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| "I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic by Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "I AM ZLATAN - the explosive critically-acclaimed memoir of Manchester United star Zlatan Ibrahimovic one of the world's most gifted and controversial footballers'Why be a Fiat when you can be a Ferrari?'Welcome to planet Zlatan This is the story of how a Swedish immigrant rose from poverty to become a football geniusIn his own inimitable style Zlatan recalls every struggle every goal and every training ground bust-up on his journey to dominate the world's top clubs including Barcelona PSG and now Manchester UnitedFull of wicked one-liners and amazing stories Zlatan lifts the lid on some of the biggest names in football including Guardiola Messi and his new manager Jose MourinhoMoving funny and totally frank I am Zlatan is unlike any autobiography you have ever read'Wonderful - nothing less than a revelation Ibrahimovic is the definitive modern sporting icon' - Matthew Syed'The best sportsman's memoir since Andre Agassi not just a bad boy's romp but the rise of a boy from the ghetto to the top of his profession and captain of his country He is candid funny and yes wonderfully nuts' - The Times'There's never a dull moment on Planet Zlatan This is a snarling fizzing unrepentant firecracker of a book; if footballers' memoirs bore you make an exception for this one' - Independent"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "This is a condensed edition of 'The Road to Serfdom' republished in this edition with 'The Intellectuals and Socialism' (originally published in 1949) In 'The Road to Serfdom' F A Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of wartime economic and social planning to the problems of peacetime Hayek argued that the rise of Nazism was not due to any character failure on the part of the German people but was a consequence of the socialist ideas that had gained common currency in Germany in the decades preceding the outbreak of war Such ideas Hayek argued were now becoming similarly accepted in Britain and the USA On its publication in 1944 'The Road to Serfdom' caused a sensation Its publishers could not keep up with demand owing to wartime paper rationing Then in April 1945 Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book and Hayek's work found a mass audience This condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 Since then it has been frequently reprinted There is an enduring demand for Hayek's relevant and accessible message The 'Road to Serfdom' is republished in this impression with 'The Intellectuals and Socialism' originally published in 1949 in which Hayek explained the appeal of socialist ideas to intellectuals - the 'second-hand dealers in ideas' Intellectuals Hayek argued are attracted to socialism because it involves the rational application of the intellect to the organisation of society while its utopianism captures their imagination and satisfies their desire to make the world submit to their own design"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee (Hardback, 2001)" |
| "A sumptuous large-format hardback containing sketches and paintings from the illustrated Lord of the Rings together with brand new and previously unseen material In this large-format hardback Alan Lee reveals in pictures and in words how he created the images in the authorised illustrated edition of The Lord of the Rings These images would prove so powerful matching perfectly with Tolkien&39;s own vision that they would eventually define the look of Peter Jackson&39;s movie trilogy and earn Alan a coveted Academy AwardThe book is filled with over 150 of his sketches and early conceptual pieces to show how the project progressed from idea to finished art It also contains 20 colour paintings reproduced in full-page glory together with numerous examples of his conceptual art produced for the films and brand new pieces drawn specially for this book It also includes an exclusive foreword written by Sir Ian McKellenThe Lord of the Rings Sketchbook provides a fascinating insight into the imagination of the man who painted Tolkien&39;s vision firstly onto the page and then in three dimensions on the cinema screen It will also be of interest to many of the 100000 people who have bought the illustrated Lord of the Rings as well as for budding artists and illustrators interested in unlocking the secrets of book illustration"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Introduction to Algorithms by Clifford Stein, Ronald L. Rivest, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "A new edition of the essential text and professional reference with substantial new material on such topics as vEB trees multithreaded algorithms dynamic programming and edge-based flowSome books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode designed to be readable by anyone who has done a little programming The explanations have been kept elementary without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigorThe first edition became a widely used text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals The second edition featured new chapters on the role of algorithms probabilistic analysis and randomized algorithms and linear programming The third edition has been revised and updated throughout It includes two completely new chapters on van Emde Boas trees and multithreaded algorithms substantial additions to the chapter on recurrence (now called Divide-and-Conquer) and an appendix on matrices It features improved treatment of dynamic programming and greedy algorithms and a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks Many new exercises and problems have been added for this edition The international paperback edition is no longer available; the hardcover is available worldwide"
Price: 77.99 |
| "Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships by Dr. Henry Cloud, Dr. John Townsend (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Rules for Romance That Can Help You Find the Love of Your LifeBetween singleness and marriage lies the journey of dating Want to make your road as smooth as possible? Set and maintain healthy boundaries--boundaries that will help you grow in freedom honesty and self-controlIf many of your dating experiences have been difficult Boundaries in Dating could revolutionize the way you handle relationships Even if you're doing well the insights you'll gain from this much-needed book can help you fine-tune or even completely readjust important areas of your dating life Written by the authors of the bestselling book Boundaries Boundaries in Dating is your road map to the kind of enjoyable rewarding dating that can take you from weekends alone to a lifetime with the soul mate you've longed for"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Jerry L. Sittser (Hardback, 2004)" |
