Downside Abbey is a unique & beautiful book celebrating the architecture of this magnificent English abbey church. It features specially commissioned images by acclaimed architectural photographer Paul Barker, &

Includes:: contributions from such leading architectural historians as Gavin Stamp & Alan Powers.

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Helps readers to understand how forces for change reshape colleges & universities. This book illustrates how external special-interest groups influence campus affairs & analyses their influence on curriculum, contract issuance & unionism. It presents ways in which concerned citizens & community leaders can address change in positive ways. ...

Helps readers to understand how forces for change reshape colleges & universities. This title illustrates how external special-interest groups influence campus affairs, & analyses their influence on curriculum, affirmative action, contract issuance, land acquisition, unionism, & a multitude of other issues. ...

A celebration of rivers & an exploration of what they mean to us & an account of what we owe to them. This book is an exploration into the historical, geographical, social, cultural & industrial aspects of a river filled with the curiosities, forgotten characters & departed ways. ...

All seven episodes from the first series of the ITV costume drama following the lives & loves of those above & below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the ' Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try & marry his eldest daughter off in order to obtain an heir. Meanwhile, the family's determination to cling to class & rank is mirrored in a number of growing rivalries between the servants which threaten to undermine the smooth running of the house. ...

Melodrama, action & comedy meet in this tale about a white Philadelphia cop who finds himself transferred to a rundown neighbourhood, & is partnered with a solitary & sullen black officer. Alex Kearney (Anthony Edwards) does things strictly by the book, but when his best friend is murdered he will stop at nothing to bring the criminal to justice, calling on the help of his new streetwise partner Dennis Curren (Forest Whitaker) to bring the murderer down. ...