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The infamous Valkyrie assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944 failed to kill the German F hrer. It did not succeed simply because v...

A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history’s most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinar...

Please note: The individual books listed below will be dispatched together as a set. All are Vintage Classics editions. The Journeys Around the Wor...

Review In our evermore hectic and overwhelming world, Stories for Kids Who Dare to be Different is refreshing proof that dreams do come true and t...

Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's Selected Poems (first published in 1979), a...

After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: T...

About the Author Gilda Williams is a contemporary art critic, editor and teacher. She is a lecturer on the MFA in Curating programme, Goldsmiths C...

Contemporary craft presents a profusion of paradoxes. It bridges ancient traditions and state-of-the-art technologies, cutting edge concepts and en...

Product Description Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism is the first book-length study of Jonson's literary criticism, and examines the ways that cri...

A wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the place and power of colour in life and art by John Gage, author of the award-winning Colour and Cult...

Since its explosive premiere in Rome in 1921, Six Characters in Search of an Author has gained worldwide recognition. Pirandello's challenge to the...

Product Description 'Britain's foremost sculptor reveals the inspirations behind his key works' Independent Antony Gormley occupies an unusual po...

Product Description Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and...

'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Specta...

Product Description Reach for your trusty pen or pencil and tackle this bumper collection of word challenges at your leisure. Arranged in the...

Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chronicle...

The lives of 40 men and women behind some of the world’s most exciting gardens. Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of li...

The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from s...

This 2003 book represents an exciting intellectual meeting of researchers from diverse subfields to analyze how and why uncertainty affects America...

Product Description What exactly is despotism? Is it the same as tyranny? And in what ways is either of these related to dictatorship? Despot...

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. Du...

Product Description The Thinking Drinkers are Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham, two alcohol experts who have embarked on a selfless mission to improv...

Product Description The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities...

Written by award-winning Black British children’s author Sharna Jackson, Black Artists Shaping the World celebrates the diversity of work being pro...