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A fascinating overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and language into work that speaks to some of the most pressing issues of the 21st century.

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A kaleidoscopic adventure across the worlds continents, city by city, in search of the best urban photographic art.

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A guide for bead lovers, collectors and scholars. Beautifully packaged with a new cover, it is suitable for bead obsessives and aficionados.

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Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. In this book, each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them.

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Can you find the best way through the forest and meet all the fascinating characters that live there Some are noisy, some are tiny and some are quite scary. In this book, you choose which route to take, jumping from page to page, so no two adventures are the same.

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Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history using concise, insightful, and engaging text summaries alongside timelines, maps, and illustrations, taking readers from the origins of our first ancestors up to the present day.

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Showcasing the huge and inspirational steps made in animated digital typography since publication of the bestselling Type in Motion six years ago, Matt Woolman's latest book presents over eighty projects in detail, arranged into five chapters that address particular briefs facing today's designers.

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Offers evidence of the way materials have revolutionized the world of applied arts, and provides a guide to the material inventions. This book contains an index of 400 materials and their properties and is useful for interior, product, graphic and fashion designers.

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Offers a comprehensive and illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. The author recounts the most significant moments in gothic history, while extracts from a huge range of sources are contextualized and analysed.

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Fulco di Verdura was one of the outstanding jewelers of the 20th century. This book analyses and evaluates Verduras jewelry designs. It features historical photographs of the celebrities who were his ardent fans. It also shows the range and glittering beauty of his highly original pieces.

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The most ambitious and comprehensive book on womens vintage fashion ever published, featuring over 1,000 garments dating from the 1920s to the 1980s.

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The first illustrated history of Vogue Paris from its debut edition in 1920 to its centenary last year.

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Features over 250 full colour examples of the most eye-catching and iconic posters from the Imperial War Museums international collection.

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A generously illustrated collection of essays on drawing as a vital intellectual, artistic, and life practice--by the artists of the Royal Drawing School.

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Gives children the power of X-ray vision to see whats inside things. This book is divided into five sections: Whats inside your body; Whats inside machines; Whats inside the world of nature; Whats inside buildings; and Your turn!, in which children draw their own pictures, putting a present inside the box.

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Examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. From spider monkeys to human cyborgs, and from swimming in syrup to chaos theory, the author places each experiment and discovery in its scientific context.

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All textiles epitomize the cultures that make them, from the silk brocade saris of India to North American patchwork quilts. Interestingly, societies separated by vast distances have developed similar solutions to design and construction while producing a dazzling diversity of styles.

(Hardback, Fourth edition)

Focuses on ecologically friendly houses. This book includes 325 photographs and information on new legislation. It offers step-by-step projects and provides design ideas and solutions for home maintenance.