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Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep

Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep

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One woman's harrowing story about life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After...
Pistols! Treason! Murder!

Pistols! Treason! Murder!

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Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall. 'Jon Walker's Pistols deserves to be called our first true work of 'punk history'. Through the dank Venetian alleyways we...
MAMMA MIA! How Can I Resist You?: The Inside Story of Mamma Mia! and

MAMMA MIA! How Can I Resist You?: The Inside Story of Mamma Mia! and

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In the 1970s, the Swedish musical phenomenon known as ABBA - Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - succeeded in reinventing the world s perception of pop....
After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew

After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew

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Follow-up to the bestselling The Victorians in which A. N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. When this book begins, in the reign of Edward...
Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis

Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis

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The finest book on Britains most popular rock n roll bandRead on ... Its all true Noel Gallagher Featuring an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher ahead of the Oasis Live...
Riviera Cocktail

Riviera Cocktail

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The South of France in the Golden '50s. The sun is shining and palm trees cast jagged shadows on a polished motor purring up the drive to the Grand Hotel....
Monastic

Monastic

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With her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastery interiors and simultaneously separates them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and...
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65

Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65

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This landmark volume offers a major re-assessment of the art that emerged in Britain in the twenty years following the end of the Second World War: a period of anxiety,...
Wow: Women Only Works on Paper

Wow: Women Only Works on Paper

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This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition of works on paper by thirty-eight 20th-century British women artists in a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels, complemented...
Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times

Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times

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On the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs. The book will take readers on a visual journey through...
Turn and Face the Strange: Jane England

Turn and Face the Strange: Jane England

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Bringing together photographs taken during the mid 1970s through to the early 1980s, Turn and Face the Strange covers the eclectic range of subjects that passed in front of Jane...
Jack Milroy: Cut Out

Jack Milroy: Cut Out

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'Jack Milroy: Cut Outs' is the first substantial publication on the work of the prolific British artist Jack Milroy who has been active for over 50 years. The book explores...
John Hall: Travelling Light: A 45-Year Survey of Paintings

John Hall: Travelling Light: A 45-Year Survey of Paintings

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Covering over four decades of work, John Hall: Travelling Light is an exquisitely illustrated retrospective on one of Canada's most established contemporary artists. Hall's hyperreal paintings can be seen a...
Material Girls

Material Girls

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The large-scale group exhibition, Material Girls, which this book documents, was an exploration of material process and notions of excess as they relate to the feminized body, gendered space, and...
Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin

Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin

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"Far from Folsom Prison that's where I long to stay Then I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away" A powerful portrait of a legendary musician by a legendary...
Muhammad Ali: Fighter's Heaven 1974

Muhammad Ali: Fighter's Heaven 1974

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Over forty years ago, Peter Angelo Simon photographed Muhammad Ali in the rural Pennsylvania sanctuary he called "Fighter's Heaven" as he prepared for the most crucial contest of his career....
Woodstock

Woodstock

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Hugely evocative. Unseen photographs from the most famous music festival of all time. Baron Wolman's stunning black and white photographs of Woodstock are published here for the first time. The...
The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal

The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal

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Taking their name from the downtown street in Montreal where members shared a studio in the early 1920s, The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernistic approaches to...
Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable

Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable

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*Carolee Schneemann is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Venice Bienalle 2017* Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of the...
Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty

Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty

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Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...
The Time of their Lives

The Time of their Lives

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In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000

Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000

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A comprehensive and accessible overview and analysis of government policy and practice in relation to the removal of indigenous children in Australia. This major work - the first of its...
CLASSIC MOMENTS FROM A CENTURY OF

CLASSIC MOMENTS FROM A CENTURY OF

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As 20th century sport gallops headlong towar ds the millennium post in a blanket finish, Frank Keating as ks who and what was the best of the century. '