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Unofficial and unauthorisedIn 1962, Andy Warhol displayed 32 canvases of Campbell's soup cans in a New York art gallery. The art world - and what we consider to be art - would never be the same again. Follow Warhol through his upbringing in Pittsburgh,...

Tokyo Travel Sketchbook traces the journey of illustrator and graphic designer Amaia Arrazola on a four-week trip through the beating heart of Tokyo.When Arrazola accepts a month long artist's residency in the Japanese capital, she has little idea of...

This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967576Author Paco RocaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Keen to see some of Europe, queer couple Lilith and Abigail get on their old bikes and start pedalling. Along flat fens and up Swiss Alps, they will meet new friends and exorcise old demons as they push their bodies - and their relationship - to the...

Poland,1941. Sixteen-year-old Hertzko Haft is sent to Auschwitz. Separated from his family and his fiancee, he draws a will to survive from the thought of seeing them again. His ability to survive, though, comes from something else - a unique talent. ...

An anxiety-free book full of illustrated good news stories from around the world - the perfect gift to cheer someone up.The Happy Broadcast will take you on a journey around the world to discover phenomenal true stories of everyday people using their...

Whereas "Volume One: Microeconomics" dealt with the optimizing individual, "Volume Two: Macroeconomics" explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country and, indeed, the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473390068Author Brent WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Renaissance PublishingPublisher Renaissance Publishing

How Will It Be With Baby & Me? is a moving yet reassuring journey through a child's feelings of anxiety about a new arrival. With his mum announcing that he will have a new baby brother Jack is worried what will happen when he...

The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form. On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin Lockout had begun. Over the next four months, James Larkin...

What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'?Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949028645Author Garth EnnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Aftershock ComicsPublisher Aftershock ComicsWeight(grams) 386g

National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant...

September 1812. Napoleon is master of Europe, and strikes at Russia with 600,000 men. He enters Moscow with no resistance, a conqueror at the height of his glory... and everything crumbles. The last volume of a trilogy. The terrible Russian winter has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198959Author Keiji NakazawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960294Author Spain RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047080Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

In this follow-up to the critical and commercial hit, Nagata Kabi uses engaging diary comics to explore her personal issues surrounding mental health, identity, and intimacy. Her relationship with her parents is growing more difficult than ever, and she...

Original graphic novel which charts the creation, evolution and break-up of the fab four, first published in 1981. The Beatles Story is an exceptionally drawn account of the band from one of the UK's leading artists of his generation, Arthur Ranson...

This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385677332Author Marianne BoucherFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Sharing stories of myths, legends and ancient bogs, a deaf child and her grandmother experiment with the lyrical beauty of sign language. Learning to communicate through their shared love of trees they find solace in the shapes and susurrations of leaves...

A little boy is alarmed when he discovers a bee in a box. At first he is frightened and reacts aggressively, but gradually he realises that the bee won't harm him and that they can be friends. I SAW A BEE is deceptively simple with the repeatability...

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the...

For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059577Author Dean MullaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

The raucous and literal fishes-out-of-water graphic novel from prolific comic artist and writer Kat Leyh, creator of the acclaimed Snapdragon and coauthor of the Eisner and GLAAD Award-winning series Lumberjanes.Fresh out of shipwreck wine, three tipsy...

The true story of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose "Golden Voice" helped define Cambodia's Golden Age of music until her mysterious disappearance in the killing fields of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Developed in partnership with Sothea's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Jury Prize, European Design Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781912408122Author Olivier KuglerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527338Author Gord HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868/. This surprising event occurred due to the feisty and single-minded dedication of Lydia Becker, the acknowledged, though...

Although Amazon.com is now selling more than 3,000 commercial products bearing Betty Boop's image, including calendars, tote bags, coffee mugs, and books about how young women can be more like Betty, no one has ever published a book about Betty herself...

From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face. In this super periodic table, every element is a unique character whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Broken Frontier Awards: Best Graphic Nonfiction 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781912408221Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Myriad...

Peter J Green first photographed Class 50 diesels in action in 1975, while they were still being transferred from the London Midland to the Western Region of British Rail. But it was in the early 1980s, when they were named and painted in Large Logo...

Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message, it remains crucial to the way we...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783955751821Author Gunther BuskiesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ventil VerlagPublisher Ventil Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780265155Author Benjamin DixFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications Ltd