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The Sunday Times top ten bestseller This house has our blood, sweat, love, laughter and betrayal seeped into its very bones. I might leave this place, but bits of me will remain here, tears soaked deep into the floorboards...

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René Valjeur, Stefanie Breitbarth Movies: Sounds! Camera! Action! EN

This book is a definitive guide that invites you to an entertaining stroll through the movie history. From drama to slapstick, from animation classics to epic masterpieces, from western to horror films, from action blockbusters to musicals. This fascinating genre mix combines must-see cult movies and also features real cinematic gems. Each movie is evocatively illustrated with large-format film stills, insights from…

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Jürgen Müller Movies of the 80s

From Aliens to Amadeus, get your fill of ’80s nostalgia with this movie bible of all things bold, bizarre, and boisterous. We've diligently compiled a list of the most influential films of the 1980s that's sure to please popcorn gobblers ...

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Jürgen Müller Movies of the 2000s EN

Cinema enters another dimension: Movies at the dawn of the third millennium. A decade characterized the rise of a new era in global politics and technology, the 2000s were most notably marked by September 11, 2001 and the ensuing wars in the Middle East, as well as the explosion of social networking and mobile computing. This comprehensive volume covers an inspiringly broad range of titles made during a unique…

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Jürgen Müller Movies of the 1970s

The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the cold war continued to escalate, Hollywood began to heat up, recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, and The Godfather. Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas,…

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Jürgen Müller Movies of the 1960s

Positioned precariously between the uptight '50s and the freewheeling '70s, the 1960s marked a transitional decade in the film industry. As art, mass market, and pop culture merged and collided in true pop art style, ...

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Jürgen Müller Movies of the 1950s

At a time when people were terrified of UFOs and Communism, the film industry was busy producing movies that ranged from film noir to grandiose musicals. The paranoid public in the 1950s apparently craved family entertainment and dark, ...

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Movie Icons EN

Make every day a showpiece, with TASCHEN’s 365 Day-by-Day Movie Icons, the reusable calendar featuring a seminal movie image and related quote for each new date. Rediscover tantalizing scenes and terrific starlets; perfect villains and stunning sets; as well as that reassuring feeling of turning a page to mark the new day. You’ll also learn the birthdays of cinema’s greatest stars, so you can celebrate the dates on…

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Mark Hallett Movement Disorders (Volume 1) EN

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Clotaire Rapaille, Andres Roemer Move Up EN

This is an irreverent and controversial examination of why some nations succeed that will overturn all received wisdom. With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually. This provocative, ambitious and entertaining book devises a formula that will allow countries and individuals to…

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Jonathan Taplin Move Fast and Break Things

Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising...

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Jonathan Taplin Move Fast and Break Things

Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising...

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Jonathan Taplin Move Fast and Break Things EN

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age. Move Fast and Break Things is a path-breaking polemic in support of the future of the creative industries in the age of the Internet platform. The title, taken from a term coined by Facebook's Mark…

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Malene Birger Move and Work

An interest in design began at an early age for Malene Birger, when she was originally inspired by both her grandmother and mother's sharp eye for fashion and trends. On completing her Fashion Design Degree at the prestigious ...

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Samanta Schweblin Mouthful of Birds

A Spellbinding Collection of Stories from a Major International Literary Star. The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas.Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly ...

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Samanta Schweblin Mouthful of Birds

The crunch of a bird's wing. Abandoned by the roadside, newlywed brides scream with rage as they are caught in the headlights of a passing car. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers...

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Toni Morrison Mouth Full of Blood

Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation...

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John Burningham Mouse House EN

In the house there lives a family: a mum, a dad, a girl and a boy. But they are not alone; a secret mouse family is living there too, who only come out when everyone else is asleep. One day they are spotted and the mouse catcher is called ... Will they escape in time? A story of home and hope from picture-book genius, John Burningham.

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José Mourinho Mourinho EN

The Special One's very personal football management odyssey. Mourinho is both a visually sumptuous celebration of The Special One's exceptional managerial career so far, and an enigmatic insight into his unique brand of football wisdom and philosophy. In the legendary manager's very first book, and in his own words and images, Jose Mourinho charts the peaks and troughs of the opening fifteen years of what has been a…

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Annalisa Cittera, Nathalie Herschdorfer Mountains

Magnum Photos is arguably the most celebrated photographic cooperative ever created and these images represent the world's most iconic photographers capturing the world's most breathtaking peaks...

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Tim Hall Mountains EN

Mountains, one of nature's greatest masterpieces, in their rugged beauty, breathtaking views from the top, clear air, green pastures, mountain lakes and glaciers, have captivated mankind all along. Climbing mountains or just gazing at their majestic splendor causes us to slow down and contemplate, maybe even giving us a little serenity. Photographer Tim Hall beautifully captures the powerful solace of mountains in…

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Ellen Wiegandt Mountains EN

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Michael Blann Mountains EN

The mountains of Europe have many different meanings to many different people. For the locals they are a way of life; for visitors they represent breathtaking beauty, active holidays and peaceful moments. For cyclists, however, the dramatic landscapes mean something quite different: suffering, pain, agony – and glory. From the Ardennes to the Alps, for over a century the mountains have provided the setting for the…

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Mountaineers

Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this book tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered...

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