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Author: Kathryn Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised...

Author: Anna-Marie Roos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artefact. A...

Author: Stuart Borthwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Positive Vibrations tells of how reggae was shaped by, and in turn helped to shape, the politics of Jamaica and beyond,...

Author: Charlotte Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of...

Author: Dela Costa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Meet the ever-curious Isla Verde, a young girl with a secret-she can speak with animals-in the first book of an all-new...

Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. Corazon, Angel and Donita...

Author: Esther Leslie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Liquid crystal is a curious phase of matter. It has the ability at once to flow, like water, and to refract,...

Author: Scott Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...

Author: Julie Fogliano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 40 From the creators of the award-winning When's My Birthday? comes an inspirational book that will comfort and support through any challenge....

Author: Andrew Levitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Listening to Design leads readers into the unique world of the creative process. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, psychotherapist...

Author: Christopher Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The most celebrated French storyteller of the nineteenth century, Guy de Maupassant was a master of the modern short story. Offering...

Author: Peter Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In this thought-provoking book, Peter Moore examines the often overlooked issues concerning human mortality, the fragile ways in which the dead...

Author: Dag Olav Hessen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In its pure form carbon can be the soft graphite in a pencil or an immensely hard diamond. It is...

Author: Desmond Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other members of...

Author: Karl Schlogel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Euromaidan uprising in Kiev, followed by radical regime change, the annexation of the Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine,...

Author: Gary Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Unfortunately most foods are perishable, and humans have long been faced with the problem of seasonal over-abundance and subsequent food scarcity....

Author: Elaine M. Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Deep in the darkest part of the ocean, visit a primordial, fierce-toothed fish that draws in prey with its own...

Author: Dr. Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 An accessible and visually arresting picture book about the smallest known and most mysterious particle of matter, for...

Author: James Geach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The story of the Universe is written in the light that travels through it - light that we can capture. Nearly...

Author: Sharon Hudgins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important aspect...

Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the...

Author: Carolyn Tillie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Savour a taste of the edible alphabet, from A to Z. Throughout history, visual and performance artists of all stripes and...

Author: Christopher S. Celenza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian...

Author: Colin Burgess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery...

Author: Stig S. Froland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics...

Author: Nicholas Frankel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of...

Author: Jeroen Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to...

Author: Geoff White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 A thrilling, true account of computer hacking - past, present and future. On 4 May 2000, an email that read 'kindly...

Author: Janine Rogers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Truly one of the most symbolic birds in the human imagination, eagles have been used for millennia to represent power, divinity,...

Author: Alison Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators. In this ground-breaking book Alison Green provides the...

Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 Drawing its allure from the gold of the sun and the rule of emperors, the chrysanthemum winds its way through ancient...

Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...

Author: Steve Gronert Ellerhoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Though moles are rarely seen, they live in close proximity to humans around the world. Gardeners and farmers go to...

Author: Jonathan Conlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-century Scottish thinker Adam Smith (16 June 1723 - 17 July 1790) is...

Author: Elliott Shore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and the matre d', Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as...

Author: Adam Theron-Lee Rensch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 No Home for You Here is a memoir of a life lived in the shadow of Ronald Reagan. Raised in...

Author: Gregory Votolato Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Our relationship with the car has always been intimately connected with design and this book examines this complex and persistent bond....

Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture and...

Author: Jan Verplaetse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so...

Author: William Sheehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The last of the five naked-eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen...

Author: Catherine Horwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The rose is the world's favourite flower - and always has been. It is the greatest floral symbol of love and...

Author: Leon Golub Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Essential for life on earth and a major influence on our environment, the Sun is also the most fascinating object in...

Author: Helen Cowie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Known for their haughty demeanour, woolly charm, and propensity to spit when threatened, llamas have a rich and varied history. Since...

Author: Christopher Pinney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations...

Author: Helen Saberi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In Teatimes: A World Tour food historian Helen Saberi takes us on a journey into the fascinating history of teatimes, from...

Author: Victoria Dickenson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 What is it about the small fruits of field and wood that encourages rapture? These gifts of the earth flagrant in...

Author: Barbara Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But the...

Author: Nathalie Dietschy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the first book devoted to representations of Jesus Christ in contemporary photography, Nathalie Dietschy presents a rich range of images...