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Ship Decoration 1630-1780
This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work - figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design - carried by the ships of the major maritime states of...
The Bolero School: An Illustrated History of the Bolero, the Seguidillas and the Escuela Bolera
This is a book for both ballet and Spanish dancers. It is a journey through the history of the fascinating country of Spain with its vibrant culture and people. It...
Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany - A Chronicle of Their Lives
Author: Steven E. Ozment Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Through correspondence to mothers and guardians, the reader experiences the lives of three generations of German boys in sixteenth- and...
The Cursed Friend
An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this moving novel...
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
Rose Cocktails: A Collection of Classic and Modern Ros? Cocktails
With an elegant pink rose-foil hardcover, Rose Cocktails is an evocative collection of 60+ rose cocktail recipes perfect for any occasion all year round!It's always rose season! And this pleasantly...
With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset' Sunday Times'Illuminating and beautiful' Cathy Rentzenbrink What if everything you thought you knew about death was wrong?How...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
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...
Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16
Author: Nancy Bradley WarrenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 272 pagesPublished: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States, 2005The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were...
So Great a Prince
Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: Jean DanglerFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 230 pagesPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, United States, 2005In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were...
Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
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...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
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...
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University, USA)Format: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 570g, 336 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet,...
Fields of Battle
Author: Richard EvansFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914
Author: Michael CrasterFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months...
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
Author: Nita TyndallFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 236g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "A heartbreaking and bittersweet novel about the need for queer joy even in the...
Cinnamon and Salt: Cicchetti in Venice: Small Bites From the Lagoon City
Author: Emiko DaviesFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 247mm, 940g, 240 pagesPublished: Hardie Grant Books, Australia, 2022Cinnamon and Salt is a collection of recipes, stories and photographs that invites you to beautiful...
The Forbidden Daughter
Author: Zipora Klein JakobFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel HewittFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 414g, 560 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all...
Kubra Khademi (Multi-lingual edition): Political Bodies
Author: Hanna G. DiedrichsFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 297mm, 700g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The artist Kubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her...
Daughters of Warsaw
Author: Maria FrancesFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An emotional and inspiring World War Two time-slip novel of danger and courage. This is a...
French Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in French (Collins Visual Dictionary)
Author: Collins DictionariesFormat: Paperback, 106mm x 151mm, 230g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2019The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday use.A photographic guide to the key words...
Kistefos-Museet Sculpture Park
Author: Thomas PhongsathornFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 310mm, 1920g, 240 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020Kistefos, Norway's preeminent home for contemporary sculpture since the late nineteen-nineties, offers globally-recognized artworks in a spectacular...
Marta Cerda Alimbau: Type to Image
Author: Marta CerdaFormat: Paperback, 285mm x 350mm, 1500g, 160 pagesPublished: Counter-Print, United Kingdom, 2022Type to Image by Marta Cerda Alimbau explores how the celebrated designer blurs the boundaries between typography...
Architecture of the Glyptotek
Author: Jannie Rosenberg BendsenFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 320mm, 1660g, 432 pagesPublished: Strandberg Publishing, Denmark, 2023The New Carlsberg Glyptotek was established by brewer Carl Jacobsen in 1897, as a venue where...
Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933
Author: Ralf BaumeisterFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 280mm, 1320g, 272 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2023Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the Spree and were present in...
Sebastian Cramer: Two Views on Plants
Author: Sebastian CramerFormat: Hardback, 290mm x 305mm, 1680g, 192 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Although it is one of the oldest techniques in photography, stereoscopy receives little attention in contemporary photography....
Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures
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...
Bernard Plossu: Western Colors
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...
The Tuscan Daughter
Author: Tessa HarrisFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to...
Juergen Teller: Notes About My Work
Author: Juergen TellerFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 300mm, 540g, 48 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2023"I never really think of anyone as models, even the models," Juergen Teller has said, and "Everything...
Einstein: The Man and his Mind
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...
Abe Frajndlich: Seventyfive at Seventyfive: Lives I've Lived
Author: Abe FrajndlichFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 1220g, 144 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Seventy Five at Seventy Five is about the visual working life of US photographer Abe Frajndlich, starting...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986
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....
Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin
Author: Claudia KromreiFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1340g, 192 pagesPublished: Niggli Verlag, Switzerland, 202330 buildings from the 1970s and 80s, 30 built manifestos, densely gathered in two halves of a...
Jean Pigozzi: The 213 Most Important Men In My Life
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...
Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda: Happytecture
Author: Ruby BoddingtonFormat: Hardback, 235mm x 280mm, 1120g, 152 pagesPublished: Counter-Print, United Kingdom, 2023The first art book containing the work of Spanish photographers Anna Devis and Daniel Rueda.For Anna and...
Fred (Korean edition)
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Author: Vincent MeylanFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 310mm, 2120g, 256 pagesPublished: Editions Flammarion, France, 2023This volume recounts the fascinating story of creative jeweller Fred Samuel and the illustrious jewellery brand he...