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Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 (Paperback): Terence Young Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 (Paperback)
Terence Young
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.

They Were Not Divided (DVD): John Wynn, Rufus Cruikshank, Stella Andrew, Desmond Llewelyn, Estelle Brody, Edward Underdown,... They Were Not Divided (DVD)
John Wynn, Rufus Cruikshank, Stella Andrew, Desmond Llewelyn, Estelle Brody, … 1
R307 R151 Discovery Miles 1 510 Save R156 (51%) Ships in 15 - 30 working days

Terence Young writes and directs this World War Two action drama. After the success of the Normandy landings, the British Guards Armoured Division sweeps across Europe, taking part in the liberation of Belgium before becoming entangled in the bloody German counter-attack in the Ardennes. Three soldiers are granted leave and return to their normal lives in England - but before long, they are recalled to duty and find themselves on the most perilous mission they have ever undertaken: a daring reconnaissance mission during the advance on Berlin.

Valley of Eagles (DVD): John McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner, Christopher Lee, Mary Laura Wood, Naima Wifstrand, Norman... Valley of Eagles (DVD)
John McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner, Christopher Lee, Mary Laura Wood, … 1
R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Ships in 15 - 30 working days

Terence Young directs this 1950s espionage thriller starring John McCallum, Nadia Gray, Jack Warner and Christopher Lee. When the Swedish scientist Dr. Nils Ahlen (McCallum) discovers a means of transmuting sound impulses into electrical currents, his invention inevitably becomes the sought after tool of governments, businesses and criminals everywhere. When his wife Helga (Mary Laura Wood) and key parts of his invention go missing, Ahlen enlists Inspector Peterson (Warner) of the local police to help him track them down. The quest leads them to snowy northern terrain where a showdown with the abductors beckons...

Heading Out - A History of American Camping (Hardcover): Terence Young Heading Out - A History of American Camping (Hardcover)
Terence Young
R744 R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Save R96 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular pastimes-tens of millions of Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.

From Russia With Love (Blu-ray disc): Eunice Gayson, Daniela Bianchi, Bernard Lee, Sean Connery, Pedro Armendariz, Robert Shaw,... From Russia With Love (Blu-ray disc)
Eunice Gayson, Daniela Bianchi, Bernard Lee, Sean Connery, Pedro Armendariz, …
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 15 - 30 working days

Sean Connery returns as Secret Service agent James Bond in the second of the series, once again saving the world from the terrorist threats of the SPECTRE organisation. Bond is sent to Istanbul to steal a Russian coding machine, but comes up against two fearsome opponents also interested in the device: East German spy Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who hides a deadly switchblade in her shoe; and Red Grant (Robert Shaw), an assassin posing as a fellow British agent.

Thunderball (DVD): Sean Connery, Adolfo Celi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik van Nutter, Rose Alba, Martine Beswicke,... Thunderball (DVD)
Sean Connery, Adolfo Celi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik van Nutter, … 2
R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Ships in 15 - 30 working days

The fourth in the James Bond series, with Sean Connery once again in the title role. Global criminal organisation SPECTRE has stolen two nuclear bombs and is threatening to blow up the world. Bond infiltrates the terrorists' underwater base off the Bahamas in order to foil their plan. 'Thunderball' was remade in 1983 when Sean Connery returned to the role of 007 in 'Never Say Never Again'.

Death By Prescription (Paperback): Terence Young Death By Prescription (Paperback)
Terence Young
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The bad news is everywhere...death by prescription drugs. Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston get the headlines. But there are thousands of other people who suffer and die because of the wrong prescription. This is one harrowing story about a father, a family, a daughter. Fifteen year of Vanessa began taking Prepulsid after her doctor prescribed the drug to alleviate a stomach disorder. Suddenly, unexpectedly, she collapses and dies in her family home. Confusion, grief, remorse get channeled by Terence Young into determination to get to the root causes of his daughter’s death. His investigations take him from Health Canada to the Corner’s Office, from the sales people of major drug manufacturers to the medical profession, from the legal profession to the courts. This is a compelling story, a remarkably well-written and fully documented book which takes you into the inner workings of the global drug companies, the intricate relationships between the pharmaceutical industries and the regulatory bodies of government, the complicity of the medical profession and the tragic consequences for the public. Terence H. Young’s deeply personal story will affect every reader. Death by Prescription has also been the subject of a documentary film.

Secret Mission (DVD): Roland Culver, Betty Warren, Carla Lehman, Percy Walsh, Fritz Wendhausen, Hugh Williams, Nancy Price,... Secret Mission (DVD)
Roland Culver, Betty Warren, Carla Lehman, Percy Walsh, Fritz Wendhausen, …
R307 R151 Discovery Miles 1 510 Save R156 (51%) Ships in 15 - 30 working days

World War Two drama starring James Mason. When four intelligence officers arrive in occupied France on a mission to determine the strength of the German forces, they know full well that they are on a suicide mission. But once they penetrate the Nazi headquarters, can they survive long enough to get their information to the British troops? Roland Culver, Michael Wilding and Hugh Williams co-star.

Red Sun (Blu-ray disc): Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshirô Mifune, Capucine, Ursula Andress, Luc Merenda, Julio Pena, Bart... Red Sun (Blu-ray disc)
Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshirô Mifune, Capucine, Ursula Andress, …
R491 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R65 (13%) Ships in 15 - 30 working days

Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune), a samurai warrior, is accompanying a Japanese diplomat to the US. They are carrying a golden, jewel-encrusted sword to present as a token of goodwill to the president, however they are ambushed by two outlaws - Gauche (Alain Delon) and Link (Charles Bronson). When Gauche double-crosses Link and keeps the sword for himself, Link joins forces with Kuroda to return the sword to its rightful owner.

Thunderball (Blu-ray disc): Adolfo Celi, Rik van Nutter, Claudine Auger, Sean Connery, Luciana Paluzzi, Rose Alba, Roland... Thunderball (Blu-ray disc)
Adolfo Celi, Rik van Nutter, Claudine Auger, Sean Connery, Luciana Paluzzi, …
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 15 - 30 working days

The fourth in the James Bond series, with Sean Connery once again in the title role. Global criminal organisation SPECTRE has stolen two nuclear bombs and is threatening to blow up the world. Bond infiltrates the terrorists' underwater base off the Bahamas in order to foil their plan. 'Thunderball' was remade in 1983 when Sean Connery returned to the role of 007 in 'Never Say Never Again'.

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