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Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
The V&A Photography Library is a new series of accessible, introductory volumes to the key themes, works, objects and individuals in photography, illustrated with unprecedented access to the V&A’s photography collection, the oldest held by a public museum and one of the largest and finest in the world, now expanded with acquisitions from the Royal Photographic Society collection.
Written by Mar
€12.80 excl tax
Staircase - the architecture of ascent
The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest stair is complex, requiring great knowledge, skill and ingenuity. This volume showcases the astonishing diversity of staircases over the centuries, from the stepped pyramids of the Maya to the exquisitely proportioned stairs of the Renaissance, to the elaborate balustraded con
€23.00 excl tax
Modernist Design Complete
The powerful aesthetic and philosophical framework that modernism ushered in during the early part of the 20th century revolutionized the built world, transformed our living spaces and lifestyles, and fundamentally changed the way we think about design. As they experimented with new forms, materials and techniques, modernist designers rejected historical precedents to prioritize function over hist
€33.20 excl tax
Lois greenfield - moving still
Over the past 40 years, Lois Greenfield has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most accomplished and respected photographers of human motion. Her images of dancers in mid-flight or mid-movement are astonishingly beautiful and capture the magic of dance in a unique way. In the 17 years since her last book was published, Greenfield has moved into digital colour photography, and some 150 of th
€20.40 excl tax
Manufacturing processes for textile and fashion design professionals
This fundamental resource for all textile and fashion designers explores over 70 production techniques and over 60 materials used in textile and fashion design. Organized into four main parts – Fibre and Yarn Technology, Textile Technology, Construction Technology, and Materials – it is a complete overview of the life cycle of textile and fashion manufacturing, from the spinning of yarn to recycli
€30.70 excl tax
Androgyne - fashion and gender
‘This ad is gender neutral’, proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; ‘I resist definitions’, announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year, while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith, son of actor Will Smith, wearing a skirt like a natural. Fashion magazines have printed countless features on the blurring of gender barriers, while brands including Yves Saint-Laurent, Gucci, Bur
€20.40 excl tax
Homework - design solutions for working from home
Growing numbers of us work not only from home, but from anywhere; job flexibility has become a key requirement for employers and workers alike. This, in turn, has created new challenges for architects and designers – many of whom themselves start out working from home – who are tackling demand head on with innovative solutions that allow clients to transform their spaces to suit a wide range of ne
€8.70 excl tax
Jim shaughnessy: essential witness - sixty years of railroad photography
Jim Shaughnessy: Essential Witness is a comprehensive overview of Shaughnessy’s sixty year as a railroad photographer. Starting in the late 1940s, he began documenting in earnest the rapidly changing railroad scene in the Northeastern United States. His interests and travels also took him to other areas of the country to document the Rio Grande narrow gauge in Colorado and the UP Big Boys in Wyomi
€24.50 excl tax
Secret Masterpieces: From the R. & H. Batliner Art Foundation
Embracing paintings, drawings, sculpture and ceramics, this book features glorious reproductions of rarely seen works by Monet, Matisse, Bacon, Lichtenstein, Kokoschka, Picasso, Klee, Chagall and Giacometti, among other which are complemented by extensive information on the works and artists.
€56.20 excl tax
The World According to Roger Ballen
The World According to Roger Ballen, co-authored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen’s career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and collections of Art Brut. It features photographs selected from across Ballen’s career, along with installations created exclusively for the exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre and photographs of objects and works from Ballen’
€17.90 excl tax
The Book of Dirt: A smelly history of dirt, disease and human hygiene
A deep dive into the history and science of dirt.
Millions of people on Earth start their day the same way: we get out of bed, go to the loo and wash ourselves. But this hasn’t always been the standard routine. Ancient Greeks and Romans were happy to splash about in public baths, but by the time the plague struck 14th-century Europe, many people believed that water spread diseases. It was not
€12.80 excl tax
Sleeping beauty theatre - put on your own show
Based on the success of her strikingly original storybook The Fairytale Princess, Su Blackwell’s sumptuous fairytale images, cut out from the pages of classic fables, are now brought to life in three dimensions in this beautiful paper theatre. Everything a child needs to re-enact the well-loved story of Sleeping Beauty is provided, including interchangeable scenery and delightful moveable versions
€10.20 excl tax
Difference engine
The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreadnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot ...
€5.60 excl tax
Nomenus: The Language of Flowers
For the second installment of Nomenus, a limited edition arts publication, Erik Madigan Heck has curated a special issue titled The Language of Flowers, that seamlessly weaves together a curated selection of floral and figurative contemporary paintings and photographic studies from Anselm Kiefer, Rita Ackermann, Helen Frankenthaler, Gabriel Orozco, Nick Knight, Mircea Suciu, Miranda Lichtenstein,
€30.70 excl tax
Rendezvous with rama
The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact.
It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...
Win
€5.60 excl tax
Shelter: From the Number One bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series Missing You
The first thriller in the Mickey Bolitar series, now airing as an original series on Amazon Prime. Bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben brings us a shocking pageturner about a grieving teenager obsessed by the disappearance of a missing girl.
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mother to
€5.10 excl tax
Resurrection Walk: The Brand New Blockbuster Lincoln Lawyer Thriller
THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYER
THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES
Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.
Inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence, Haller enlists the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the next case which could result
€11.20 excl tax
Play Dead: From the Number One bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series Missing You
A PERFECT MARRIAGE.
A PERFECT HONEYMOON.
A PERFECT CRIME...
Laura Ayars' perfect world is shattered at a time which should have been the happiest of her life. On her honeymoon, her husband goes for a swim - and never returns. But what has happened to David - can he really be dead?
Whilst struggling to cope with her almost overwhelming grief, Laura is plagued by questions and doubts. Was
€5.10 excl tax
Deal Breaker: From the Number One bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series Missing You
The first Myron Bolitar thriller from the Number 1. bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once.
Talent agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a footballer and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend-a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead-the deal goes dange
€5.60 excl tax
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