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Hydrology in Practice by Elizabeth M. Shaw
RRP: £54.99£48.72Hydrology in Practice is an excellent and very successful introductory text for engineering hydrology students who go on to be practitioners in consultancies, the Environment Agency, and elsewhere. This fourth edition of Hydrology in Practice, while... -
Crewel Animal Portraits: 6 stunning projects in Jacobean embroidery by Hazel Blomkamp
RRP: £16.99£12.08Renowned embroiderer and best-selling author, Hazel Blomkamp, is back with a brand new book in the popular Crewel series. In this fifth title in Hazel Blomkamp's series on crewel embroidery with a twist, the focus is on animal portraits. Crewel... -
Frans Hals by Bart Cornelis 9781857097122
RRP: £35.00£27.90An illuminating study of the singularly gifted Dutch artist Frans Hals, a true revolutionary in the field of portraiture and one of the most sought-after painters of his generation This beautifully illustrated book offers a fresh scholarly appraisal of... -
Artists at Home by Susie Hodge 9780711269439
RRP: £30.00£19.40Take a look inside the homes of some of your favourite artists and explore how each one reflected their spirit and creativity. From William Morris and Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Artists at Home showcases the quiet retreats,... -
Queen of The Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen D'Oyly Carte 1852-1913 by Elisabeth Kehoe
RRP: £25.00£17.30Born in 1852 in a small coastal town in Scotland, Helen D'Oyly Carte, through academic brilliance and an incredible talent for 'managing chaos', developed and ran the world's foremost top entertainment and hospitality organisation with her husband,... -
Capacity: The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism by Thomas McEvilley 9789057010415
RRP: £36.99£32.53G. Roger Denson brings singular insight to Thomas McEvilley's writings. As an art writer he has explored similar territory, but from the point of view of a nomadic ideologist. His approach matches that of his subject. He addresses the issues of... -
Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood
RRP: £25.00£16.03Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world... -
Drawing: Faces & Expressions: Learn to draw step by step by Diane Cardaci
RRP: £6.99£5.00With Drawing: Faces & Expressions, learn to draw detailed, realistic human faces in graphite pencil from basic shapes. Perfect for beginning artists, Faces & Expressions offers a comprehensive introduction on how to draw faces and expressions-the most... -
Villa Cetinale by John Pawson 9780847873340
RRP: £57.50£40.60After inheriting a seventeenth-century Tuscan villa, Ned Lambton and his wife, Marina, lovingly restored the estate as a retreat for family and friends. With newly commissioned photographs by Simon Upton, Lambton brings to life the rich history of the... -
The British Surrealists by Desmond Morris
RRP: £25.00£15.37The lives, loves and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris. Feted for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal... -
Gustav Klimt by Wilfried Rogasch
RRP: £12.00£8.00Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is the one artist whose name we associate in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the "Golden Age". As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable... -
The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic and Macabre: Volume 2 by S. Elizabeth
RRP: £22.00£14.96The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks that have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre. Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness - creating works that haunt and... -
Winter Hawk by Craig Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.63A trapped double-agent, an impending world war and a race to space... Winter Hawk is Craig Thomas at the height of his powers. With the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty set to be ratified by the US and the USSR in Geneva, it seems that international... -
The Secrets of LEGO House: Design, Play, and Wonder in the Home of the Brick by Jesus Diaz
RRP: £30.00£22.41This guide takes you on a tour of the "home of the brick," the official LEGO (R) House, so you can experience it for yourself at home! With photos, interviews, essays, and art from the LEGO archives, The Secrets of LEGO House explores the visual... -
Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple 9781910263006
RRP: £16.00£15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263006Author Dorothy WhippleFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)... -
Rediscovering Gouache: A New Approach to a Classic Technique for Contemporary Artists and Illustrators by Aljoscha Blau
RRP: £19.99£14.28In this book, gouache, a classic technique-used by Turner, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Picasso, Gris, Braque, Matisse and Miro, among many others often compared to watercolour, acquires a new dimension, as it offers a bolder approach to contemporary... -
Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks by Eddy Cruz
RRP: £22.00£14.56Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than design buildings and physical systems. Architects should take a position against inequality and practice accordingly. With these thirty short, manifesto-like texts-building... -
Louis XIV's Architect: Louis Le Vau, France's Most Important Builder by Richard Ballard 9781399054195
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in... -
Georg Baselitz by Richard Calvocoressi 9780500094150
RRP: £85.00£56.95A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media, predominantly painting and sculpture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school in East... -
