Looks Good On Your Coffee Table
Looks Good On Your Coffee Table What On Earth Evolved?
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In What On Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd detailed the entire history of the planet, from the big bang to the present day. No mean feat for a book of just over 400 pages. This follow-up concentrates on the history of life and it’s evolution on earth.
Animal, vegetable, viral: every from of life is covered here, and the index of 100 species includes Potato, Tyrannosaurus, Grass and Herpes. For each genus, Lloyd gives us a brief history of its development, evolution, or discovery. Its split into two halves (before and after man) and is wonderfully illustrated throughout with maps, photographs,…
Looks Good On Your Coffee Table Leeds City Beautiful
A big book of Leeds - learn more about your city
Nigel A Ibbotson has been photographing Yorkshire for the past 30 years and this is a familiar collection of all of the city’s most iconic sights. So expect to see images of the usual city centre hotspots, from Millennium Square to the Town Hall, not to mention locales a bit further afield - Elland Road, Roundhay Park, Harewood House et al.
Ibbotson’s notes on both architecture and our city’s long and illustrious heritage make nice footnotes but aren’t particularly insightful, instead leaving the images to make the most impact, with nice sections on parks, churches and statues. With this…
Looks Good On Your Coffee Table Who Would Win a Fight Between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee?
A big geeky book of sports facts and questions. Why ever not?
Ever wanted to know which sport has the fittest participants? Which is the most dangerous? Or, more importantly, are sumo wrestlers fat but fit - or just plain fat? By its own admission, Who Would Win a Fight Between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee? is “the sports fan’s book of answers”.
With help from the professionals, Hobbes covers all manner of sporting subjects, ranging from the practical (“why do cyclists shave their legs?”) to the philosophical (“should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in sport?”). Where possible, the author gives definitive answers to oft-asked questions, and, where categorical answers are impossible,…
Looks Good On Your Coffee Table Fuck
Just make sure you clear it away before elderly relatives come round
All those in possession of a delicate mind, look away now. Fuck is a cartoon retelling the history (and, in latter pages, a prediction of future conditions) of the Earth, brought to us by artist Martin Rowson.
As one might expect from a man who describes his hobbies as “ranting, atheism and collecting taxidermy”, his animations are potent with satire and cynicism. He combines the political with the humorous, resulting in such masterpieces as ‘The Developing World’, a documentation of crop harvesters ankle-deep in putrid water, set against the backdrop of a massive Nuclear Plant. One of them holds his…
