Product Description: Russia has 14 cities that are home to a million or more people. This fact alone is testimony to the extent to which Russia is both a major player in the world's economy and little understood. In just a few years, Russia has gone from being a world power in the making, to an undisputed key player on the global scene...read more

Product Description: He watches from dark shadows where men fear to walk—the shadows embraced him with divinely dark arms. He lingers in the void between light and dark until the time calls him to claim his prize. The shadows were his home. The dark provided him solitude away from the thoughts and the secrets—he knew things; he knew everyone’s secrets...read more

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Product Description: This volume records 240 aquisitions of Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall and contains updated information about items featured in the previous volumes. Each entry is supported by photographs. Particular attention is devoted to establishing the provenance and identifying the maker of furniture...read more

Product Description: This volume, compiled with the active co-operation of many antique dealers, collectors, auctioneers and scholars in the UK and abroad, provides a pictorial record of all known marked items made by London furniture makers between 1700 and 1840...read more

Product Description: The vernacular furniture used by ordinary people has only recently been considered a subject worthy of study. In this magisterial book—the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of English vernacular furniture—Christopher Gilbert demonstrates that common furniture possesses as much interest as fashionable pieces made for country houses...read more

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Product Description: Compiled over a period of seven years by nearly four hundred researchers, this is the definitive reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. The Dictionary lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces together with full supporting references...read more

Poems consider death, music, the past, love, family life, nature, and the imagination