Download or read book An Alphabet of London written by Christopher Brown and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite tipple, and where members of the Bloomsbury Group hail a black cab while barrage balloons hover over Broadcasting House during the Blitz. In An Alphabet of London, Christoper Brown presents a series of wonderfully whimsical linocuts illustrating every aspect of London past and present, including personalities, buildings, monuments, legends, historic events, and other metropolitan icons. From Dickens, Dr Johnson, Tower Bridge and the Shard to the Diamond Jubilee, Wimbledon, pigeons, and jellied eels, all London life is here. A born-and-bred Londoner, Brown recounts his own memories of growing up in the capital, and also describes how he creates his distinctive prints. His unique, often humorous take on London will delight anyone who lives in or visits the city.
Download or read book My First London Alphabet written by Campbell Books and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first alphabet book all about London, with over thirty flaps and a pull-out ending, from renowned illustrator Marion Billet.My First London Alphabet is part of Marion Billet's distinctive London range from Campbell Books. Perfect for tourists big and small, there are over thirty flaps and a pull-out ending for extra fun! Search the scenes for the Aquarium, Big Ben, the Queen's corgis, and much more, then lift the flaps to discover other surprising London things! A fun way to practise the alphabet for pre-schoolers, this book can be used out and about in London - or at home.Marion Billet's illustrations bring the bustling city to life with busy scenes of Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Oxford Circus and more. The pull-out ending has lots of extra things for children to search for and find.Little tourists can discover more of London with There are 101 Things to Find in London and The London Noisy Book.
Download or read book Spitalfields Life written by The Gentle Author and published by Saltyard Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.
Download or read book The London Alphabet written by LONDON ALPHABET. and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L Is for London written by Paul Thurlby and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabet book to discover the best of London with award-winning illustrator Paul Thurlby! From A for Abbey Road, K for Kew Gardens, L for London Eye, T for Tower Bridge, to Z for London Zoo and more, this striking book is bursting with the sights, sounds, and energy of London! See familiar, iconic landmarks and discover the lesser known charms of the city. London has never been more spectacular! P.S. If you look carefully, you'll notice a sneaky little animal on every spread, exploring the city sights with you!
Download or read book Inventing the Alphabet written by Johanna Drucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
Download or read book The New London Alphabet written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London ABC written by Ben Hawkes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aquarium to Zoo: all of London is here in this covetable guide to the capital. Brilliant for any visitor to London as a handy checklist, as well as a gorgeous gift for the London lover. There's tons to spot in the pictures, including a lost penguin, trying to find his way home. Illustrated in a gloriously retro palette by Ben Hawkes, the London ABC is quirky, witty and endlessly appealing.
Download or read book Illustrated London Alphabet written by LONDON ALPHABET. and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grotesque Alphabet of 1464 written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from the Colony Room written by Darren Coffield and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . . like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outrageous stories' Sunday Times This is the definitive history of London's most notorious drinking den, the Colony Room Club in Soho. It’s a hair-raising romp through the underbelly of the post-war scene: during its sixty-year history, more romances, more deaths, more horrors and more sex scandals took place in the Colony than anywhere else. Tales from the Colony Room is an oral biography, consisting of previously unpublished and long-lost interviews with the characters who were central to the scene, giving the reader a flavour of what it was like to frequent the Club. With a glass in hand you’ll move through the decades listening to personal reminiscences, opinions and vitriol, from the authentic voices of those who were actually there. On your voyage through Soho’s lost bohemia, you’ll be served a drink by James Bond, sip champagne with Francis Bacon, queue for the loo with Christine Keeler, go racing with Jeffrey Bernard, get laid with Lucian Freud, kill time with Doctor Who, pick a fight with Frank Norman and pass out with Peter Langan. All with a stellar supporting cast including Peter O’Toole, George Melly, Suggs, Lisa Stansfield, Dylan Thomas, Jay Landesman, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst and many, many more.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attrib and Other Stories written by Eley Williams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning short story collection that showcases a bold new talent Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian. Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts. Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).
Download or read book The Pictorial London Alphabet written by LONDON ALPHABET. and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ABC London written by James Dunn and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out what makes London one of the world's most exciting cities in this unusual alphabet picture book. A is for Art, B is for Brick Lane, C is for Changing of the Guard this delightful new alphabet of words and pictures looks at some of the things that give London its unique and stylish cultural identity, with a glossary at the end. Art . Brick Lane . Changing of the Guard . Dick Whittington . Elephant and Castle . Fashion . Gherkin . Heath . Isle of Dogs . Jewels . Kings Cross . Lions . Museum . Number 10 . Observatory . Portobello Road . Queue . River . St Paul's . Taxi . Underground . Villain . Wimbledon. eXiles . Yard . Zebra
Download or read book The Alphabet and the Brain written by Derrick de Kerckhove and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a consequence of the suggestion that a major key to ward understanding cognition in any advanced culture is to be found in the relationships between processing orthographies, lan guage, and thought. In this book, the contributors attempt to take only the first step, namely to ascertain that there are reliable con stancies among the interactions between a given type of writing and specific brain processes. And, among the possible brain processes that could be investigated, only one apparently simple issue is being explored: namely, whether the lateralization of reading and writing to the right in fully phonemic alphabets is the result of formalized but essentially random occurrences, or whether some physiological determinants are at play. The original project was much more complicated. It began with Derrick de Kerckhove's attempt to establish a connection between the rise of the alphabetic culture in Athens and the development of a theatrical tradition in that city from around the end of the 6th century B. c. to the Roman conquest. The underlying assumption, first proposed in a conversation with Marshall McLuhan, was that the Greek alphabet was responsible for a fundamental change in the psychology of the Athenians and that the creation of the great tragedies of Greek theatre was a kind of cultural response to a con dition of deep psychological crisis.
Download or read book L Is for London written by Harriet Rowe and published by Hogs Back Books. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about London's sites and spirit, from the Crown Jewels to Yeoman Warders in this alphabet book.