Gauguin: Metamorphoses by Starr Figura
RRP: £38.00£25.84Published in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Metamorphoses at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings... -
The Art of by Abrams Books
RRP: £30.00£22.93The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian (Season Two) takes fans behind the scenes of the second season of the Emmy Award-winning Disney+ live-action Star Wars television series. Filled with concept art, character, vehicle, weapon, and creature designs, and... -
The Architecture of Public Space by Labics
RRP: £52.00£33.59This new book by Labics, one of Italy's leading architectural firms, is devoted to the country's architecture of public space. Squares, galleries, loggias, porticoes, and courtyards are the elements that characterise Italy's historic towns and cities -... -
Avedon 100 by Derek Blasberg 9780847873869
RRP: £80.00£55.72Avedon 100 celebrates Richard Avedon's enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide.Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Gagosian, New York, in 2023, this striking... -
Gauguin: The Master, the Monster, and the Myth by Flemming Friborg
RRP: £45.00£29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788792596307Author Flemming FriborgFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Strandberg PublishingPublisher Strandberg PublishingWeight(grams) 1800g -
The Art Of Dishonored 2 by Bethesda Games
RRP: £47.99£33.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506702292Author Games BethesdaFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S. -
Making Art in Terrible Times by Ben Davis
RRP: £14.99£9.88"This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew-which is, in my book, what good art should do." -Astra Taylor It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic... -
Parisian by Design: Interiors by David Jimenez by Diane Dorrans Saeks
RRP: £40.00£37.06Interior designer David Jimenez has lived and worked in Paris for years, where he s celebrated for his distinctive and sophisticated interiors. With a classic and modern style, Jimenez creates the type of chic French-influenced interiors that so many of... -
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton 9781529387438
RRP: £16.99£12.28LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2022'Vigorously researched and highly entertaining' - Daily Telegraph'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting... -
Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations by Jen Christiansen
RRP: £38.99£34.62Building Science Graphics: An illustrated guide to communicating science through diagrams and visualizations is a practical guide for anyone-regardless of previous design experience and preferred drawing tools-interested in creating science-centric... -
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist
RRP: £9.99£7.11Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: £12.99£9.09Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and... -
Kurt Jackson's Botanical Landscape by Kurt Jackson
RRP: £39.99£31.33Kurt Jackson's Botanical Landscape is a new collection of poems, paintings, drawings, sculptures and printmaking by the artist and staunch environmentalist: responses to his engagement with and rich experience within the natural world of flora. From... -
Sisters Gonna Stitch: A Feminist Embroidery Guide by Cotton Clara
RRP: £10.99£7.89A fabulous collection of funny, sassy, uplifting embroidery patterns for the modern-day stitcher. Be inspired to kickstart your crafting journey with 50 gorgeous designs, as well as hints and tips from the experts at... -
Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven by Colin Miller
RRP: £34.95£29.93An immersive photographic tour of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, whose residents share their stories and reveal the delirious history of this landmark. Jackson Pollock, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Arthur C... -
Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design by Frances Ambler
RRP: £10.00£6.80The mid-20th century was one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design. Drawing on the inventive style of the era, this range of gift products features exclusive illustrations of iconic mid-century designs, from Eames... -
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne
RRP: £34.00£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262019842Author Anthony DunneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm -
Start to Paint with Pastels: The Techniques You Need to Create Beautiful Paintings by Jenny Keal
RRP: £9.99£6.81'With pastel books being thin on the ground, any new edition is welcome and this is a rather excellent look at what the medium can do as well as a well-thought out manual on how to do it.' Review of the previous edition by Artbookreview.net The new... -
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 9780393354928
RRP: £13.99£11.63In Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer's block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one... -
Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang by Roderick Whitfield 9781606064450
RRP: £26.00£22.10This book offers a revised and expanded look at a world-renowned artistic treasure and its conversation. The Mogao grottoes in China, situated near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of... -
Introducing Architectural Theory: Debating a Discipline by Korydon Smith
RRP: £53.99£47.27This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject - such as tectonics, use, and site - as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the...