New Releases by Robert Cook

This is the story of the United Counties Omnibus Company, once one of Britain''s largest and most influential bus companies. From its headquarters in Northampton, its sphere of influence covered most of the south-east Midlands, extending from Stamford and Market Harborough in the north, down to Oxford, Aylesbury and Luton in the south, from Daventry in the west to Bedford and Biggleswade in the east. Now part of Stagecoach East, the United Counties was the amalgamation of many small bus operators in the counties as they combined to serve an ever-increasing area. Robert Cook and Andrew Shouler combine social and transport history as they narrate the memories of people who worked in the local bus industry and detail the vehicles employed by the bus operators of this once great national bus company.

Just over 100 years ago, a small engineering concern in Vauxhall, South London, made its first motor car. Named after the place it was built, the Vauxhall was a revelation. Within a few years of expansion, production had moved to Luton. Vauxhall was purchased in the 1920s by General Motors and its most famous models include its Edwardian Prince Henry, the PA Cresta, perhaps the most distinctive of its American-styled cars, as well as the Astra, Cavalier and its 1970s rally winning cars such as the Firenza and Chevette. Since the 1950s, Vauxhall has remained one of Britain''s most popular car makes, with many millions of its cars sold worldwide. Its F-type Victor was at one time the biggest export earner for Britain with over 200,000 sold abroad and the PA was the first true motorway cruiser built in Britain. Vauxhall: A History tells the story of the cars, the people that built them and also of Bedford, the truck and van division of Vauxhall.

The history of the Geneseo, N.Y. and also the surrounding communities of Avon, Groveland, Leicester, Livonia, Mount Morris, and York is presented through archival photographs.

This text presents the presuppositions of medieval society by integrating brief selections from primary texts and photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. It encompasses classical and biblical antecedents of medieval culture, the Early and High Middle Ages and beyond.

StripTEASE offers an in-depth look at the work of Perth-based photographer Max Pam. Covering over thirty years of practice, this exhibition showcases Pam''s black and white photographs from the 1970s to the 1990s alongside his more recent, sumptuous colour pictures. His subject-matter embraces a large chunk of the world, yet, as his work is far better known outside Australia, it is important that this exhibition was created to be seen within his own country. With this, all of Pam''s work, whether made at home or on the road, lives on in the imagination, activating the synapses, and eroticising our involvement with the world. For Max Pam as for those who find themselves caught up in the lure of his photography, the striptease will never be over...

This practical and lucid introduction to a study of the New Testament allows nonspecialists to absorb the basics of biblical interpretation without the necessity of acquiring a background of detailed and technical information. In addition to a brief, analytical description of the basic tools, the author indicates specific implications for the use of these basics for meaningful understanding of the biblical message. An expansion of his popular earlier book, Interpreting the Gospels, this volume is distinctive in its study of many facets of biblical literature, exegesis, and hermeneutics. Dr. Briggs presents the main concerns and the foremost techniques in the study of the history of the canon and a view of the historical bases of New Testament faith. Beginning students and those who want to understand the basic problems of serious New Testament scholarship will find here an authentic overview of the knowledge necessary for meaningful interpretation of the New Testament. --