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Algorithmic Musings in Syriac: A Verse Poem on Computation Attributed to George of the Arabs George Kiraz 9781463247058
RRP: £49.00£41.65An edition of George of the Arab's homily on the Chronicon - on the reckoning of the year and the computation of the dates of feasts such as Christmas, Epiphany, and Easter.Book InformationISBN 9781463247058Author George KirazFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Phyllis Dodd (1899-1995)/ Douglas Percy Bliss (1900-1984) Paul Liss 9781999314538
RRP: £25.00£21.25Phyllis Dodd was born in Chester and studied firstly at Liverpool School of Art 1917-21 After winning a Royal Exhibition scholarship spent a further four years at the RCA in the company of her life-long friends Henry Moore, Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi... -
Baroque Vision, A: 100 verse selections from 50 volumes Nicholas Hagger 9781789045857
RRP: £22.99£19.54Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas Hagger wrote three letters to the eminent literary critic Christopher Ricks about his poetic identity, and Ricks agreed with his final view that his verse blends the Romantic and Classical traditions within the Baroque... -
All I Want for Christmas Karen Swan 9781529084351
RRP: £14.99£12.74Can she find love this Christmas?Christmas in Copenhagen is a magical time of year but Darcy Cotterell isn’t feeling festive. Newly single, again, she's not even going home for Christmas but must spend the holiday finishing her art history PhD. Her best... -
The Woman Who Went over Niagara Falls in a Barrel Caroline Cauchi 9780008524548
RRP: £9.99£8.49School teacher. Widow. Legend. Meet the courageous Mrs Annie Edson Taylor. The bravest woman you've never heard of and the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel - over a decade before any male daredevil had the balls... -
Sevres Extraordinaire!: Sculpture from 1740 Until Today Tamara Preaud 9780300278750
RRP: £60.00£51.00A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from France’s famous Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory Sèvres Extraordinaire! brings to light the production of sculpture at Sèvres over the 280 years of the... -
Quentins: With a new introduction by Celia Imrie Maeve Binchy 9781398723894
RRP: £9.99£8.49'Absorbing and delightful' Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times'For anyone who likes good storytelling ... it is like being reunited with old friends' Sunday ExpressEvery table at Quentins restaurant in Dublin has a thousand stories to tell. The staff and... -
Dissens and Sensibility: Why Art Matters Lisbet Skregelid 9781835950432
RRP: £19.95£16.96The book is motivated by the author's long-lasting interest in the role of art in society in general and education in particular and is a contribution to arts-based approaches to education. An introduction to pedagogy of dissensus: a pedagogy informed by... -
Playgirl: The Official History of a Cult Magazine Playgirl Magazine 9781419774928
RRP: £25.00£21.25A lively, unbelievably fun (even titillating!) art book that celebrates Playgirl magazine’s 50-year anniversary, including historic articles, spreads, commentary, photography, and artwork from the ’70s through todayPlaygirl is a movement. This... -
Jazz Age Illustration Heather Campbell Coyle 9780300278811
RRP: £40.00£34.00A gorgeous look at popular illustrators of the Jazz Age and their influential role in the dynamic culture of the 1920s and ’30s The 1920s in the United States was characterized by economic prosperity and dramatic social change. Known as the Jazz Age, it... -
The Rest of You Maame Blue 9780857308795
RRP: £10.99£9.34An emotionally wrenching novel tackling key themes such as generational trauma and what it means to be Black British, surviving between the gaps of knowledge around familial migrant journeys, set in today's London and Ghana in the mid-90s. On the cusp of... -
The Drowned: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery John Banville 9780571370825
RRP: £14.99£12.74**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful, sometimes chilling prose.'FINANCIAL TIMESThe richly atmospheric new Strafford and... -
Horrible Christmas (2024) Terry Deary 9780702326554
RRP: £10.99£9.34Filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wants to know! The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales of: the dark days when the Puritans tried to abolish Christmas the Christmas in the trenches when the British and... -
Mia's Brave Move Cerrie Burnell 9780702304132
RRP: £7.99£6.79A gorgeous story of bravery and new beginnings! Bravery starts with a single step... Once there was a little girl called Mia, who came from a city of streetlights and stars. When Mia moves away from a city of streetlight and stars to the quiet... -
Kitchen Hymns Padraig O Tuama 9781739440572
RRP: £12.00£10.20Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and... -
Life Hacks For a Little Alien Alice Franklin 9781529435726
RRP: £14.99£12.74'Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes'Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, this is a charming, witty and profoundly moving... -
111 Places in the Lothians and Falkirk That You Shouldn't Miss Gillian Tait 9783740815691
RRP: £13.99£11.89This unique guide explores the broad arc of terrain that flanks the city of Edinburgh – the three old counties of East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian, plus the district of Falkirk, ancient hub of Central Scotland. It’s a rolling landscape dotted... -
111 Places in Phoenix That You Must Not Miss Travis Swann Taylor 9783740820503
RRP: £13.99£11.89Explore deep into the heart of Phoenix to find its best kept secrets, natural wonders, and inspiring people – not to mention a few ghosts – and discover the Old Western charm that still permeates the culture here. Visit a mystery castle, a gleaming white... -
Clover Garden: A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir Bland Simpson 9781469682891
RRP: £25.95£22.06Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North... -
The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories Pascha Sotolongo 9781324076445
RRP: £14.99£12.74In the tradition of narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual), The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday, weaving elements of magical realism and surrealist twists to sharpen our view of human (and animal) connection... -
Bearmouth Liz Hyder 9781782695370
