In the BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND series, the 2nd revised edition covers one of England's most visited areas. There are chapters by experts in prehistoric, Roman and medieval buildings and in geology. The architecture of towns such as Cirencester and Chipping Camden is covered in depth, as are the wealth of villages, manor houses and farmsteads.

Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds

Travel

Brooks, Alan

Verey, David

Europe

Penguin Uk

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the buildings in one of the best-loved and most beautiful areas of England. Major buildings include great medieval wool churches and grand country houses such as Badminton and Dyrham, besides some remarkable relics of the early Industrial Revoltion and much fine work by the Arts and Crafts Movement. The architecture of such celebrated towns as Cirencester and Chipping Campden is covered in depth, as are the many villages and smaller houses. An expert overview is given in the introduction, which also surveys the rich prehistoric and Roman remains and the subtleties of the famous Cotswold stone. This revised and expanded volume is the latest addition to the famous Pevsner Architectural Guides, the fruit of extensive new research and deep local knowledge. Numerous maps, plans and new photographs, full indexes and a glossary help make this the indispensable guide for any lover of the Cotswolds.

Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Yale University Press

Most famous for Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, this county also boasts intriguing monastic remains at Gloucester, fine houses in stucco and stone in the great Regency spa town of Cheltenham, and post-war suspension bridges reaching over the Severn.

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and Forest of Dean

Verey, Mr David

Brooks, Mr. Alan

This expanded and updated guide to the buildings of Worcestershire encompasses the entire county, from the dramatic Malvern Hills through the Severn Valley to the fringes of the Cotswolds.  Medieval Worcestershire is represented by the fine Gothic cathedral of Worcester, the splendid remains of the abbeys and priories, and the many parish churches with their rich inheritance of Norman work. Timber-framed houses are abundant. But Worcestershire is also a county of red brick and sandstone, with such fine country houses as Jacobean Westwood, Hanbury Hall, Hagley Hall, and Witley Court. Among the towns are Stourport, the only English town created by the canals, the genteel spa resort at Great Malvern, and the leafy New Town at Redditch. 

Worcestershire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

PEVSNER, Nikolaus

Rich in new discoveries and fresh interpretation, this fully revised survey is the perfect companion and guide to one of England's most beguiling counties. A profusion of black-and-white timber-framed houses testifies to the prosperity of earlier centuries, as do the many and varied parish churches. Highlights among these include the extraordinary Norman carvings at Kilpeck, the exquisitely spare Cistercian architecture of Abbey Dore, the seductive Georgian Gothick of Shobdon, and Lethaby's Arts and Crafts masterpiece at Brockhampton. The city of Hereford is freshly presented in detail, from its splendid medieval cathedral to the architectural adventures of the Georgians and Victorians. Country houses are plentiful and diverse, including much that is well in step with national fashions. The characteristic landscape of hills and woods lends a special pleasure to architectural exploration, while market towns such as Ledbury, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye can match any in England for visual and architectural appeal.

Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

History & Criticism

This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood’s 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is well represented here, as well as notable town architecture and the medieval parish churches for which the area is well known. Oxfordshire is also a county of great houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to the late flowering of Lutyens’s 1930s Middleton Park; the grandest, however, is Blenheim Palace, the Baroque masterpiece designed by John Vanbrugh (1664–1726).

Oxfordshire North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

SHERWOOD, Jennifer

Frogs Jump: A Counting Book

A lively counting storybook follows a parade of extraordinary animals that leap out of a frog magician's hat, and when twelve bubble-blowing whales finally appear, it is time for everyone to march back in.

Children's Books

scholastic

This lighthearted counting storybook features a parade of extraordinary animals leaping from a frog magician' hat, including two ducks diving, six pelicans fishing, and nine spiders spinning. Reprint.

Frogs Jump

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic. Inc.

When the world fails a child through neglect or brutality, the child naturally becomes angry, untrusting and even fierce; or, they become weak and die. Jake Edge experienced an emotionally isolated upbringing, and Sadie Laidlaw was sexually abused. Both were rendered psychologically bankrupt until they found the man who taught them how to step away from their individual histories and function as reasonably adjusted adults. Rather than integrating Jake and Sadie into the society that had failed them, their Teacher tapped into their individual strengths, giving them singular power that neither had known previously.Joined by a duality of affection and respect, the two lived reclusively, snatching their living from the flanks of the culture that they despised. Almost innocently, they find themselves as accomplices to two murders. When framed for these killings, they flee and their paths inadvertently cross the trail of s serial killer. The time for decision arrives and Jake and Sadie must choose between placing as much distance between themselves and the two killings as possible, or go on the offensive, risking their own lives and liberty to stop the fiend who is abducting and murdering young women from Atlanta.Believing justice is a personal responsibility, Jake and Sadie alter the course of their lives forever, permanently and officially casting themselves as outlaws forever outside the culture they mutually detest, a culture whose laws wait to send them both to jail, or worse.

A Snake Around the Moon: A Jake Edge and Sadie Laidlaw Crime Novel

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

Demco Media

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Books by Brooks, Alan

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Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds

Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and Forest of Dean

Worcestershire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Oxfordshire North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)

Frogs Jump: A Counting Book

Frogs Jump

A Snake Around the Moon: A Jake Edge and Sadie Laidlaw Crime Novel

Frogs Jump: A Counting Book