| "An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss-with a new preface and epilogueLoss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser In an instant a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family his mother his wife and his young daughter While most of us will not experience such a catastrophic loss in our lifetime all of us will taste it And we can if we choose know as well the grace that transforms it A Grace Disguised plumbs the depths of sorrow whether due to illness divorce or the loss of someone we love The circumstances are not important; what we do with those circumstances is In coming to the end of ourselves we can come to the beginning of a new life-one marked by spiritual depth joy compassion and a deeper appreciation of simple blessings"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office by Stanley F. Malamed (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "This full-color text prepares dental professionals to promptly and proactively recognize and manage medical emergencies that may occur in the dental office It details how to anticipate potential emergencies and what resources must be on hand to deal effectively with these situations The book is arranged in eight sections concentrating on topics such as prevention of emergencies through patient evaluation (medical history) and specific types of more common emergencies that practitioners may encounter It successfully fulfils its aim of stimulating all members of the dental team to improve and maintain their skills in the effective prevention recognition and management of medical emergenciesReviewed by European Journal of Orthodontics March 2015 very easy to read and provides a very comprehensive reference for a variety of medical emergencies Reviewed by SMcKernon on behalf of British Dental Journal July 2015A logical format reflects the way emergencies are encountered in a dental practice with chapters organized by commonly seen clinical signs and symptoms such as unconsciousness or altered consciousness respiratory distress seizures drug-related emergencies chest pain and cardiac arrest Step-by-step procedures include detailed numbered instructions for stabilizing and treating victims (PCABD) in common medical emergenciesFull-color illustrations demonstrate emergency techniques in realistic claritySummary tables and boxes make it easy to find essential concepts and informationQuick-reference algorithms in the appendix include step-by-step diagrams showing the decision-making process in common emergency situationsA differential diagnosis chapter ends each of the book's parts on common emergencies UPDATED content includes the most current guidelines for drug-related emergencies unconsciousness altered consciousness and cardiac arrest as well as protocols for obstructed airway managementUPDATED PCABD boxes reflect the American Heart Association's new sequence of steps for stabilizing and treating victims with an easy-to-remember acronym Positioning Circulation Airway Breathing and Definitive ManagementUPDATED! Emergency drug and equipment kit instructions help you assemble emergency kits and ensure that your dental office has safe current materials on hand"
Price: 54.99 |
| "Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach by Jennifer J. Yeager, Linda E. McCuistion, Mary Beth Winton,..." |
| "Get the right dosage of pharmacology content to succeed on the NCLEX and as a professional nurse with Pharmacology A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach 9th Edition Using a streamlined prototype approach and an emphasis on nursing care this text makes it easy for today's nursing students to better understand the complicated subject of pharmacology The book's detailed chapter on dosage calculation the nursing process framework for drug therapy strong QSEN focus and summaries of prototype drugs help deliver the perfect pharmacology foundation UNIQUE! An extensive color-coded Drug Calculations chapter presents six methods of dosage calculation providing a helpful review and supplement to a dosage calculations textbookUNIQUE! Nursing Process summaries present patient care and drug therapy within the framework of each step of the nursing process including information on patient teaching and cultural considerationsUNIQUE! Illustrated overviews of normal anatomy and physiology open each unit and provide a critical foundational review for understanding how drugs work in each body systemChapter on safety and quality discusses medication errors specific nursing measures to promote safety National Patient Safety Goals and many other safety issues and concernsCultural considerations icons highlight important cultural considerations in the Nursing Process sectionsQSEN focus emphasizes patient-centered care safety quality and collaboration and teamworkApplication-level NCLEX Study Questions at the end of each chapter help prepare readers for the growing pharmacology coverage on the NCLEX ExaminationConsistent RN-standard chapter pedagogy includes objectives outlines key terms with page references and activities on the Evolve companion website Coverage of prioritization throughout the text helps readers learn to prioritize nursing care and differentiate need-to-know from nice-to-know contentNEW! Streamlined content and improved organization makes this edition even more user-friendlyNEW! Patient Safety boxes reinforce concepts related to medication safety and more NEW! New chapter on Transplant Drugs discusses key drugs prescribed for organ transplantsNEW! Updated Prototype Drug Charts provide easy access to key information for the most commonly used drugs including dosages contraindications drug-lab-food interactions pharmacokinetics and more NEW! New pregnancy categories regulations are addressed in all chapters where pregnancy categories were mentioned NEW! Additional QSEN icons will be included in boxes that discuss patient-centered care teamwork and collaboration evidence-based practice quality improvement safety or informaticsNEW! Expanded chapter on cultural considerations now includes new information on community-based nursing contentNEW! Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes (formerly Herbal Alert boxes) more appropriately reflect the content which covers more than just safety information NEW! New or updated Critical thinking case studies are included at the end of every chapter to challenge readers to apply knowledge and analytical skills to realistic patient scenarios"
