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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than...
Far Far East: A Tribute to Faraway Asia
Far Far East is an homage to distant Asia and a love letter to the wanderlust and freedom we miss in pandemic times. From writer and author duo Alexa Schels...
The New Dress
I had an idea about doing some drawing of costume, called Modest Attire, and then somehow it divided itself into two. One is this -improvised costumes of material of no...
Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme
Today - from haute couture to ready-to-wear - parkas, puffer coats and backpacks, as well as garments made of neoprene and Mylar are everywhere. But the roots of these ubiquitous...
Robot House
Robotics is the fastest-growing and most exciting area of development in architecture and architectural education for a generation, offering new paradigms for design and fabrication. Schools and practices around the...
The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide: The Essential Guide to Japanese
Explore the magical world of anime through 30 classic films in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque.From box office hits such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell and...
Building your own Sustainable and Energy Efficient House
Many people aspire to one day build a house for themselves but for one reason or another they have never taken the plunge. This book explains how to go about...
Faces of Africa
"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
Sacred Spaces: The Holy Sites of Buddhism
A bright white temple as if carved from ice. Statues in candlelit caves. Massive red monastery walls in the midst of majestic mountains. In this beautiful book of travel photography,...
The Iron Man
The award-winning illustrated edition of Ted Hughes' classic tale in paperback.Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man describes the unexpected arrival in England of a mysterious...
Andrew Martin Interior Design Review Vol. 25.: The Definitive Guide to
Vintage or modern? Sleek minimalism or splendid opulence? Scandinavian hygge or Neon Art? For all that is emerging and on trend in the world of interiors, look no further than...
Lingerie Design: A Complete Course
Lingerie and sleepwear is a large sector of the fashion industry. Most brands from designer to the high street have a lingerie line and most fashion design courses will have...
Children of the World
A joyful and poignant collection of photographs of children from around the world by internationally renowned and award-winning photographer Mario Marino. This homage to the future of humanity (and our...
French Painting: Franzosische Malerei, Pintura Francesa 1830 --1920
With over 450 works, this volume deals with the most important trends and groups in French painting from the middle of the 19th century to the first years of the...
Impressionism 1860-1910
In the 1860s, a style of painting emerged in Paris which fundamentally called into question the artistic concepts that had been prevalent in academies up to that time. Impressionist artists...
Spanish Painting: Spanische Malerei, Pintura Espanola 1200 -- 1665
From the medieval works of Romanesque and Gothic art to the golden age of the Baroque, from the famous Beatus Apocalypses to Diego Velazquez and Francisco de Zurbaran, Spanish painting...
Turner (Artist Monographs)
William Turner was a shy loner and a bit of an eccentric, but also an extremely productive artist who quickly became one of the most successful painters of landscapes and...
Mucha
Art Nouveau, elegant ornamentation, and sensual women. Hardly any other artist proved a greater virtuoso in this style than Alphonse Mucha. Discover not only the most beautiful of the Czech...
Duerer
More than 250 works by Albrecht Durer are reproduced here to give the reader a comprehensive survey of the life and work of this unique and universal genius in genres...
Jan Vermeer
Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring is almost as famous as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. And yet the life and work of the painter remains as enigmatic as ever....
Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani's favourite and most abiding motif was the human figure. His portraits of women, in particular, convey his sympathetic and highly individual gaze. Although his oeuvre consists mainly of...
Michelangelo
Already revered by his admirers during his lifetime as "Il Divino" (the Divine), Michelangelo Buonarroti embodies the ideal artist of the Renaissance in Italy. No sculptor or painter was able...
Chaim Soutine
Chaim Soutine was an eccentric both in life and on the canvas. His wild painting style inspired many younger artists and leaves no one who sees his work today cold....
Cezanne
Few painters are as well-known and admired as Cezanne. His work focuses on subjects popular since the Renaissance: portraiture, figure studies, landscapes, and still lifes. However, the way the artist...
Iced
Taking the form of a diary, Iced charts the life of forty-four-year-old Cornelius Washington. Initially brimming with talent and ambition, his dabbles with drugs as a young man gradually turn...
Enid Blyton's Christmas Stories: Contains 25 classic tales
Delight in the magic of Christmas with this heart-warming collection of 25 classic tales from the world's best-loved storyteller - the perfect Christmas gift for children aged 5 and up!...
The Hanging Girl
Amy's dad has been MIA since she was born and she lives with her mum in a run down trailer park. Her mother makes a living as a psychic and...
Foulsham (Iremonger 2): from the author of The Times Book of the Year
'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.comFoulsham, London's great filth repository, is bursting at the seams. The walls that keep the muck in are buckling, rubbish is spilling...
The Greatest Ever Boxing Workouts
In the tradition of the bestselling Workouts from Boxing's Greatest Champs, this sequel volume will KO all boxing/combat sport enthusiasts. Featuring a classic coterie of international boxing legends, this superb...
Baroque 1600-1780
The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic compositions and pronounced contrasts between light and...
Bosch
The few surviving works by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch are among the most famous icons in art history. Unique hidden-book-like works of horror, his paintings are populated by monsters...
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) is one of the most important representatives of naive art. His paintings, characterized by a pronounced exoticism and a childlike awkwardness, can be understood as avant-garde. From...
Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec recorded unforgettable images of belle-epoque Paris in his paintings, lithographs, and posters. The posters created by the painter and graphic designer for the Moulin Rouge club in...
Rembrandt
Best known for his portraits and paintings of historical subjects, Rembrandt has influenced Western art more than probably any other artist. Even in his drawings and engravings, the Dutch artist...
Gauguin
As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the most important post-impressionist painters. Trained...
Pierre Bonnard
Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) followed his path away from the great...
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas staged his paintings like a director and developed spectacular perspectives, radical images, and fleeting spaces. Numerous images of his paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures show his sensational work...
Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir put people into the center of his painting. His compositions showed people embracing the pleasures of life, dancing, and enjoying outings in Paris. He created special atmospheres full...
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood
Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What...
Who Are You?: The science-based personality game
Would you say thank you for a bad haircut? How do you feel about surprise parties? Have you ever cheated in an exam?Based in the fascinating science of personality, these...
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980
British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were...
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting...
Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List
From E. Lockhart, author of the New York Times bestseller and Zoella Book Club 2016 title, We Were Liars, comes this hilarious and heart-warming series.15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4...
The Book of Unknown Americans
When Alma Rivera arrives in Delaware she is full of the promise and possibilities of her new home. Hope that her daughter Maribel will be helped by the specialist support...
Always I'll Remember: A gritty and touching Northern saga
Friendship gives one young woman the strength to face tragedy... and a devastating secret. In Rita Bradshaw's Always I'll Remember, one young woman faces jealousy, tragedy and a dark secret,...
The Tall Man: The 'must-read' gripping page-turner you won't be able
HE WAS JUST A PLAYGROUND STORY, UNTIL THEY LET HIM IN.'THE MUST-READ SUMMER CHILLER' Daily Express'IF YOU READ JUST ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER THIS YEAR - MAKE IT THE TALL MAN'...
The Dirty South: Private Investigator Charlie Parker hunts evil in the
It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South.In an Arkansas jail cell...
The Oleander Sword: sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning sapphic
Winner of the World Fantasy Award, The Jasmine Throne has been hailed as a series opener that will 'undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come' (Booklist,...