A wonderful photographic archive of an ever changing urban landscape and its inhabitants, constantly under threat of gentrification. With an introduction by Rodrigo Orrantia, the internationally acclaimed photographic historian and curator
From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous throughout the "Soviet empire" tobacco factory "Java", which was founded before the 1917 Revolution, stood in Moscow, there is a luxury residential complex. Tobacco companies all over the world are ......
St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the glory of victory over Napoleon, but in the army and elsewhere resentment is growing against serfdom and autocracy. Vasily, a pleasure loving, privileged young man, returns home from abroad expecting to embark on a glittering career. Having become entangled in an impossible love affair, he ......
Claudia Schmid’s drawings meet Matt Harvey’s words in this affectionate look at dogs and their humans. Sit! is an entertaining, occasionally surreal, but mostly down to earth celebration of the strange, satisfying relationship between dog and human. Funny,
eccentric, poignant, questionable and a bit weird – this book will appeal to all these sorts ......
Shirley - The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, a remarkable woman who, after studying biology at Oxford, spent twelve years working as a research scientist and key member of the Nobel Prize-winning team which developed Tagamet, the first block-buster drug (sales of over $1 billion a year) and one the most ......
During the Second World War, cats played a vital role aboard warships. Valued for their practical in protecting food stores and maintaining hygiene, they also provided sailors with comfort and companionship during the hard realities of war. Using rare archival footage from IWM's unique collection, this flip book brings to life a cat playing ......
ISBN-13: 9781911748168
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
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Signing up for a lifetime in India was a sacrifice, no less for the men than for the women they married. What made that sacrifice worthwhile for the young Richard Temple was qualities now seen as old-fashioned: a belief in God and a sense of purpose, inculcated by the East India College, Haileybury. Convinced it was his duty to do good, he set out ......
Using rare footage from the film archive at IWM, this flip book shows the famous Sherman tank move up to the front, as a tank squadron prepares for action north of Caen in early July 1944.
ISBN-13: 9781912423132
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
