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Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 2 - the Genesis of Air Power 1935-1937

Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 2 - the Genesis of Air Power 1935-1937

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Based on forty years of detailed research, Phoenix - A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple...
Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings

Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings

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One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the...
Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger

Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger

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Otherworldly, provocative, and strange, Awake in the Dream World channels the looming, historical grimness of the classic fairy tale, illuminating the dichotomy between the real and imagined through the context...
Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism

Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism

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A German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, Otto Freundlich was widely known in the art circles of his day. He was on close terms with the leading artists of...
George Rodger Nuba & Latuka: The Color Photographs

George Rodger Nuba & Latuka: The Color Photographs

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In 1949 the photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, George Rodger, learned of the Nuba tribe while traveling in the Kordofan region of the Sudan. Remarkably, he was granted permission...
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art

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A companion to an exhibition inspired by the work of celebrated American painter and critic Manny Farber, this book explores Farber's concept of "Termite Art," an argument for the vital...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

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'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times'An authoritative history' Financial Times'Gripping and richly researched' Rana MitterA superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

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Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
The Radio Hour: the charming and funny new novel of 2024 from bestselling author of The Nurses War, for readers of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY and HIDDEN FIGURES

The Radio Hour: the charming and funny new novel of 2024 from bestselling author of The Nurses War, for readers of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY and HIDDEN FIGURES

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From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who...
Teddy

Teddy

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'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red'Stylish and twisting' The Times'A wild ride and a heck of...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

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Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

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Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015

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Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914

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Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941

Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941

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Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft

Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft

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Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

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Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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

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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...
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

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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...
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...