The London Compendium

Author : Ed Glinert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Compendium written by Ed Glinert and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised by London postal district and containing an entry on every significant building, place and street in London, this is a surprising and compelling look at the hidden city. Packed with stories on every conceivable subject from East End criminals to espionage, music to murder, politics to partying, settings for films and books, this is an entertaining book on England's capital city. Covering the whole span of London's social and political history, it brings the reader up to date with stories on the arts, immigration and architecture.

Author : Pentagram Design
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pentagram written by Pentagram Design and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the unique working methods and products of one of the world's best-known design companies from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. For the first time, a wide range of the Pentagram partners' internationally acclaimed work - from corporate identity to architecture and book design - is surveyed and used to illustrate the many different forms of thinking that design may take: from narrative to parody and pun. All the Pentagram partners have contributed essays on their particular preoccupations, while special sections examine the implications of the client-designer relationship and the Pentagram company's own structure, personnel and methodology. A fascinating peak behind the scenes, this book permits a penetrative insight into how one of the world's most energetic and prominent design companies functions, in everyday reality, to produce the astounding works for which it is famous.

Author : Andrew Tucker
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847821174
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Fashion Book written by Andrew Tucker and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys into the world of London's fashion scene and captures the colorful characters that have helped create its recent rise in popularity, complete with full-color photos throughout.

Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752462628
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of London written by David Long and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of London is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium full of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. London's looniest laws, its most eccentric inhabitants, the realities of being royal and literally hundreds of wacky facts about the world's greatest city combine to make it required reading for visitors and locals alike.

Author : Norman Collins
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141191244
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Belongs to Me written by Norman Collins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new lodger, a self-styled 'Professor of Spiritualism'); and flashy young mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much, much worse ... Includes an introduction by Ed Glinert, as well as explanatory footnotes.

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711276226
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Villages written by Zena Alkayat and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate guide to the villages of London, filled with great ideas for days out which will delight tourists and locals alike.

Author : Rachel Howard
Publisher : Jonglez
ISBN 13 : 9782361952808
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret London written by Rachel Howard and published by Jonglez. This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to London's most peculiar and under-the-radar bars and restaurants is for serious foodies, intrepid drinkers, urban explorers -- and anyone curious to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in London.

Author : James Stourton
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711276285
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Houses of London written by James Stourton and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Houses of London tells the stories of some of the grandest and most fascinating houses in this historic city, from their famous owners and occupants to their renovations and the many riches held within each.

Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201266
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Other People written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight "realism"-if such a thing exists-is not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples. The writers featured in The Book of Other People include: Aleksandar Hemon Nick Hornby Hari Kunzru Toby Litt David Mitchell George Saunders Colm Tóibín Chris Ware, and more Read Zadie Smith’s newest novel, Swing Time.

Author : Jonn Elledge
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472276485
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything written by Jonn Elledge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, inside you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity's most ridiculous wars; and, at last, the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man. Bizarre, brilliant and filled with the unexpected, The Compendium covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It's a feast of facts for a hungry mind. Includes entries on the cosmos, the human planet, questions of measurement, history/politics, the natural world, leisure and many 'oddities' that don't fit elsewhere...