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The History of Philosophy
The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions The story of philosophy is an epic tale- an exploration of the ideas, views...
Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
It seems like we can't talk about anything nowadays... Whether it's war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying - from...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
It seems like we can't talk about anything nowadays... Whether it's war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying - from...
For the Good of the World: Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now
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The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy
"The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled...
The Good Book: A Secular Bible
Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who...
Pollock and After: The Critical Debate
Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The...
All Souls: An Oxford College and Its Buildings : the Chichele Lectures
The text of this volume comprises the Chichele Lectures of 1986 on the architectural history of All Souls College. Beginning with a discussion of the college's foundation by Archbishop Chichele...
Buildings of Delight
The book titled Buildings of Delight by the author Alec Clifton-Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration And Convergence
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat happens when cultures collide, migrate, and ultimately converge across centuries and continents? Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence presents the proceedings of the 32nd International...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by...
Studies From Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold & Silver Plate &C.
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Author: C.J. RichardsonBinding: HardbackPublished: T.M. Lean, 1841Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Some water damage on the first...
London: The Biography
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The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...
The Unprosaic Imagination: Essays And Lectures On The Study Of Literature
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat separates a truly literary mind from a merely learned one? The Unprosaic Imagination: Essays and Lectures on the Study...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from
An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed...
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents...
Crashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist
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Author: Alan CrawfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on title page, light markings and tanning to page...
Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire
Colonial Writing in the New World 1583-1671 offers an account of the simultaneous emergence of colonialism and nationalism during the early modern period. It looks at the role that English...
Seven Keys to Modern Art
Author: Simon Morley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and...
The Australian Tradition: Studies In A Colonial Culture
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to be Australian? A. A. Phillips confronts this deceptively simple question head-on in The...
New13
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Author: Curator: Charlotte DayBinding: PaperbackPublished: ACCA Main Exhibition Gallery, 2013Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis contemporary exhibition catalogue presents a sharp snapshot...
A Deep Sonorous Thing: The Newman College Collection Of Art
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Author: Christopher MarshallBinding: PaperbackPublished: NEWMAN COLLEGE The University of Melbourne, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA Deep Sonorous Thing presents an evocative...
The Awful Lightning: Psychological Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Prehistory To Politics: John Mulvaney, The Humanities and the Public
Explores the role of the public intellectual by examining the life and work of John Mulvaney, one of Australia's foremost prehistorians. Who are public intellectuals? Why do they matter? What...
Andrew Sibley: Art On The Fringe Of Being
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of art criticism and biography, this volume chronicles the life and creative vision of Andrew Sibley,...
A Link And A Trust: Sidney Nolan's Rome Exhibition
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Author: Albert TuckerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA Link And A Trust: Sidney Nolan's Rome...
London
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Waking the Giant: Inside the Rebirth of Aston Villa
The true story of one football club's astonishing return to the top Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many...
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of...
Recollections: Mainly Of Artists And Writers
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and...
The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford
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The 1930S: A Challenge To Orthodoxy
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact. The 1930s stand as one of the most turbulent and creatively...
The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: inscription on fep. Usual shelf-wear. At the height of the Victorian era, a radical movement emerged that dared...
Encyclopaedia Londinensis; Or, Universal Dictionary Of Arts, Sciences, And Literature.
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Author: John WilkesBinding: HardbackPublished: J. Adlard, 1810Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards are fully detached, the binding...
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues...
London: The Art Of Georgian Building
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Author: Dan Cruickshank And Peter WyldBinding: HardbackPublished: Architectural Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Gifter's inscriptions on half-title page. London: The Art Of Georgian...
On Sculpture
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Author: Antony GormleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson, 2015Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacketOn Sculpture by Antony Gormley presents a profound examination of the art of...
Only Here, Only Now: Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025
'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters' RODDY DOYLE 'It's not every...
Yirawala: Artist And Man
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAmong the great masters of Australian Aboriginal art, few figures command as much reverence and mystery as Yirawala — the Kunwinjku bark painter from...