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The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones are just as much a part of London as the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and the Routemaster. This book charts the city's music history and landmarks and may appeal to residents, visitors and exiles alike.

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The conquering by the Persian Safavid dynasty in 1502 ushered in the golden age for today's Iranian city of Isfahan - the city whose name is not without reason translated as 'The Pearl of the Orient'. This title presents the masterworks of Persian architecture and horticulture from the 16th to 18th centuries.

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"Magisterial and critical study of city design in the Global South, tracing the historical, economic, political, and ideological forces influencing development up to the present"--

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Writings by exhibition maker and writer Jens Hoffmann, charting a highly unique curatorial trajectory.

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Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production.

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In over 170 duotone images, this title exposes an inside view of a world seen by very few people in the West. Focusing on the resurgence of Islam everywhere on the planet since September 2001, it includes pictures that swell with the undercurrents of global disturbance, uncertainty and threat.

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This beautiful reprint illustrates the V&A's unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting Indian temple sculpture in its context as an instrument of worship intended to embody powerful religious experience.

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Industrial-style furniture is in fashion bistro tables and chairs, lockers, mail sorting racks and jointed lamps are all common elements in interior design. In this book, the author tells us the story behind fifty European and American objects that have made the transition from factories to our livings rooms and become cult furniture.

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The first photo book by the Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking Year in Space. Through the photos Kelly took during his time in space, we can learn to see the world in a new way and we are afforded a glimpse into a life that most of us will never encounter but of which many of us dream.

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An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices.

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A stunning and diverse collection of Morath's photographs, capturing the glamour and postwar style of the 1950s and 1960s

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The first major survey of the work of Ingrid Pollard, a British artist and photographer nominated for the Turner Prize 2022, who uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness and racial difference.

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Dramatizes the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in which William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed over a teacher's right to teach evolution. Reprint.

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A rare glimpse into the oldest continuously functioning studio department, Ink & Paint, where the animator's brilliant drawings are brought to life

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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018

'The definitive grime biography' NME

'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork

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Suitable for those interested in how words and imagery can work together to create fresh forms of understanding.

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Tom Waits in his own words: a collection of three decades' worth of interviews with Tom Waits

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Black Mirror is hands down the most relevant program of our time, if for no other reason than how often it can make you wonder if were all living in an episode of it. New York Times

What becomes of humanity when its fed into the jaws of a hungry new digital machine