Help for Heroes is a charity that aims to help wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan. This title includes photographs and is a celebration of Britains fighting heroes, showing life inside both inside Camp Bastion and also outside the perimeter, where real danger is ever-present.
Follmi travelled far and wide to witness the celebrations, landscapes, rituals and traditions of cultures all over the world, discovering new ways of seeing as he sought to understand and capture through photography the connections linking the people to their ancestral lands. This book deals with his work.
Examines the cataclysmic conflicts that have shaped the modern world. Beginning with the Boer War, this title analyses the horror and drama of two world wars, the civil wars of the 1920s and 1930s, the Cold War, wars of decolonization, Middle Eastern wars after 1945, and the changing patterns of conflict from the 1990s to the present day.
Celebrates Eastern elegance as a decorative style and illustrates how it can be achieved in both the East and the West, from the refined craftsmanship of Thai textiles and ceramics to traditional statuary from Burma and the minimalist perfection of a Japanese apartment. This book describes ornamental screens, lacquerware, basketry and furniture.
Drawing on prophecies from mystics, seers, scientists, and soothsayers past and present this collection interprets a variety of millenium signs and symbols. Through nine major themes the wisdom of the ages is used to illuminate the future.