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From the mysteries and wonders of the natural world to man-made marvels in science, technology, and innovation, planet Earth is full of fun and fascinating things to discover at any...

As much of a barometer of design as its successful predecessors, Night Fever 5 is a global overview of the prevailing trends in hospitality design. The luxurious volume consists of...

'What do you hold close? Where is your secret place of belonging? If you had to leave everything behind and begin again, who would you be?' In a series of...

Resilient is the first book by Marco Gualazzini, a photographer who collaborates with the most important national and international magazines and whose work is represented by the Contrasto Agency. Resilient...

Parla's painterly meditation on life and death in the wake of his perilous Covid encounter. The immersive, monumental paintings documented here were the first works that Jose Parla created after...

Athenai, In Search of Home expands Niko J. Kallianiotis' first monograph America in a Trance , and the work produced in Pennsylvania, which for two decades became his second home....

Published to mark the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York celebrates the city and people of New York. Consisting of over 60 colour photographs taken...

Heliopolis 21 projects and researches in fact aims at a radical change of architecture, starting from the convincement that the global crisis are due to the way we have built...

The first complete monograph on the Austrian artist. Since her diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in 2005, Sofia Goscinski's diverse practice has encompassed sculpture, photography, video, performance,...

Petra Cortright's varied style is finally encapsulated in a wide-encompassing monograph that covers the directions her art has taken throughout her career. Known for her video works available on YouTube...

The remarkable creativity of protean American painter Doug Argue is brought vividly to life in this book: words and images explore, explain and contextualize Argue's trajectory from art-school rebel to...

The third book of the five-volume publication project on Hendricks, famed for his postmodern portraiture of Black Americans. The third book of the five-volume publication project presents the artist's basketball...

For the 50th anniversary of UniFor, a leading company that develops and creates solutions for the contemporary space-office, this volume covers 5 key decades in the history of Italian design....

This book is the result of over a year's work in 2016 and 2017 photographing the military campaign to reclaim Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from ISIS. Working exclusively for...

Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine investigates how robotics is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives. The exhibition shows that design in its traditional function as a mediator...

Teresa Margollesabstracts the subject of terror: she extracts the body into abstract forms which are manifest in fired bricks or in mud, water and blood-soaked cloths. They form a memorial...

In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples three-dimensional objects issued in edition to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and movement, Edition MAT...

When over 1,000 artworks by outstanding artists of the modern era appeared on the scene in 2012, the find was celebrated as a sensation, though the suspicion that it might...

The Architecture of Empathy is the title of a marble statue by John Isaacs and at the same time the basic attitude and raw material of all his works. The...

Femxphotographers.org's second publication Mind Over Matter focuses inward. Women's bodies are frequently sexualized while their minds are vilified and their voices silenced. This is true throughout history and in different...

Creating works with a fascinating range of tone and expression, Sean Scully's oeuvre is a continuous exploration of his core motif of lines and swaths of color. Captivating the observer...

Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over...

The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by the break in civilization in Germany in 1933, which made the German genocide...

A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers, or sometimes even rivals come together to work collaboratively on the realization of...

In Ulrike Flaig's art practice, the media of drawing, installation, performance, and experimental music overlap. She describes her works, among other things, as making images audible - and thus as...

Since the late 1980s, Renee Green's multifaceted practice has imagined and expanded the ways in which art can surface and give form to underwritten histories, collective memory, and circuits of...

Unwired combines two concurrent projects from the Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink (*1966 in Enschede), both of which sharpen our eye for an increasingly digitally connected world. In Unwired Landscapes she...

In 1969 the SPIEGEL publishers moved into a new space in Hamburg, and the company had it decorated to its specifications. The Danish designer Verner Panton (1926-1998) redesigned the building,...

Influenced by the currently very popu-lar do-it-yourself movement, the contemporary design scene is increasingly shaped by a creative fusion of production and consumption. When it comes to the development of...

Many times over a period of ten years, Joerg Rubbert has traveled the suburban and urban spaces between Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, documenting them with his medium format camera. Small...

Whether strict and orthogonal or undulating and curved, whether rough and natural or polished and elegant... Wood is nature's greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans...

Over the last 20 years architecture in and from Berlin has emerged as a global brand. Like Vol. 1, this new edition of Architecture Berlin showcases the most interesting 70...

Mahavira is known as the founder of the Jain religion. His life was strikingly similar to the life of his contemporary, Gautama Buddha. Like him, Mahavira renounced his throne to...

We all know that dogs will eat anything. We also know that kids' tastes generally aren't so wide-ranging. While ice cream and pizza might be devoured in the blink of...

One of the finest soldiers and most courageous leaders I have ever known . - Lt Doug McClean, D Coy, 39th Battalion If you have trekked Kokoda, then the campsite...

This is the history of Centrecare a social welfare agency which came into existence and succeeded against all odds. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing nation, this book traces...

'Leong serves up her raw, vibrant truth. Now that takes real guts.' - Kylie Kwong 'Utterly delectable' - Narelda Jacobs 'Melissa Leong is an Australian culinary and cultural treasure.' -...

Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers, but her secret sets her apart. She belongs to a kind of club,...

A captivating fantasy for middle grade readers - power, corruption and friendship collide in this enthralling adventure! 'a captivating fantasy ... This enthralling adventure will make readers yearn for their...

The first in a motorcycle dark romance series from self-published sensation and author of the beloved Silver Pines series, Paisley Hope. Edgy. Dangerous. Addictive. From the author of Holding the...

Based on an exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery held in autumn 2024, In the Footsteps of the East London Group brings together 30 original paintings by members of the East...

Roman Garstang is all set for his class trip to Farm View outdoor survival centre. There are only three issues: 1. With Darren Gamble as his new 'BFF' how can...

This new edition of The Penguin History of the World is an opportunity to celebrate a book that is both a richly rewarding narrative and a permanent work of reference....

How do you tell a story that starts in Africa and ends in horror? A bout strength and pride and refusing to be broken? O ne that still hurts and...

In December 1971, after having stepped down as the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, U Thant was ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America. So why he is largely forgotten...

'Moderation is a novel that refuses to do things by halves. It is a piercing, laser-precise exploration of big tech... breathtakingly funny...and a highly charged, passionate and tender love story....

When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know.Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.Angel...

'THE PERFECT BOOK GROUP THRILLER' Gillian McAllister 'THIS IS A WINNER' Publishers Weekly 'A PROPER PAGE-TURNER' Emma Rous Twenty years ago, a group of students each wrote themselves a letter...