A complete guide to your rights - in court, at work, on demonstrations, on the road. The book takes into account the new police and criminal evidence act, the public order act and the drugs act, all of which have changed and so eroded individual rights.

Civil Liberty (Penguin Handbooks)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

PETER THORNTON

Malcolm Hurwitt

Crafts & Hobbies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Product description\nThe Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600 by Peter Thornton.\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nFor the wealthy homeowner in Renaissance Italy, creating domestic comfort was a matter worthy of tremendous thought and planning. Women ran the household and their influence was "particularly strong" in establishing a harmonious environment, giving attention to the smallest details of embroideries, furniture, mirrors, potted plants, cradles, etc. In an extraordinary album with hundreds of intriguing period illustrations, London-based curator Thornton ( Authentic Decor ) offers a privileged glimpse behind closed doors during the Italian Renaissance. Building was a voluptuous passion, and 15th-century architects and designers worked hand-in-hand, pioneering such new-fangled innovations as the apartment, a group of rooms closely associated with a single person. Complete with the bric-a-brac of daily life--bathtubs, table covers, ceramics, bird cages--this chronicle suggests that living itself was an art in the Italy of Michelangelo. 
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Italian Renaissance interior, 1400-1600

Arts & Photography

Architecture

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991

Form & Decoration - Innovation in the Decorative Arts 1470 - 1870

History & Criticism

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998

Authentic Decor: Domestic Interior, 1620-1920

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrate

A sumptuously illustrated interior design book covers six fifty-year periods, portraying all manner of houses around the world--ranging from the homes of aristocrats and artists to those of the bourgeoisie--and including 299 black-and-white illustrations.

Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620-1920

Crescent

The author's fourth collection of stories. It comprises the novella THE MANNHEIM EXIT - 'Inclined by nature to inertia and prevarication, lacking notable personal ambition-whether for advancement, affluence, or office-disliking change and accepting it only when imposed on him from without-an occasional, unavoidable evil-preferring in all things the familiar and the well-tried, [Richard Carteris asked] of life no more than that the future should be a prolongation of the past via an uneventful present . . .' A university lecturer involves himself in an affair that threatens to destroy utterly the settled pattern of his existence - and three shorter stories: THE SILENCE OF JOSEPH B - A lover of silence evolves a strategy for survival in a world of intolerable noise; TRANSITION - A young man is disturbed by a glamorous Doppelgänger; and THE SLIDING DOORS - A narrator's acrimonious dispute with his author radically transforms the fate of the characters.

The Mannheim Exit

Xeno Books

The year is 2039. The United Kingdom has ceased to exist as a sovereign state; England is a patchwork of de-industrialized provinces supplying wind-energy, agricultural products, and military manpower to Greater Europe. Would-be writer Tom Cochrane, returning from Afghanistan after eight years' service in the Eurolegion, faces the usual difficulties of integration into civilian life, but his are compounded by the legal and social discrimination he has suffered since childhood as the son of a Eurosceptic Dissident. His attempts to adjust are charted through his relationships with three very different women.

Cochrane's Return

These two novellas follow the conscientious but less than enthusiastic academic Richard Carteris at two defining moments of his career, both professional and personal. In THE MANNHEIM EXIT, set in Germany, he involves himself in an affair that threatens to destroy utterly the settled pattern of his existence. Twelve years later, in ATONEMENT, now married and Head of his Department at an English university, he finds history repeating itself, and is forced to confront an unresolved past.

Novellas Volume One: The Mannheim Exit & Atonement

Two novellas that explore the labyrinthine complexities of love.In KEPT WOMEN, chance gives businessman Carlo Blackridge and academic Laura Voisier, incommunicado for eight years, the possibility of resuming a love-affair neither wished to end. But their renewed relationship is complicated by others of a very different kind . . .In LIVE RAIL, Vincent Telford, convinced since childhood of life's ultimate pointlessness, has turned his back on the conventional career that could have been his for a railway porter's job. One November morning, his 8.00 regulars are joined by a strange young woman . . .

Novellas Volume Two: Kept Women & Live Rail

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