RRP: £9.99£8.49Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labour, the sunlit world above the mine a distant memory. Reward will come in the next life with the benevolence of the Mayker. Newt accepts everything - that is, until the mysterious Devlin arrives. Suddenly, Newt starts... -
Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change Michelle Bogre 9780367723507
RRP: £135.00£114.75This fully revised and updated second edition of Photography as Activism is both a study of activist photography, and a call to action. It offers students and documentary photographers insights into the theory, history, philosophy, and practice of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £135.00£114.75Subtotal: -
Global Culture after Gombrich: Art Mind World Cao Yiqiang 9781789389999
RRP: £24.95£21.21Ernst Gombrich can be considered the most influential art historian of the 20th-century. Until now, however, the global impact of his work has been under-appreciated. Global Culture after Gombrich: Art, Mind, World presents essays by historians of art... -
Dogs and Wolves Hervé Le Corre 9781787705395
RRP: £14.99£12.74When Franck gets out after five years in jail, he expects to find the brother he protected with his silence. Instead, waiting for him is his brother Fabien’s girlfriend. Jessica takes him to the gloomy country house where she lives with her cantankerous,... -
Mission: Manta Ray Philip Kavvadias 9781915026958
RRP: £7.99£6.79Jurassic Park meets Wimpy Kid, packed with humour, supsense and adventure! Finn, Milo, and new girl, Tasi – together with Arty, the microraptor – are sent to investigate deep-sea disturbances. Soon they are plunged into danger when their research ship is... -
Honorable Men Are Dead Ali Kinteh 9780993460944
RRP: £12.99£11.04Dean Anthony, a tenured English Literature professor, is revered by his students for his charismatic style of 'jousting with the text.' Endowed with innumerable middle-class graces, he is further blessed with a prodigious barrister wife and two adorable... -
Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors Bill Gelber 9781032811796
RRP: £135.00£114.75Based on the author’s decades of teaching, pedagogical and theatrical research, and his professional experience as actor and director, Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors offers a pedagogical approach rehearsal scenes as a primary... -
Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life Marc Katz 9780827615564
RRP: £25.99£22.09Some two thousand years ago, as the story goes, a rabbi named Yochanan makes the epitome of pragmatic gambles—wagering the entire fate of the Jewish people. In dialogue with the soon-to-be Roman emperor Vespasian, Yochanan acquiesces to the Romans’... -
Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction Beth Singler 9781032187648
RRP: £35.99£30.59Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news and the public’s imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics... -
Designing Aspen: The Houses of Rowland+Broughton John Rowland 9781797228723
RRP: £45.00£38.25In this luxurious and aspirational home design book, the founders of renowned Colorado firm Rowland+Broughton share a selection of their extraordinary residential projects, with Aspen and the Rocky Mountains as the dazzling backdrop.Rowland+Broughton is... -
China Landscape: The Taikang Photography Collection Taikang Space 9781788841115
RRP: £45.00£38.25Taikang Space is one of the most important non-profit art institutions in China. Based in Beijing, they focus on contemporary art and photography. Building off of their 2019 exhibition China Landscape: Selections from the Taikang Collection, this book... -
Music and Joy: Lessons on the Good Life Daniel K. L. Chua 9780300264210
RRP: £25.00£21.25From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is music In this revelatory book, Daniel K. L. Chua asks a simple question: Is music joy? For Chua, the answer is a resounding yes—music is a lesson in joy that... -
The House and Studio of Victor Horta: 20 Years of Restoration Barbara Van der Wee 9780300273205
RRP: £40.00£34.00The story of how the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta conceived his private residence/studio and how architect Barbara Van Der Wee restored it to its original splendour Victor Horta (1861–1947) is considered the most prominent Belgian... -
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery Yingyu Zhang 9780231212441
RRP: £100.00£85.00A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for traveling merchants. A wealthy widow is drugged and robbed by a lodger posing as a... -
The Book of Gold: the sweeping first book in The Feral Gods trilogy Ruth Frances Long 9781399731560
RRP: £20.00£17.00'History and enchantment woven in a seamless, intricate tapestry' Sarah Rees BrennanA desperate thief. A magical book. And a heist for the ages.There's only one thing notorious thief Lyta loves more than a big score: her little brother, Kit. But when Kit... -
Listen to the Birds From Around the World Marion Billet 9781805134695
RRP: £9.99£8.49An internationally bestselling series of board books with amazing real-life sounds! This brand new edition includes replaceable AAA batteries and an exciting 'Look and Find' game on the final page. Press the button, recognise the sound, then point at the... -
African American Children's Poetry: Themes, Issues and Social Context Wynn William Yarbrough 9781476695297
RRP: £35.99£30.59This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender, and working class studies. African American children's poetry reveals legacies of segregation, the Great Migration north,... -
Film Camera Zen Bellamy Hunt 9781797232300
RRP: £21.99£18.69The must-have guide for any camera collector, avid film photographer, or novice creative seeking advice on what camera to choose and how to get started purchasing and collecting.Film Camera Zen is a carefully curated guidebook by Bellamy Hunt, the... -
Art with Markers Angela Pan 9781781579565
RRP: £18.99£16.14Versatile and accessible, marker pens are the must-have art material for beginner and experienced artists alike. Under the expert guidance of artist and educator Angela Pan, learn how to get to grips with your marker set and really master the medium... -
1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking Emily LeQuesne 9781032614977
RRP: £135.00£114.75What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?1000 Ways to Ask Why, is a practical how to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers...