Like L.A., San Diego and Albuquerque were built in Spanish Mission-style , others in Gothic or Greek Revival or Richardsonian Romanesque. Train Stations Then and Now shows the huge variety of building styles of railroad terminals across the USA, featuring the best surviving examples and the finest to fall under the wrecking ball.
Pairing archive photos of the ‘Big Easy’ with their modern counterparts, New Orleans Then and Now shows how the city has preserved its rich architectural heritage to become a must-see tourist destination.
Savannah Then and Now – People and Places is a photographic tour de force of one of America’s best-preserved cities.
Concise and Abridged Edition
Do we really have the right to say the ‘wrong’ thing?
‘I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd’ Guardian
The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.
Astonishing images of vanished Denver, from old hotels and movie houses to streetcars to sports stadiums.
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy.
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.
Using archive photos from the late nineteenth century through to the 1950s, Brisbane Then and Now matches historical views with their twenty-first century equivalents.
Lost New Orleans is the latest in the series from Pavilion Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside before concerned citizens or the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker’s ball.
The very best journalism from one of Britain’s most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma.
A fly-on-the-wall account of the greatest drama in modern sporting history by the New York Times cycling correspondent.
