My Big Picture Book of London


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Discover the many exciting sights of the London Landscape. Learn about the history, the culture and the people through this amusing pictue book. Like a colourful trip around a Monopoly board, this trendy information book is packed with detailed illustrations of London and plenty of famous landmarks. Children can see how many pictures they recognise and learn about those they don't. Illustrations: Full colour throughout




Picture of London


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Writing Lives Together


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A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this volume as examples of ‘writing lives together’: British life writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this book range over published and unpublished material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary, practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet, Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736–1819) and his family, in a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time, across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.




Picture Books. Containing, Amongst Others, Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books, Walter Crane's Toy Books and Various Series Published by Thomas Dean and Son: Animals from the Far Famed Pictures of Landseer, Cooper, Herring, Morland, Barraud, Bateman, Andsell, Hunt, Paul Potter and others: Pigeons: Animals Wild and Tame: Song Birds: The Story of King Solomon: The Story of King David: The Story of Ruth: The Story of Moses: Birds and Beasts With Their Uses: Rustic and Domestic Life from Pictures by Famous Painters: Pictures of English Country Life from Designs by Birket Foster: Old Nursery Rhymes, The King, Queen & Knave of Hearts: The Parables of Our Lord Book 1


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The Photographer's Eye


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Design is the single most important factor in creating a successful photograph. The ability to see the potential for a strong picture and then organize the graphic elements into an effective, compelling composition has always been one of the key skills in making photographs. Digital photography has brought a new, exciting aspect to design - first because the instant feedback from a digital camera allows immediate appraisal and improvement; and second because image-editing tools make it possible to alter and enhance the design after the shutter has been pressed. This has had a profound effect on the way digital photographers take pictures. Now published in sixteen languages, The Photographer's Eye continues to speak to photographers everywhere. Reaching 100,000 copies in print in the US alone, and 300,000+ worldwide, it shows how anyone can develop the ability to see and shoot great digital photographs. The book explores all the traditional approaches to composition and design, but crucially, it also addresses the new digital technique of shooting in the knowledge that a picture will later be edited, manipulated, or montaged to result in a final image that may be very different from the one seen in the viewfinder.







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