The Red Beast was only the hunt's beginning. Two friends must claim its surviving Cloaks in a forest humming with magic. The trials they face in the cedars' shade will change them - and their fates. In this stylised take on Mesopotamian mythology, the forces of good and evil intertwine, in an ancient tale of survival, bravery and love.
The Silent Flyer is the inspiring story of Michael Bishop, the boy who loved airplanes so much he built an airline. Unhappy at public school, and passing only one exam in his life, he went on to become a major figure in global air travel, chair a national broadcaster, be honoured with a knighthood and elevated to the House of Lords. Along the way ......
A Civil Society Response to Counter the Tide of Populism
The UK has an existential crisis happening before our eyes. The lack of leadership and the exceptional low turnout at elections are producing outcomes that is a threat to democracy. Citizenship has no relevance in a world of nomads. We aim to offer solutions to this problem.
Strata, 100 new paintings by landscape artist Jeremy Gardiner (b.1957), celebrates the spectacular Jurassic Coast on the 25th anniversary of its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gardiner has studied this coast for decades, constantly developing new approaches to depict its changing textures. For Strata, he visited twenty locations each ......
The War Against Japan offers a detailed and visually rich account of the campaign in South East Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War, tracing the causes, course and consequences of the conflict from its origins in the 1930s to the attack on Pearl Harbor and through to VJ Day and beyond. The historical narrative is enriched with ......
ISBN-13: 9781911748014
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Surrounded by a veil of ancient beliefs and tales of supernatural phenomena, the isolated sandstone tablelands of the Guiana Highlands remain some of the least explored areas of our planet. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his famous 1912 novel about a group of daring explorers visiting a mysterious South American plateau, they were given a ......
Understanding Cultures in UK-China Exchange Programmes
This book explores the structure and evolution of art education systems between China and the UK since the 21st century. Through related art exhibition projects, artistic displays, and interactions between artists in educational and social spheres, it illustrates the mutual learning and shared progress of civilisations in the era of globalisation. ......
This book explores the goals and limitations of twentieth-century art studies (Kunstwissenschaft) as a field, and aims to contribute to future academic research. It is structured around several representative art scientists and their key texts, exploring the theories of influential figures in the field, such as Erwin Panofsky and Aby Warburg (art ......
What if the greatest gambles are not on the cards, but on the life you dare to build? Karolina Pelc wasn't born into boardrooms. Her story began on the casino floor in post-communist Poland, launching a two-decade journey that took her across countries and continents through the global gaming, entertainment, and tech industries before she ......
