Glasgow is Scotland`s largest city, its streets a constant frenetic bustle of activity. But rarely do its residents take the time to stop & look up at the extraordinary architectural heritage all around. Glasgow`s `no mean city` image belies this world-class architectural detail, comprising of stunning sculpture, ornament, friezes, gables & decoration, the vast majority of which are hidden in plain sight above eye level. Writer Adrian Searle & specialist architectural photographer David Barbour have scoured the city, bringing together in one volume a fabulous record of the hidden jewels of `the second city of the Empire`, created in a time of great wealth & virtuoso craftsmanship now long gone. The book also

Includes:: poetry from six of Scotland`s leading poets, responding in very individual ways to Glasgow`s extraordinary built environment. Look Up Glasgow is a beautiful surprise, demonstrating that Glasgow is much more than just another post-industrial British city. Now in a handy pocket edition, residents & visitors can use Look Up Glasgow as a rooftop guide to the city, to track down their favourite sculptures.

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A follow-up to the highly successful Look Up Glasgow, this book explores the UK capital`s extraordinary rooftop architectural heritage, hidden in plain sight. Featuring stunning full colour photography spanning North, South, East, West & Central London, helpful & informative annotations & occasional verse from some of the city`s leading poets, it will prove a delight for residents & visitors alike. ...

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive & well. Things have changed
- no Eva Braun, no Nazi
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Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive & well. Things have changed
- no Eva Braun, no Nazi
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Follow the holes to read the story in this interactive flying adventure! Little ones will love finding the holes with their fingers, peeping through & turning the page to see what they become. With a gentle rhyming text encouraging children to say what they can spy in every scene, this is a journey through the stars to visit time & time again. ...

Follow the holes to read the story in this interactive deepsea adventure! Little ones will love finding the holes with their fingers, peeping through & turning the page to see what the holes become. With a gentle rhyming text encouraging children to say what they can spy in every scene, this is a journey through the ocean to visit time & time again. ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples & cultures, stark class divisions & unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Lesy`s evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period & our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today. ...

“ Looking East” is a large format portfolio of the best & most poignant portraits by Steve Mc Curry, known & loved the world over for his exquisitely beautiful & enduring images of the landscapes & cultures of Southeast Asia. This marvelous book

Includes:: iconic as well as previously unknown portraits of children, monks, pilgrims, parents & travellers that Mc Curry has encountered on his travels throughout Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Tibet & Myanmar (Burma). Each portrait is illustrated on a large scale, some life-size, rendering the portraits even more engaging & sensuous, making it easy to see why Steve Mc Curry is one of the most admired & well-represented photojournalists working today. This book is a genuine must-have, & would make a sumptuous gift for almost anyone. The images on the right are extracts from the book
- the book itself contains one portrait on one page, ensuring the individuality of the portrait is not lost.


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How do you become an explorer? It`s a question every child has asked. &, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the seven-year old Backshall. Due to this childhood interest, the vast, untamed wildness of Papua New Guinea was where Backshall forged his unlikely path. From crushing lows of early failures to the extraordinary highs of the BBC`s Lost Land of the Volcano expedition, it was this dark island which gave Backshall his opportunity. Full of incredible wildlife, extraordinary wilderness, jungles, cannibals, pitfalls, triumph, danger & excitement, Looking for Adventure is the irresistible, inspiring story of a little boy who let his heart rule his head. ...

The unmissable first novel from bestselling & award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. ” If people were rain, I was drizzle & she was a hurricane.” Miles Halter`s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever & undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world & irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the same again. ` Looking for Alaska` brilliantly captures the exquisite painful joy of living & loving. Poignant, funny, heartbreaking & compelling, this novel will stay with you forever. ...