Price: 66.99 |
| "The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "Poet philosopher and artist Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was born in LebanonThe millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age and he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the country of his birth His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages and his drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake The Prophet and Gibran's other books of poetry illustrated with his mystical drawings are known and loved by readers all over the world who find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's heart and mind"
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| "The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Winner of the Man Booker Prize Alan Hollinghurst&39;s The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher&39;s 1980s Britain It is the summer of 1983 and young Nick Guest an innocent in the matters of politics and money has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens Gerald an ambitious new Tory MP his wealthy wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility Innocent of politics and money Nick is swept up into the Feddens&39; world and an era of endless possibility all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst&39;s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece It is a novel that defines a decade exploring with peerless style a young man&39;s collision with his own desires and with a world he can never truly belong to"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity His writing turns brains and minds transparent' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities the capacity to recognize faces the sense of three-dimensional space the ability to read the sense of sight For all of these people the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world - and The Mind's Eye is testament to the myriad ways that we as humans are capable of rising to this challenge"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends by Neale Donald Walsch (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Nothing has frightened or fascinated us more than the experience that we call 'death' Now in what very well could be the most profound of all his CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD books bestselling Mobius author Neale Donald Walsch asks the questions that we have all wanted to ask and receives answers we have all been waiting for in this deeply moving and highly personal dialogue with Deity HOME WITH GOD is the definitive spiritual work on death and dying offering new insights deep wisdom and peace of mind for the terminally ill family members of the dying hospital and medical professionals members of the clergy and everyone encountering death HOME WITH GOD logically completes Neale Donald Walsch's dialogue with God exploring the process by which we end our lives here on earth and begin our so-called After Life experienceA book of comfort hope and surprising revelation HOME WITH GOD is an astonishing deeply healing and reassuring spiritual classic"
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| "Escobar: The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Powerful Criminal by Roberto Escobar (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Murderer philanthropist drug dealer politician devil saint many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar but one is irrefutable - legend For the poor of Colombia he was their Robin Hood a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just a bloodthirsty gangster a Bogie Man used to scare children in their beds; for the rest of the world flush with his imported cocaine he was public enemy number one During his reign as the world's most notorious outlaw he ordered the murder of thousands - at one point even bombing a passenger jet - smuggled drugs into the US in mini-submarines inspired by Bond films was elected to parliament staged midnight escapes through the jungle from whole army battalions built his own prison consorted with presidents controlled an estimated fortune of over 20 billion and for over 3 years outwitted the secret American forces sent to kill him His ambition was as boundless as his violence and neither was ever satisfied This is the first major and definitive biography of this remarkable criminal life told in jaw-dropping detail by the one man who more than any other can understand just how far he came and just how low he fell his brother Roberto Escobar"
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| "Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Elizabeth Cook's mesmerising poetic voice weaves the interlocking stories of Achilles and the central figures of his legend into a many-layered exploration of achievement and loss of choice and inescapable destiny Born of the sea-nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus hidden as a girl on Skiros until Odysseus discovers him Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy Into his story come others - among them Hector Helen Penthiseleia the Amazon Queen and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats whose writings form the basis of a meditation on identity and shared experience An unforgettable and deeply moving work of fiction Achilles also affirms of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967 Joe Orton kept a series of diaries which are one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era The diaries chronicle frankly and hilariously the literary successes (capped with an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles) the rejection of all conventions and the astonishing sexual adventures (at his mother's funeralwith a dwarf in Brighton) of a true literary iconoclast who believed there was no sense in being a rebel without applause"
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| "Nutshells Land Law by Michael Haley (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The longest running law revision series trusted by students for over 30 years Nutshells present the essentials of law clearly and concisely in a memorable and user friendly way The ideal companion both for getting up to speed with a new topic of law and preparing for law exams This is the law in a nutshell!"
