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The Scandinavian Home is the first publication to examine the entangled notions of home and homeland that were central to the art and material culture of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland in the second half of the nineteenth century. “Home” was a...

The first book about De La Soul, High and Rising is a stunning cultural biography of the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album...

Christian Thinking through the Ages�takes its reader on a journey through 2,000 years of ideas. It starts with Jesus of Nazareth's teaching, looks at speculation about Jesus himself and his significance, and describes the attempts to establish uniformity...

As evidenced by the famed Book of Kells and monumental high crosses, Scotland and Ireland have long shared a distinctive artistic tradition. The story of how this tradition developed and flourished for another millennium through survival, adaptation and...

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.The allure of the...

Presenting the first official coloring book from the BAFTA award-winning videogame, a bounty of nautical coloring and activity pages so that you too can be more pirate! Sink into the Sea of Thieves even when you're away from the screen with this...

It's easy to get lost in all the feels. Our emotions drive so much of what we do, say, and think, even if we don't realize it. Our response to our feelings-denying they exist, letting them lead our actions unchecked, distracting ourselves to avoid...

Chronicles Project 270, a 2020 get-out-the-vote campaign featuring 65 posters by 70 established street artists. With the intention of empowering young voters aged 18–36 ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, Project 270 enlisted nearly 70...

Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the city to revitalise the great myth of London for a new century. Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered insipid by street lighting...

In 1980, with their highest charting album to date, Kaleidoscope and two successful singles, ‘Happy House’ and ‘Christine’, and a packed tour schedule, Siouxsie and The Banshees are at the top of their game. Swimming in their own stream, the Banshees...

Marilyn Monroe is a cultural icon, even more than 60 years after her death, and now, with the Unofficial Marilyn Monroe Book and Crochet Kit, you can turn Marilyn into an adorable keepsake crochet doll.Included with this kit are all the materials and...

It is well known that infrastructure development projects can boost the economy and reduce the cost of trade in both developing and developed economies, however, infrastructure projects can also cause biodiversity loss. This book is the result of an...

Unleash your senses with The Life and Times of Forever, a visual feast bursting with colour, texture, and surprise. This captivating collection of photo collages transcends the still life, weaving lush close-ups of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and...

Though many archival digital objects were not "born digital," film archives are now important locations for digital research. And, with advancements in research technologies such as video annotation, visual analysis, and GIS approaches affecting the way...

The films of Abbas Kiarostami confront the questions of cinematic representation, identity, and the relationship between cinema and everyday life in eloquent and imaginative ways. Through a close examination of Kiarostami's formal and narrative...

This is the first academic and comprehensive book about the Persian/Iranian nineteenth century poet laureate (Malek al-Sho'ara), painter, sculpture, and calligrapher, Mahmoud Saba (1813-1893). Based on a multidisciplinary approach, and using the life and...

In this series, Richard Stubbings traces the changing, ever-evolving nature of bus scenes around South West and South East England. This book, comprising previously unpublished photographs, offers a nostalgic tour of Kent and East Sussex, from the early...

Beneath the surface of the Black Country lies a little-known world that encompasses the history of the towns that historically make up this area in the boroughs of Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell. The area was associated with coal mining and...

CHANEL is one of the best-known luxury brands in the world. Yet it remains the most mysterious of them all. From Paris and rue Cambon, CHANEL will forever be Gabrielle - a woman who revolutionized feminine elegance. Carefree and audacious, the designer...

Brand new edition from Philip's of this information-packed sheet map of Skye and Lochalsh, giving detailed coverage of the road network, and featuring all the major places of tourist, cultural and historic interest.From the colourful town of Portree to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765101094Author David CottisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The Revised Edition of the bestseller for the teNeues 40th anniversary. To mark the 40th anniversary of the first teNeues illustrated book, some all-time favourites from the past are celebrated in an affordable, modern softcover edition that fits...

The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of superlatives: England's largest national park, highest mountain, deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. One of Britain's best-loved and most visited locations unveils its secrets. This...

Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter is a story about leaving religion and coming of age in a world of accelerating climate apocalypses and environmental loss. In her debut collection of poems, H. G. Dierdorff interweaves an investigation of wildfires in...

The story of Liverpool goes back to its foundation as a borough in 1207 as a base for King John’s planned invasion of Ireland. Liverpool continued as a garrison town for centuries after, being razed to the ground in the Civil War and playing a al role in...

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable..." - Cesar A. CruzAcross the centuries, art has held up a mirror to humanity's evolving culture and creativity. Ancient civilizations left us mysterious sculptures while Renaissance artists...

In the flow of healing waters and the urgent cry of the Earth, we hear the voice of the Celtic mother goddess Modron, also known as Matrona.�A goddess of fertility, abundance and healing, but also of grief and loss and ancestral wisdom, she is still...

Cities are infinite cultural hyper-objects that contain layers of history, of contemporary life, of material, capital, infrastructure, of future dreams of what may come. We sometimes call these dreams “urban design plans” — two-dimensional drawings that...

Born in Japan and trained in Germany, dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893–1961) achieved prominence in London before moving to the U.S. in 1916 and building a career as an internationally acclaimed artist. During World War II, Ito spent two years...

The town of Gillingham in Kent grew up around the Royal Navy’s Chatham Dockyard. By the River Medway, this had been an important maritime area for centuries but it was only in the 19th century that the small settlement grew into a town. A large...

Let Marco Polo Lisbon guide you around this beautiful city. Explore Lisbon with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants and get tips on shopping and what to do on a limited...

Nowadays, the European coach market is dominated by a few manufacturers whose products are sold throughout the continent and beyond. It wasn’t always like this. From the end of the Second World War until the late 1960s, virtually all buses and coaches...

The Revised Edition of the bestseller for the teNeues 40th anniversary. To mark the 40th anniversary of the first teNeues coffee table book, some all-time favourites from the past are celebrated in an affordable, modern softcover edition that fits...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly...

In 1925, Pius XI staged the Vatican Missionary Exposition in Rome’s Vatican City. Offering a narrative of the Catholic Church’s beneficence to a global congregation, the Exposition displayed thousands of cultural belongings stolen from Indigenous...

In 1925, Pius XI staged the Vatican Missionary Exposition in Rome’s Vatican City. Offering a narrative of the Catholic Church’s beneficence to a global congregation, the Exposition displayed thousands of cultural belongings stolen from Indigenous...

Discover 50 remarkable trees around the world in this stunning atlas. From Australia's towering mountain ash, to New England's flaming maples, and Namibia's quirky-looking quiver tree, this spectacular coffee table book features lavish photography, tips...

Commemorate a bygone age and immerse yourself in the elegance of the Victorian era with this treasure trove of Christmas ephemera—with 500+ stickers and 50+ activity pages, making it Christmas every day!With A Vintage Victorian Christmas Sticker, Color &...

Everything a product designer needs to know about drawing - from hand sketching to virtual environmentsThe advent of tablet-based sketching, VR sketching, and hybrids bring new and more intuitive ways of working. But confidence in manipulating lines,...

This is the story of one of the world’ s most iconic images. Martin Bailey explains why Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower still lifes in Provence. He then explores the subsequent adventures of the seven pictures, and their influence on modern art...