshire city of Leeds began in 1871, when horses began pulling trams around the city. Leeds Corporation purchased the network in 1893 and electrification followed soon afterwards. The system expanded, but finally ceased operations in 1959.Leeds was also an early pioneer of trolleybuses, with a route to Farnley Moor Top opening in 1911. Two ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Railways of the South East Since the 1970s

    by John Law ...
    John Law moved to South East London in 1970 and joined British Rail four years later. Starting at the lowest grade, he soon became a guard at Grove Park and then moved to Victoria, where he often worked the boat trains and the prestigious British Pullmans of the Venice-Simplon Orient Express. Moving through the grades, he worked at London Bridge and other stations in the central area of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Suffolk Buses

    by John Law ...
    Suffolk was once the territory of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company, with two municipal operators and several notable independents also running bus services in the county. Eastern Counties eventually became part of the First Bus Group. Lowestoft Corporation Transport, later known as Waveney District Council, sold out in 1977. The other local authority-owned operator, Ipswich Buses, is one of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Yorkshire Traction Buses

    by John Law ...
    Public transport began in Barnsley in 1902 with the opening of the Barnsley & District Electric Traction Co. Ltd, with a small Y-shaped network from Smithies to Worsborough Bridge and Worsborough Dale. Motorbus operations commenced in 1913, which soon expanded outwards, bringing about the first name change, with the word electric being dropped from the company’s title. 1928 saw the name changed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money

    by John Law ...
    John Law (21 April 1671 died 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV. In 1716 Law established the Banque Générale in France, a private bank, but three-quarters of the capital consisted ... Read more

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  • Cambridgeshire Buses

    by John Law ...
    John Law has been photographing Britain’s buses since the early 1970s. In this book, he takes us through the buses of Cambridgeshire, run by the National Bus Company, which had absorbed the services run in the area by Tilling & British Automobile Traction (who themselves had taken over Eastern Counties Omnibuses). In preparation for bus deregulation, National Bus Company’s Cambridgeshire ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Buses in Lancashire

    by John Law ...
    The boundaries of the current county of Lancashire were established in 1974 when the Furness district was lost to the newly formed Cumbria. Meanwhile Merseyside and Greater Manchester gobbled up much of the southern portion of the original county. However, some parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire were gained. The major bus operator was, for many years, Ribble Motor Services. After sale it ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Doncaster's Railways

    by John Law ...
    The railways first came to Doncaster in the 1840s. In the 1850s, the Great Northern Railway established the Doncaster Locomotive and Carriage Building Works, later responsible for building Mallard and Flying Scotsman for the LNER as well as many hundreds of other locomotives. Today, Doncaster railway station is on the East Coast Main Line between London and Scotland, and is a major interchange ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Oxfordshire Buses

    by John Law ...
    John Law has been visiting Oxfordshire and photographing the county’s buses and coaches since 1973. In this book, he covers Oxfordshire buses from the days of the National Bus Company, which was split into smaller companies such as the Oxford Bus Company, South Midland and Midland Red South, to the present day, when bigger groups have taken over many of the county’s bus routes. Go Ahead Group, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Railways of the Eastern Counties Since 1970

    by John Law ...
    Over more than fifty years, the railways of the Eastern Counties have seen a great number of changes. In the early 1970s, many stations, even some of the smaller ones, had a resident diesel shunter for moving empty carriages or servicing the goods yard. First generation diesel multiple units ran most of the secondary lines, with locomotive-hauled expresses being used on the InterCity routes and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hampshire Buses

    by John Law ...
    Hampshire is the largest county in south-east England, despite losing the Isle of Wight and other areas during the 1974 boundary changes. Three important cities fall within its present boundaries: Winchester, Southampton and Portsmouth. Winchester, once the capital of England and still the county town, was home to the famous green buses of King Alfred Motor Services until the business was sold to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD