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Sustainist Design Guide: How Sharing, Localism, Connectedness and
Social innovation is experiencing a resurgence at a time when cultural boundaries are shifting. A wave of new social initiatives is coming into view worldwide, where millions of dedicated people...
1 to 1 The essence of Retail Branding and Design
Retail mirrors society and as society is constantly changing retail has to be able to anticipate these changes in order to maintain its right of existence. In short; act, react...
Bio-structural Analogues in architecture
This inspirational book seeks to discover the architectural potential of biological structures as can be found in nature, in the world of seashells, corals, plants and animals. The structures that...
Horizons, Zones and Outer Spaces: The Art of John Loker
For the past six decades, John Loker has produced rigorously conceived and visually mesmerising works of art across media. Known as a photographer, sculptor, assemblage-collagist and above all painter, he...
Telling Stories: Photographs of The Fall
*** 'No one has captured the look of alternative UK music over the past half a century more tellingly than Kevin Cummins.' - Simon Armitage 'Kevin Cummins is a true...
Sketchbook: Composition Studies for Film
Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations by the internationally renowned production designer Hans Bacher, Sketchbook - Composition Studies for Film is a unique journey through the mind and creative process...
The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World
Jews in America are in a period of unprecedented status and impact, but for many their identity as Jews--religiously, historically, culturally--is increasingly complicated. Many are becoming Jews without Judaism. It...
The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great
In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public...
More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for
Advice and inspiration for women of colour seeking new heights of influence, from the top Latinx advisor to President Obama Women of colour are becoming more visible and more powerful...
Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
In 2011, Carmen Segarra took a job as a regulator at Goldman Sachs for the New York Fed. It was an opportunity, she believed, to monitor the big bank's behavior...
Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower
In May 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act by revealing details about Operation Merlin (a...
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour- or its greatest momentThe consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace...
The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead--And the Lessons for Us All
A leader's job-in a radically changing world-is standing on the cliff edge, getting a grip on unfamiliar landscapes, and acquiring the skills for leading the enterprise into new territory. In...
Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times - has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns...
The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age
In 2017, the State Department lost 60% of its career ambassadors. Hiring has been cut and the budget slashed. The idealistic women and men who chose to enter government service...
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We
The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than...
The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go
The onset of COVID broke a 150-year social contract between America and its children. Tens of millions of students lost what little support they had from the government-not just school...
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its
At a time of existential global challenges we need our best brainpower to solve them. We can no longer rely on the myth of the lone genius to create a...
Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to
Shortlisted for The British in India Book Prize 2025 'A spellbinding account of the first forgotten half of the English encounter with India with a fascinating history of the Mughal...
Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders
WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP What makes a leader credible? Who would be an expert in a world where expertise is...
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It
Over the past three years, the world has witnessed the huge social and media discussions of what figures from the past one should, or should not celebrate and commemorate with...
Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're...
A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our
We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome...
Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
humour, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny,and why?In this...
Money Magic: An Economist's Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a
Laurence Kotlikoff, one of our nation's premier personal finance experts and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, harnesses...
The Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktails and Spirits
Brooklyn is one of the top trendsetting places today anywhere. Its neighbourhoods, artists, writers, restaurants, and, yes, drinking establishments set the pace for the rest of the nation. THE BROOKLYN...
The Onion Magazine: The Iconic Covers That Transformed an Undeserving
Finally, the book that your coffee table has been waiting for: the once-in-a-lifetime (so far) collection of the greatest covers from the Onion's Sunday Magazine. Carefully selected by a team...
Florence Montmare: America Series
At the tail end of a pandemic and economic recession, artist and photographer Florence Montmare embarked on a photographic journey, through the U.S., to explore the traces of the climate...
Andrew Stevovich: Beyond the Figure
Fifty years of "essential" painting by the Austrian-born American figurative painter (1948). Andrew Stevovich is a deceptive painter. His figures flattened, his interest is focused on the line that defines...
Jane Benson: A Place for Infinite Tuning
This book surveys the landscape of Jane Benson's acute, yet lyrical practice, forging a trajectory through the past decade as she splits, fractures and skews archetypal structures into poignant re-assemblies....
AEB 1966 - 2016: Fifty Years of Architectural Design in Qatar
Through a selection of about thirty projects illustrated by photographs and drawings, the book reveals the capacity of the Arab Engineering Bureau to respect tradition and at the same time...
Deanna Bowen
This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization of colonial legacies-particularly those which implicate her family history and the Black diaspora...
Paulo Nozolino: Loaded Shine
Taken between 2008 and 2013 in New York, Lisbon, Paris and Berlin as well as in the French and Portuguese countryside, these photographs by Paulo Nozolino bear his usual dark...
Monastic
With her eye for architectural details, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastery interiors and simultaneously separates them from their religious context. The Berlin-based artist has lived and...
Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature's Underworld
Dive into the art world of the closely allied artists Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman. Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature's Underworld accompanies the first two-person survey exhibition...
Abe Frajndlich: Seventyfive at Seventyfive: Lives I've Lived
Seventy Five at Seventy Five is about the visual working life of US photographer Abe Frajndlich, starting from the 1970s to the present. The book covers his myriad themes and...
Natela Iankoshvili: An Artist's Life between Coersion and Freedom
Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career...
Nitsch: Spaces of Colour
Hermann Nitsch produced his first "poured" paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the substance of the paint, which he investigates from...
Andrea Buttner
Visualizing Hidden Structures in Art and Society In her artistic practice, Andrea Buttner combines art history with social and ethical issues. Since the early 2000s, she has been exploring a...
Psyche als Schauplatz des Politischen: Psyche and Politics
In a globalized world with new methods of communication social and political processes today are shifting into the most intimate of human spheres. Increasingly, the mind is becom-ing a political...
Africa under the Prism: Contemporary African Photography from
With a population of nearly seventeen million, Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, is not only the largest city in Africa but also one of the most densely populated cities...
Rebecca Horn (German Edition): Das Wirbelsaulen Orakel
The poet as graphic artist, the painter as author- artists truly endowed with double talents are rare. Al most always one creative discipline retains the upper hand. Visual artist Rebecca...
Cook Once Dinner Fix: Quick and Exciting Ways to Transform Tonight's
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Never throw out your leftovers again with these delicious and healthy meals designed to transform into an entirely different dish the next night from best-selling author...
Yoga and the City
Living in a big city it's very easy to lose yourself in the chaos and success driven culture. Big cities are like a melting pot of everyone and everything, where...
Charm, Belligerence and Perversity: The Incomplete Works of GBH
'Charm, Belligerence & Perversity: The Incomplete Works of GBH'. showcases the ground-breaking work of the multi award-winning creative agency GBH. The story of this London-based team is one of diverse...
The Writer's ABC Checklist
An easy-to-use comprehensive guide for writers on preparing and presenting their work to agents, publishers and print media. Regardless of the writer's level or ability, there is something extremely daunting...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face: 12 Things
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Tony is a champion who knows the hardest battle is always with yourself. Everyone who reads this book will find a change to...