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Fifty Hats That Changed the World

Fifty Hats That Changed the World

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Author: Design Museum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we...
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

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Author: Michel Faber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change...
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most...
The Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome

The Architecture Lover's Guide to Rome

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Author: Elizabeth F Heath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Rome's architectural remains date as far back as the city's founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that...
How to Paint Without a Brush: The Art of Red Hong Yi

How to Paint Without a Brush: The Art of Red Hong Yi

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Author: Red Hong Yi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative process-the tools and methods she employs and the...
Casanova: The Seduction of Europe

Casanova: The Seduction of Europe

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Author: Frederick Ilchman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A re-creation of the glorious and seductive visual world of eighteenth-century Europe through the life of one of its most notorious...
Lives of the Great Photographers

Lives of the Great Photographers

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Author: Juliet Hacking Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the history of photography, the lives of the major practitioners are as captivating and richly layered as the images they...
An Era Without Memories: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban

An Era Without Memories: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban

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Author: Jiang Jiehong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This brave and beautiful compendium of reflections on urban transformation is a must-have for photography aficionados and anyone with an interest...
Slab Serif Type: A Century of Bold Letterforms

Slab Serif Type: A Century of Bold Letterforms

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Author: Steven Heller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since being introduced in the 19th century, when they were considered the bastard cousins of more refined serif types, slab serif...
The Great Builders

The Great Builders

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Author: Kenneth Powell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and...
The History of Asian Art: A Global View

The History of Asian Art: A Global View

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Author: Deborah Hutton (The College of New Jersey) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 A highly illustrated history of the diverse visual art produced across East Asia, South Asia and...
Punk Paradox: A Memoir

Punk Paradox: A Memoir

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Author: Greg Graffin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its...
Still Life with Remorse

Still Life with Remorse

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Author: Maira Kalman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding...
Rock Goes to College: The campus music scene that shaped a generation

Rock Goes to College: The campus music scene that shaped a generation

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Author: Paul Sexton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The hectic, hugely entertaining, and definitive story of the wonderful and entirely amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career...
The World of Minecraft

The World of Minecraft

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Author: Mojang AB Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft. Explore how...
The Artist's Studio: A Cultural History - A Times Best Art Book of 2022

The Artist's Studio: A Cultural History - A Times Best Art Book of 2022

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Author: James Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A 'TIMES' BEST ART BOOK OF 2022 ___________________________________________ An exciting narrative and visual history of the artist's studio, examining the myth...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

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Author: Joyce Tyldesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in...
How Wildlife Photography Became Art: 55 Years of Wildlife Photographer

How Wildlife Photography Became Art: 55 Years of Wildlife Photographer

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Author: Rosamund Kidman Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This update to the bestselling 50 Years of Wildlife Photographer of the Year features 20 stunning new images which have...
Regenerative Fashion

Regenerative Fashion

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Author: Safia Minney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As our climate, ecological and social crises converge, urgent action is needed to maximize our chances of survival. A new commercial...
Sinatra: The Chairman

Sinatra: The Chairman

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Author: James Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 992 Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The Voice--which completes the definitive...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities

The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities

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Author: Caroline Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of...
Spencer Ostrander: Time Square in the Rain

Spencer Ostrander: Time Square in the Rain

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Author: Siri Hustvedt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 On one of Spencer Ostrander's early visits to Times Square, the rain began to fall. The people in the crowd, suddenly...
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

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Author: Helen O'Hara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour'...
Soul Train (Reissue) :  The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

Soul Train (Reissue) : The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

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Author: Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train, a worldwide phenomenon...
Tomas Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)

Tomas Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)

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Author: Emma Enderby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For more than a decade, Saraceno has been imagining a world free from borders and fossil fuels. In this age of...
Audrey Hepburn in Paris

Audrey Hepburn in Paris

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Author: Meghan Friedlander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli A gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn's lifelong connection to the City...
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...
Seven Keys to Modern Art

Seven Keys to Modern Art

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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...
From the Sculptor's Studio: Conversations with 20 Seminal Artists

From the Sculptor's Studio: Conversations with 20 Seminal Artists

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Author: Ina Cole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Fiona Banner, Phyllida Barlow, Anthony Caro, Richard Deacon, Laura Ford, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Anish Kapoor, Tania Kovats, Richard...
Amy Winehouse - In Her Words

Amy Winehouse - In Her Words

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Author: Amy Winehouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Global icon Six-time Grammy winner Headline-maker The most talented recording artist of her generation Much has been said about Amy Winehouse...
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 Sustainable Home: Easy Ways to Live with Nature in Mind

The Sustainable Home: Easy Ways to Live with Nature in Mind

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Author: Ida Magntorn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Handy and inspirational tips and lists - how to reduce plastic consumption, clean with eco-friendly products and working with the seasons...
Make Sense: Architecture by White

Make Sense: Architecture by White

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Author: White Arkitekter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 White Arkitekter, Scandinavia's leading interdisciplinary architecture practice, create environments that inspire sustainable ways of living. An employee-owned company founded by Sidney...
Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun

Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun

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Author: Catrina Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It s about doing things anyway, getting on with it,...
The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico

The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico

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Author: Ian Volner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall"...
Mad about the House: How to decorate your home with style

Mad about the House: How to decorate your home with style

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Author: Kate Watson-Smyth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The book of the UK's No.1 interiors blog, madaboutthehouse.com. Expanding on her award-winning blog, Kate Watson-Smyth shares a wealth of experience...
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

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Author: Joan Koenig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a...