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30-Second Photography: The 50 most thought-provoking  photographers, styles and techniques, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Photography: The 50 most thought-provoking photographers, styles and techniques, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Brian Dilg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Why was the first human ever captured onfilm caught by pure luck? Where is the human blind spot, and...
Hattie Stewart's Doodlebomb Sticker Book

Hattie Stewart's Doodlebomb Sticker Book

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Author: Hattie Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 104 'Professional doodler' Hattie Stewart uses her fun, flirty and cool artwork to appropriate and customize magazine covers in a...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

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Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
Robert Welch: Design: Craft and Industry

Robert Welch: Design: Craft and Industry

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Author: Peter Fiell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Trained at the Royal College of Art in London where he was a contemporary of David Mellor, Robert Welch was one...
Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium

Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium

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Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as...
Contemporary Architecture in China

Contemporary Architecture in China

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Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Architecture and civil engineering have long been central elements in China's external image and national party propaganda. When it comes to technological superiority in...
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons

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Author: Mike Reiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must"...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
Albert & the Whale

Albert & the Whale

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Author: Philip Hoare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022...
The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer

The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer

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Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...
Art Firsts: The Story of Art in 30 Pioneering Works

Art Firsts: The Story of Art in 30 Pioneering Works

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Author: Nick Trend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 When was art's first kiss? Who painted the first ever smile and the first self-portrait? When did Western art first depict...
Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

Percy Leason: An Artist's Life

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Author: Margo Tasca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New...
In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor

In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor

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Author: Alice Farnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means...
100 Women * 100 Styles: The Women Who Changed the Way We Look

100 Women * 100 Styles: The Women Who Changed the Way We Look

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Author: Tamsin Blanchard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Muses of attitude, brains and confidence come together in this glossy compendium of the female icons who use their personal style...
Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae

Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae

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Author: Stuart Borthwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Positive Vibrations tells of how reggae was shaped by, and in turn helped to shape, the politics of Jamaica and beyond,...
A Little Book About Movies: Quotes for the Cinephile in Your Life

A Little Book About Movies: Quotes for the Cinephile in Your Life

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Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The greatest movies endure for many reasons: they give us comfort, laughter, drama and suspense. They thrill us with their powerful...
The Tiger in Winter: Six Contemporary Irish Plays

The Tiger in Winter: Six Contemporary Irish Plays

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Author: John Fairleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Containing six award-winning plays by contemporary Irish writers, this is an exciting collection of the best writing to come out of...
Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art

Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art

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Author: Frances Gage (Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings...
So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It)

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed With It)

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Author: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls - and our enduring 20-year obsession with...
Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara

Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara

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Author: Yuki Kihara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara's work interrogates and dismantles gender roles, (mis)representation, and colonial legacies in the Pacific. Kihara is the first...
For the Love of the Country: Celebrating farming in New Zealand

For the Love of the Country: Celebrating farming in New Zealand

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Author: Alan Gibson (Photojournalist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This gorgeous collection of photographs, accompanied by extended captions and insightful interviews, is a visual celebration of the New Zealand...
Medical Grade Music

Medical Grade Music

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Author: Steve Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 No-one, least of all Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi themselves, expected the six-time former World Snooker champion and a British-Iranian underground...
The Forest

The Forest

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Author: Florian Zeller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Pierre finds himself at a turning point, tormented by the conflicting demandsof family, career and sexual desire. His struggle to resolve...
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year

Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year

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Author: Bobby Gillespie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 ROUGH TRADE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class...
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Dada Head

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Dada Head

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Author: Anne Umland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 A new title in MoMA's One on One series, focusing on Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dada Head Upon first encountering Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Dada...
She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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Author: Joan Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A stirring and eye-opening celebration of the enduring legacy of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill-released in 1998 and named "Best Album...
Lance Wyman: Process: A proposal for the 1976 USA Bicentennial identity

Lance Wyman: Process: A proposal for the 1976 USA Bicentennial identity

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Author: Adrian Shaughnessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 This book is a near facsimile of the one-off, leather-bound 'sketchbook' that Lance Wyman made to catalogue his design process for...
100 20th-Century Shops

100 20th-Century Shops

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Author: Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Society Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A showcase of Britain's most significant shops throughout the twentieth century and beyond. 100 20th-Century Shops is a...
Why Solange Matters

Why Solange Matters

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Author: Stephanie Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister Beyonce, and defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its...