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Alternately hilarious, controversial and challenging, Tricks of the Mind is essential reading for Derren's legions of fans, and pretty bloody irresistible even if you don't like him that much...

HIS NEW BOOK, A LITTLE HAPPIER: NOTES FOR REASSURANCE IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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This newly revised edition of Shakespeare's vision of the Trojan War--which reveals the love between Troilus, a prince of Troy, and Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan traitor--includes a special Introduction by editor Seltzer, an overview of Shakespeare's life and times, dramatic criticisms, and a comprehensive stage and screen history. (August)

Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented. To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose objects, situations and compositional devices using as little depth as possible.

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Features almost 300 photos documenting the early days of Toronto's punk scene.

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Presents teachings about the power of art to awaken and liberate. This book extends the principles of dharma art to everyday life, showing how any activity can provide an opportunity to relax and open our senses to the phenomenal world.

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Shaun McNiff offers ways of exercising the creative spirit with different art forms including painting, sculpture, and performance art.

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This timely and inspiring book tells the story of what has happened in the Sahara and what is happening today. It is a story constantly misunderstood and misrepresented, but here revealed and described with absolute authority and sympathy. The accompanying colour photographs capture the grandeur of the Sahara and its elegant and resourceful people.

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An oversize volume of Tula Telfair's dreamlike, large-scale landscape paintings

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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"The first book to showcase and analyze the diversity of Germany's contemporary cultural production, while arguing against its myth of homogeneity"--

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A seminal popular culture book on a much-maligned genre - D.I.S.C.O!

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Hugely entertaining and packed with new stories, Turned Out Nice Again is the first single volume history of British light entertainment.

'All-encompassing: game shows, quiz shows, talent shows, sitcom spin-offs, magic acts and dancing sea lions.' Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday

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Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, this book explores and celebrates Turners lifelong fascination with the sea. It sets his work within the context of marine painting in the 19th century.

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Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was reticent about his private life. In this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, scotches many Turner myths, and depicts him as a giant of the 19th century and a beacon for the 21st.

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Exploring the development, variety and innovation of the landscape oil sketch this book is generously illustrated with many masterpieces of nineteenth-century British landscape painting. Accomapnies a major UK touring exhibition.

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From the dawn of cinema to the present, New York City has been the site of endless unforgettable movie moments. Turner Classic Movies Cinematic Cities: NYC takes you on a one-of-a-kind tour uptown, down and all around, to explore the cinematic highlights of the Big Apple.

"More than 10,000 movies from the silent era through 1965"--Cover.

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Now bigger, more deluxe, and featuring additional content, TCM's Christmas in the Movies: Revised and Expanded Edition is the must-have viewing guide for the holidays, showcasing the greatest and most beloved Christmas movies of all time.

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Tells the story of Turner's life and work. This title features colour plates illuminating Turner's range dramatic views of the sea or mountains, sweeping landscapes, architecture, imaginary scenes from history and legend, panoramas of contemporary towns.

The first book to evoke the fantasy world of turquerie in all its diversity and richness in eighteenth-century Europe.