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The essential guide for any art aficionado keen to put their finger on the pulse of tomorrows art.

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Reviews Arts and Crafts movement's background, history, personalities and glorious products. This book identifies the origins of the movement. It also celebrates the inspiration of its founder, William Morris, craftsman, poet and social reformer.

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Presents nearly 500 masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, the largest and finest privately owned collection of Islamic art in the world. This book includes pictures of precious objects that were created for sultans, princes and merchants between the 7th and early 20th centuries, and includes rare illustrated manuscripts and Qurans.

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Packed with drawing activities, games and over 200 stickers, this fact-filled sticker book provides hours of entertainment and learning.

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Packed with drawing activities, games and over 250 stickers, this fact-filled sticker book provides hours of entertainment and learning

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Featuring over reusable 500 stickers, this jam-packed sticker activity book brings the marine world to life in an interactive and creative way.

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The perfect seaside and armchair companion to the pebbles of the British Isles.

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The discovery of Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was a remarkable technological development, permitting the casting of much stronger tools and weapons. In this text, the authors explore the story of the Bronze Age in Europe, tracing it back beyond the borders of history.

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The most maddening crow in world history is out to cause trouble! He can't resist the farmer's cherries - and one day he gest caught. The farmer tries to punish the crow with hard labour, but the crow only causes a lot of bother. Then the farmer tries to sell the crow at the market, but who wants to buy a troublesome crow

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All over Europe, from Westminster to Rouen, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages still stand. This book explores the world of the medieval master mason. How were these structures built when only primitive machinery was available Who initiated and designed them Who built and paid for them

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A coursebook on designing ceramics with confidence. Focusing on design themes and principles of balance and form, it also includes instruction in studio techniques for rendering ideas a reality.

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Presents the history of the site of Tell el-Amarna from its foundation by the pharaoh Akhenaten in c 1344 bc to its abandonment just 16 or 17 years later, a few years after his death. This title includes nine chapters that cover the king's choice of the site and its development, and the layout of the city and its buildings.

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A guide which invites you to explore the famous Square Mile of the City of London and to discover its incomparable architectural heritage, from the remains of the Roman wall to the 21st-century. Each chapter features a specially commissioned map of the district followed by approximately 22 entries on individual buildings and urban spaces.

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An explanation of how and why cities took the shape they did. It focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs depict a global mosaic of citybuilding.

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Covering everything from the art of storytelling - the secret of all great animation - to cel, stop action and 3D computer-generated animations, and richly illustrated with animation stills, screen- grabs and artworks, this is a resource for beginner and advanced animators.

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A course in the art and practice of digital animation. It explains the animation process and allows you to practice newly learned techniques and processes.

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The letters of Vincent van Gogh lay bare the events of his dramatic life, providing remarkable insight into the creative process, and touching revelations of his personal anguish. They are reproduced in these three volumes with over 200 ink drawings that the artist sketched into them.

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Leads the reader through the whole complex and gardens of the Taj Mahal. This title offers an account of the mausoleum's urban setting, its design and construction, its symbolic meaning, and its history up to the present day. It is suitable for those at home as well as those visiting the Taj Mahal.

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A fully illustrated survey of all Egypts temples, covering the secret rites and architectural wonders of these powerful and mysterious monuments from early pharaonic times to the Roman period.

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Presents an account of the Valley of the Kings, famous throughout the world as the burial place of the great New Kingdom pharaohs. This title brings together the art, archaeology and history to create both a sourcebook and guide for tourists, scholars, students and armchair travellers.

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Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet homo sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. This title explores various aspects of the study of ape and human evolution.

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In many ways the history of civilization is a history of our relationship with nature and landscape. Drawing on all aspects of mankind's creativity and ingenuity, and bringing together the key stories that have shaped our man-made landscapes, this title sets out to chronicle this intimate connection.

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In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned the Christian world to war to secure access to the Holy Land. The Christian army captured Jerusalem, establishing a kingdom that was to last for 200 years. This book aims to bring the confrontation to life, presenting both the European and Arab points of view.

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Children everywhere will adore this beautiful, chunky colouring and activity book, a follow-up volume to the bestselling The Doodle Book, published in 2003. Packed with over 360 pages of activities, including colouring, cutting and pasting, it is guaranteed to entrance and engage blossoming artists and daydreamers everywhere.