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Futuretainment ENFuturetainment: Yesterday the World Changed, Now it's Your Turn is about what will happen next in the world of music, movies, television and games. This is not a book about technology, it is about how the new media revolution will be driven by radical changes in consumer behavior. From the wild copyright warzones of Asia to the newly colliding forces of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the media landscape is being…
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Garden Book ENLike The Art Book, this book presents 500 designers in an A-Z format that departs from the usual emphasis on genres and time periods. The gardens are carefully selected to choose the appropriate work for key figures which illustrates their influence on the traditions of gardening in many countries around the world. They range, therefore, from the palaces of kings to the all-consuming passions, bordering on…
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Jeremy Smith George Clooney ENA comprehensive study of George Clooney's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles. A new title in the fascinating Anatomy of an Actor series from world-renowned cinema magazine Cahiers du cinema. This book explores the career of George Clooney (b.1961). A TV heartthrob doctor for five years, he made one of the most successful transitions from television to being a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning…
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Gothic & Lolita ENGothic & Lolita charts the current trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s, young teenagers, predominately adolescent girls, congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku, Akihabara and a number of underground clubs in and around Tokyo, dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes and late-Victorian dress. The psychological…
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Grace Coddington Grace ENThe second and final volume of the collected best work of Vogue editor and international fashion icon Grace Coddington. This handsome slipcased edition showcases work of the last fifteen years by legendary Vogue editor Grace Coddington. The book celebrates seventeen of the master photographers with whom Coddington has collaborated - including Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean, David Sims, Mario Testino,…
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Grace Coddington GraceGrace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue showcases some of the most memorable photographs published in British and American Vogue from 1972 to 2002, stories created by the iconic fashion editor Grace Coddington. Both monograph and memoir, ...
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Graphic ENFive hundred of the most iconic graphic designs of all time, from the beginnings of mechanical reproduction to the present. The process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, space, image, and colour informs the way we connect across languages and cultures. Derived from the acclaimed Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, this fascinating compendium celebrates the long, rich history…
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Great Women ArtistsFive centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume. The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, ...
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Vefa Alexiadou Greece ENGreece: The Cookbook is the definitive work on the rich and fascinating cooking of modern Greece. Greece: The Cookbook is the first truly comprehensive bible of Greek food in English. Rapidly increasing in popularity, Greek food is simple to prepare, healthy and delicious, and, more than most other cuisines, bears all the hallmarks of the rich cultural history of the land and sea from which it is drawn. It is the…
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Toby Musgrave Green EscapesAn insider's guide to the world's greatest 'secret' gardens, green spaces, and pocket parks tucked away in cities around the globe. Cities everywhere are graced with charming but little-known, off-the-beaten-track gardens and green spaces, ...
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Taro Gomi Growing Together ENA brand-new set of refreshingly off-beat picture books from the best-selling author of Everyone Poops. From best-selling children's author Taro Gomi comes a set of four new books: Playing, Imagining, Growing, and Sharing. Each book features a different pair of family members loving and learning from one another... seasoned with the honesty, warmth, and eccentricity that Gomi so beautifully delivers. A little boy…
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Michael Bracewel, Martin Herbert, Catherine Ince Harland MillerThe most comprehensive monograph to date on the British artist and writer loved for his witty book-cover-inspired canvases Harland Miller's creativity as both artist and novelist culminates in his iconic paintings of battered book covers ...
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Kevin Waldron Harold's Hungry Eyes ENA stylish depiction of the life of a food-obsessed urban dog, with hints of edible humour. Like most dogs, Harold is food-obsessed; unlike most dogs, he imagines food in the most unlikely places - on buildings, cars, mailboxes, even fire hydrants! When Harold gets lost in the big city, he is overtaken by hunger and begins to see things: hot dogs on an antenna, a turkey roast in the mailbox, and toast popping out the…
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Herman MillerA chronicle of the rich history of this innovative furniture company, from its founding in the early twentieth century to today. For more than 100 years, Michigan-based Herman Miller has played a central role in the evolution of modern ...
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Gideon Schwartz Hi-FiA beyond-cool look at the world of high-end audio design for passionate collectors, obsessive audiophiles, and design fans At a time when sales of vinyl records have hit a 25-year high, and analog technologies are providing the kind of extraordinary...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé Highs and Lows ENMost famous in the English-speaking world for his instantly recognizable New Yorker covers, Jean-Jacques Sempe has delighted readers in France and beyond with his witty drawings and keen eye for the finer points of the human condition for over 40 years. Now, his sharply observed and beautifully drawn cartoons are available in English for the first time. The pithy captions were translated from the original French by…
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Naomi Pollock Hitoshi Abe ENThis is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Hitoshi Abe (b.1962), one of the most interesting of Japan's new generation of architects. Abe's architecture is internationally renowned for its structural innovation and spatial complexity, and in 2007 he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles. It includes all Abe's…
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Colin Davies Hopkins 2The second volume on the award-winning architect and his firm. Second volume documenting the work of Royal Gold Medal winner Michael Hopkins (b.1935) and his firm. Extensive presentation of 26 recent buildings and projects, including...
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HousesThe world's most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century Throughout history, houses have presented architects the world over with infinite opportunities to experiment with new methods ...
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Nelson George How to See ENA new edition of George Nelson's classic guide to visual appreciation, released on the fortieth anniversary of its original publication Originally published in 1977 by iconic American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, George Nelson's critically acclaimed manifesto on how to recognize, evaluate, and understand the objects and landscape of the man-made world has influenced generations of design professionals,…
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Barney Saltzberg, Fred Benaglia Hug This Book ENAn energetic, heartfelt, and humorous ode to book love. You can spin and twirl and dance with this book. You can listen while someone else reads it. You can take your book to lunch. Just do not try to feed it. Expertly whimsical illustrations accompany this rhyming celebration of the printed book, and the attachment many of us all feel to our very favourites. The imaginative humour is balanced by earnest…
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Barney Saltzberg Hug this Book!An energetic, heartfelt, and humorous ode to book love - now in a board book format!You can spin and twirl and dance with this book. You can listen while someone else reads it. You can take your book to lunch.Just do not try to feed it. Celebrate reading
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Ginette Mathiot I Know How To Cook ENI Know How to Cook is the first English translation of France's cookery bible, Je sais cuisiner by Ginette Mathiot. First published in 1932, it is to France what The Silver Spoon and 1080 Recipes are to Italy and Spain: the indispensable cookbook for every household. With more than 1,400 recipes, Mathiot guides the reader through all the classics of French cuisine, both simple and elaborate, with a clear and…
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Ice Cream ENIce Cream is a global survey of recent developments in contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging artists. Each of the ten selected curators is known for his or her integrity and expertise in staging presentations of new art on an international level. Each curator selects 10 important new artists who have either emerged internationally over roughly the past five years, or are still relatively unknown. No…