The last 150 years have seen great changes in Grantham & the neighbouring villages of Belton Barrowby Bottesford Denton & Harlaxton with the loss of buildings landscapes & institutions that had previously endured for hundreds of years. With them has gone something less tangible but in this selection of old & new photographs & other ephemera very real: a way of life now lost forever. From archive images of the Belvoir Hounds mustering on St Peters Hill to familiar streets where the traffic once comprised nothing more than a lone cart this collection brings the regions past vividly to life. Including well-known vistas everyday events & important aspects of the history of the town alongside more original images of disasters & celebrations which may not have been seen before Grantham Through Time is sure to reawaken nostalgic memories for many while offering others a unique glimpse of the way life used to be. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Granville Bradshaw was an engineer & inventor of extraordinary vision. His now legendary & often revolutionary designs for early aeroplanes & engines such as the Dragonfly pioneering cars & motorcycles including the ABC & his interesting oil cooled engines quickly brought him fame & success. His designs for gambling machines made him a fortune which he then managed to lose as a victim of a shares swindle! Bradshaws many inventions contributed greatly to the development of the internal combustion engine for a wide variety of uses. In many ways he was very much ahead of his time producing a stream of new ideas that were frequently not just in advance of the production engineering capabilities then available but probably decades ahead in terms of vision design & concept. His life spanned the entire development of the aviation & motor industries from the very early days right up to the classic era of the 50s. This detailed biography provides a fascinating & absorbing account not just of Bradshaws life but also of the engineering development of aeroplanes cars motorcycles & even 3-D photography & television in the last century. Although the basic facts on Bradshaws life remain unchanged this second edition

Includes:: substantial new material especially on Walter Adams an influential engineer of his time & of his early aero-engine work which led to the partnership with Bradshaw at ABC. Some 40 new photos & illustrations have also been included.

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Delicious. I licked my lips. The wine filled me with joy. A picture of a vineyard drenched in sunlight formed in my mind. Sean drew me rudely back to the lounge of our semi-d. How can they be in liquidation if they make wine this good? When Caro & Sean find the perfect ten-hectare vineyard in Saussignac it seems their dreams of becoming wine-makers in the south of France are about to come true. But they arrive in France with their young family (a toddler & a newborn) to be faced with a dilapidated eighteenth-century farmhouse & an enterprise that may never ever make them a living. Undeterred by mouse infestations a leaking roof treacherous hordes of insects visits from the local farm police & a nasty accident with an agricultural trimmer Caro & Sean set about transforming their beyond eccentric winery into a successful business as they embark on the biggest adventure of their lives
- learning to make wine from the roots up.
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John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering & hardship caused by the Great Depression & a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream The Grapes of Wrath"

Includes:: a critical introduction by Robert De Mott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking & controversial when it was first published in 1939 Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic " The Grapes of Wrath" remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma & Californian migrant life it tells of Tom Joad & his family who like thousands of others are forced to travel west in search of the promised l&. Their story is one of false hopes thwarted desires & broken dreams yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale & moral vision. Adapted into a celebrated film directed by John Ford & starring Henry Fonda " The Grapes of Wrath" is an eloquent tribute to the endurance & dignity of the human spirit. John Steinbeck (1902-68) winner of the Pulitzer Prize & the Nobel Prize for literature is remembered as one of the greatest & best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the Second World War Steinbeck served as a war correspondent with his collected dispatches published as " Once There Was a War" (1958); in 1945 he was awarded the Norwegian Cross of Freedom for his novel " The Moon is Down" (1942) a portrayal of Resistance efforts in northern Europe. His best-known works include the epics " The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) & " East of Eden" (1952) & his tragic novella " Of Mice & Men" (1937). John Steinbeck's complete works are published in " Penguin Modern Classics". If you liked " The Grapes of Wrath" you might enjoy " East of Eden" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A novelist who is also a true poet". (" Sunday Times")."

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An epic human drama by John Steinbeck one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century The Grapes of Wrath" depicts the devastating effects of the Great Depression & won both the American National Book Award & the Pulitzer Prize. ' To the red country & part of the gray country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently & they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought & economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl the Joads a family of sharecroppers decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west towards California where they hope to find work & a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize " The Grapes of Wrath" is an epic human drama. Of this novel Steinbeck himself said: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags I don't want him satisfied.' "A novelist who is also a true poet". (" Sunday Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest & best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His works include " The Grapes of Wrath" " The Forgotten Village" " Cannery Row" & " The Pearl". His complete works are published by Penguin." ...

In this new book from one of the great authorities on graphic design some 100 of the worlds leading graphic designers open up their private sketchbooks giving the reader an unparalleled insight into their creative development design philosophies & visual influences. Samples range from typographical explorations to fully fledged illustration ideas from scrappy scribbles & eccentric handwriting to photographic collages. Contributors include such world-recognized names as Stefan Sagmeister Christoph Niemann Sara Fanelli Christoph Abbrederis Shogo Ota Art Spiegelman Uwe Loesch Milton Glaser Michael Bierut Bruce Mau Francois Chastanet & Jordi Duro. Graphic" is a treasure trove of design inspiration for professionals students or anyone engaged in the visual industries." ...

Ask any graphic designer the world over about their preferred approach to setting type choosing a colour or beginning a new layout & you will rarely get exactly the same answer twice. Every creative has their own individual approach or more importantly their own combinations of the thousands of techniques one can apply when planning a new design project. But there are some dos & donts that always figure strongly in any heated debate about what one should or should not accept as the right way to create the best graphic design. Packed with practical advice but presented in a light-hearted fashion Graphic Design Rules is the perfect book for the ever-growing group of non-designers who want some graphic design guidance. & for more experienced designers individual entries will either bring forth knowing nods of agreement or hoots of derision depending on whether or not the reader loves or hates hyphenation has a pathological fear of beige or thinks that baseline grids are boring. In the style of a classical almanac 365 entries combine a specific rule with a commentary from a variety of experienced designers from all fields of the graphic design industry. Grouped into six colour-coded chapters
- typography colour layout imagery production & creative thinking
- the reader can either dip in at random or use the book as the source of a daily lesson in how to produce great graphic design.

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This fully revised edition of Graphic Design School" improves upon previous editions by providing a more fully developed introduction to the study of graphic design firmly locating it within the professional activities it embraces. The book is organized into two main sections principles & practice. The first section deals with the fundamentals of design such as composition hierarchy layout typography grid structure colour & so on. The second section puts these basics into practice & gives information about studio techniques & production issues relevant to a number of different graphic design disciplines. The last part of the second section provides an overview of some of the different career choices open to students entering the graphic design field." ...