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How Things Work ENHow Things Work is a hands-on, action-packed title to share with young children. The starting point is the child and the questions they ask about how things work, from how to build a house to what powers a rocket to reach the moon. The title is organized around key questions: Whats it made from? Hows it made? What makes things go? What makes things move? What are sound and light? How do we keep in touch? How big or…
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Darrel Rees, Nicholas Blechman How to be an Illustrator ENThis book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts; setting up a studio; maintaining a flow of work and managing ones time and cash. Self-promotion, creating websites, selfpublishing and the pros and cons of agents are all explored. International illustrators are…
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Didier Lévy, Fred Benaglia How to Light your DragonA little boy has a problem with his dragon: he’s no longer able to breathe fire. What to do? How on earth do you rekindle a despondent dragon’s flame? The little boy tries shaking him by his tail, and jumping on his belly, and tickling his legs…
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Ian Jeffrey, Max Kozloff How to Read a PhotographIan Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form. Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great photographers and their work, as Jeffrey decodes key images ...
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Michael Wilson How to Read Contemporary Art ENToday's artists create work that's challenging, complicated and often perplexing. Exploring the significance and impact of a broad selection of the most prominent artists working in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australasia, including Francis Alys, Marina Abramovi'c, Allora and Calzadilla, Maurizio Cattelan, Luc Tuymans and many more, How to Read Contemporary Art provides a thoughtful and accessible key…
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Joyce H. Townsend How Turner PaintedThis authoritative visual guide to the artistic materials and painting techniques of J. M. W.Turner brings to life the skills of one of the world's greatest artists. Details of his watercolours and oil paintings, usually only available to small numbers of
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Hybrid Interiors ENHybrid Interiors presents twenty-five imaginative interiors where styles, cultures, trends and end uses are mixed and matched. These spaces – from Amsterdam to Rome, from Berlin to Beijing – provide settings for a dialogue between contemporary design and historic preservation, living space and working space, and classic style and popular culture. The idiosyncratic experiments on the pages of this book provide a…
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Louise Scott-smith, Georgia Vaux I Can Make Dolls' Clothes ENThis book teaches children of 7+ how to make fashionably cool mix-and-match clothes for a standard 30 cm (12 in) plastic doll. Its approach is simple, quick and fun, and the results are extremely stylish. At the beginning of the book, children are encouraged to be creative and adapt the patterns to make their own designs. The main section of the book includes patterns for nine garments, each with an actual-size…
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Anthony Burrill I Like It. What is it? ENI Like It. What Is It? is a collection of unique posters featuring catchy typographic slogans by designer Anthony Burrill. Simply pull out the detachable prints and display the bright statements on your wall. Artfully designed and printed using special colors, these bespoke artworks will brighten up any room or workspace. Burrill's persuasive and upbeat style of graphic communication will appeal to design lovers…
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Ian Hislop, Thomas Hockenhull I objectChallenging authority is an essential ingredient in the development of human civilization. Across millennia, it has acted as a driving force behind social and political change. It might even be regarded as a basic human impulse, the evidence for which exi
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Martin Filler, Ian Davenport Ian Davenport ENOver the past 25 years Ian Davenport has consistently employed intensely rigorous and unconventional painting processes. This book provides an in-depth examination of his production, from his electric fan paintings, to his poured arches, circles, lines and puddle paintings. He has experimented with method and medium, exploring the qualities and applications of paints, both in his early monochrome paintings and in…
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Gabby Dawnay If I Had a Dinosaur ENA witty and charmingly illustrated bedtime story about a little girl who imagines what it would be like to have a dinosaur of her very own. A little girl dreams of having her very own pet. But what kind of animal would make the best companion? A mouse is too small, a cat is too ordinary, and a fish is too . . . wet! As she plays with her toy dinosaur, inspiration strikes. What about a real, live dinosaur? She could…
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Ana Benaroya Illustration Next ENThis outstanding global survey brings together the dazzling talent of 50 leading illustrators from over 20 countries, among them Julia Rothman, Whitney Sherman and Mike Perry, and also provides them with the opportunity to indulge in a brilliant, creative experiment. The book is curated into two interleaved strands: in the first, each illustrator showcases their own work and is interviewed by the author to shine a…
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Anne-Celine Jaeger Image Makers, Image Takers ENImage Makers, Image Takers is the first book to examine systematically what inspires today’s photographers and what it is that makes them succeed. It reveals how some of the world’s most established photographers, from art, documentary, fashion, advertising and portraiture, actually work, and explores what it is that picture editors, curators, gallerists, agency directors and art book publishers are looking for when…
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Erik Johansson Imagine ENErik Johansson’s images are created with a camera and refined into absurdity in the computer. With mathematical preciseness Erik Johansson’s photographs depict attractive, compelling landscapes where perspectives are always misleading. His artistry is evident in the sheer realism, no matter how absurd. He captures ideas by combining images in new ways to create what looks like a real photograph, yet with logical…
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John Lennon, Yoko Ono Imagine John YokoA Special Signed Collector’s Edition of Imagine John Yoko– the definitive inside story of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it – personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono...
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Ralph Skea ImpressionismIt is often forgotten just how provocative Impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. The advocates of the new style rejected the established principles of art prevalent at that time in France...
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Christopher Lloyd Impressionist and Post-Impressionist DrawingsManet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the context of late...
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Anja Niemi In CharacterAnja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self-portraiture...
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Yosef Garfinkel In the Footsteps of King DavidThe remarkable excavation of a previously unidentified city in Israel from the time of King David, shedding new light on the link between the bible and history. King David is a pivotal figure in the Bible, which tells his life story in detail and ...
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Michael Freeman In the Oriental Style ENThis sumptuous book celebrates Eastern elegance as a decorative style and illustrates how it can be achieved in both the East and the West, from the refined craftsmanship of Thai textiles and ceramics to traditional statuary from Burma and the minimalist perfection of a Japanese apartment. Much of In the Oriental Style is devoted to innovative Western interiors which draw their inspiration from Oriental design and…
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Andrew Robinson IndiaIndia has had many histories. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha; to Alexander the Great it was a land of clever naked philosophers and indomitable, elephantine armies. At the height of the Mughal empire...
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Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson ENHenri Cartier-Bresson photographed some of the icons of the 20th century, those few people among millions whose images will pass into history. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits is a dazzling selection of Cartier-Bresson's most memorable portraits, including such diverse personalities as Pablo Picasso, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Lucian Freud, Susan Sontag, Coco Chanel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Che Guevara,…
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David Lewis-Williams, David Pearce Inside the Neolithic MindThis fascinating book continues the story begun in the bestselling and critically acclaimed book The Mind in the Cave. Drawing on the latest research and recent discoveries, the authors skilfully link material on human consciousness, imagery and belief sy