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  • Capability Brown

    One of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was known to many as ‘The Omnipotent Magician’ who could transform unpromising countryside into beautiful parks that seemed to be only the work of nature.His list of clients included half the House of Lords, six Prime Ministers and even royalty. Although his fame has dimmed, we still enjoy many of his works today at ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Women's Work, Men's Cultures

    Overcoming Resistance and Changing Organizational Cultures

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture. The author sets out an approach to real change by analysing the role of organisational cultures in marginalising women workers. Based on academic research, case studies and interviews, the author presents a new model for changing organisational culture ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Adult Supervision

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'I keep trying to find something a bit exotic in my family tree. Best I could do was a great-grandma who looks a bit tanned in the old photos.'US election night 2008. A smart inner-London 'village'. For white ex-lawyer Natasha, adoptive mother to two Ethiopian children, tonight is the ideal opportunity to get to know the small handful of other 'mothers of children of colour' at their smart private ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Landscape Gardens

    Series series Britain's Heritage
    The Landscape Garden: the quiet but startling national revolution that overthrew the parterres, avenues and canals of formal European-style gardens littering Britain in the eighteenth century. Thousands of landscape gardens were created for the wealthy, often looking so natural that we hardly recognise them as the hand of man. Steered by brilliant designers and visionary owners, the fashion for ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • "Oh Shut up and Read."

    "Shut up and read," is a compilation of 19 fiction short stories ranging from around a 1,000 words up to 10,000 words in length for the last, and 23 x 500 word short stories. A mix of observation, humour, and a few darker ones. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl Who Fell

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Sam's dead at fifteen. It's a social media thing. Maybe.When bereaved mother and chaplain Thea sets off on a mission tofollow her daughter somehow, she's joined on her journey by bickeringteen twins Billie and Lenny, plus Gil - a lost soul whose life collideswith theirs in a way that can only ever get messy. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Garden Cities

    Series Book 782 - Shire Library
    Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and having global influence themselves, in fact there were only ever two true, self-contained Garden Cities in England far more numerous were Garden Suburbs and Villages. Crystallised in England by social visionary Ebenezer Howard ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Botanic Gardens

    Series Book 807 - Shire Library
    Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million visitors a year.For centuries they have variously focused on cultivating medicinal and exotic plants, introducing lucrative crops such as tea and rubber to new countries, preserving international plant collections, scientific ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Arts and Crafts Garden

    Series Book 771 - Shire Library
    A brief illustrated history of the Arts and Crafts Garden.Though most famous for its architecture, furniture and ornamental work, the Arts and Crafts movement's values of simplicity, craftsmanship and beauty also produced influential gardens all over Britain.This classic Shire Library guide explores:- A rich history: chart the rise of Arts and Crafts gardens as they became a worldwide phenomenon ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Contemporary Horror on Screen

    An Evolving Visual Narrative

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet Place, Hereditary and The Nun, as well as series such as Stranger Things, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones, amongst numerous others, the authors ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World

    Edited by Sarah Hitch, Ian Rutherford ...
    This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Disney and Popular Culture

    A Celebration of 100 Years of Disney

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    As The Walt Disney Company celebrates 100 years of fairy-tale magic, this collection of essays encapsulates this long and successful journey. From its beginnings as Laugh-O-Gram in the early 1920s, the two-man operation has become a multi-billion-dollar corporation that is a world leader in media communications. Their magical stories have continued across generations, supported by film, theme ... Read more

    $143.09 USD