BRIAN BELL

This guide includes a section detailing New York City''s history, six features covering the city''s life and culture, ranging from its dream location as a movie backdrop to its frenzied media activity; a visitor''s guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and 13 maps.

This 258-page guidebook to London presents the city''s highlights in a comprehensive but portable format, with the following key features: The Best of London: overview of vital information for visitors, including money- and time-saving tips and the most family-oriented attractions. Places: district-by-district guide, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps. Restaurant guide: a pull-out, pocket-size "Z" map, with review listings of recommended restaurants and bars. Photo Features: magazine-style full-colour features on some of the city''s most famous sights, including museums and galleries. Essay Features: incisive essays on London''s history, people and culture. Travel Tips: practical listings, covering Accommodation, Entertainment, Transport and more. Street Atlas: colour maps of London''s main streets, with grid-referenced index.

This 416-page guidebook to Poland presents the country''s highlights in a comprehensive format, illustrated with hundreds of full-colour photographs and 19 maps. Key features: Places: region-by-region gazetteer section, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps. Essay Features: incisive essays on Poland''s history, people and culture, from its fledgling market economy to its legendary hospitality Photo Features: magazine-style full-colour features on the country''s most exotic sights and culture. Travel Tips: practical listings section, including Accommodation, Entertainment, Transport and essential contact addresses and numbers.

This 176-page, pocket-sized book comprises a region-by-region guide to London''s restaurants, cafes, pubs and bars. The independently reviewed restaurant listings are price-coded, spanning high-class gastro-temples to cheap and cheerful neighbourhood favourite haunts. An overview of each area includes full-colour maps to help you find your way around; background features focus on special subjects, from afternoon tea to child-friendly establishments. Plus a directory of essential travel information, A-Z listings and a map of the London Underground.

This 312-page guidebook contains a detailed region-by-region description of all the city's main attractions, as well as a features section covering London's history and culture, ranging from the Trooping the Colour pageant to Cockney rhyming slang; and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of top-notch photographs and 14 maps, including a London Underground map.

Farm Machinery is the standard book on the current theory and practice of farm mechanisation for students and farmers. First published in 1979, this new sixth edition incorporates much new text together with 280 new colour photographs illustrating the steady flow of developments in farm mechanisation that have taken place over the past decade. Recent advances in computer technology and satellite field mapping are included and new content enriches the earlier material dealing with the working principles and operation of the vast array of the somewhat less sophisticated farm tractors and machines still in use on British farms. There are chapters on tractors, cultivation and drilling equipment, crop care and harvest machinery. Further chapters deal with farmyard and estate maintenance equipment, mechanical handlers, dairy equipment, irrigation farm power and the farm workshop. References are made to the UK Health & Safety at Work Act and other safety regulations. These summarise their main requirements, but they should only be taken as a guide. Brian Bell has had a long involvement with farm machinery that started with an apprenticeship in a tractor dealership. After a teaching career on farm machinery at Otley College in Suffolk he retired as Vice Principal in 1993 when he was awarded the MBE for services to agriculture. Brian Bell has written a number of books and made seventeen DVDs on modern and vintage tractors and machinery.

Perfect for both the novice and the experienced plougher, this comprehensive guide will show you everything you need to know about tractor ploughing, its history, and its competitive traditions both past and present. Featuring detailed sections on various types of ploughs, basic techniques, the Society of Ploughmens rules for ploughing matches, and so much more, also included in this complete manual are high-quality photographs and helpful illustrations. This new, updated edition contains the current rules for match ploughing, judges scoring system, and a list of ploughing organizations around the world.

By the end of the twentieth century there were some half-million tractors on British farms - more machines than people to drive them. Brian Bells encyclopaedic book traces the evolution of the farm tractor from the days of starting handle and pan seat to current 4-wheel drive machines with air-conditioned cabs and computer management systems. He deals in particular with developments of the classic period from the 1950s to the 1990s. The book is arranged alphabetically by manufacturer from Allis-Chalmers to Zetor, one hundred marques in total. These are all machines to be found on British farms irrespective of their country of manufacture. Brian runs concisely through the histories of the companies and their major models, illustrated with a wealth of photographs and extracts from sales literature. He adds some special features on items such as hydraulic systems and cold-starting aids. He includes a glossary and full index. This book replaces the authors earlier, successful, Fifty Years of Farm Tractors. Many of the photographs are new and the text has been brought up to date to include developments of the early twenty-first century.

This guide includes a section detailing St Petersburg''s history, seven features covering aspects of the city''s life and culture, ranging from dealing with capitalism to theatres and cinemas; a visitor''s guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and four maps, including one of the St Petersburg Metro.