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  • Physics at the Terascale

    by Ian Brock, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius ...
    Written by authors working at the forefront of research, this accessible treatment presents the current status of the field of collider-based particle physics at the highest energies available, as well as recent results and experimental techniques.It is clearly divided into three sections; The first covers the physics -- discussing the various aspects of the Standard Model as well as its ... Read more

    $169.00 USD

  • Thomas Brock

    Forgotten Sculptor of the Victoria Memorial

    by Ian Thompson, Frederick Brock, Marjorie Trusted, John Sankey ...
    The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is a national icon, yet few have heard of its sculptor, Thomas Brock. He left school at 12 to be an apprentice at the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works, then joined the London studio of John Henry Foley. He completed the figure of the Prince Consort for the Albert Memorial after Foleys death. One of the young sculptors encouraged by Sir Frederic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rhetorical Machines

    Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics

    by Lavinia Hirsu, Jennifer Juszkiewicz, Joseph Warfel, Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Buehl, Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess0, Tim Menzies1, Kevin Brock2, Ryan M. Omizo3, Ian Clark4, Minh-Tam Nguyen5, William Hart-Davidson6, Joshua Daniel-Wariya7, James Chase Sanchez8, Anthony Stagliano9, Annette Vee0, J. W. Hammond1, James J. Brown Jr.2, John Jones Jr.3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practiceRhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages. In so ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Lady in Red

    An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce

    by Hallie Rubenhold ...
    She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. The marriage of Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming and Sir Richard Worsley had the makings of a fairy tale—but ended as one of the most scandalous and highly publicized divorces in history.In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to read the details of a criminal conversation trial in which the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Victorians

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, he tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imagination.To Paxman, these paintings were the television of their day, and his exploration of Victorian ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Collected Works of John Constable (Delphi Classics)

    by John Constable, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 18 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Celebrated for his iconic depictions of the English countryside, particularly his beloved Stour valley, John Constable helped raise the status of landscape painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Constable’s collected paintings in beautiful ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The First Bohemians

    Life and Art in London's Golden Age

    by Vic Gatrell ...
    The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was the world's first ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Sketches In Pen And Ink

    A Bloomsbury Notebook

    by Vanessa Bell ...
    Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper. When she did, she was witty and illuminating about their early lives. The eldest of the Stephen family, she grew up with Virginia in Victorian gloom at Hyde Park Gate and ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Gainsborough (Illustrated)

    by Thomas Gainsborough, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 28 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a founder of the British landscape school, Gainsborough sought to change the artistic tastes of his day, establishing an original and innovative approach to high art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Constable

    by Victoria Charles ...
    John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable’s originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which ... Read more

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  • J.M.W. Turner

    Ackroyd's Brief Lives

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a barber, and his mother came from a family of London butchers. “His speech was recognizably that of a Cockney, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies

    by George Henry Blore ...
    Some excuse seems to be needed for venturing at this time to publish biographical sketches of the men of the Victorian era. Several have been written by men, like Lord Morley and Lord Bryce, having first-hand knowledge of their subjects, Others by the best critics of the next generation, such as Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Clutton-Brock. With their critical ability I am not able to compete; but they ... Read more

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