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Including interchangeable scenery and delightful moveable versions of the characters, this book provides a storage for the elements not in use. It contains instructions on how to stage your own performance for family and friends.

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A dazzling immersion in the universe of Chaumet, the Parisian high-jewelry Maison founded in 1780 and known for its exceptional creations, crafted at the very heart of the place Vendme.

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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.

(Paperback, Revised Edition)

A discussion of the contributions to the science of decipherment made by theorists such as Leibnitz and practitioners from Champollion to Ventris. It describes the process of decipherment, with quotations from their publications and examples of their drawings, tables and diagrams.

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

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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 beautifully presented survey of design and the applied arts, explored not by use, material, form, or date . . . but by color.

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A new biography of Vincent van Goghs sisters, published in English for the first time, containing previously unpublished letters and photographs from the archives of Van Gogh descendants.

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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.

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The definitive catalogue of one of the most important collections of Byzantine decorative art in private hands, which is not open to the public.

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The fourth catalogue devoted to the Wyvern Collection, an exceptional private collection of medieval and Renaissance art, comparable to the holdings of many of the world's great museums.

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The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.

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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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The first monograph about the houses of the major Nordic-Canadian architect Todd Saunders.

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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.