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Firing: Philosophies within Contemporary Ceramic Practice by David Jones
Category: Art and Design
The firing of clay is one of the most significant developments in the history of humankind. It is a technological advance, now taken so much for granted, that many have forgotten the ancient power that fire and change exercised over the lives of our ancestors and their imaginations. This book is an atte ...Show more
Give Us Back Our Country by David Flint; Jai Martinkovits; Alan Jones (Foreword by)
Category: Politics
There are few problems today which have not been either caused or made worse by the politicians. The sad fact is that the institutions of our representative democracy - one of the world's oldest - have been compromised. This can be directly attributed to the power brokers in the major parties who are in ...Show more
Great Modern Structures - 100 Years of Engineering Genius by David Littlefield; Will Jones
Category: Architecture
People still speak of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but today's architectural and engineering marvels put them to shame. This new edition of Great Modern Structures profiles over 60 spectacular structures built over the last 100 years. From Dubai's Burg Khalifa--the world's tallest tower--to t ...Show more
Great Modern Structures: 100 Years of Fantastic Engineering Feats by David Littlefield & Will Jones
Category: Architecture
Great Modern Structures is a photographic compendium of 100 remarkable engineered structures built between 1900 and the present day. From buildings and bridges to monuments and telecoms towers, the book illustrates the bestandmost technically challenging work of engineers, builders and architects across ...Show more
His Royal Tinyness: A Terrible True Story by Sally Lloyd-Jones Sally; David Roberts David
Category: Graphic Novels
Once upon a time there was a happy family: A mum, a dad, a gerbil, and the most beautifulest, cleverest, ever so kindest Princess Marianna. Until one horrible no good day when a new ruler was born...From two of the most revered picture book creators working today comes a unique home-grown fairy tale abo ...Show more
In Parenthesis by David Jones; Sebastian Barry (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying masterpiece. It is radical, beautiful, humane and myst ...Show more
In Parenthesis: Introduction by T.S. Eliot by David Jones
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
In Parenthesis: Seinnyessit E Gledyf Ym Penn Mameu by David Michael Jones
Category: Poetry | Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of" with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern ...Show more
Judith Wright and Emily Carr - Gendered Colonial Modernity by Dorothy Jones; Erik Tonning (Series edited by); Matthew Feldman (Series edited by); Anne Collett; David Tucker (Series edited by)
Category: Art | Series: Historicizing Modernism Ser.
Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own country yet lesser known in the other's. Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr brok ...Show more
Judith Wright and Emily Carr - Gendered Colonial Modernity by Anne Collett; Dorothy Jones; Erik Tonning (Series edited by); Matthew Feldman (Series edited by); David Tucker (Series edited by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Historicizing Modernism Ser.
Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own country yet lesser known in the other's. Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr broke n ...Show more
Love and Space Dust by David Jones (Wythenshawe Hospital South Manchester University Hospitals Nhs Trust)
Category: Poetry
"And in the end we are nothing more than love and space dust." Timeless poetry of feeling and emotion, Love And Space Dust carries readers on a journey through love, life and relationships, and then far beyond, into the stars and the far flung galaxies, where all that remains of the feelings we once fe ...Show more