Illustrated encyclopedia

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[See isbn 9780754834755 for the new updated edition 2020.] A superbly illustrated natural history guide to trees, showing winter and summer profiles and details.

Looks at how people lived and worked through the ages. This visual guide to beliefs, trade, culture, entertainment, food and farming in the world's great civilizations offers fresh facts about the lifestyles and skills…

This is an illustrated A-Z guide to all the major tractor and truck manufacturers around the world. It offers a comprehensive history of tractors and trucks, tracing their evolution from the early pioneers to today's…

Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this might just be the most comprehensive guide to back to basics living ever published. Fans of Back to…

The Crimean War is sometimes considered to be the first modern conflict and introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare.

This is a detailed study of the armies of Rome and their enemies, including the Etruscans, Samnites, Carthaginians, Celts, Macedonians, Gauls, Huns, Sassanids, Persians and Turks. It is an incredible visual reference of…

This comprehensive encyclopedia of the world's birds presents a fantastic visual guide to the major avian species and families, from America's tiniest insect-catchers to the giant, flightless species still living on the…

A newly updated history and photographic A-Z guide to 280 classic makes around the world.

This encyclopedia of firearms is both an authoritative reference work and a stunning visual directory, explaining the development of arms through the centuries. The chronological survey begins with gunpowder and the…

A comprehensive encyclopedia of animals from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, all beautifully illustrated with over 1000 commissioned artworks and photographs, and over 800 distribution…

This illustrated digest will detail the lives of the lady-types that the Lumberjanes have taken as their role models, with some additional fun facts from the Lumberjanes themselves.

What was the armament and crew of the German Tiger tank and its Soviet equivalent, the T-34? What was the calibre and effective range of the Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle? World War II spawned a massive variety of…

This is a history of the motorcycle from 1885 to the present day, including special features on sport and racing, touring, custom models, record breaking through the years, and motorcycles at war, in the movies and at…

This comprehensive guide provides essential information about British habitats and the creatures found in them, including mammals, amphibians and reptiles, freshwater and marine fish, and the many breeds of birds that…

Britain's royal and architectural heritage is celebrated in this sumptuous history, with 1000 images.

Beetles, Bugs. Butterflies. Moths. Insects. Spiders. This is an engaging and accessible reference guide to every aspect of these creatures' lives and how they behave. It features more than 800 photographs and…

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated directory of dinosaurs, with informative description and introduction to palaeontology.

Expert and stunning illustrations show in painstaking detail the uniforms and their developments for all the major nations involved in World War I.

A historical and anthropological study and practical guide to contemporary white magic, with 950 illustrations.

Features the birds of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Polar regions, with analyses of size, shape, plumage, habitat, breeding, nests, eggs and food. Explores key habitats such as the ocean,…

An authoritative historical guide to the world of military, antique and law-enforcement firearms, photographed throughout.

This is a magnificent visual account of Britain's architectural and historical heritage celebrated in over 500 beautiful photographs, fine-art paintings, drawings and maps. It is a truly impressive reference to the…

An expert visual history of military personnel, with 600 images of uniforms and contextual analysis.

An unprecedented visual reference of the fighting men of the period from 8th century BC to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, with over 670 expert images of military dress, weaponry, artillery, ships, siege engines and…

The history of Britain's most iconic aircraft of World War II, with more than 250 photographs.

This comprehensive encyclopedia of North American trees and wild flowers provides an identification guide to some of the most important and best-known plants of the USA and Canada. It is a collection of indigenous and…

A comprehensive illustrated history of the royalty and their families from Saxon times to today, newly updated.

The war of 1914-1918 was a military, political and social disaster. No other war changed the map of Europe so dramatically and more than 15 million people were killed. The dramatic political and social changes of the…

This work contains an unprecedented wealth of over 550 full-colour illustrations, including specially commissioned uniforms, battle plans and campaign maps. It is an expert guide to the weapons, equipment, deployment,…

From the creation of the Solar System to the Moon landings, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space & Space Exploration investigates the Cosmos and our efforts to understand it. Every spread is filled with artworks and…

An authoritative visual directory and history to ancient and modern sharp-edged weapons, photographed throughout.

This is a natural history and identification guide to the most significant species, including swallowtails, hairstreaks, yellows, fritillaries, blues, skippers and tiger moths. It is an authoritative world reference to…

Explore the history of the British Isles in this celebrationof its monarchs, and the development of its finearchitectural legacy. The first half is a magnificentillustrated history of Britain's kings and queens,…

The uniforms from the 19th century are some of the most colourful and varied in the history of uniformology. In this book there are artworks of familiar Austrian hussars, Prussian dragoons, French chasseurs, American…

A fully illustrated A-Z reference on the legends of the American continents, with 900 entries.

Containing a beautiful and eclectic selection of many of Alain Gree's most well-known and loved images, this book covers a huge range of subject areas, including insects, birds, animals, fish, weather, farming, trees,…

A detailed history of locomotive technology and the trains of the world, with 700 photographs.