Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is for this new wave of DSLR dabblers & amateur snapshooters. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams & no camera-club jargon. Instead, it inspires readers through iconic images & playful copy packed with hands-on tips. Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, lenses, & the art of seeing. Masterpieces by acclaimed photographers including Henri Cartier- Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, Fay Godwin, Nadav Kander, Daido Moriyama & Martin Parr serve to illustrate points & encourage readers to try out new ideas. Todays aspiring photographers want immediacy & see photography as an affordable way of expressing themselves quickly & creatively. This handbook meets their needs, teaching them how to take photographs using professional techniques. ...

From the author of the best-selling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon-free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture & interiors. Whatever your camera, whatever your interest, whatever your level, this indispensable guide gives you all the essential techniques & demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips & iconic images, this accessible book will arm you with the know-how you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most. Featuring 50 master photographers, including Alec Soth, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington & Joel Sternfeld. ...

A beautiful homage to the art of reading
- light & funny. A celebration of the union of sensuality & language. Marie-Constance
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A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary & stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre. The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him
- one of the most celebrated lines in fiction
- are inspired by Jane Eyre & shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise & self-determination. A bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride & her daughter; a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision; Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason & calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question. Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret in ” Reader, She Married Me”, & ” The Mirror” boldly imagines Jane`s married life after the novel ends. A new mother encounters an old lover after her daily swim & inexplicably lies to him, & a fitness instructor teaches teenage boys how to handle a pit bull terrier by telling them Jane Eyre`s story. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest & most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate & salute the strength & lasting relevance of Charlotte Bronte`s game-changing novel & its beloved narrator.

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` This collection is stormy, romantic, strong
- the Full Bronte` The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte
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Silver-plated magnifying glass, French finished rosewood handle. 3x magnification. For proverbial fine print & thumbnail-sized road maps. Classic accessory for any coffee table or end table. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Reading – Windsor area, including a section of the Thames Path / E2 European Long-distance Path, on a paper version of map No. 175 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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Street by Street Reading Midi has been fully updated for 2008 with a stylish new cover design, in a handy glovebox size. The maps clearly show AA recommended restaurants, pubs, hotels, one-way streets, 24-hour petrol stations & car parks. Quick to navigate & featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting, these maps are all you need to keep you on the move. ...

Reading in 1898 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. Coverage stretches from Brunswick Street & Argyle Street eastward to Craven Road, & from the railway southward to Waldeck Street & Berkeley Avenue. The important railway station is near the top of the map but is here shown in an interesting state of confusion as it was being enlarged at the time. Most of the GWR tracks are therefore without platforms, although the adjacent SER terminus is complete. The Oxford Road / Broad Street runs west-east through the map with tramway. Other features include most of the town centre, London Street, Castle Street, St Mary`s churc, River Kennet with many riverside works & wharves, Kennet & Avon Canal, Seven Bridges Brewery, Royal Albert Brewery, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Municipal Buildings, Huntley & Palmer`s biscuit factory with rail connections, St Giles church, part of the GWR railway works, Royal Berkshire Seed Establishment, site of Abbey remains, prison (left blank as usual but famous as temporary home to Oscar Wilde), Ascham House. Near the western edge of the map is All Saints church. 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. ...

Reading & Henley-on-Thames in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Burghfield Common, Caversham, Pangbourne, Spencers Wood, Sonning Common, Twyford, Wargrave, Winnersh, Woodcote & Woodley. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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