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| "The Book of the Bird: Birds in Art by Angus Hyland (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant international collection of paintings illustrations and photographs featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exoticsInterspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Technical Drawing for Fashion : A Complete Guide" |
| "Technical Drawing for Fashion explains how to create a technical fashion drawing using a simple and straightforward step-by-step method This second edition includes more information on rendering drawings by hand and using a computer and a brand new section on knitwear The main part of the book presents over 600 technical drawings of garment types styles and construction details the basic key shapes of which are shown alongside a specially created and photographed calico toile This unique presentation illustrates the relationship between the three-dimensional garment and the two-dimensional drawing allowing readers to really understand how to render technical drawings"
Price: 22.99 |
| "New Garconne: How to Be a Modern Gentlewoman" |
| "The New Garconne is a non-prescriptive guide for today&39;s modern independent and stylish woman It espouses a grown-up style and attitude with a masculine-feminine aesthetic where culture history beauty intelligence feminism quality and taste are celebrated Women who embody the look include Katharine Hepburn Andree Putman Lauren Hutton Janelle Monae Phoebe Philo Ines de la Fressange Tilda Swinton Stella Tennant and Jenna LyonsThis visually inspiring book explores the look history and essence of gentlewoman style It features profiles of women who typify the style alongside beautifully photographed and curated imagery and how-to-get-thelook information"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Use This Journal if You Want to Take Great Photographs" |
| "Discover a whole new way of seeing the world while honing your photography skills across composition exposure lighting lenses and observation Use This Journal if You Want to Take Great Photographs is packed with fun photography prompts and inspiring images by master photographers so you can get creative with your camera Create your own highly personal photobook by sticking in your pictures with the adhesive corners provided or simply dip in and out when you're stuck for ideas Whatever your specific interests - street studio still life landscape or portrait photography - you're free to interpret the prompts in any way you want So pick a page grab your camera and let your ideas and imagination rule!"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Short Story of Art : A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes and Techniques" |
| "The Short Story of Art is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art Simply constructed the book explores 50 key works from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations and then links these to se ctions on art movements themes and techniques The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods artists and styles Accessible and concise it simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art and shows how they are linked The book explains how why and when art changed who introduced certain things what they were where they were produced and whether they matter It demystifies artistic jargon giving readers a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of art"
Price: 10.49 |
| "A Tale of Trees : How Britain Nearly Lost its Ancient Woodland" |
| "We are a nation that loves its ancient woods and trees We prize our sturdy oaks craggy pines bluebells and primroses badgers and dormice We value the history and heritage of places that have been woodland since before the Norman Conquest But only a generation ago we were all set to wipe them out It was said that in the space of just 30 years nearly half of our ancient woods were destroyed How and why did this happen? And who prevented them all being lost? A Tale of Trees features the voices of those who cut down the woods and those who saved what was left It is a story full of tragedy and heroism ingenuity and blindness And it will inspire the reader to go out and explore more ancient woods and delight in our natural treasures"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Dawoud El-Alami (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "An updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict With coverage of all the recent events the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict its roots and the possibilities for the future New material outlines recent developments while an updated conclusion consists of a direct debate between the two authors which raises many issues yet offers real solutions to which future peace talks may aspire"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence by Kecia Ali (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives' sexual duties divorce homosexuality or sex outside marriage discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument In this updated and expanded edition of her ground-breaking work feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali asks how one can determine what makes sex lawful and ethical in the sight of God Drawing on both revealed and interpretative Muslim texts Ali critiques medieval and contemporary commentators alike to produce a balanced and comprehensive study of a subject both sensitive and urgent making this an invaluable resource for students scholars and interested readers"
Price: 11.49 |
| "A History of London in 50 Lives by David Long (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "By seeing London I have seen as much of life as the world can show' - Samuel JohnsonIt is the people who make London what it is The men and women living within its walls with all their successes and failures their loves and lies their dramas and indulgences Taking us from the sixteenth century to the present day London author David Long introduces us to fifty of the most eccentric revolutionary bloodthirsty and memorable characters to have walked London's streets Many are familiar names but others remain largely unknown From a house lived in by both Handel and Hendrix to Queen Victoria's rat catcher an emperor in exile and real-life tales of derring-do A History of London in 50 Lives is a unique take on the English capital and on some of the more remarkable characters who have called it home"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy by Duff McDonald (Paperback,..." |
