Product Description: MG V8 tells in unprecedented detail the stories of some of the most powerful and exciting cars ever to wear the evocative MG octagon badge. Topics covered include: The story of each MG V8 model, from concept to development and production; Detailed information tables of notable cars and their chassis numbers for each model, plus special editions and color charts; Interviews with the original MG V8 design and engineering teams; Background on development and testing work on each model; Rare input and insight from many of the outside suppliers and specialists who helped develop the cars; Information on sales and servicing literature, production changes, product placement, celebrity stories and much more...read more

Product Description: In the wake of the demise of the MG Midget and MGB, there seemed little prospect for the MG badge beyond being used as a kind of 'GTi' badge for various Austins and Rovers. However, thanks to the determination of a few people - and an enduring affection in public hearts - the tale has had a happier ending...read more

The TR7 was designed to replace both the MGB and the Triumph TR6. This book offers information on this model by British Leyland.

The MG X-Power SV is MG Rover's supercar. Written with the full co-operation of the MG team, this book presents a window on to the gestation and birth of a new sports car.

Product Description: The MGB epitomises the spirit of the British sports car. Launched in 1962, the 'B' remained in production for 18 years, and has become one of the most-loved sports cars of all time. Although the MGB was mass-produced, its combination of unpretentious styling, sound engineering and practicality won the affection of drivers on both sides of the Atlantic, and ensures that enthusiasm for this affordable classic remains undiminished...read more

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Product Description: The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury between 1070 and 1089, has long been recognized as one of the most important historical sources for medieval monastic life. In this major new revision of Dom David Knowles's classic editions of 1951 and 1967, C...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A New York City photographer spends his days and nights spying on the women to whom he has sublet his apartment, in a tense tale of art, obsession, and voyeurism. A first novel.

When an Italian woman is decapitated, a photographer/storyteller who lives in a camera obscura decides to solve her murder

Product Description: This classic work offers the first comprehensive, systematic catalogue of all the medieval religious establishments of England and Wales. The lists of monastic houses (including an appendix for all known pre-Conquest houses) give dates of foundation and dissolution and information on population, wealth and other data (with the authority, medieval or modern, for all the information provided) and there are maps and a substantial introduction...read more

Product Description: A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.

Product Description: Book by Knowles, David

Product Description: This is the first of a series of volumes which have become recognised as one of the great monuments of English historical scholarship. The late Dom David Knowles began work on the subject in 1929; The Monastic Order in England appeared in 1948, 1955 and 1959...read more

Product Description: This book covers a period (1336-1485) neglected by historians, when many features of the modern world were germinating under the surface of medieval institutions: the age of Chaucer, Langland, Bradwardine and Wyclif, of the new Nominalism and the Conciliar Movement...read more

Product Description: This is a paperback edition of a classic work: David Knowles' abridgement of Volume 3 of The Religious Orders in England. Opening with vignettes of monastic life in the early Tudor period, the book examines the changing economic and religious climate as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression...read more

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Product Description: This collection transports us into the monastic age - the thousand years between the sixth and sixteenth centuries, when the monasteries were the treasure-houses of Europe's social, cultural and religious heritage. The men we encounter are each representative, in differing ways, of their own historical setting and of the strengths and weaknesses of mankind...read more