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New edition, illustrated with over 100 images of important maps from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. Offers a magnificent panorama of London's history, the lives of its people, the devastation, the re-building and the urban development.

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A very bored monkey with absolutely, positively nothing to do meets Shri, a sage tortoise, who thinks she knows what to teach the monkey so that he can conquer boredom no matter where he is. Will the monkey take her advice? Full color.

Everyone has ice cream except Bruno. He tries and tries to get some, but no one wants to give him any. What to do? A fun story that teaches sharing, this title in the Zen Tails series of beautifully illustrated philosophical tales adapted for children, shows how focused attention and caring for others brings freedom, happiness, and maybe even ice cream.

My life should be straightforward. My famous, high profile and wealthy clients include a celebrated offensive comedian and a multinational coffee chain. My job is to help them keep as much of their earnings as possible by minimising their tax bills. In the good old days this was easy - I made lots of fees and no-one cared as long as the country was solvent. Times have changed and life has become far more complicated. My clients still want to k...

Fully illustrated exploration of Shakespeare's world through contemporary maps, geographical texts, paintings and drawings.

For more than three centuries Oxford has been the subject of fine illustrated books and engraved prints. The best of these historic prints are reproduced here to create a panorama of classical Oxford, offering an instructive and captivating view of Oxford through the ages.

Excerpt from The Christianity of the New Testament: Or a Scholastic Defence of the Scripture Doctrines of Redemption, Propitiation, Satisfaction, and Salvation, by the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digi...

What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief-systems of their age, religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has a...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th cent...