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William Kentridge The Head & The Load
ISBN: HB: 9783791387185, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
348 pp., 31x23 cm, 240 colour illus.
For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installation, films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa,...
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£49,99
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What's in the Egg? Pop-Up Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791374352, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
12 pp., 22x16 cm, 6 coloured pop-ups 
This dynamic book opens with a familiar and joyful sight – a baby bird hatching from an egg that sits in a nest high on a tree. The following pages hold even more delightful surprises, as each spread opens to reveal a different animal and the kind of...
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£14,99
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World Heritage Japan
ISBN: PB: 9786164510111, Prestel Publishing, River Books, February 2020
232 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 184 colour and black&white illus.
Author and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's architecture, history, customer and festivals. Lander, who has lived in Japan for 35 years, travelled to al...
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£29,95
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Where the Truth Lies The Art of Qiu Ying
ISBN: HB: 9783791359137, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
240 pp., 29x22 cm, 200 colour illus.
Celebrated for his masterful brushstrokes, depictions of nature, and use of translucent blue-green pigments, Qiu Ying is the least known of the four Ming Dynasty masters of the Wu School. This elegantly produced and groundbreaking monograph, the firs...
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£55,00
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Whole Again A Fresh Collection of Wholesome Recipes
ISBN: HB: 9780995118027, Prestel Publishing, Beatnik, October 2019
216 pp., 27.8x20.3 cm, colour and black&white illus.
"Whole Again" is a fresh collection of recipes shared by notable entrepreneurs from across New Zealand who are passionate about educating, inspiring and engaging a conversation about good health and eating well. The contributors draw from various sec...
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£20,00
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Watch A Twentieth-Century Style History
ISBN: HB: 9783791385068, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
336 pp., 30x24 cm, 400 colour illus.
Offering the perfect blend of high-quality imagery and impeccable research, this magnificent book takes readers through the 20th century to show how the watch, in all its forms, evolved. It charts the early rise of the wristwatch, shows how the catac...
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£45,00
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Women War Photographers From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus
ISBN: HB: 9783791358680, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 163 colour illus.
Women have been on the front lines of war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of...
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£35,00
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Who is Afraid of Little Wolf?
ISBN: HB: 9783791373812, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
24 pp., 20x16 cm, 24 colour illus.
This enchanting board book follows Little Wolf as he searches for someone to play with and carries a simple yet profound message about prejudice and preconceived notions. Little Wolf is bored, and so he asks some other animals to play. But no one wan...
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£8,99
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Weed Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask
ISBN: HB: 9783791384894, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
160 pp., 24x17 cm, 130 colour illus.
Not too long ago, it might have seemed impossible that cannabis would step out of the shadows into the mainstream. But now, as legalization sweeps the globe, a new weed culture is evolving with its own set of rules – and thousands of new devotees eag...
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£14,99
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Wilderness Earth's Amazing Habitats
ISBN: HB: 9783791373720, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
48 pp., 35.5x28.5 cm, illustrations throughout
This captivating book brings the natural world into sharp focus. Beautifully colored and intricately detailed illustrations depict places as exotic and wide-ranging as Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park, Russia's Sikhote-Alin mountain range, the Si...
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£14,99
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