The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
10 best books like The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 (Dan Jones): The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, Edward II: The Unconventional King, God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England, Just Looking: Essays on Art, Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service, Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide, Alfred the Great, March, Women, March, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
| Author | Richard Aldous |
| ISBN | 0393065707 |
William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the nineteenth century. Their intense mutual hatred was both ideologically driven and deeply personal. Their vitriolic duels, carried out over decades, lend profound insight into the social and political currents...
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| Author | Kathryn Warner |
| ISBN | 1445641208 |
He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his...
God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
| Author | Jessie Childs |
| ISBN | 1847921566 |
A true story of plots, priest-holes and persecution and one family's battle to save Catholicism in Reformation England.
Elizabeth I criminalised Catholicism in England. For refusing to attend Anglican services her subjects faced crippling fines and imprisonment. For giving refuge to...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0878465774 |
These 23 essays on traditional and modern art show John Updike at his most eclectic, entertaining, and enlightening. Originally published in 1989 and until now unavailable in any edition, Just Looking had become one of Updike's rarest and most sought-after titles. It collects the best of the novelist...
| Author | Heather Hansen |
| ISBN | 9781594858 |
Anyone who has stood beneath a redwood, neck craned to see its top rising far above; or who has heard ghostly whispers of residents long-past among the burnt-red cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde; or who has climbed the stairs to gaze out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown, would agree that our National...
| Author | Jonathan Dimbleby |
| ISBN | 1846684447 |
This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of...
| Author | Justin Pollard |
| ISBN | 0719566665 |
In an era darkened by the terror of Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. "This is the story of England's birth. A great story, beautifully told." (Bernard Cornwell, author of The Pale Horseman)
Alfred was England's first kin, and his rule spanned troubled...
March, Women, March explores the women's movement in Britain, from the Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who was dragged under King George V's horse during the...
Clement Attlee was a slightly-built, bald, pipe-smoking and unassuming man who presided over the radical administration of 1945-51 and is sometimes referred to as Britain's greatest peace-time Prime Minster.
His cocooned suburban childhood and standing at university as 'the man who...
Le Corbusier: Le Modulor and Modulor 2
| Author | Le Corbusier |
| ISBN | 3764361883 |
In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor." Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony...
| Author | Joseph Sheppard |
| ISBN | 0486272796 |
In this superb guidebook, a skilled practitioner of figure drawing demonstrates how to achieve mastery of anatomy through careful, knowledgeable articulation of the muscles and bones lying beneath the skin. Joseph Sheppard's concise instructions have been carefully integrated with over 250...
| Author | John H. Vanderpoel |
| ISBN | 0486204324 |
This great classic is still unrivalled for its clear, detailed presentation of thousands of fundamental features of the human figure. Every element of the body (such as the overhang of the upper lip; the puckering at the corners of the mouth; the characteristic proportions of the head, trunk, limbs,...
| Author | Burne Hogarth |
| ISBN | 0823015815 |
Mastery of light and shade - rendered with accuracy and expressive power - is the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting. Here is the first book on this essential subject, the product of years of study by one of the world's great teachers of drawing and an artist of international renown,...
Artistic Anatomy: The Great French Classic on Artistic Anatomy
| Author | Paul Richer |
| ISBN | 0823002977 |
Artistic Anatomy is widely acknowledged to be the greatest book of its kind since the Renaissance. The original French edition, now a rare collector's item, was published in 1889 and was probably used as a resource by Renoir, Braque, Degas, Bazille, and many others. The English-language edition,...
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain
As Marc Morris shows, there is more to castles than drawbridges and battlements, portcullises and arrow-loops. Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle is first and foremost a home. It may look tough and defensible on the outside, but on the inside, a castle is all about luxury and creature comforts....
The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. Clearly the product of a sophisticated, wealthy, highly militarized society, the objects beg innumerable questions about how...
| Author | Nigel Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0300169280 |
American Caesars takes a fresh look at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the American empire since World War II, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. President by president, the noted biographer Nigel Hamilton strips away myths and wishful thinking to record our most recent presidents...
Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
| Author | Eliot Goldfinger |
| ISBN | 0195052064 |
The power of the image of the nude - the expressivity of the flesh - has always inspired artists. "Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form" now provides the definitive analytical work on the anatomy of the human figure. No longer will working artists have to search high and low to find the information...
Character Animation Crash Course!
| Author | Eric Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1879505975 |
Description: Character Animation Crash Course! is a veritable Genie's lampstuffed with everything the aspiring animator could wish for! Renowned animator Eric Goldberg's detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive characters "from the inside out" to create strong personalities....
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Photography Changes Everything
| Author | Marvin Heiferman |
| ISBN | 1597111996 |
Photography Changes Everything offers a provocative rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our daily lives. Compiling hundreds of images and responses from leading authorities on photography, it offers a brilliant, reader-friendly exploration of the many ways in which photographs...
| Author | Beaumont Newhall |
| ISBN | 0870703811 |
My edition is from 1949, I found it in a small second hand bookstore in Slovenia and it’s one of the luckiest finds I’ve ever made.
The book is very comprehensive and it’s funny and amazing to me how a lot of attitudes have not changed for more than a 100 years. Is photography an art? Some still...
Green: The History of a Color
з одного боку, пастуро вкрай захопливо – і захоплено – розповідає про кольори, а по зеленому ще й видно, що він сам його любить. він підкреслює деталі, на...
