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Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer...

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Jorge Carrión Bookshops EN

Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with…

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Ingela P. Arrhenius (ilustrácie) Bookscape Board Books: A Marvelous Museum

Escape into a magical world with this adorable Bookscape Board Book! Discover a a museum's exhibits in this one-of-a-kind book. Each uniquely shaped page overlaps with the next to create a complete landscape when...

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Ingela P. Arrhenius (ilustrácie) Bookscape Board Books: A Forest's Seasons

Escape into a magical world with this adorable Bookscape Board Book! Discover a forest's seasons in this one-of-a-kind book. Each uniquely shaped page overlaps with the next to create a complete landscape when closed-and an immersive world to explore...

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George Orwell Books v. Cigarettes

Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.

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John Connolly, Declan Burke Books to Die For EN

With so many mystery novels to choose from and so many new titles appearing each year, where should the reader start? What are the classics of the genre? Which are the hidden gems? In the most ambitious anthology of its kind yet attempted, the world's leading mystery writers have come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that often reveal as much about…

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Andrew Taylor Books That Changed the World EN

Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy. Whether he's discussing the incandescent effect of The Qu'ran, the enduring influence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, or the way in which Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet…

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Books That Changed History

Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. Books That Changed History is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE to the modern day. Chronological chapters show the evolution of human knowledge and the changing ways…

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Kat Howard Books of Magic

From acclaimed author Kat Howard (Roses and Rot, An Unkindness of Magicians) and art from Tom Fowler (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Hulk: Season One, Rick and Morty) Books of Magic picks up right where Neil Gaiman left off in 1991! ...

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Judy Pelikan Books Make Me Happy

An interactive journal that encourages reading. It contains fill-ins where kids can list their favourite books, draw scenes from a story, and write about the pleasures they get from reading. It features full-colour embroidered illustrations...

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Jane Green Bookends EN

Frothy, commercial, women's fiction, from the bestselling author of Straight Talking and Mr Maybe. This is a story of friendship, trust and real life recounting the metropolitan misadventures of Cath and Si. Cath is scatty, messy and emotionally closed, and Si is tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. Let the battle commence! Promotion will include a $100,000 marketing campaign, and widespread feature and…

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Richard Kreitner Booked

A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chats

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Franziska Morlok, Miriam Waszelewski Bookbinding

Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world's best bookbinders, ...

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book2 book2 English-Slovak for beginners A book in 2 languages

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Aleister Crowley Book of the Law

Red Wheel/Weiser: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.Dictated to Crowley in Cairo between noon and 1:00p.m. on three successive days in April 1904, The Book of the Law is the source book and key for Crowley students and for the occult in general. The holy text that forms the basis of Crowley's belief system, Thelema, was transmitted to him by the entity known as Aiwass over the course of three fateful…

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Patricia Cornwell Book of the Dead EN

The book of the dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues…

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Patricia Cornwell Book of the Dead EN

The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it’s time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues…

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Peter Collett Book Of Tells EN

In the tradition of the international bestseller Manwatching, THE BOOK OF TELLS, by former Big Brother resident psychologist, reveals how you can read other people’s minds – and your own.

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Chris Roberson Book of Secrets EN

Spencer Finch is a journalist. He's on the trail of the greatest secret in history. And it'll take more than angels and demons to stop him! Finch is on the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be magazines from the golden age of pulp…

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Zadie Smith Book of Other People EN

The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the…

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Holly Black Book of night

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Book of New York

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Book of Modern Art EN

Galéria priamo doma. Aj takto sa dá charakterizovať kniha talianskeho vydavateľstva Art Media, ktorá ponúka jedinečný zážitok pohľadu na najznámejšie obrazy minulých dvoch storočí v neobvyklom formáte a neobvyklým spôsobom. Na stojane, ktorý je súčasťou knihy, vyniknú výtvarné diela úplne inak. Manet, Marc, Malevich, Matisse, Munch, Redon, Tápies, Vasarely, Whistler, Rousseau, Miró, Orozco, Twombly, Signac, Turner.…

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Till-Holger Borchert, Joshua P Waterman Book of Miracles EN

The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages of large-format illustrations in gouache and watercolor, depicting wondrous and often eerie phenomena. The mesmerizing images deal with both biblical and folkloric tales, depicting…

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