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  • True North: In praise of England's better half

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents; the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit; townscapes of abandoned mills and shipyards; the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north', the foundations for the belief that northerners spend their lives battling hardship and misery, and that nothing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wainwright

    The Man Who Loved the Lakes

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    Wainwright: The Man Who Loved the Lakes is a celebration of the British landscape, and it tells the remarkable story of Alfred Wainwright who in 1952 decided to hand draw a series of guides to the fells of Lakeland. For the next 13 years he spent every weekend walking, and every weekday evening drawing and writing - completing one page per night. The result was Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • All Hands to the Harvest: Guardian country diaries written in wartime

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    The twentieth century saw two world wars and countless other conflicts whose effects on society have been well documented. Here you will find the less familiar story of how these international struggles managed to reach into the quietest corners of the British countryside. From Battle of Britain vapour trails looping over summer cornfields and affecting local hawks and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The English Village

    History and Traditions

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    The village remains a quintessential and much-loved treasure of the English countryside. This rural idyll has inspired generations of great poets, novelists and artists including the likes of Constable, Hardy, Wordsworth, as well as providing the picturesque setting for modern TV series such as Lark Rise to Candleford and Cranford. The English Village celebrates all that is unique and loved about ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Statistical Learning with Sparsity

    The Lasso and Generalizations

    by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Martin Wainwright ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
    Discover New Methods for Dealing with High-Dimensional DataA sparse statistical model has only a small number of nonzero parameters or weights; therefore, it is much easier to estimate and interpret than a dense model. Statistical Learning with Sparsity: The Lasso and Generalizations presents methods that exploit sparsity to help recover the underl ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Virtual History

    How Videogames Portray the Past

    by A. Martin Wainwright ...
    Virtual History examines many of the most popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history.The book looks at the motives and perspectives of game designers and marketers, as well as the societal expectations addressed, through contingency and determinism, economics, the environment, culture, ethnicity, gender, and violence. Approaching videogames ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Handbook of Graphical Models

    Edited by Marloes Maathuis, Mathias Drton, Steffen Lauritzen, Martin Wainwright ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods
    A graphical model is a statistical model that is represented by a graph. The factorization properties underlying graphical models facilitate tractable computation with multivariate distributions, making the models a valuable tool with a plethora of applications. Furthermore, directed graphical models allow intuitive causal interpretations and have become a cornerstone for causal inference.While ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Morris Minor: The Biography

    Sixty Years of Britain's Favourite Car

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    The split screen, the indicators poking up like perspex orange fingers, the notoriously rust-prone floors, the pootling exhaust note… just some of the much-loved characteristics of the Morris Minor or Morris 1000. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis back in 1948, in a sense it was Britain’s answer to the Beetle – a bulbous little creation that was also Britain’s first mass-appeal car. Between then and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Icons of England

    by Bill Bryson ...
    This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.First ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • To the River

    A Journey Beneath the Surface

    by Olivia Laing ...
    Series Book 71 - Canons
    An author's walk "from source to sea along the Ouse in Sussex is a meandering, meditative delight" drawing on history, literature, and the river itself ( The Guardian, UK).In To The River, author Olivia Laing embarks on a weeklong, midsummer odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse in Sussex, England, from its source near Haywards Heath to the sea, where it empties into the Channel at Newhaven. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The January Man

    A Year of Walking Britain

    by Christopher Somerville ...
    'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country LifeThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Birds in a Cage

    The Remarkable Story of How Four Prisoners of War Survived Captivity

    by Derek Niemann ...
    At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.Through their shared love of birds, they overcome hunger, hardship, fear and stultifying boredom. Their quest draws in not only their fellow prisoners, but also some of the German guards, at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD