Photographs show how Japan's traditions, dating back to the seventeenth-century feudal period, still influence the culture and daily life in modern Japan

The shogun inheritance: Japan and the legacy of the samurai

MacIntyre, Michael

British Broadcasting Corp.

Football Association Coaching Book of Soccer

Education & Teaching

Hughes, Charles

Schools & Teaching

Brahms orchestral music (BBC music guides)

Arts & Photography

Horton, John

Music

A second Listener anthology

MILLER, Karl

Literature & Fiction

Ways of Seeing

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. 
 "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." 
 John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. 
 "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" —Peter Fuller, Arts Review 
 "The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" —Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling

John, Berger

Other Media

Winifred Foley's best-selling account of a childhood in the Forest of Dean in the first half of this century. She describes how life in a small mining community was one of economic hardship, faced with humor and overcome with fortitude. She describes the many lively characters that peopled her small world, and the events that made up her daily life for the community, as well as her first ventures into the world of work at the age of 14 when she left school.

A child in the forest

History

Foley, Winifred

Europe

Wide-ranging discussion of engineering principles by Eric Laithwaite, the author who presented these lectures and ideas on the BBC in 1974 to great acclaim. Illustrated with photos and black and white drawings.

Engineer Through the Looking-Glass

E. R. Laithwaite

Inside Japan

De Bono's Thinking Course outlines the tools of thinking in a practical, easy-to-follow manner and shows readers how to use those tools constructively. Dr. de Bono's techniques encourage broader, more expansive thinking that leads to better problem solving and more effective thinking, no matter what the context.

De Bono's Thinking course

Self-Help

De, Bono Edward

Personal Transformation

Sm Quarto, 1983, PP.192, Dust Jacket Very Good

Bellamy's New world: A botanical history of America

Bellamy, David J.

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