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| "The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit by Donald Kalsched (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences He shows how in an ironical twist of psychical life the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive resulting in further trauma for the person Why and how this happens are the questions the book sets out to answer Drawing on detailed clinical material the author gives special attention to the problems of addiction and psychosomatic disorder as well as the broad topic of dissociation and its treatment By focusing on the archaic and primitive defenses of the self he connects Jungian theory and practice with contemporary object relations theory and dissociation theory At the same time he shows how a Jungian understanding of the universal images of myth and folklore can illuminate treatment of the traumatised patient Trauma is about the rupture of those developmental transitions that make life worth living Donald Kalsched sees this as a spiritual problem as well as a psychological one and in The Inner World of Trauma he provides a compelling insight into how an inner self-care system tries to save the personal spirit"
Price: 30.49 |
| "Trauma and the Soul: A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption by Donald Kalsched (Paperback,..." |
| "In Trauma and the Soul Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book The Inner World of Trauma (1996)-this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work Through extended clinical vignettes including therapeutic dialogue and dreams he shows how depth psychotherapy with trauma's survivors can open both analytic partners to another world of non-ordinary reality in which daimonic powers reside both light and dark This mytho-poetic world he suggests is not simply a defensive product of our struggle with the harsh realities of living as Freud suggested but is an everlasting fact of human experience-a mystery that is often at the very center of the healing process and yet at other times strangely resists it With these two worlds in focus Kalsched explores a variety of themes as he builds chapter by chapter an integrated psycho-spiritual approach to trauma and its treatment including images of the lost soul-child in dreams and how this child represents an essential core of aliveness that is both protected and persecuted by the psyche's defenses; Dante's guided descent into the Inferno of Hell as a paradigm for the psychotherapy process and its inevitable struggle with self-destructive energies; childhood innocence and its central role in a person's spiritual life seen through the story of St Exupery's The Little Prince; how clinical attention to implicit processes in the relational field as well as discoveries in body-based affective neuroscience are making trauma treatment more effective; the life of CG Jung as it portrays his early trauma his soul's retreat into an inner sanctuary and his gradual recovery of wholeness through the integration of his divided self This is a book that restores the mystery to psychoanalytic work It tells stories of ordinary patients and ordinary psychotherapists who through working together glimpse the reality of the human soul and the depth of the spirit and are changed by the experience Trauma and the Soul will be of particular interest to practicing psychotherapists psychoanalysts analytical psychologists and expressive arts therapists including those with a spiritual orientation Donald Kalsched is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Albuquerque New Mexico and a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts He is the author of numerous articles in analytical psychology and lectures widely on the subject of early trauma and its treatment His books include The Inner World of Trauma (1996)"
Price: 34.99 |
