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Thomas Ruff
ISBN: HB: 9783791359809, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
240 pp., 30x22 cm, colour illus.
Thomas Ruff is one of the most important contemporary German photographers living today. Studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ruff experimented with large-format printing. This comprehensive book focuses on his photographic series from the past twe...
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£39,99
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Citizen Woman An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement
ISBN: HB: 9783791385303, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
256 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 180 colour illus.
One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US and around the rest of the world, who shif...
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£29,99
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Catlady A Love Letter to Women and Their Cats
ISBN: HB: 9783791385990, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
224 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm, 80 colour images 
There's no question that cats rule the world – ask any cat owner and they'll tell you how these balls of fur insert themselves into our lives and establish dominion over the household. In this book, Leah Goren brings together smart, funny essays by b...
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£14,99
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Pets and Their Famous Humans
ISBN: HB: 9783791374253, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
48 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, 44 colour illus.
In this charmingly illustrated collection of pet-related stories children will find out about some of history's most important scientists, artists, writers, and musicians and their beloved animals. Did you know that Mozart's pet starling imitated his...
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£12,99
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Gods, Humans, Dogs
ISBN: HB: 9785912084065, Prestel Publishing, Arca, February 2020
208 pp., 21x19.5 cm, 205 colour and black&white illus.
This book is dedicated to humanity's oldest and most loyal friend, our companion since time immemorial – the DOG. Dogs have devotedly served poor shepherds and mighty kings, and even the gods. Their hidden talents and capabilities are spoken of in th...
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£17,99
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Story of New York's Staircase
ISBN: PB: 9783791384733, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.
A public space like no other, Vessel was designed by the renowned Heatherwick Studio to give New Yorkers and visitors a unique vertical experience. In this book, readers can witness every part of its development, from initial designs to the finished...
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£18,00
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Sterling Ruby
ISBN: HB: 9783791358796, Prestel Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
From his sublime abstract paintings to his soft sculpture "vampires" comprising American flags, Sterling Ruby is "one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century", according to The New York Times. Accompanying Ruby's first US museum sur...
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£27,50
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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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Street Photography A History in 100 Iconic Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9783791384887, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
208 pp., 25x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
Capturing daily life in every corner of the world, this sumptuous collection of great street photography shows the very best of the genre. From pre-war gelatin silver prints to 21st-century digital images, from documentary to abstract, from New York'...
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£24,99
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Ekstase – Ecstasy In Art, Music and Dance
ISBN: HB: 9783791358222, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
288 pp., 28.5x22 cm, 210 colour illus.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Zentrum Paul Klee, this book illuminates the various spiritual, political, psychological, social, sexual, and aesthetic implications of euphoric and intoxicated states between asceticism and...
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£39,99
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