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Totem Spirit Animals of Ancient Civilisations
ISBN: HB: 9783791374017, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
36 pp., 32x23 cm, 36 colour and black&white illus.
Ancient cultures regarded animals as emblems of power and magic. An array of animals helped shape entire societies and religions. Now, this boldly inventive book helps young readers grasp just how important animals were to those that came before us....
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£10,99
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Taxi Ride with Victor
ISBN: HB: 9783791374062, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
40 pp., 23x25 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.
Victor is everyone's favorite extraterrestrial taxi driver, but he has a big problem. His memory is terrible! He can never remember his way around the galaxy. When he drops off his passengers at the wrong locations, there are some unexpected and hila...
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£10,99
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Team with No Sport Virgil Abloh Pyrex Vision Flip Book
ISBN: PB: 9783791358994, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
124 pp., 14x17 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
Launched in time for a major exhibition of Virgil Abloh's work, this flip book shows images from the original video created to launch the sophomore Spring/Summer 2013 collection of Abloh's first brand, Pyrex Vision, entitled, "Youth Always Wins". Sin...
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£9,99
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Tropical Toolbox Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9788862423687, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, July 2019
220 pp., 20x14.5 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.
Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew are two key figures of British architecture from the second half of the twentieth century. Their most important work was the book ''Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones'', a manual compiled from experience...
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£19,99
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Trenton Doyle Hancock Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass
ISBN: HB: 9783791358215, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
224 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 180 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
Trenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing...
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£35,00
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Thomas Joshua Cooper Refuge
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791358185, Prestel Publishing, May 2019
100 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 60 colour illus.
Throughout his career, Thomas Joshua Cooper has focused on the landscape through the lens of historical and cultural geography and cartography. Working exclusively outdoors with an 1898 AGFA field camera, Cooper has established a unique aesthetic and...
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£29,99
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Titian and the Renaissance in Venice
ISBN: HB: 9783791358130, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 198 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.
It is hard to imagine more profoundly influential artists than the Venetian painters of the 16th century. Whether creating sweeping devotional altarpieces or intimate portraits, the Venetian painters changed the way artists employed color and composi...
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£45,00
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Textiles of Japan The Thomas Murray Collection
ISBN: HB: 9783791385204, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
520 pp., 34x25.5 cm, 500 colour illus.
Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of a people, as well as in their rituals and ceremonies. The traditional clothing and fabrics featured in this book were made and used in the islands of th...
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£75,00
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Thirlby A Field Guide to a Vibrant Mind, Body, and Soul
ISBN: HB: 9783791383910, Prestel Publishing, April 2018
192 pp., 24x19 cm, 100 colour illus.
This beautiful, soulful, and information-packed guide to healthy living in a busy world is full of the powerful wisdom and insight of Almila Kakinc-Dodd, author of the wellness blog The Thirlby. Almila Kakinc-Dodd has made a name for herself in the...
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£22,50
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Ten Principles for Good Design Dieter Rams
ISBN: HB: 9783791383668, Prestel Publishing, October 2017
416 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 400 colour illus.
For decades, anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances, radios, and other consumer items. Now Dieter Rams, the guiding force behind the Braun look, breaks down his design principles and processes i...
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£45,00
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