Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain
"Bentley's study is an extremely successful attempt to analyze what he calls the `Conservative Environments' around and about the Marquis.... Bentley quite rightly remarks that Lord Salisbury was `bitingly intelligent, focused and funny' (p. 6). So is Michael Bentley, who writes in a tellingly ironic yet often elegiac style which reflects an historian completely at home in his period, more than aware of its nuances, and quite prepared to indulge in unwhiggish and trenchant criticism of modernity." Journal of Church and State
- The ultimate guide to building and customizing dream closets - Includes illustrated step-by-step directions, featuring before and after photos of remodeled closets - Features sidebars and tips for completing each project quickly and easily Is it possible to have a perfectly organized closet? With The Complete Custom Closet, the answer is Yes! Readers are first asked to evaluate their storage needs, then using intermediate carpentry and cabinetmaking skills they learn how to transform their spaces by adding drawers...
The past may be forgotten, but it never dies. The elements which in the most remote times have entered into a nation's composition endure through all its history, and help to mould that history, and to stamp the character and genius of the people (book with 64 full-page illustrations)
"Accolades to Yoshio Sugimoto for his latest contribution to contemporary literature on Japan...which is wide-ranging, thought-provoking and comprehensive. Although it is written as a students' text, it will be valuable to both students and teachers." Asian Studies Review
