Describing himself as a visual jackdaw , master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distills this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind.

Presents a collection of visual games, doodles, graphic objects, sketches and quotations, and demonstrates how images can often convey meaning more clearly than text. This work explores the potential that words have to become pictures, and that drawings have to convey meanings, as well as a collection of ephemera.

Designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, ideas, useless information, quotations and scraps, all of which he turned into The Art of Looking Sideways. This title represents a distillation of 100 of the best images from this project, and converts them into a collection of postcards that should entertain, stimulate and inspire.

Updated edition of this popular Companion, including new chapters, illustrations, and a revised reference section.

A ground-breaking historical whodunit about the mysterious death of England's greatest medieval writer. In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. Combining revelatory scholarship with the flair for narrative that marks all his work, the result is an absorbing synthesis of history and ...

A Medieval Mystery. In this enthralling work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. In 1400 his name strangely disappears from the records without trace. What if he was murdered? What if he and his writings had become politically inconvenient when the oppressive regime of Henry IV overthrew the liberal Richard ..

Updated edition of this popular Companion, including new chapters, illustrations, and a revised reference section.

This book charts the history of design and advertising over the last forty years.

Robert Brownjohn was born in New Jersey in 1925. He was taught by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago Institute of Design in the 1940s and worked in New York in the 1950s, and spent the 1960s on the King's Road. Best known for his title sequences for the Bond films From Russia With Love and Goldfinger , he also produced other influential pieces.

Suitable for scholars studying the first milennium AD.

A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of acute symptoms and conditions. It offers information on emergency differential diagnosis for non-specialists in a hospital or primary care setting.