| "They helped invent the bar code They revolutionized business schools and created the corporate practices that now rule our world McKinsey employees are trusted and distrusted loved and despised They are doing behind-the-scenes work for the most powerful people in the world and their ranks of alumni include the chairman of HSBC and William Hague Renowned financial journalist Duff McDonald uncovers how these high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural financial and technological shifts but also become mired in controversy across the years Discover how the firm celebrated Enron's disastrous corporate structure and how they've been instrumental in the government's controversial NHS reforms Are they worth their astronomical fees? And what do firms and governments actually get for their money?Based on exclusive interviews with key McKinsey players and written in gripping prose this is a revealing window onto one of the most secretive and powerful companies in the world"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues by Martin Blaser (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "A clarion call to save humanity's most essential fellow creatures - and our healthFar beneath our skin exists an unfathomable ancient universe - an internal ecosystem that is critical to our health Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome' unfurling its inner workings and evolution For thousands of years bacteria and human cells have co-existed in a relationship that has ensured the health and equilibrium of our body But now much like the natural world outside of us our internal environment is being irrevocably destroyed The culprit some of our most revered medical advances - antibiotics - which appear to be linked to the epidemics of asthma eczema obesity certain forms of cancer and other diseases plaguing modern society In a book that stands as the Silent Spring of its day Blaser sounds a provocative alarm that we ignore at our peril"
Price: 8.49 |
| "In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The age of exploration was drawing to a close yet the mystery of the North Pole remained Contemporaries described the pole as the unattainable object of our dreams' and the urge to fill in this last great blank space on the map grew irresistibleIn 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and amid a frenzy of publicity The ship and its crew captained by the heroic George De Long were destined for the uncharted waters of the Arctic But it wasn't long before the Jeannette was trapped in crushing pack ice Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards the crew found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies facing a seemingly impossible trek across endless ice Battling everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths the expedition fought madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with Solutions by Thomas Povey (Paperback,..." |
| "In Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems Thomas Povey shares 109 of his favourite problems in physics and maths A tour de force of imagination and exposition he takes us by the hand and guides us through uncompromisingly challenging territory that expands our minds and encourages a playful and exploratory approach to study The puzzles he says are like toys We should pick up the one we most enjoy and play with it Whether you are an aspiring scientist or an old-hand pitting yourself against these problems will test your ability to think and inspire you with curiosity and enthusiasm for physics Presented with charm and wit the questions span the gap between high-school and university-entrance standard material Detailed answers are lightened with a fascinating and refreshing blend of scientific history application and personal anecdote On this delightful and idiosyncratic romp through pre-university maths and physics the author shows us that behind every single one of these questions lies a new way of thinking about subjects we thought we had understood He argues that engaging with the unfamiliar is key to forming deeper insights and developing intellectual independence Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems is a manifesto that science should be playful and a celebration of the curious"
Price: 13.99 |
| "Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy by Jonathan A. C. Brown (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS ON RELIGION 2014 PICKFew things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law Sometimes rumor sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments They were developed like in other world religions over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars Misquoting Muhammad takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape From the protests of the Arab Spring to Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire and from the ochre red walls of Delhi's great mosques to the trade routes of the Indian Ocean world Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation weigh science and religion and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The Vitamin Complex: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection by Catherine Price (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The discovery of vitamins changed our world dramatically Terrifying diseases such as scurvy which had claimed the lives of millions became preventable and curable But before long word of these miracles' had spread from the laboratory and into the hands of food marketers Decades of over-hyped advertising later and we've accepted as fact the idea that dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to improving our health Award-winning journalist Catherine Price goes in search of the truth about vitamins taking us to vitamin manufacturers food laboratories and military testing kitchens In this page-turning investigation of the history science and future of nutrition she reveals just how much we still don't know about vitamins - the way they work in our bodies and the amounts we really need Engaging witty and personal The Vitamin Complex proposes an alternative to our obsessive vitamin-driven approach to nutrition - given our lack of knowledge the best way to decide what to eat is to stop obsessing and simply embrace this uncertainty head-on"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "If a robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat Soon it will be doctors taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy itself In a frightening tour of artificial intelligence's rapid advances technology expert Martin Ford draws on a wealth of economic data from both the US and the UK to outline the terrifying societal implications of the robots' rise From health and education to