age ~64
from East Palestine, OH
A magnificent, deluxe book with nearly 1400 photos, drawings and designs. Many are concerned with gun engraving but the techniques can be universally applied. This is an instant classic on which no effort was spared. This beautiful book gives you complete instruction in the art of engraving. The aut...
Author
James B. Meek
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
208
Publisher
Brownell
ISBN #
9997645790
EAN Code
9789997645791
ISBN #
4
Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russian Revolution, The People’s Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son alone, a megalomaniac Czech captain and his restless...
Author
James Meek
Binding
Paperback
Pages
391
Publisher
Canongate U.S.
ISBN #
1841958778
EAN Code
9781841958774
ISBN #
2
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Brownell
ISBN #
8
These images, reminiscent of the vision of Andrei Tarkovsky, are distilling six years of travel across the former Soviet Union. The book is divided into a quiet series of black and white photographs, which won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2003, and color images that crystallize the intensity of ...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
96
Publisher
Kehrer Verlag
ISBN #
3868282378
EAN Code
9783868282375
ISBN #
10
James Meek’s masterful historical novel, The People’s Act of Love received accolades around the world, earning Meek comparisons to Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Conrad, and Greene. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is a tour de force of storytelling, furthering his reputation as one of the most exciting and ...
Author
James Meek
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Canongate U.S.
ISBN #
1847671918
EAN Code
9781847671912
ISBN #
6
From James Meek, the award-winning author of the international bestseller The People's Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secrets and shame, the quest for youth, loyalty and betrayal, falls from grace, acts of terror, and the w...
Author
James Meek
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
417
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN #
5
“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.” In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – h...
Author
James Meek
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Verso
ISBN #
1784782068
EAN Code
9781784782061
ISBN #
3
“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.” In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – h...
Author
James Meek
Binding
Paperback
Pages
238
Publisher
Verso
ISBN #
1781682909
EAN Code
9781781682906
ISBN #
1
1962
British journalist • Author
He later studied at Edinburgh University.
He now writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
British writer
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