| "Landscape Theory in Design by Susan Herrington (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Phenomenology Materiality Cybernetics Palimpsest Cyborgs Landscape Urbanism Typology Semiotics Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretical ideas that students must navigate today can be utterly confusing and how do these theories translate to the design studio? Landscape Theory in Design introduces theoretical ideas to students without the use of jargon or an assumption of extensive knowledge in other fields and in doing so links these ideas to the processes of design In five thematic chapters Susan Herrington explains the theoretic groundings of the theory of philosophy why it matters to design an example of the theory in a work of landscape architecture from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries debates surrounding the theory (particularly as they elaborate modern and postmodern thought) and primary readings that can be read as companions to her text An extensive glossary of theoretical terms also adds a vital contribution to students&39; comprehension of theories relevant to the design of landscapes and gardensCovering the design of over 40 landscape architects architects and designers in 111 distinct projects from 20 different countries Landscape Theory in Design is essential reading for any student of the landscape"
Price: 41.49 |
| "Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity by David Sibbett (Paperback,..." |
| "Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity productivity and playful exchange for serious work in groups Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work This dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders presenters and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools including Graphic recording visual planning story boarding graphic templates idea mapping etc Creative ways to energize team building sales presentations staff meetings strategy sessions brainstorming and more Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups Unlocking formerly untapped creative resources for business success Visual Meetings will help you and your team communicate ideas more effectively and engagingly"
Price: 14.99 |
| "The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat by Loren Cordain (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100000 copies sold to date! Healthy delicious and simple the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if you want to attain optimal health The Paleo Diet will work wonders Dr Loren Cordain demonstrates how by eating your fill of satisfying and delicious lean meats and fish fresh fruits snacks and non-starchy vegetables you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease cancer osteoporosis metabolic syndrome and many other illnessesBreakthrough nutrition program based on eating the foods we were genetically designed to eat-lean meats and fish and other foods that made up the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors This revised edition features new weight-loss material and recipes plus the latest information drawn from breaking Paleolithic research Six weeks of Paleo meal plans to jumpstart a healthy and enjoyable new way of eating as well as dozens of recipes This bestselling guide written by the world's leading expert on Paleolithic eating has been adopted as a bible of the CrossFit movement The Paleo Diet is the only diet proven by nature to fight disease provide maximum energy and keep you naturally thin strong and active-while enjoying every satisfying and delicious bite"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Python For Dummies by Stef Maruch, Aahz Maruch (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Python is one of the most powerful easy-to-read programming languages around but it does have its limitations This general purpose high-level language that can be extended and embedded is a smart option for many programming problems but a poor solution to others Python For Dummies is the quick-and-easy guide to getting the most out of this robust program This hands-on book will show you everything you need to know about building programs debugging code and simplifying development as well as defining what actions it can perform You ll wrap yourself around all of its advanced features and become an expert Python user in no time This guide gives you the tools you need to Master basic elements and syntaxDocument design and debug programsWork with strings like a proDirect a program with control structuresIntegrate integers complex numbers and modulesBuild lists stacks and queuesCreate an organized dictionaryHandle functions data and namespaceConstruct applications with modules and packagesCall create extend and override classesAccess the Internet to enhance your libraryUnderstand the new features of Python 25 Packed with critical idioms and great resources to maximize your productivity Python For Dummies is the ultimate one-stop information guide In a matter of minutes you ll be familiar with Python s building blocks strings dictionaries and sets; and be on your way to writing the program that you ve dreamed about!"
