The Surname Detective Steven Fielding

The Surname Detective Steven FieldingFrom the author of The Family Tree Detective, this guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname. Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names, many of them common, to follow the migration of people through the centuries. Each of the 100 names is mapped since the Doomsday book in 1086. For those whose name is not among the sample, the book shows how to find out where

Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer

An impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society

Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested

arguing that the military’s use of force was more heavily constrained by wider strategic and political considerations than previously admitted

indie icon and fashion muse

focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union

this book offers a practical and reader-friendly introduction to the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century

This is the first major collection to reimagine and analyze the role of the creative arts in building resilient and inclusive regional communities

Lay people who hear of current research in human-computer communication are amazed to discover that this kind of work has not already been done

and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales

which position the filmmakers and their creative concerns within the social or political context of their respective countries

After her death in 1549