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  • Queen of Versailles

    Madame de Maintenon, First Lady of Louis XIV's France

    by Mark Bryant ...
    The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at the French court as governess to the legitimized children of Louis XIV. Her relationship with the Sun ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

    by Mark Bryant ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000, this indispensable handbook offers a unique ‘who’s who’ of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated, the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell, Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Ronald Searle, Trog, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

    1730-1980

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1994, this dictionary provides a unique 'who’s who' of the major figures in the world of British cartoons and caricatures. It was the first book to encompass the entire field from c.1730 when Hogarth published the first of his 'modern moral pictures' to 1980. In addition to describing the careers and achievements of the artists and the characteristics of their styles, more ... Read more

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  • The Science of History

    Ingenious Inventions from the Ancient Romans to Pirates, Vikings, Cowboys, Samurai, and More

    We may think of ancient cultures as rudimentary – but in reality, the humans living hundreds and even thousands of years ago were remarkably savvy, establishing the foundations of the same science that we use today. From early Mesopotamia to the Stone Age, through Ancient Greece and Rome, the pirates of medieval England and the seafaring Vikings of Scandinavia, the time of the Samurai, Chinese ... Read more

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  • Dogs

    Stories and Poems

    'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky) loo-side read.'Jeremy NicholasA wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from Plato to Virginia Woolf, and from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century New YorkFrom beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's adored lap-dog Flush to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Battle for the Heart of Texas

    Political Change in the Electorate

    Texas is a solid red state. Or trending purple. Or soon to be blue. One thing is certain: as Texas looms ever larger in national politics, the makeup of its electorate increasingly matters. At a critical moment, as migration, immigration, and a maturing populace alter the state’s political landscape, this book presents a deeply researched, data-rich look at who Texas voters are, what they want, ... Read more

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  • The picture politics of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould

    Britain's pioneering political cartoonist

    This is the first major study of Britain’s pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration and will also be ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Pocket Guide to Crime Scene Photography

    There are more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers employed within the United States, many of whom are regularly tasked with photographing crime scenes or evidence associated with criminal investigations. Despite this fact, law enforcement personnel—including detectives and crime scene investigators—frequently receive little to no formal training in the art and science of photography, let ... Read more

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  • Paradoxic Paradigm

    An exercise in thought

    Everyone has a grid, a framework, a paradigm through which they interpret life, whether they understand and acknowledge it or not. This book is an examination of the paradigms that influence how we interpret reality. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cats

    An anthology of stories and poems

    From beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from the prime suspect in a partridge killing in ancient Greece to the medieval monk's cat Pangur Bán and encompassing odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes and more, Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of writing of all kinds on cats by those who love them.There are poems from Chaucer, Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Her Majesty the Queen, as Seen by MAC

    Since the early 1970s, Stan McMurtry - better known as MAC - has been the editorial cartoonist of the Daily Mail. Now, forty-five years after his first cartoon for the newspaper, and in the year of Her Majesty the Queen's 90th birthday, MAC has compiled this wonderful selection of more than 120 of his very best Daily Mail cartoons featuring Her Majesty, from the 1970s until the present day. MAC's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 50 Years of MAC

    A Half Century of British Life

    Political cartoonist MAC started at the Daily Sketch in 1969. At the end of 2018, he will have been capturing British life for 50 years. To mark these five decades working as an editorial cartoonist in Fleet Street, the very best of MAC's cartoons from the 1960s to the present day have been assembled to tell the history of Britain and its place in the world. From miniskirts and Flower Power to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD