Rex Whistler was one of the most intriguing artists of the interwar years. His career lasted only from 1925 until his tragically early death in the Second World War when he was thirty-nine. But in those two decades he established himself as an artist in many different fields & especially as the outstanding mural painter of the period. His first big mural painted while he was still a student at the Slade School of Art was for the Tate Gallery restaurant. He went on to paint many others including those at Port Lympne in Kent Dorneywood in Buckinghamshire &
- his masterpiece
- Plas Newydd on the Isle of Anglesey. He was also an acclaimed portrait painter of people & of their houses. He designed sets for opera the theatre & ballet (most famously Fidelio at Covent Garden Victoria Regina on Broadway & the Royal Ballet's Rake's Progress) illustrations & book jackets for over a hundred books numerous advertisements greetings telegrams for the Post Office & even a toile de jouy that is still in production to this day. Among his most memorable portraits are those of the beautiful Lady Caroline Paget the love of his life. Amidst all this he found time to sparkle as one of the wittiest & most elegant of the 'bright young things'; until at the outbreak of war he joined the Welsh Guards & was transformed into a dedicated & outstandingly courageous tank troop commander in the Guards Armoured Division. He was killed by a mortar bomb blast in Normandy on 18 July 1944. Although Rex Whistler's reputation stand high today & his work is avidly collected much of it is in private hands & so comparatively little known. The authors Hugh & Mirabel Cecil have tracked down all of his murals in private collections & on public display. They have traced his later dramatic portraits & war art painted while he was in the army & have been given access to many unpublished sources both letters & the memories of his many devoted friends.

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The compelling story of Britain's best-ever cyclist
- one of the most enigmatic complex & contradictory athletes in any sport
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Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it wed have no nuclear power or nuclear weapons no TV no computers no science of molecular biology no understanding of DNA no genetic engineering. In Search of Schrodingers Cat tells the complete story of quantum mechanics a truth stranger than any fiction. John Gribbin takes us step by step into an ever more bizarre & fascinating place requiring only that we approach it with an open mind. He introduces the scientists who developed quantum theory. He investigates the atom radiation time travel the birth of the universe superconductors & life itself. & in a world full of its own delights mysteries & surprises he searches for Schrodingers Cat
- a search for quantum reality
- as he brings every reader to a clear understanding of the most important area of scientific study today
- quantum physics. In Search of Schrodingers Cat is a fascinating & delightful introduction to the strange world of the quantum
- an essential element in understanding todays world.



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This new edition of Michael Woods groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating & mysterious centuries between the Romans & the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history such as Queen Boadicea leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans & King Arthur the once & future king for whose riddle Wood proposes a new & surprising solution. Here too warts & all are the Saxon Viking & Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England
- Offa of Mercia Alfred the Great Athelstan & William the Conqueror whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon Engl&. Reflecting recent historical textual & archaeological research this revised & updated edition of Michael Woods classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy & brutal era showing them to be a richly exciting & formative period in the history of Britain. With In Search of the Dark Ages Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV.
- The Times Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history & archaeology.
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Lost in modern myth false history & general misinterpretation the Ninja have been misrepresented for many years. More recently a desire for a more historical view of the ninja has become a popular theme in the history/martial arts community & Antony Cummins is the primary driving force behind that movement. In Search of the Ninja is based upon the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team's translations of the major ninja manuals & consists of genuinely new material. Little historical research has been done on the Ninja of Japan. Here for the first time the connection of the famous Hattori family warriors with the Ninja is explained. The Samurai versus Ninja myth is dispelled. The realities of Ninja skills are analysed. How did a Ninja work underwater when mining castle walls? How can a bird be used to set fire to the enemy's camp? The book explores newly discovered connections to ancient Chinese manuals lost skills & the 'hidden' Zen philosophy that the Ninja followed. In Search of the Ninja is the first & only historical look at the shinobi of ancient Japan. ...

In Search of the Winning System charts Dr Peter Mays obsession with betting on horseracing. In this book the author of the acclaimed Forecasting Methods For Horseracing presents the story of his search for profitable methods the mistakes he has made the valuable lessons he has learned & the knowledge he has gained from like-minded racing enthusiasts who have contributed to his 40-year betting apprenticeship. Add to that a range of amusing anecdotes a detailed analysis of the key race types & a list of the betting systems he currently employs & you have a book that will make you smile make you think & possibly make you money. ...

In this reissue of his popular travel text H.V. Morton goes in search of Wales & finds equal delight in climbing Snowdon & going down a coal mine. Bustling with local stories & characters this account reaches from the scenic north to the domestic beauty of the industrial south. ...

This is the account of Thubron's 15 000-mile journey through an astonishing country
- one twelfth of the land surface of the whole
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The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit
- now revised & updated. Forget what you have seen on Casualty
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Derek Dougan was a flamboyant striker who scored more than 200 League goals & as players union chief & club administrator was involved in some of professional footballs most significant developments of the past 40 years. With unprecedented access to family members David Tossell retraces the steps of his life through an exhaustive series of interviews with teammates opponents friends & family offering the definitive portrait of one footballs most complex & controversial figures. ...