finance and technology his warning is stark any job that is on some level routine is likely to be automated and if we are to see a future of prosperity rather than catastrophe we must act now"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Think Like An Engineer: Inside the Minds that are Changing our Lives by Guru Madhavan (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid Yet these engineering feats are all the result of a unique thinking process combining abstract and structured thinking common sense and creativity In this groundbreaking new work Guru Madhavan reveals the extraordinary influence of engineering on society Drawing on a cast of star engineers like Steve Jobs the Wright brothers and Thomas Edison Madhavan explores this mindset and shows how to apply it to life and business in areas as varied as traffic congestion healthcare and filmmaking Think Like an Engineer demonstrates how key engineering concepts can help you solve problems make better decisions and innovate in a complex world"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article Why Women Still Can't Have it All first appeared it immediately went viral sparking a firestorm of debate across countries and continents Within four days it had become the most-read article in the history of the magazine In the following months Slaughter became a leading voice in the discussion on work-life balance and on women's changing role in the workplace Now Slaughter is here with her eagerly anticipated take on the problems we still face and how we can finally get past them In her pragmatic down-to-earth style Slaughter bursts the bubble on all the half-truths we tell young women about having it all and explains what is really necessary to get true gender equality both in the workplace and at home Deeply researched and filled with all the warm wise and funny anecdotes that first made her the most trusted and admired voice on the issue Anne-Marie Slaughter's book is sure to change minds ignite debate and be the topic of conversation"
Price: 8.49 |
| "British Politics: A Beginner's Guide by Richard S. Grayson (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "No one saw it coming No pundit no pollster and no political leader predicted David Cameron's Conservative Party would win a majority of seats in Parliament and his three main opponents would resign as party leaders The consequences of the coalition also became clear as the Liberal Democrats fell dramatically from grace and lost their spot as Britain's third party And despite Scotland voting NO' to independence in 2014 the election result also threatens the Union with the Scottish National Party winning all but three of the country's seats In this timely edition Richard S Grayson analyses Britain's changing political landscape and explores the role of the media the European Union and the UK's special relationship' with the US Thorough and incisive British Politics A Beginner's Guide is the perfect introduction to the structure parties and personalities of British Government today"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Minds of Winter" |
| "Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers stupendously good' Australian'Vastly entertaining' Sunday TimesFROM BOOKER-LONGLISTED ED O'LOUGHLIN THE PERFECT NOVEL FOR FANS OF AMY SACKVILLE'S THE STILL POINT AND FRANCIS SPUFFORD'S I MAY BE SOME TIMEIt begins with a chance encounter at the top of the worldFay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik Canada - 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle - searching for answers about a family member Nelson for his estranged older brother Fay for her disappeared grandfather They soon learn that these two men have an unexpected link - a hidden share in one of the greatest enduring mysteries of polar exploration"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Illustrated History of Football" |
| "This is football comic-ery but not as you know it Welcome to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires Football and comics Once a hearty Saturday combination to match cartoons and cereal in recent years they've drifted apart Thankfully for us Squires is here to change all that In The Illustrated History of Football his first book Squires relives some of football's most glorious moments and meets its greatest figures In a sport full of handsome paycheques and corporate sponsors he also casts a critical eye over corrupt backroom workings and helps pierce football's overblown balloon Funny good-looking and preternaturally astute this book is everything Sepp Blatter wishes he could be"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Aesthetic Theory" |
| "Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer His work has proved enormously influential in sociology philosophy and cultural theory Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation Analysing the sublime the ugly and the beautiful Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics In Adorno's formulation art is the sedimented history of human misery'"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Wolfman by Michael Rosen (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Wolfman has escaped! He is raging and rampaging around town chewing up paving slabs and biting trees and generally being very terrifying indeed! Whatever can Wolfman want and who will be brave enough to ask? Part of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family with easy-read font"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Unpublished David Ogilvy" |
| "First collected by his devoted family and colleagues as a 75th birthday present The Unpublished David Ogilvy collects a career's worth of public and private communications - memos letters speeches notes and interviews - from the 'Father of Advertising' and founder of Ogilvy & Mather Still fizzing with energy and freshness more than 25 years after it was first published its success outside the private circle of friends and colleagues it was created for was in the words of one of its editors 'because so often he spoke out on important matters long before the crowd caught up to him; because all of what he says he says so well; because so little of what he says in the book had ever before appeared in print' It includes The Theory and Practice of Selling the AGA Cooker described by Fortune magazine as 'the finest sales instruction manual ever written' and an interview in which he makes disclosures that even long-standing associates had never heard before This is a business book unlike any other a straightforward and incisive look at subjects such as salesmanship management and creativity presented in his trademark crisp prose Whether carefully prepared for a lecture or as a private joke to a friend his writing always underlines the importance of the rule 'it pays an agency to be imaginative and unorthodox'"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile" |