Price: 14.99 |
| "George Condo: Painting Reconfigured" |
| "With his arresting unsettling style George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s and he has been restlessly painting drawing and sculpting - bringing forms into the world in one way or another - ever since Reliably inconsistent Condo's references and inspirations in both style and content ricochet deliriously around the canon of western art history Somewhere between his fake Tiepolos reconfigured Manets impossibly intricate paintings that seem to be abstract until you get up close his perpetually screaming cubist hags and the orgiastic misdemeanours of Rodrigo Condo has invented mastered and expanded not just one painterly language but the whole lexicon Working closely with the artist writer and art historian Simon Baker has combined biographical chronological and thematic approaches to survey George Condo's work and career to date It includes an introductory essay on Condo's contradictory nature and a chapter exploring his early career are followed by three thematic chapters that look at the years from 1984 to the present tracing Condo's different systematic approaches to the language of painting exploring his relationship to the concept of abstraction and probing the darker side of his psychological iconography"
Price: 32.49 |
| "Art and Architecture in Mexico" |
| "This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years James Oles ranges widely across media and genres offering new readings of paintings murals sculptures buildings prints and photographs He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo but also discusses less familiar figures who were equally important in the construction of national identity The story of Mexican art is set in its rich historical context by the books treatment of political and social change The author draws on recent scholarship to examine crucial issues of race class and gender including an exploration of the work of indigenous artists during the colonial period and of women artists in the 19th and 20th centuries Throughout Oles shows how artists in Mexico participated in local and international developments and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the art world of the last five centuries"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Sculpture Now" |
| "This new book in the World of Art series surveys the dynamic developments in sculptural practice worldwide since the mid-1990s outlining major trends and identifying important and vibrant artists who are forging new paths and setting the contemporary agenda It explores such key topics as the use of the body in sculpture the appropriation of everyday ephemera the use of light and sound as technological elements nature and ecology as dominant and pressing issues the inter-relationship of sculpture with design and other evolving fields of contemporary art and the huge impact of installation Established artists such as Damien Hirst Jeff Koons Mariko Mori Ai Weiwei and Rachel Whiteread are featured alongside an international cross-section of promising new talent including Polly Morgan Patricia Piccinini Sopheap Pich and Anselm Reyle With over 200 photographs displaying a huge range of sculptural works both in the gallery and on-site Sculpture Now offers an authoritative and highly readable look at one of the most exciting arenas of contemporary artistic practice"
Price: 7.99 |
| "History of Pictures : From the Cave to the Computer Screen" |
| "The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost since the earliest images known to us are from about 40000 years ago But what a 40000 years explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book They privilege no medium or period or style but instead in 16 chapters discuss how and why pictures have been made and insistently link 'art' to human skills and human needs Each chapter addresses an important question What happens when we try to express reality in two dimensions? Why is the 'Mona Lisa' beautiful and why are shadows so rarely found in Chinese Japanese and Persian painting? Why are optical projections always going to be more beautiful than HD television can ever be? How have the makers of images depicted movement? What makes marks on a flat surface interesting? Energized by two lifetimes of looking at pictures combined with a great artist's 70-year experience of experimentation as he makes them this profoundly moving and enlightening volume will be the art book of the decade"
Price: 19.99 |
| "Nano House" |
| "Drawing on the success of XS series Nano House presents 43 examples of the most innovative most ingenious and most responsible designs for small-scale (less than 75m2) houses set in a variety of contexts Each house shown in texts photographs and plans is an object lesson in domestic design Using digital tools sustainable materials and new prefabrication technologies all these projects offer exciting and realistic solutions for houses where space is at a premium nature must be preserved or accommodation created for those who need it most"
Price: 13.99 |
| "Helmut Newton" |
| "From his early work for Vogue to his portraits of the rich and famous Helmut Newton (1920-2004) conveyed a unique vision of a wealthy and glamorous world that often shocks but never ceases to fascinate This book available again in the Photofile series presents about sixty of his instantly recognizable shots of haute couture and the beau monde"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Landscape and Garden Sketchbooks by Tim Richardson (Hardback, 2015)" |
| "This intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world's leading landscape and garden designers reveals a dazzling array of insights and ideas that will inspire the amateur and practitioner alike Thirty-seven international designers carefully selected by the design critic behind the Chelsea Fringe have opened their sketchbooks specially for this publication Featuring hundreds of drawings and illustrations as diverse as their creators Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks is a continual source of inspiration for planting design elements colour schemes and materials encouraging weekend gardeners design professionals and students to draw their ideas by hand"
Price: 19.99 |
| "Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy by Lis Watkins, David Stuttard (Hardback, 2016)" |
| "The Greek myths have a universal appeal reaching far beyond the time and physical place in which they were created But many are firmly rooted in specific settings Thebes dominates the tragedy of Oedipus; Mycenae broods over the fates of Agamemnon and Electra; Knossos boasts the scene of Theseus' slaying of the Minotaur; Tiryns was where Heracles set out from on each of his twelve labours Here the reader is taken on a tour of 22 destinations in Greece and Turkey from Mount Olympus to Homer's Hades recounting the tales from Greek mythology and the history associated with each evoking their atmosphere and highlighting features that visitors can still see today Drawing on a wide range of Classical sources with quotations newly translated by the author and freshly illustrated with specially commissioned drawings this book is both a useful visitor's guide to famous sites connected with Greek mythology and an enthralling imaginative journey for the armchair traveller"
Price: 11.49 |
