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This volume traces the development of Russian art from 1863 to 1922. It discusses the major movements and artists involved.

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Deals with the signature features of Scandinavian design. This title includes over 350 colour photographs that cover various aspects of the Scandinavian design aesthetic, organised by type of space: exteriors, front halls and staircases, living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms.

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Discover this follow-up to The Secret Life of Whales--a beautifully illustrated and expansive exploration of butterflies that will appeal to children everywhere.

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A latest installment of the popular series is a survey of early human innovations from tools and cooking utensils to early transportation vehicles and contraceptives, in an illustrated history that features hundreds of photographs and specially commissioned diagrams, reconstructions, and plans.

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Ancient Egypt - we know so much about it, but there are still many unresolved questions. This volume explores and explains 70 of the most intriguing mysteries of this anicent civilization.

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The definitive guide to the Bauhaus, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of art and design

(Hardback, Revised and expanded edition)

Combines illustrations of Arabic scripts with a background history and an analysis of the geometrical and ornamental principles involved in the calligraphic art.

(Hardback)

A guide to the human passion for measurement - of ourselves, our experiences, our surroundings and the universe.

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A landmark publication offering a definitive overview of the rise and fall of the era-defining magazine.

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A complete photographic record, this book is an excursion to the monuments, ruins, statues and bas-reliefs of the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak. With the author's insights, these temples reveal the remains of a world devoted to an unimpeachable faith in the after-life, a faith whose conviction seems to have exalted its builders and artists.

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Based on a collection of Tibetan "thangkas" - scroll paintings portraying a Buddhist philosophy of healing - this volume presents works by a traditional artist using the ancient technique of painting with rich minerals. The Buddhist view of physiology, pathology, diagnosis and cure is illuminated.

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Covers a range of tombs, their decoration and burial customs.

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A gloriously illustrated journey through Russia along the length of the Trans-Siberian railway.

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In the 6th-century BC, a prince from Northern India left family and fortune in search for answers to the great questions of life and death. Known as Buddha, his teaching soon spread over the world. This book explores the life, teachings and philosophy of this man.

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Provides an exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World, and to the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World. This book focuses on common solutions that man, the artist has devised for the problems posed by his environment.

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Chanel went everywhere and knew everyone and, as this sumptuously illustrated volume clearly shows, her life and accomplishment - even her chronic failure in love - constitute one of the great stories of the modern age.

(Hardback)

Do you prefer cats or dogs Chocolate or vanilla ice-cream The hen or the egg Mummy... or Daddy This pop-up book with flaps to lift, is packed with interactive tabs that put children in the driving seat.

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A maker of memorable images...Tom Phillips has a range of sympathy which goes beyond the Anglo-American gamut...he is a quintessentialist; a man who likes to reproduce complex and difficult subjects to a magic minimum. --John Russell, The New York Times

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A raucous yet detailed look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who documented the sounds that changed our culture.

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A major new illustrated study of a remarkable piece of architecture and engineering, and one of Britains most iconic landmarks.

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A presentation of one of the greatest of the world's jewelry traditions, this book features a display of individual ornaments supplemented by documentation of hundreds of pieces. It analyses major themes, variations on basic forms, the use of gemstones and cross-cultural influences. It illuminates the context in which the jewelry has been created.

(Hardback)

Pierre Le-Tans illustrations and Bertil Scalis entertaining pen portraits tell the stories of the worlds most celebrated owners of Louis Vuitton luggage.

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Describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. This book features the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists and archaeologists.