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An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from gover...

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their m...

Discover the captivating world of art and design with this stunning book that takes you on a visual journey through the most influential movements ...

Discover the captivating world of art and culture with this essential guide that delves into the intricacies of creativity and expression. Perfect ...

The coronation of George VI on 12 May 1937 was one of the biggest media events of the interwar period. While other photographers focused on the new...

William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings, photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries i...

Even with the current rise in awareness of sexual and intimate diversity, monogamous relationships remain the cultural norm. Most people aspire to ...

Product Description ‘Chris Naunton makes the search for the lost tombs of Egypt as exciting as a novel’ Dan Snow, award-winning historian and auth...

What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? The contemporary art world can be a baffling pl...

Product Description Robotics is the fastest-growing and most exciting area of development in architecture and architectural education for a genera...

Product Description Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who ‘transc...

Product Description Scandinavian designers have arrived on the world scene and this stylish book, packed with vibrant images, features more than ...

Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characte...

This standard introduction to visual art since 1945 has been revised, updated and redesigned for the first time since 2001. Movements, trends and i...

Manifesting in a broad range of media, from massive land and environmental works and extensive sculpture parks to giant public murals, ‘destination...

It is often forgotten just how provocative Impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. The advocates of the new style rej...

Since its invention in c.100 BC, paper has been a cornerstone of civilization and a key component of the human experience. Artist Matthew Shlian ha...

Product Description Can an artist claim that an object is a work of art if it has been made for him or her by someone else? If so, who is the ...

The definitive introduction to the artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of 19th-century feminism and art theory. A close all...

Product Description Marcel Duchamp’s life and work in more than 200 alphabetical entries – from alchemy and anatomy to Warhol and windows, via the...

Bohemian style is characterized by free-flowing fabrics, bright colours and a multitude of clashing patterns. Heavily inspired by the 1960s and 197...

This ambitious volume, newly available in paperback, explores the rich history of the book, one of the most efficient, influential and enduring tec...

Product Description From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development ...

The History Files series presents the people, events and ideas that have shaped our world, through the lens of recent research. Each title covers a...

This is the definitive book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the `make do and mend' mentalit...

India is set to join the world's fashion hubs. With a unique creative inheritance, stretching back thousands of years, it is also rapidly making th...

Make your Mark is divided into three: 'Draw', 'Paint', 'Make'. It celebrates and discusses the work of forty-five urban artists, extraordinarily di...

From the momentus invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in th...

Product Description Accessoires indispensables et objets de collection recherch�s, les foulards ont �t� un �l�ment essentiel de la mode du XXe si...

Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical a...

Giver and taker of life; essential element of all existence and untameable destroyer; spiritual expression of purity and contaminated purveyor of a...

About the Author Maura Reilly is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she organi...

Numerous designers have pioneered cutting-edge garments and collections throughout the evolution of fashion. But all too often a lack of obvious fi...

The African diaspora – a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism – has generated a wide array of artistic achievemen...

About the Author James Hall is an art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster. He was formerly Chief Art Critic of The Sunday Correspondent an...

Product Description Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness per...

David Adjaye, the son of a Tanzanian diplomat, spent his childhood moving between international cities before settling in London, where he was educ...

The third title in the laugh-out-loud series of picture books starring Bad Apple, a truly terrible piece of fruit. It’s Granny Smith’s birthday pa...

The perfect book for troubled times, this collection of over 25 real-life stories shows how heroic acts of kindness can change our world for the be...

A behind-the-scenes tour of the magnificent Royal Opera House in London, thirty minutes before curtain up, led by Figaro the cat. It’s opening nig...

Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China. Through telling the lives of ...

Cleopatra tells her version of events as the ruler of the last ancient Egyptian dynasty. In this hilarious and revealing tell-all, the politically...

sit on the deck - have a few drinks put the world to rights - and watch working-class protestants burn some tyres and sticks and shout some shit - ...

Product Description Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been boug...

A beautifully designed gift book devoted to the work of the renowned ceramics firm Wedgwood. Looking back at key moments in Wedgwood’s design hist...

Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his fr...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-perso...

Mr Busby the beekeeper is the proud owner of hundreds of hives. Have a look inside them to find out how bees take care of their queen and make hone...