Photography and Flight
by Cosgrove, Denis, Fox, William L.
fromReaktion Books - Exposures Ser
Annotation
Whiskey: a Global History
by ebrary, Inc, Kosar, Kevin R.
fromReaktion Books - Edible Ser
"Astronomers are on the verge of answering one of our most profound questions: are we alone in the universe? The ability to detect life in remote solar systems is at last within sight, and its discovery--even if only in microbial form--would revolutionize our self-image. Planet …
Red grabs your attention. Today we associate red with danger, sex, anger and more, yet the colour was once so significant that things which have a profound impact upon our lives were widely called red, even though they are often not red at all. Spike Bucklow takes us from a 34,00…
Today, writing by hand seems a nearly archaic process. Nearly all of our written communication is digitalour letters are via email or text message, our manuscripts are composed using word processors, our journals are blogs, and we sign checks to pay bills with the push of a butt…
The Private Lives of Pictures offers a new history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home. Focusing on the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century, the book takes the reader on a tour of an imaginary Victorian or Edwardian house, stopping in each room to look at th…