Product Description: These techniques for seeing through the manipulative neediness of children offer a refreshing and often legal take on modern parenting It’s been said that it takes a village to raise a child. But how do you choose the right village to leave your child with—and what if that village won’t take your child? You could just leave your child outside the village and run away, but most village-people are excellent trackers and will know the surrounding terrain better than you so they’ll probably catch you...read more

Product Description: From Futurism and Modernism to Art Deco and Surrealism, aviation was from its earliest days inextricably linked with revolutionary new ways of seeing the world. Focusing on the golden age of British civil aviation, British Aviation Posters shows how art and design was applied with great creativity and style to develop and promote aviation in the UK and beyond...read more

Product Description: London Transport Posters celebrates a century of outstanding graphic design commissioned by the Underground, London Transport, and its present-day successor, Transport for London. Drawing on newly researched sources in the archives of the London Transport Museum and Transport for London, the book discusses and illustrates the different styles and themes emerging from the posters over the last hundred years...read more

Product Description: London is the supreme railway city. In 1900 it had fourteen railway termini, more than any other city in the world. A century later only one of them has disappeared completely, and just three have undergone comprehensive reconstruction...read more

Product Description: In 1908 London Underground began a comprehensive publicity program that became one of the most successful, adventurous, and best-sustained promotional operations ever attempted.  The posters commissioned not only encouraged travel on the capital’s burgeoning public transport system; they also helped to foster a civic identity for metropolitan London...read more

Product Description: Metro-Land was published annually from 1915 until 1932 and featured evocative descriptions and photographs of historic villages and rural vistas of the area north west of London, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire served by the Metropolitan Railway...read more

Product Description: Since 1908, with the appointment of the enlightened Frank Pick as publicity officer, London Transport has been a major patron of art in Britain, commissioning posters and other artworks from such notable artists as Edward McKnight Kauffer, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Man Ray and others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Over the past two centuries, the city of London has grown at an incredible rate. This growth has been closely linked with the expansion of its public transport services, facilitating its dramatic urban expansion in the Victorian era and its later suburban expansion up to the mid-twentieth century...read more

Product Description: From Introduction: "...London Transport and its immediate predecessor, the Underground Group of Companies, have a well-founded reputation for the quality of their advertising and publicity. No other comparable organization has made such consistent and sustained use of pictorial posters, or maintained such high standards of design...read more