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Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft, from biplane fighters to tactical bombers, transports, multirole fighters and stealth bombers. Packed with over 200 illustrations, each entry includes a description of the model's development and history, a profile view, key features and specifications.

Written around 1645, Miyamoto Musashi's Five Rings is an illustrated new modern translation of a classic Japanese work on mastery in swordsmanship, leadership and conflict produced using beautiful traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques and including 75 images.

This illustrated dual-language edition presents the original Chinese text with a modern translation on the facing page and includes new commentaries by expert historians giving examples of how Sun Tzu's wisdom has been borne out on the battlefield. Of immense influence to leaders across millennia, The Art of War Illustrated is a must-have classic.

Illustrated with detailed artworks of modern military aircraft with exhaustive captions and specifications, Modern Military Aircraft is an extensively researched review of the military aircraft deployed by the world's air forces organised alphabetically by manufacturer.

The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience, celebrates the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importance with Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Covering cultural life, aesthetics and philosophy, this is an exquisitely produced edition using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques.

Packed with more than 200 full-colour artworks and photographs of American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, Polish and other Western Allied nations tanks with exhaustive specifications, World War II Tanks: Western Allies 1939-45 is a key reference guide for military modellers and World War II enthusiasts.

Haiku Illustrated features 80 classic poems from four poets - Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki - which range across more than 200 years of Japanese poetry. Each poem is presented in Japanese script, along with romanised Japanese (romaji), a new English translation and an illustration echoing the poem's theme.

From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces uses stunning photographs to tell the stories behind dilapidated structures from all around the world.

Written by a team of experts, The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII is an exhaustive fully-illustrated survey of the aircraft flown by all the combatants in Europe and the Pacific, including such famous aircraft as the Mustang, Spitfire, Yak-3, Me 109 and Corsair.

Counting from 50 down to 1, Top 50 Tanks features the greatest armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Each entry is covered over four pages, including a brief description of the tank's development and history, artworks showing various views and models, a photograph and a selective specifications table.

Arranged by dynastic period, Pharaohs offers a compact history of the reign of god-kings, from Menes, who united the north and south kingdoms, to the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra, who was defeated along with her lover Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium (31 BCE) by imperial Rome. Along the way the reader will learn about the Great Pyramid constructed by Khufu, the last of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world; Queen Hatshepsut, a rare female pharaoh whose name means "foremost of noblewomen"; and much more.

This book offers a detailed guide to the major types of battleships to fight in the two world wars. Explore HMS Dreadnought, the first of a class of fast, big-gun battleships to be developed at the beginning of the 20th century; find out about the destruction of HMS Hood, which exploded after exchanging fire with the Bismarck, which itself was sunk after a trans-Atlantic chase by a combination of battery fire and aircraft-launched torpedoes; and much more.

The 2,500-year-old I Ching, or 'Book of Changes', is an ancient Chinese work of divination and prophesy, consulted by performing complex routines of dropping bundles of dried grass stalks. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese binding with 75 illustrations that make the perfect gift edition, this book will allow anyone to use the I Ching to predict their destiny.

Highly illustrated, Native American Myths is an exploration of the beliefs and culture of North America's first inhabitants divided into seven chapters, covering creation myths; people, family and culture; the natural world; ghosts and spirits; gods, demons and heroes; love, morality and death; and warfare.

Aircraft of World War II contains 300 of the most important and influential military aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. From Allied fighters to Axis bombers, from biplanes to flying boats, each of the aircraft featured is presented with a full colour profile artwork, alongside technical specifications.

With one symbol per page, accompanied by a detailed explanation and history, and printed on high quality paper with a special binding, Classic Symbols is a unique and attractive book that explores the world of classic symbols and signs, revealing the deep meaning and often quirky history behind each one

Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II is a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force. All the major and many minor types are featured, including fighters, dive-bombers, ground-attack aircraft, night bombers, strategic bombers and reconnaissance and transport aircraft.

Duck punch, cover block and knee strike. Boxing, wrestling and Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan, lines of attack and final disengagement. If you can't take flight, you're going to have to fight. Extreme Unarmed Combat is an authoritative handbook on an immense array of close combat defence techniques, from fistfights to headlocks, from tackling single unarmed opponents to armed groups, from stance to manoeuvring. Presented in a handy pocketbook format, Extreme Unarmed Combat's structure considers the different fighting and martial arts skills you can use before looking at the areas of the body to defend, how to attack without letting yourself be hurt and how to incapacitate your opponent. With more than 300 black-&-white illustrations of combat scenarios, punches, blocks and ducks, and with expert easy-to-follow text, Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything you need to know about what to do when you can't escape trouble. This book could save your life.

With 200 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions, Abandoned Industrial Places is a brilliant pictorial examination of derelict factories, underground and opencast mines, nuclear power stations and gasworks, atomic test sites, space research centres, Victorian English mill towns, American gold rush settlements and much more.

Animals profiles over 400 of the world's most fascinating species, grouped by order then family; each family section contains examples of key species, illustrated with detailed artworks with a table of information on scientific name, order and family, features, habitats, distribution, diet and breeding, as well as maps and box features.

Organised chronologically by type, Modern Tanks and AFVs offers a highly illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used around the world since 1990.

In 300 detailed entries, Military Vehicles explores the combat, transport and utility vehicles that have supported military units from WWI to the present day. Categories include armoured personnel carriers, armoured cars, anti-aircraft vehicles, tank destroyers, trucks, transporters, amphibious vehicles, self-propelled artillery and more.

Understanding Architecture expertly guides the reader through the world's different architectural styles. Arranged chronologically, each style is explained by a well-known example building accompanied by accessible text explaining the major features. Each chapter also offers a general cultural background to the major architectural movements.