Author: Robin NethertonRobin Netherton; Gale R. Owen-Croc
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: textiles, clothing, medieval
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-19
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1843832917
ISBN-13: 9781843832911

The third volume of this pioneering series explores the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical, fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and cross-genre scholarship representing such fields as social history, economics, art history, archaeology and literature, as well as the reconstruction of textile-making techniques. They range over England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, and address such topics as soft furnishings, ecclesiastical vestments, the economics of the wool trade, the making and use of narrow w

Authors:Robin Netherton, Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crock
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: textiles, clothing, medieval
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2008-04-17
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1843833662
ISBN-13: 9781843833666

The fourth volume of this landmark series features a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women’s turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from England to Southern Italy; and a surviving embroidered linen cap attributed to Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Northern European dress and textiles are further explored in papers on archaeological textiles from medieval towns in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the construction of gowns excavated at Herjolfsnes, Greenland; and references to scarlet clothing in Iceland

Authors:Larry Whitler, Robin And The Giant, Robin MacBlane,
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: frog, barking, gift
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-03-23
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 141161545X
ISBN-13: 9781411615458

56 short stories for children and other deep thinkers! These stories were written by Robin And The Giant (also known as Robin MacBlane and Larry Whitler) for their children’s radio program.

Authors:Robin Derrick, Robin Muir,
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: portraits, century, vogue, people
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0316731145
ISBN-13: 9780316731140

Drawn from the peerless archives of British VOGUE and spanning a century, People in Vogue presents 400 images of the famous and infamous, as seen through the eye of the world’s premier fashion magazine.The archives of British VOGUE define modern portraiture. Its collection remains a stylish barometer of the social and cultural changes that shaped the 20th century. Now, portrayed here are the great, the good, and the not so good. From princesses to rock stars, models to actors, society beauties to world leaders, these are the people who made an enduring mark on their age. And just as the pict

Authors:Robin Derrick, Robin Muir,
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Keywords: fashion, photography, history, secret, vogue, unseen
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0316727660
ISBN-13: 9780316727662

Unseen Vogue goes beyond the cliches and often repeated "greatest hits" of fashion photography and tells a completely new story. Drawn from the archives of British Vogue, the book presents hundreds of images never seen before—the killed pictures, rejects, and outtakes—to form a fresh, new history of fashion photography. Features the first attempts of many now internationally famous photographers, great pictures by forgotten masters, outtakes from famous shoots, and many other extraordinary and sometimes controversial pictures. By showing contact sheets and unedited film Unseen Vogue opens

Authors:Robin Higham, Robin Higham, Carol Williams, Abigail T
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: military, history, series, stackpole, aircraft, american, combat, flying
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2004-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0811731243
ISBN-13: 9780811731249

Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more. Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit accompany dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin.

Authors:Anthony Trollope, Robin Gilmour, Robin Gilmour,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, warden
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1984-07-03
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140432140
ISBN-13: 9780140432145

The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse’s well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter’s suitor Dr. John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters are not improved when Harding’s abrasive son-in law, Archdeacon Grantly, leaps into the fray to defend him against a campaign Bold begins in the national press. An affectionate and wittily satirical view of the workings of the Church