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Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow

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The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that...
Marianne Heske: Works & Notes

Marianne Heske: Works & Notes

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Author: Marianne HeskeFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 195mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2012The facsimile copy of a photographic private diary published for the first time in 1978 Usually it takes...
Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s

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Author: Ralph GoertzFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 230mm, 1020g, 220 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2021Facing Britain brings together for the first time almost all important representatives* of British...
Latin American Art Since 1900

Latin American Art Since 1900

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Author: Edward Lucie-SmithFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 500g, 240 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

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Author: Alessandra NappoFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 270mm, 840g, 184 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the...
Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

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Author: Tristan MancoFormat: Paperback, 260mm x 310mm, 1550g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Make your Mark introduces the work of 45 artists who are extraordinarily diverse but...
Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

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Author: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/BaselFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 260mm, 1180g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one...
Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

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Author: Sabine KnustFormat: Paperback, 197mm x 260mm, 450g, 96 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2015In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and...
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

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Author: Susanne AltmannFormat: Paperback, 195mm x 265mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative...
Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition): Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

Boris Lurie and Wolf Vostell (Bilingual edition): Art after the Shoah / Kunst nach der Shoah

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Author: Daniel KoepFormat: Paperback, 240mm x 280mm, 1620g, 336 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by...
Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom

Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About Freedom

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Author: Harald FalckenbergFormat: Paperback, 225mm x 285mm, 1400g, 264 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

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Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

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Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid

Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid

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Three Sheets to the Wind

Three Sheets to the Wind

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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

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Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

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Author: Cynthia E. SmithFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 300mm, 1100g, 240 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2022Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a...
Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II

Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II

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Author: Meredith Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key...
Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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Author: Alexander Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

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Author: Alexander LarmanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 320g, 432 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2024'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

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Author: Kim Ghattas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Blistering' Sunday Times 'Indispensable' Observer 'Fascinating' The Times 'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan 'Revelatory' Lindsey Hilsum A timely and unprecedented examination of how...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

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THE NINETEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANCliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home.Peggy...
The Mind of a Thief

The Mind of a Thief

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

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Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
ISIS: A History

ISIS: A History

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Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...
Zorrie

Zorrie

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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she...
The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul

The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul

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Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

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Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...
The Contraceptive Revolution

The Contraceptive Revolution

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Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been married at some time and...
Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic

Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic

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Author: Amin Saikal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs

With My Little Eye: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs

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Macquarie

Macquarie

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Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

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Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...
The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park

The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park

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The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story

Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story

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Author: Jeremy Farrar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will,...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

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Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...