Metro-Land was published annually from 1915 until 1932 and featured evocative descriptions and photographs of historic villages and rural vistas of the area north west of London, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire served by the Metropolitan Railway. Not only was it a guidebook designed to promote the area for leisure excursion travel from London but it was packed with facts for the commuter about the cost of season tickets, journey times, and also with numerous advertisements for all the new housing developments springing up during the 20's. This 1924 edition of Metro-Land was published just as the property and leisure boom was under way and also had the extra purpose of promoting The British Empire Exhibition of 1924/25 at Wembley.

Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition 1924 Edition

History

Europe

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David Ogilvy was an advertising genius. At the age of 37, he founded the New York-based agency that later merged to form the international company known as Ogilvy &amp; Mather. Regarded as the father of modern advertising, Ogilvy was responsible for some of the most memorable advertising campaigns ever created. Confessions of an Advertising Man is the distillation of all the Ogilvy concepts, tactics, and techniques that made this international best-seller a blueprint for sound business practice. If you aspire to be a good manager in any business, this seminal work is a must-read.

Confessions of an Advertising Man

Biographies & Memoirs

OGILVY, David

Professionals & Academics

You are sitting down with family and friends in a supposedly smart restaurant—and the food is disgusting. What do you do when the waiter asks if everything is ok? Like the majority of the population, you probably half-smile and mumble something acquiescent. Wrong! You should always complain and always explain! A complaint without explanation is worthless. Ranting and raving is bad; controlled complaining is good. Don't just walk away, let the people who caused that feeling know why. In all cases you stand to gain a lot more than ranting, or not saying anything at all.

How to Complain: Spot the Tactics Employed by Companies Dealing with Complaints and Turn the Tables on Them

Humor & Entertainment

Stein, Mel

Humor

Shepperton has been the home of maverick and independent film production for nearly 75 years. Owned by a succession of famous brothers—the Kordas, the Boultings, the Lees, and the Scotts—some of the most successful films ever produced have been made here. Billy Liar, Dr. Strangelove, Oliver!, Alien, A Passage to India, the Pink Panther films, The Omen, The Wicker Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gandhi, Evita, The Crying Game, Troy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Bend It Like Beckham are but a small selection of the classic films featured in this first comprehensive, fully authorized history. With exclusive contributions from directors, actors, and producers; 300 images, many never-before seen; and a DVD featuring trailers from a dozen major films made at the studios, this is an essential work for all fans and students of the cinema.

Shepperton Studios: A Visual Celebration

Bright, Morris

Movies

Julian Freeman's 16 essays on British Art turn the subject on its head and its side, and—without formally pretending to reassess it—give it a good shaking. Skating across the better part of 500 years, the book's choices of subject are unapologetic, and the ideas move in directions they don't usually go. Moving at full tilt or more sedately, the text always stays within reach of the popular reader. Like his successful first books, Art: A Crash Course and Design (in the same series), British Art is both provocative and affectionate. Freeman's text moves from discursive commentaries on the art of the British Isles to consider other matters, including spirituality, the business of exhibiting, and the weather. It's picky. It can't cover everything, but when it takes its aim, it's unerring.

British Art: A Walk Round the Rusty Pier

Arts & Photography

Freeman, Julian

History & Criticism

Shepperton has been the home of maverick and independent film production for nearly 75 years. Owned by a succession of famous brothers—the Kordas, the Boultings, the Lees, and the Scotts—some of the most successful films ever produced have been made here. Billy Liar, Dr. Strangelove, Oliver!, Alien, A Passage to India, the Pink Panther films, The Omen, The Wicker Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gandhi, Evita, The Crying Game, Troy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Bend It Like Beckham are but a small selection of the classic films featured in this first comprehensive, fully authorized history. With exclusive contributions from directors, actors, and producers; 300 images, many never-before seen; and a DVD featuring trailers from a dozen major films made at the studios, this is an essential work for all fans and students of the cinema. This collector's edition is presented in a unique box with a cushion cover.

Shepperton Studios Collectors Limited Edition

Considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers: Tolstoy. Shaw, Conrad, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Each of them acknowledged the claims of ordinary life and believed that marriage provided their most profound personal relationship. They found in marriage a stronghold of affection that encouraged and tested their capacity, an antidote to the modern fear of alienation, and a strengthening bond that was deeply valuable.

Married to Genius

Literature & Fiction

jeffrey-meyers

World Literature

Married to Genius considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers: Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. These writers believed that marriage provided their most profound relationships, and although their lives reveal the strains of modern marriage, their creativity was directly inspired by their emotional and intellectual conflicts. It is a fascinating study of how these celebrated figures attempted to integrate life and art.

Married to Genius: A Fascinating Insight Into the Married Lives of Nine Modern Writers

MEYERS, Jeffrey

Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music is a unique oral history. Here are the recollections of many of the giants of soul—Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Mary Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and Wilson Pickett. These and other interviews, many of them exclusive, add up to a brilliant anecdotal portrait of the music and the life. Gerri Hirshey is the author of We Gotta Get Out of this Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock; she has also written for Rolling Stone and the New York Times.

Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music

Hirshey, Gerri

Music

In 1980, John Bonham, considered one of the greatest drummers of all time, died under tragic circumstances. Two months later, a simple letter signed by fellow band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones stated that Bonham could not be replaced. After nine multi-million-selling albums and record-breaking world tours, Led Zeppelin came to an abrupt and premature end. This personal account of John Bonham’s life was written by the person who knew him best—his brother, Mick. Beginning with his childhood, the book follows Bonham’s rise as the internationally acclaimed drummer of one of the most successful rock bands of all time. Featuring interviews and previously unpublished photos, this is a tribute not only to John Bonham, but also to Mick Bonham, who died after completing this book.

John Bonham: The Powerhouse Behind Led Zeppelin

Bonham, Mick

Arts & Literature

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