| "Ideas in Profile Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history But we often think of it as outside history When we look at a painting by Raphael Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly but it's also an historical document part of a living world Renowned art historian Martin Kemp takes the reader on an extraordinary trip through art from devotional works to the revolutionary techniques of the Renaissance from the courtly Masters of the seventeenth century through to the daring avant-garde of the twentieth century and beyond Along the way we encounter the great names of art history Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; Vermeer and Velasquez; Picasso and Pollock We get under the skin of the many 'isms' schools styles and epochs We see the complex sweep of art history with its innovations collaborations rivalries break-throughs and masterpieces Above all Kemp puts art in context; art isn't about disembodied images art itself is history Part of the Ideas in Profile series uniquely enlivened with animations and illustrations from the award winning studio Cognitive Media Art in History is an indispensable accessible and richly detailed guide to our culture our history our heritage and our art Also available in two ebook formats Please note that ISBN 9781782831020 is for the usual ebook format and 9781781254110 is for an enhanced edition with additional video and audio which should be used only with tablet devices that are capable of playing this additional content"
Price: 6.49 |
| "In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein" |
| "Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers poets philosophers and writers of the day Aged sixteen she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe as she coped with debt infidelity and the deaths of three children before early widowhood changed her life forever Most astonishingly it was while she was still a teenager that Mary composed her canonical novel Frankenstein creating two of our most enduring archetypes today The life story is well-known But who was the woman who lived it? She's left plenty of evidence and in this fascinating dialogue with the past Fiona Sampson sifts through letters diaries and records to find the real woman behind the story She uncovers a complex generous character - friend intellectual lover and mother - trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly Published for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein this is a major new work of biography by a prize-winning writer and poet"
Price: 13.49 |
| "The Dog Pig by Hannah Welchman (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The sad dog falls in the pit But is it a dog - or is it a pig? The Dog Pig is a very low level phonics reading book Beautifully illustrated throughout this fiction story features a fully decodable text suitable for ages 5 - 6 The Dog Pig covers all the letters and sounds that children meet in Phase 2 of Letters and Sounds the UK Government's synthetic phonics reading programme The Dog Pig is part of Ransom Reading Stars a structured reading programme for children learning to read The series has fifteen levels four phonics levels (covering Letters and Sounds Phases 2 to 5) and eleven book band levels (Pink through to Lime)"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Frogs Want a King by Anita Loughrey (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The frogs cannot decide what they should do They do not know what to eat what to play or when to sleep So they ask Zeus to give them a king The results are not what they expected! The Frogs Want a King is a bookbanded reading book for developing readers carefully levelled at Purple Book Band for guided reading Beautifully illustrated throughout this 737-word fiction story is suitable for ages 7 -8 The Frogs Want a King features a more demanding text with an extended vocabulary With a wider vocabulary the characters are more three dimensional and illustrations are less important It encourages more independent reading The Frogs Want a King is part of Ransom Reading Stars a structured programme for children learning to read The series has fifteen levels four phonics levels and eleven book band levels (Pink through to Lime)"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Designing Utopia : John Hargrave and the Kibbo Kift" |
| "This is the first detailed account of the remarkable British writer and artist John Hargrave (1894-1982) and his three creations The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift The Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and The Social Credit Party of Great Britain Combining art politics and design to visually stunning effect Hargarve and his followers created a maverick but uniquely English form of modernism Emerging from the turbulence of the twentieth century this colourful Utopian youth movement has strong resonances with the twenty-first-century world The book draws on the extensive visual archive of the Kibbo Kift held at the Museum of London"
Price: 21.99 |
| "Winifred Nicholson : Liberation of Colour" |
| "This new publication explores the whole career of Winifred Nicholson with a special emphasis on her theories of colour Using specific paintings to examine her ideas and writings about colour the book includes her late &39;prismatic&39; pictures which have never been properly explained Throughout her life Winifred Nicholson was interested in prisms and rainbows but when she was given some prisms by a physicist friend in the mid 1970s her painting took on a new directionLooking through a prism she saw objects with a rim of prismatic colour and explored and developed these ideas often painting pictures that verged on the abstract Nicholson&39;s &39;prismatic&39; pictures were a culmination of her life&39;s search to find "form&39;s secret and rhythmic law" She painted them in Greece in 1979 at her home in Cumbria and during her last painting trip to the Island of Eigg in the Hebrides in 1980 where she had an inspired period of painting and made some of her best loved picturesPublished on the occasion of the exhibition &39;Liberation of Colour&39; at mima Middlesbrough Institute of Modern art the book illustrates many previously unseen paintings from private collections as well as some of Nicholson&39;s best known works and draws on new research including previously unseen archival material"
Price: 17.49 |
