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Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

Miquel Barcelo: Terra Mare

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Format: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1980g, 372 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2010Published to accompany the exhibition showing in Avignon in 2010, this book presents an ensemble of recent works by...
Marcel Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers

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Author: Marie-Puck BroodthaersFormat: Hardback, 256mm x 307mm, 2400g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Marcel Broodthaers filled his twelve-year artistic career with more ideas and works than most...
Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit

Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit

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Author: Nadine BarthFormat: Hardback, 265mm x 265mm, 1630g, 240 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as...
The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology

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Author: William A. EwingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1780g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017In 1943 the American inventor and scientist Edwin H. Land was asked by...
Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women

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Author: Liz RidealFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 292mm, 240 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2018Madam and Eve is a rich, varied and exciting overview of how women artists have depicted...
Nebula

Nebula

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Format: Hardback, 244mm x 300mm, 1190g, 128 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2016Jacqueline Roberts makes portraits on glass and aluminum plates using a 150-year-old technique called wet plate collodion. The long exposures...
Margrit Linck (Bilingual edition): Bird Women and Vase Bodies

Margrit Linck (Bilingual edition): Bird Women and Vase Bodies

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Author: Beat WismerFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 275mm, 1380g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Margrit Linck is one of the twentieth century's most prominent ceramics artists. Over the course of her...
Bill Viola

Bill Viola

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Author: John G. HanhardtFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 285mm, 2130g, 296 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Bill Viola began experimenting with video art in the early 1970s; today, he...
Architecture for Health

Architecture for Health

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Author: Christine Nickl-WellerFormat: Hardback, 1110g, 176 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2021Hospital architecture reflects society in a state of flux. How do we care for our patients? What working environments...
Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

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After the Nation State

After the Nation State

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Mayday

Mayday

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Fear of Black Consciousness

Fear of Black Consciousness

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The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

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Author: Michael P. Murphy Jr.Format: Hardback, 190mm x 250mm, 1060g, 272 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2021Architecture of Health is a story about the design and life of hospitals-about how...
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

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Author: Andy FriendFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1100g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important...
Great Spies of the 20th Century

Great Spies of the 20th Century

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A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830-1910

A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830-1910

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Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian

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Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

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The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know...
La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

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Design Monograph: Gehry

Design Monograph: Gehry

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Author: Naomi StungoFormat: Hardback, 128mm x 186mm, 300g, 112 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2023A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of...
Milly-Molly-Mandy Again

Milly-Molly-Mandy Again

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Author: Joyce Lankester BrisleyFormat: Hardback, 193mm x 141mm, 270g, 128 pagesPublished: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2018Perfect for reading aloud, these seven stories will bring back happy memories for parents and...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

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Author: Theresa May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARR As...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

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Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A...
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

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No life exists outside the times.This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

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Author: Max DecharneFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 554g, 336 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

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Author: Marc-William Palen (Senior Lecturer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free...
Agent Undercover

Agent Undercover

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The Diary of a Secret Royal

The Diary of a Secret Royal

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Author: Henry Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The most scandalous Royal book of the year In a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country,...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

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Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940

Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940

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Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

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Author: Flora Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it...
The Invitation-Only Zone

The Invitation-Only Zone

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Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

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We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

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Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... 'Spy-masterful storytelling'...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this...