Fenway Park's master groundskeeper Mellor offers readers everything they need to know about lawn care for their part of the country, including planting, mowing, feeding, and troubleshooting, as well as tips, 100 illustrations, and anecdotes.
If you live in the Southern United States and want a thicker and greener lawn, then this book is for you. With tips and tricks from the groundskeeper for The Boston Red Sox to professors of turf management across the United States, it will teach you how to grow a healthier lawn that lasts.
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was a tirelessly busy man whose career included theater and film design, writing, arbitrating taste to London's High Bohemia, and gardening in his country estate. However, it was as a photographer that Beaton achieved immortality. This opulently produced monograph is the first comprehensive presentation of his work. 265 ...
Statistical techniques and theories have become widely applied in the physical, biological and social sciences. The enormous increase in their scope and complexity has led to much philosophical discussion of their significance, and of the meaning in non-mathematical terms of the methods and concepts they employ. This book deals not so much with ...
"Some artists use canvas to create a work of art. David Mellor uses a baseball field. His patterns are so precise and imaginative, I call him the Rembrandt of groundskeeping." --Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Brewers Broadcaster Now you can transform your sports field or clubhouse lawn into an envy-grabbing work of optic art. In this book, David Mellor ...
Guest, the first monograph by art photographer Christopher Bucklow and the fourth powerhouse Books release in conjunction with the critically acclaimed fine art photography periodical, Blind Spot, is a lavish artists' book showcasing the masterworks of this sought after British artist. Known for his silhouettes made using a pinhole camera, Bucklow ...
Universally acknowledged as the greatest British photographer and one of the great masters of all twentieth-century photography, Bill Brandt left an indelible mark on the medium during a career that spanned more than fifty years. Trained in the Paris studio of Man Ray, Brandt returned to England and produced a body of work that ranged from ...
Gathering notice in newspapers under the headlines "He paints to Rock and Roll, " Robyn Denny became one of the leading London painters in the 1960s-a pioneer of a significant kind of Hard Edge abstraction which was distinctly different to the dominant American abstraction of the time. Yet for more that a quarter of a century now, the course of ...
The 10th edition and the most comprehensive yet. It contains thousands of reviews, 700 of which are new to this edition, with many alternative recommendations and suggestions for further listening. A major new feature this year is the inclusion of biographies of the lesser-known composers, allowing readers to confidently explore uncharted areas of ...
Lloyd and Mellor: "Telecommunications Law" is an important new text which covers all areas of telecommunications law in the UK. But since no examination of telecommunications can, in this new economy, look within a single country's borders, this key work offers a detailed account of the EU's telecommunications policy which increasingly shapes ...
Thirty years on, the sixties speak to us in celebration of youth, optimism, protest, an explosion of art, music and popular culture, a drive for liberation and towards feminism, in what seems like a lost paradise. This book is an ambitious Anglo-French collaboration in which, for the first time, photographs and essays from both sides of the ...
The early 1970s saw the emergence of new and independent approaches to documentary photography, which focused on social realism. The leading exponent, Tony Ray-Jones, captured the comedies of social class and the absurdities of human behaviour within the constraints of British culture. By the end of the 1970s, the status of photography within the ...
The Sixties witnessed the emergence of some of Britain's most influential artists. This book provides an overview of the interaction of art and culture during this exciting decade. The Sixties saw the rise of many of Britain's most influential artists, among them the painters Bridget Riley, Richard Hamilton and David Hackney and the sculptor ...
Planning to set up a home studio, project studio or DJ studio? This book is the place to start. It takes a "nuts and bolts" approach to help you produce an efficient and productive studio. It covers sound proofing, acoustics, studio layout and studio equipment, furniture, cabling, wiring looms and even soldering, all highly illustrated. Practical ...
This book explains all aspects of producing a record, from finding a band & choosing a song to getting your check on time. It covers rehearsal and pre-production, selling the singer to a record company A&R manager, working in the studio, getting the most out of musicians, engineers, & arrangers, & how to coax a singer through vocal recording.
This is an essential guide to all aspects of video technology for sound technicians wishing to broaden their knowledge. It explains in a highly readable and engaging way, the key technologies and issues, as well as the terms, acronyms and definitions. Although intended for the sound professional, this book will also appeal to anyone involved in ...
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