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The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

$190.00 AUD$152.00 AUD
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990

Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990

$375.00 AUD$300.00 AUD
Author: Hermann HampeFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 318mm, 612 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019A sumptuous collection of nearly 100 German military edged weapons, predominantly swords and daggers, are displayed in...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

$90.00 AUD$72.00 AUD
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

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Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
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,...
Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

$83.50 AUD$66.80 AUD
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...
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...
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

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Author: Trent DaltonFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 190mm, 147g, 160 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2024Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the...
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

$35.00 AUD$28.00 AUD
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...
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....
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
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

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
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

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
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

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
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

$120.00 AUD$96.00 AUD
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

$90.00 AUD$72.00 AUD
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

$125.00 AUD$99.50 AUD
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

$115.00 AUD$92.00 AUD
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...
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors

Bernard Plossu: Western Colors

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
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...
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

$45.00 AUD$36.00 AUD
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

$110.00 AUD$88.00 AUD
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

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
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...
Hagenbund: A European Network of Modernism 1900 - 1938

Hagenbund: A European Network of Modernism 1900 - 1938

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Author: Agnes Husslein-ArcoFormat: Hardback, 2420g, 448 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2014The revolutionary Viennese artists' association Hagenbund had a decisive influence on the art scene between 1900 and 1938, not only...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986

Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986

$180.00 AUD$144.00 AUD
Author: Christophe AvertyFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 330mm, 2000g, 288 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism....
The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York 1930-1955

The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York 1930-1955

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Author: Jarrett EarnestFormat: Hardback, 222mm x 298mm, 1040g, 160 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020Lauded by Jerry Saltz as "one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art," The...
Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts

Eyewitness 1917: The Russian Revolution through Eyewitness Accounts

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Author: Mikhail ZygarFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 290mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Fontanka, United Kingdom, 2019A dramatic account of a year of two revolutions in Russia, told through extracts from contemporary diaries,...
Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life

Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life

$160.00 AUD$128.00 AUD
Author: Jean PigozziFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 230mm, 1960g, 600 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2021Collector and photographer Jean Pigozzi is renowned for his eclectic art collection and for his social circle, which...
At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

$70.00 AUD$56.00 AUD
Author: The Africa InstituteFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 980g, 246 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2022For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in...
Kinship

Kinship

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Author: Dorothy MossFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 540g, 120 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on...
Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

$65.00 AUD$52.00 AUD
Author: David ZwirnerFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 314mm, 1010g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2016Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous...
Picturing People: The New State of the Art

Picturing People: The New State of the Art

$60.00 AUD$48.00 AUD
Author: Charlotte MullinsFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1270g, 192 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Figurative art is currently riding high. Contemporary works of figuration grace the walls of...
Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

$80.00 AUD$64.00 AUD
Author: Gean MorenFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 254mm, 1400g, 296 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Tomas Esson: The GOAT is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomas Esson. It features paintings created...
Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern

$60.00 AUD$48.00 AUD
Author: Kunsthalle BielefeldFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 260mm, 780g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass...