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Fully illustrated throughout, The Renaissance is a highly accessible and colourful journey along the cultural contours of Europe from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period.

From deserted beaches to busy ports, from pretty fishing villages to a surfers' paradise, a salt marsh to a ship-breakers' yard, Coasts is a photographic exploration of where the land meets the sea.

With expert colour profile artworks and technical specifications for each entry, Modern Russian Tanks explores the main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self- propelled guns and missile-launching platforms in Russian service since 1990 organised by type and then alphabetically by manufacturer.

Illustrated with expert colour profile artworks and technical specifications, Modern Chinese Tanks explores the main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, self-propelled guns and missile-launching platforms in service since 1945, with an emphasis on the latest technology deployed by the PLA.

London celebrates the British capital, from its famous landmarks to atmospheric alleyways, from the top of the Shard to London Underground's lost ghost stations, from the parks to the canals to the Thames. Presented in a landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each entry, London is a stunning collection of images celebrating the world's most interesting city.

With the aid of superb line artworks, Unarmed Combat demonstrates to the reader how special forces soldiers are taught to excel in hand-to-hand fighting: how they maximise bodyweight, and the use of various strikes, throws, locks and constrictions to defeat opponents. It explains how different martial arts have been combined by military units to create hand-to-hand combat systems for defence against multiple assailants, for fighting on the ground, for dealing with edged and impact weapons, what works against attackers with firearms and - more importantly - what doesn't. With tips and techniques from unarmed combat experts, the book is divided into two main sections. The first covers the mental preparation needed to be ready to defend yourself. The second covers the physical techniques needed to defend yourself, and if necessary, strike back to temporarily incapacitate your attacker and escape. With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, Unarmed Combat is the definitive guide for anyone wanting to be ready for anything - it could save your life.

From volcanoes and lava flows to geysers and geothermal pools, from bird life to whale-watching, from national parks, verdant valleys to inland tundra, and from how waterfalls are used for hydro-electric power to Reykjavik's city life, Iceland is packed with spectacular colour photographs.

Revealing the incredible diversity of fossilised plants and animals, Fossils profiles 300 of the most common and fascinating examples, each illustrated with a photograph, accompanied by informed and accessible text and a table of information on scientific name, order and family, habitat, distribution, geological period and dimensions.

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is a modern classic. Written in English and first published in 1923, the book has gradually become a global bestseller, its wise words a favourite. Beautifully produced in a traditional Chinese binding and with a timeless design, The Prophet is an accessible yet spiritual book to be cherished.

It is easy to forget that Allied victory in WWII was far from certain, especially when both the Nazis in Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific were sweeping all before them. Illustrated with maps, colour artworks and photographs, History of World War II chronicles the campaigns of the conflict with day-by-day chronologies of key stages.

From the US Civil War in the 1860s up to the present, Weapons is an accessible reference guide to 400 small arms, armoured vehicles, aircraft and ships from around the world. With an entry per page, each weapon is illustrated with two artworks and a photo alongside a brief account of its production and service history, and specifications.

From Stonehenge built thousands of years ago to inner city churches and synagogues in present-day Detroit and Chicago, from ancient Roman temples to Mayan pyramids in Mexico, and from Hindu temples lost in the jungle to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, this photographic book shows what happens when nature reclaims once-holy ground.

Chinese Astrology is a beautifully illustrated guide with easy-to-use instructions to help you understand the fundamental ideas and determine the more advanced aspects accompanied by an explanation of each character and its significance within Chinese astrology: the perfect guide to your inner and outer life.

A fully-illustrated pocket-sized guide to 75 of the greatest bikes from all over the world, from Hondas to Harley-Davidsons. with stunning cut-out photographs, detailed annotations and specifications.

Illustrated with 180 artworks and photographs, Ancient Egyptian Myths is an engaging and highly informative exploration of a rich mythology that still fascinates today.

Featuring 200 colour photographs and captions explaining the fascinating stories behind each image, Egypt is a stunning portrait of an ancient and modern land.

Why are towns abandoned? And how do once mighty cities come to be forgotten about? From the pyramids of Egypt to the ruins at Angkor in Cambodia and on to the mysteries of the Easter Island moai statues, Abandoned Civilisations is a brilliant photographic work examining lost worlds.

Illustrated with 85 specially commissioned artworks and beautifully presented on high quality paper with special Chinese binding, Astrology is the perfect guide to your inner and outer life as determined by the planets.

Authoritatively written and featuring 70 photographs, fully annotated cutaway artworks, three- and four-view profile artworks and tables, Panther Tank tells the story of World War II's finest all-round tank and will have a strong appeal to anyone interested in twentieth century military history.

How to understand your dog's behaviour and how to train your hound, from fouling to whining, from barking to disobedience, from how to travel with your dog to how to wash your dog and to how to train your dog to behave around children.

How to understand your cat's behaviour and how you can adapt your own behaviour, covering all manner of issues, from marking territory to hissing, from scratching to self-harming, from exercising to coping with other cats.

100 Best Selling Albums of the 90s is packed full of facts and recording information, including a complete track listing, album artwork, musician and production credits, and an authoritative commentary on the record and its place in cultural history.

From abandoned crossings to engineering feats, Bridges is a pictorial celebration of 150 suspension bridges, aqueducts, viaducts, iron, stone and rail bridges, footbridges and even rope bridges. Organised in sections such as abandoned bridges, classic bridges and superstructures, the book contains an awe-inspiring range of structures.

From the angel shark to the zebra shark, A-Z of Sharks presents 26 weird and wonderful marine creatures to be explored. Each shark is illustrated with an outstanding colour artwork, with boxes of text highlighting key features. There is also a guide to the pronunciation of each shark's name.

From Apatosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex to Zephyrosaurus, The A-Z of Dinosaurs presents 26 fun dinosaurs to learn the names of. Each dinosaur is illustrated with an outstanding colour artwork, while a short description outlines the animal's main characteristics.

Broken down by key constituent parts, such as the police, concentration camps, security services, Waffen-SS, slave labour, Einsatzgruppen and so forth, The SS 1923-1945 includes exhaustive reference tables, diagrams, maps and charts, presenting all the core subject information in easy-to-follow formats.