This guide to how to interpret the common images and meanings in church art and architecture explains how to identify people, scenes, details and their significance, and explores the symbolism of different animals, plants, colours, numbers and letters. In this edition full colour photographs show all key features and details.

Illustrated throughout, the book looks at the social, geological and architectural history behind the structure of English villages, and examines how industries, urbanization, transport and changing traditions have influenced how we have been using and designing our buildings over the centuries.

In this work, Leland Roth introduces the reader to the major developments that shaped the American-built environment from before the arrival of the Europeans to the present.

Victorian Houses and Their Details examines the publications that contributed to the making of the houses of the period, providing a comprehensive understanding of their design and detailing.

From the great citadels of Caernarvon, Harlech, Powys and Beaumaris in the north to the Victorian glories of Cardiff in the south, the buildings of Wales embody its history and are the equal of any in the British Isles. The author presents these and many more Welsh buildings in this book.

This text summarises and contextualises the ideas that formed visual arts practices this century. The complex relationship between modernism and postmodernism is examined and concludes with a review of the global impact of new technologies.

Spliced together with personal reminiscence and local anecdote, this book offers a look at both the familiar and unfamiliar in England. Peter Ashley brings to the book extensive knowledge of buildings and a recognized ability to describe them, and the lands they inhabit, with wit and passion.

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge.

Each book in this series features 100 clearly illustrated and diverse historical works, from paintings, buildings, and sculptures to manuscripts, mandalas, and more. The books' layouts are both visually striking and accessible: each double-page spread features a full-page colour photograph of either a detail of the work or its context, depending on the subject, with a second photograph chosen to illustrate its important aspects.

Each page of this title profiles one building and looks at its history, its builders and the impact the style had on its contemporaries. Along the bottom is a timeline showing other buildings constructed at that time and how they reflected the growth of the societies that built them.