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Beaten to pulp and left for dead, 13 year old Njambi found the courage to escape, fearing her assailant would return to finish her. She walked all ...

Twelve great thinkers guide you calmly through life’s difficult times, and help you to keep it together, even when everything seems to be falling a...

Adult life is full of mysteries. What should you check before renting a flat? How do you ask for a pay rise? Does anything really need to be dry cl...

Banging your head against the wall with the job search? #ENTRYLEVELBOSS will help you stop freaking out. Miserable in your current role but no idea...

*Winner of the 2016 BBC Short Story Award* From Argentina to Siberia, Papua New Guinea to London and New York, Light Box explores lives in transit...

McPhee is a grand master of narrative non-fiction. Guardian In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in t...

Artists Heather and Ivan Morison and their studio have established an ambitious collaborative practice that transcends traditional divisions betwee...

'A powerful meditation on what it means to belong.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Deeply moving.' David Lammy 'Honest, poetic and deeply researche...

Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestig...

This fundamental work provides an overview of the whole creative realm of contemporary landscape architecture. Every aspect of the design and produ...

Glass is a magical material through which light can shine. Throughout its millennial history, its colourful splendour and malleability have always ...

At the invitation of the town of Cannes, renowned German artist Nils-Udo, pioneer of Land Art, will create several ephemeral installations this sum...

Elvira Lantenhammer’s paintings are colour events which rely to a considerable extent on intensity of colour. The choice of colour and its applicat...

Henry Leutwyler’s new book Document reveals the unseen, the humble, and the intimate within iconic moments: the first moonwalk, political assassina...

Blurred landscapes, falling trees and the lofty peaks of the Pyrenees – the extraordinary aesthetics of Ori Gersht’s work seduce the viewer. But be...

This volume illustrates the development of art in Central Europe from 1830 – 1860 – a period which begins in the age of Biedermeier but extends wel...

The story of The Great Animal Orchestra, a work created in 2016 for the exhibition spaces of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris...

French artist Rero, born in 1983, has built his work around the negation of the image, omnipresent in our contemporary society: he creates larger t...

During a period of radical change, Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence form the main...

Who has never dreamt of living in the tropics? Lying in the sun, enjoying the peaceful atmosphere, sitting under the cool shade of abundant vegetat...

The Ultimate Bath Experience in One’s Own Four Walls. The evolution from yesterday’s purely functional and usually soulless bathroom to today’s pr...

State-of-the-art Singapore is constantly transforming and rejuvenating her building stock. Singapore's Building Stock documents and analyses these ...

Stirring paintings, colourful picture collages made from countless scraps of paper, moving photo collages – the art of Tammam Azzam (*1980 in Damas...

Do you have existential questions about your personal universe? Do you dream of becoming Assistant to the Assistant to the Regional Manager? Wonder...

Kenro Izu’s Eternal Light radiates spirituality. In Varanasi, known as the Indian “City of Light,” Izu photographed festivals, rituals, cremations ...

Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is one of the most highly regarded and influential artists working today. This book focuses on her new exhibition, f...

B, drawings of abstract forms consists of dynamic and perplexing collages in which photos are digitally spliced and reconfigured, then colored and ...

Communicative living on a single level thanks to a wide variety of layouts, ingenious spatial solutions by playing with building structures, and th...

Born in 1982 in Tunis, Thameur Mejri graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis. In his initial abstract paintings, Thameur Mejri inserts f...

This is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya Clark’s large-scale, collaborative artworks. These projects demonstrate Clark’s career...

He is considered the innovator and pioneer of a new urban Expressionism in painting. The nearly 50 - year - old New Yorker Marcus Jansen, now livin...

The Tansey miniatures, now housed in the Bomann Museum in Celle, form one of the most significant collections of European miniature paintings. 'Min...

This book documents the large-scale redevelopment of the laby - rinthine Shibuya train station in the heart of Tokyo’s world-famous shopping distri...

How does a bookbinder miraculously transform printed sheets into the proud volumes on your bookshelf? Koto Bolofo reveals all this and more in One ...

The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde and Arte Cifra, the I...

Originally from Brittany, Renk―whose real name is Walig Nicolet―grew up in Rennes in a family of artists. He left school at a very young age and be...

This catalogue presents more than 200 photographs from the eclectic and exceptional collection of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum. Spanning the histor...

Tibetan culture revives in hidden Himalayan kingdom. Photographers Luigi Fieni and Kenneth Parker document the cultural revival of Tibetan Mustang...

As a rapidly growing capital, Berlin is currently experienc-ing a further phase of intensive construction activity, accompanied by committed debate...

In 2003, Frank Gohlke and Joel Sternfeld were commissioned to photograph one of the densest concentrations of ethnic diversity in the world, the bo...

The definitive book on artist Ken Grimes The paintings of Ken Grimes are strikingly honest, deceptively simple, and decidedly interstellar. Over s...

Richard Serra ( born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large - scale assemblies of sheet...

Classical Modernism is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the generations of artists that followed. This catalogue sheds new light on the r...

About the Author Dorlis Blume is a curator at the Deutsches Historisches Museum.Christiana Brennecke is a public relations associate at the Ba...

The world’s metropolises are home to steadily growing populations. Densification measures are one solution to the problems of urbanization, creatin...

Using collage and montage as a medium and always in connection with his own biography, Marcel Odenbach investigates politically and culturally rele...