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Johnny Mackintosh and the spirit of London

By Mansfield, Keith.
London Quercus books 2010 .
345 p. , Includes index 9781847247742

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Anarchy and old dogs

By Cotterill, Colin.
London Quercus Books 2007 .
258 p 9781847247841

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SHADOW SPELL

By KING KARO.
BRITAIN QUERCUS BOOKS 2010 .
361P 9781849161794

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The Fighting Temeraire

By Willis, Sam.
Quercus Books 2009 .
384 pages , Willis tells the extraordinary story of the mighty "Temeraire," the ship behind J.M.W. Turner's iconic painting. 9781847249982

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The Firebringers

By Adams, Max.
Quercus Books 2009 , The richly varied lives of the Martin brothers reflected the many upheavals of Britain in the age of Industrial Revolution. Low-born and largely unschooled, they were part of a new generation of artists, scientists and inventors who witnessed the creation of the modern world. William, the eldest, was a cussedly eccentric inventor who couldn't look at a piece of machinery without thinking about how to improve it; Richard, a courageous and tantalisingly elusive soldier, fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo; Jonathan, a hellfire preacher tormented by madness and touched with a visionary genius reminiscent of William Blake, almost burned down York Minster in 1829; while John, the youngest Martin, single-handedly invented, mastered and exhausted an entire genre of painting, the apocalyptic sublime, while playing host to the foremost writers, scientists and thinkers of his day.In The Firebringers Max Adams interweaves the fascinating story of this maverick family with a magisterial and multi-faceted account of the industrial, political and artistic ferment of early 19th-century Britain. His narrative centres on a generation of inventors, artists and radical intellectuals (including the chemist Humphry Davy, the engineer George Stephenson, the social reformer Robert Owen and the poet Shelley) who were seeking to liberate humanity from the tyranny of material discomfort and political oppression. For Adams, the shared inspiration that binds this generation together is the cult of Prometheus, the titan of ancient Greek mythology who stole fire from Zeus to give to mortal man, and who became a potent symbol of political and personal liberation from the mid-18th century onwards. Whether writing about Davy's invention of the miner's safely lamp, the scandalous private life of the Prince Regent, the death of Shelley or J.M.W. Turner's use of colour, Adams's narrative is pacy, characterful, and rich in anecdote, quotation and memorable character sketch. Like John Martin himself, he has created a sprawling and brightly coloured canvas on an epic scale. 9781847248695

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The Death of Woman Wang

By Spence, Jonathan D..
Quercus Books 2008 .
169 pages , In The Death of Woman Wang the award-winning historian Jonathan Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure time and place: provincial China in the late 17th century. Drawing on a range of sources, including local Chinese histories, the memoirs of scholars and other contemporary writings, Spence reconstructs an extraordinary tale of rural tragedy in a remote corner of the northeastern Chinese province of Shantung. Life in the county of T'an-ch'eng emerges as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. The Death of Woman Wang not only magnificently evokes the China of the late Ming period, but also deepens our understanding of the China we know today. 9781847243423

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50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know :

By Wilkinson, Philip,.
Quercus Books, 2010 .
208 pages 9781848660656

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50 Wonders of the World :

By Thomson, Hugh,.
Quercus Books, 2009 .
191 pages 9781849160032

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The Digital Photography Handbook :

By Harman, Doug,.
Quercus Books, 2007 9781847244451

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50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know :

By Furnham, Adrian,.
Quercus Books, 2008 .
208 pages 9781847248527

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The Art of War :

By Roberts, Andrew,.
Quercus Books, 2009 9781847242600

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The Story of English :

By Gooden, Philip,.
Quercus Books, 2009 .
232 pages 9781847242723

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