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Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp

Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp

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Author: Mark FeltonFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 386g, 320 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2019Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War

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Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
Small Fry

Small Fry

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Author: Lisa Brennan-JobsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 357g, 416 pagesPublished: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States, 2019'A remarkable book, much more than the lurid celebrity tell-all it might...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

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Author: Timothy Garton AshFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 183g, 208 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2019The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making,...
The Terminal Spy

The Terminal Spy

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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko KakutaniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 420g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the...
Blackout

Blackout

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Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

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Author: Michael SemffFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1800g, 272 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2012The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly...
Station: A journey through 20th and 21st century railway architecture and design

Station: A journey through 20th and 21st century railway architecture and design

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Author: Christopher BeanlandFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 276mm, 525g, 208 pagesPublished: Batsford, United Kingdom, 2024A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the...
The Briar Club

The Briar Club

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Author: Kate QuinnFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 540g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with...
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

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Author: Charlayne Hunter-GaultFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 270g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work...
Hundertwasser (German edition): Furdie Zukunft

Hundertwasser (German edition): Furdie Zukunft

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Author: Pierre RestanyFormat: Paperback, 200gPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with respect to nature and individual creativity. His...
The House of Fever

The House of Fever

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Author: Polly CrosbyFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'Shimmering with menace, this is a deliciously Gothic treat' Heat'What a book! So intriguing, with a...
Andreas Eriksson: Cutouts

Andreas Eriksson: Cutouts

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Author: Kirsty BellFormat: Hardback, 214mm x 313mm, 1140g, 112 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021Painting in between abstraction and representation always offers a promise of thought and feeling. Emotionally, as well...
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

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Author: Anne ApplebaumFormat: Hardback, 143mm x 223mm, 346g, 240 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world All...
Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance

Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance

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Author: Marit PaascheFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 940g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019The significance of Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) as one of the most important figures in...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm

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Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
The Paris Gown: A Novel

The Paris Gown: A Novel

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Author: Christine WellsFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 406g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot and...
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Author: Justin McGuirkFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 240mm, 250g, 320 pagesPublished: Design Museum, United Kingdom, 2018The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical....
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

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Author: Judith MackrellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 790g, 408 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power...
Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille

Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille

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Author: Michael HeringFormat: Hardback, 238mm x 319mm, 1420g, 172 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017The twins Gert & Uwe Tobias are among the most famous German artists in the field of...
New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography

New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography

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Author: Bauhaus-ArchivFormat: Paperback, 230mm x 250mm, 1060g, 208 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2018This lavishly illustrated volume, which comes in four different colours and with an open Japanese binding, looks from...
John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings

John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings

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Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....
Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist

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Author: Eveline BergerFormat: Hardback, 196mm x 250mm, 1180g, 288 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017Werner Graeff - painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor - is an important Bauhaus artist and...
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art

Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art

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Author: Nicholas HallFormat: Hardback, 1580g, 248 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2019Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of...
QSL? (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?): A Visual Language of Two-way Radio Communication

QSL? (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?): A Visual Language of Two-way Radio Communication

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Author: Marc DaCostaFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 279mm, 1540g, 276 pagesPublished: Standards Manual, United States, 2022Communications between amateur radio (AKA ham radio) operators and citizen band stations have been crowding the...
Castaway Modernism: Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate" Art

Castaway Modernism: Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate" Art

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Author: Eva ReifertFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1480g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the...
Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

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Author: Doretta Davanzo PoliFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2070g, 304 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2007Following the publication of Italian Ceramic Art, Skira presents a compilation devoted primarily to the modern decorative...
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt: Collected Works

Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt: Collected Works

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Author: Peter W. KunhardtFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 290mm, 1880g, 304 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022Celebrating one of the most dynamic forces in American children's literature, Dorothy Kunhardt's Collected Works is...
Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work

Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work

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Author: Wietse CoppesFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 270mm, 2080g, 368 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The general public's image of Mondrian is of a serious man in a suit and tie with...
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints

Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints

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Author: Donald JuddFormat: Paperback, 216mm x 279mm, 890g, 240 pagesPublished: Distributed Art Publishers, United States, 2016Originally published in 1975, reprinted in 2005 and out of print for many years, this...
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors

Bernard Plossu: Western Colors

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Format: Hardback, 270mm x 220mm, 910g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague...
Tarsila do Amaral: The Moon

Tarsila do Amaral: The Moon

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Author: Beverly AdamsFormat: Paperback, 185mm x 230mm, 200g, 48 pagesPublished: Museum of Modern Art, United States, 2022Tarsila do Amaral's painting The Moon (1928), a highly stylized, desolate nocturne, grew from...
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution

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Author: Elizabeth FullertonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988...
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt: Collected Works

Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt: Collected Works

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Author: Peter W. KunhardtFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 290mm, 1880g, 304 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022Celebrating one of the most dynamic forces in American children's literature, Dorothy Kunhardt's Collected Works is...
Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection

Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection

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Author: Elizabeth WyckoffFormat: Hardback, 255mm x 290mm, 1280g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted...
Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

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Author: Doretta Davanzo PoliFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2070g, 304 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2007Following the publication of Italian Ceramic Art, Skira presents a compilation devoted primarily to the modern decorative...
Russia of the Tsars

Russia of the Tsars

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Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

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The Unknown Courier: The True Story of Operation Mincemeat

The Unknown Courier: The True Story of Operation Mincemeat

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Divided We Stand: Britain, the United States and the Suez Crisis

Divided We Stand: Britain, the United States and the Suez Crisis

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The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

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Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
A Secret Garden Affair

A Secret Garden Affair

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Author: Erica JamesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 416 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating'...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East

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Author: Robert FiskFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 820g, 672 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE'...
Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

Traitors Gate (William Warwick Novels)

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Author: Jeffrey ArcherFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available...
Einstein: The Man and his Mind

Einstein: The Man and his Mind

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Author: Gary BergerFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 330mm, 1980g, 212 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022"This visual - and artistically beautiful - format differentiates Einstein: The Man And His Mind from all previous...
Diane Arbus Documents

Diane Arbus Documents

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Author: Diane ArbusFormat: Hardback, 216mm x 279mm, 2100g, 496 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2022Known for her evocative portraits, Diane Arbus is a pivotal figure in American postwar photography. Undeniably...
New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

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Author: Hossein AmirsadeghiFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 285mm, 1640g, 288 pagesPublished: TransGlobe Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Now in paperback!With over 500 stunning colour illustrations New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the...