Form Follows Fun

Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s Britain.  Responding to the current interest in modernism and packed with a substantial archive of high quality photographs and other documentation, it relates the professional, entrepreneurial and institutional infrastructures affecting the pleasure industry’s architectural development and appearance in 1930s. A broad range of building through which the general public first experienced Modernism are covered, including:    commercial – holiday camps, cinemas and greyhound racing stadia municipal and governmental projects – zoos, seaside pavilions, concert halls, and imperial and international exhibitions.   Arguing that the responses to modernism through the architecture of pleasure were conditioned by wider debates about the role of design in relation to high and mass culture, this book is an ideal resource for all those interested in architectural history and design in Britain between the wars.

Form Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925–1940

Peter, Bruce

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

Data Mining (with Excel)

Science & Math

Galit Shmueli

Mathematics

Thomson/Brooks/Cole

Heavy Weather Sailing has long reigned as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. The book brings a wealth of expert advice from many of the great sailors of the present, followed by fresh accounts of yachts, both sail and power, overtaken by extreme weather. Techniques for coping with heavy seas are explored, seasick remedies proposed, there are lessons to be learnt for those in command, and a detailed analysis of meteorological conditions leading up to a storm. This is the book for crews of any size contemplating voyages out of sight of land anywhere in the world, whether racing or cruising. It gives a clear message of the sort of preparations required, and the tactics which should be considered when it comes on to blow. 'This book is an institution' Practical Boat Owner 'Compulsory reading for any passage-making yachtsman' The Lifeboat 'A book with a worldwide reputation and rightly so' Kelvin Hughes

Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing

Sports & Outdoors

Adlard Coles Nautical

Heavy Weather Sailing

Water Sports

Adlard Coles

From 1897 onwards Glasgow has had an enduring love affair with the cinema, with more cinema attendances per capita than any other city in Britain. This text takes the reader on a tour of these extraordinary cinemas, outlining the city's cinema history and introducing the people, the entrepreneurs and the patrons who made it. With illustrations and a comprehensive gazetteer of Glasgow's cinema buildings from 1896.

100 Years of Glasgow's Amazing Cinemas

Polygon

At their finest, Scotland's theatres and music halls were opulent pleasure palaces, whose designs enabled them to transport their patrons to worlds of fantasy. Others were rudimentary halls, ingeniously fashioned from old stables, farm buildings, or even industrial premises. From the first wooden booths of the Georgian era, through to modern structures, this is a study of the evolution of the theatre building in Scotland. Providing a tour of Scotland's theatres and drawing on a wide range of sources - from historical accounts and archives to anecdotes from today's stage stars - this account covers all aspects of the design and operation of the theatre in Scotland. Illustrated with photographs and etchings, it is designed for anyone interested in architectural history, the theatre or showbusiness.

Scotland's Splendid Theatres: Architecture and Social History from the Reformation to the Present Day

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Cruise delightfully recalls a time of gracious travel, as well as the modern-day evolution of cruising at sea. It explores the design and culture of cruise ships from the golden age of the interwar period, up to the present when cruise ships have come to embrace "entertainment architecture." Packed full of illustrations of all aspects of cruise ship design—interiors, entertainment, travel posters, and other ephemera—this timely book also documents the current renaissance in cruise vacations.Traveling by cruise ship, especially between the wars and into the '50s, was the most luxurious and stylish form of transport available. Many of the greatest liners were built during that time, including France's Normandie, whose Art Deco interior was one of the most lavish—and beautiful—ever created. This up-to-date visual history of ocean travel, complete with full illustrations and a lively survey of every aspect of sailing on the high seas, will appeal to and delight a broad audience including cruise ship enthusiasts, designers, and nostalgia buffs.

Cruise: Identity, Design and Culture

Engineering & Transportation

Quartermaine, Peter

Transportation

Rizzoli

Breasts Are Beautiful Photographs By Peter Bruce

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Form Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925 1940

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