Alive with insight, wit & Dyer`s characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography & music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces
- ` On Being an Only Child`, ` Sacked` & ` Reader`s Block`, among other gems. Dyer`s breadth of vision & generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in
- & seeing
- the world today.


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Workington street map from Nicolson Maps, Scotland’s premier cartographic publisher, including Cockermouth, Common End, Dearham, Distington, Harrington, Maryport, Papcastle, Seaton, Siddick, Stainburn, Winscales. This title is part of the Street Guide Maps series, offering excellent & clear mapping of cities, towns & villages around the Great Britain. Please note, there is no actual written informative text, but the richness of symbology will provide visitors with ample information. The Street Guide Maps series from Nicolson Maps, Scotland’s premier cartographic publisher, offers excellent & clear mapping of cities, towns & villages around the UK. Most Nicolson’s maps are double-sided &, when applicable, cover additional locations on separate panels, each with a street index. The plans indicate, usually by different colours, primary routes plus A & B roads. Other roads, streets, tracks & paths are clearly shown as well as railway & bus stations. Symbols highlight location of various facilities, such as schools, libraries, places of worship, emergency services, petrol stations & car parks. Other places of interests like camping & caravan sites, historic buildings, museums, castles, information points etc. are also shown. ...

Workington North in 1923 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map is double-sided. The main map covers the northern part of the town from St Michael's church northward to Oldside Iron & Steel Works. Features include River Derwent, Lonsdale Park football ground, The Green, Church Street, LMSR railway with Derwent Junction, Lonsdale Dock, Lowther Iron Works (disused), Oldside Iron & Steel Works, Lonsdale Dock Branch, Cleator & Workington line with Calva Junction, engine shed, Cockermouth & Workington line with Workington Bridge station, North Side, New Bridge Road, Old Dock, Workington Bridge, Lonsdale Dock Branch etc. On the reverse is the adjacent sheet 53.06 extending coverage westward to include shipbuilding yard, mouth of the River Derwent, John Pier, breakwaters. Extracts from a 1925 directory are also included. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Workington North in 1923 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map is double-sided. The main map covers the northern part of the town from St Michael's church northward to Oldside Iron & Steel Works. Features include River Derwent, Lonsdale Park football ground, The Green, Church Street, LMSR railway with Derwent Junction, Lonsdale Dock, Lowther Iron Works (disused), Oldside Iron & Steel Works, Lonsdale Dock Branch, Cleator & Workington line with Calva Junction, engine shed, Cockermouth & Workington line with Workington Bridge station, North Side, New Bridge Road, Old Dock, Workington Bridge, Lonsdale Dock Branch etc. On the reverse is the adjacent sheet 53.06 extending coverage westward to include shipbuilding yard, mouth of the River Derwent, John Pier, breakwaters. Extracts from a 1925 directory are also included. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Workington South in 1923 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map is double-sided. The main map covers the centre of Workington, extending southward to Mossbay Road, eastward to Schoose Quarry. Features include town centre with individual buildings neatly shown, Town Hall, St John's church, Our Lady & St Michael's RC church, Banklands, cemetery, Infirmary, Jane Pit (disused), New Yard & New Yard Iron Works, Buddle Pit (disused), Workington Bridge & Boiler Works, LMSR railway with station, engine shed, Cleator & Workington line with Central station, engine shed, Drill Hall, Technical College, Workington Hall, Workington Brewery, etc. On the reverse is the adjacent sheet 53.10 extending coverage westward to the coast & largely comprising Derwent Iron & Steel Works with sidings, blast furnaces etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

” Workin` It!” will provide helpful & provocative tips on fashion, beauty, style & confidence for girls & boys, straight & gay
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A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings. Hesiod was the first self-styled `poet` in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide & educate his lazy brother, Works & Days tells the story of Pandora`s jar & humanity`s place in a fallen world. Blending the cosmic & the earthy, & mixing myth, lyrical description, personal asides, astronomy, proverbs & down-to-earth advice on rural tasks & rituals, it is also a hymn to honest toil as man`s salvation. This vibrant new verse translation by award-winning poet A. E. Stallings conveys the clarity & unexpected humour of a founding work of classical literature. ...

Worksop in 1914 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the centre & east of Worksop, extending from Cresswell Street eastward to the Cemetery & Retford Road, & from Park Street northward to the station. Features include GCR railway with station, St John`s church, malthouses, brewery, Workhouse, Market Place, St Mary & St Cuthbert`s church, Priory remains, Bracebridge area, Manton Colliery Village, Kilton, Chesterfield Canal, etc. On the reverse are entries A to M from a 1914 directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work & play
- in the pub, dance hall, factory & on holiday. Their aim was to create an `anthropology of ourselves`. The first of its kind, it later grew into the Mass Observation movement that proved so crucial to our understanding of public opinion in future generations. The project attracted a cast of larger-than-life characters, not least its founders, the charismatic & unconventional anthropologist Tom Harrisson & the surrealist intellectuals Charles Madge & Humphrey Jennings. They were joined by a disparate band of men & women
- students, artists, writers & photographers, unemployed workers & local volunteers
- who worked tirelessly to turn the idle pleasure of people-watching into a science. Drawing on their vivid reports, photographs & first-hand sources, David Hall relates the extraordinary story of this eccentric, short-lived, but hugely influential project. Along the way, he creates a richly detailed, fascinating portrait of a lost chapter of British social history, & of the life of an industrial northern town before the world changed for ever.


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The world at 1:40, 850, 000 presented with Pacific Ocean in the centre on a double-sided folded map from the Australian publishers Hema; political version on one side & a physical map on the reverse. Each side shows the land masses against the background of light blue oceans with bathymetric tints to reflect the depth of the ocean floor. Polar Regions are not included apart from the coastline of Antarctica. All place names are given in their English versions. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 15°. Projection is Bartholomew’s modification of Gall’s stereographic. On the political side countries are in pleasant pastel colours with relief shading to show the main mountain ranges. In Australia, USA, Canada & Brazil divisions into states/provinces are marked. Clocks shows time changes at 15° of longitude with noon at the International Date Line & midnight at the Greenwich longitude. The physical map has altitude colouring with additional graphics to indicate marshlands, lava flows, sand or rocky deserts & ice caps. Political boundaries & names of countries are marked, but with fewer towns than on the political version. ...