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The NASA Archives. 40th Ed. by Piers Bizony
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste 9783836560146
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school... -
Norman Foster. Networks Norman Foster 9783754406823
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.12Norman Foster. Networks offers a rare first-person insight into the ideas, influences, and connections that have shaped one of the world's greatest architects. Penned and curated by Foster himself,... -
The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes Susie Hodge 9781786276551
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The Short Story of Women Artists tells the full history - from the breakthroughs that women have made in pushing for parity with male artists, to the important contributions made to otherwise... -
Michelangelo Gilles Neret 9783836530347
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture,... -
Impressionism Karin H. Grimme 9783836536974
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.73Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and... -
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit... -
Kahlo by Andrea Kettenmann
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and... -
Norman Mailer. MoonFire. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 by Norman Mailer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a... -
Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings by Frank Zollner 9783836576253
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.35Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: a peerless master of painting, sculpture,... -
Bruegel. The Complete Paintings. 40th Ed. by Jürgen Müller
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands,... -
Fashion Designers A-Z. 40th Ed. Valerie Steele 9783836587563
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.44From Azzedine Alaia, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century's worth of fashion greats are celebrated in this new... -
Jamie Hewlett - 40 by 9783836582636
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.47From the legendary Tank Girl to live-action animations with Gorillaz, a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist Jamie Hewlett is one of the most energetic figures... -
History of Press Graphics. 1819-1921 Alexander Roob 9783836507868
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £51.04In today's world of instant snapshots, 24-hour news, and round-the-clock connectivity, an illustrated press where the images are as important as the text has become an increasingly rare art form... -
Los Angeles. Portrait of a City by Kevin Starr 9783836502917
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.29From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural,... -
Egon Schiele. The Paintings. 40th Ed. by Tobias G. Natter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00After Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the... -
The 12 Steps. Symbols, Myths, and Archetypes of Recovery by Kikan Massara 9783836576970
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.41Drawing on art, literature, and scientific research, scholar and therapist Kikan Massara delves into the Twelve Steps - the widely used and respected program of recovery. Developed in the early 20th... -
The Stan Lee Story Roy Thomas 9783836587587
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02The mostly true tale of Stan Lee, the one and only Godfather of Comics. From his childhood in Depression-era New York, to transforming Marvel into the number one comics publisher in the world, to his... -
Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals by Luis-Martin Lozano
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist-along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After... -
Hiroshige & Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaido. 40th Ed. by Rhiannon Paget 9783836594875
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.98The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage... -
Shoes A-Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT by Daphne Guinness 9783836596244
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £98.01Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art object and deeply ordinary, shoes tell the story of shifting attitudes toward desire, power, and wealth throughout... -
Paris Rêvé: An Illustrated Journey Through the City of Light Clara Panetier 9781964786445
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.45A Journey through Paris in nearly 350 lush illustrations presented in a beautiful, linen bound coffee table book.For several years, artist Clara Panetier has been drawing the City of Light from every... -
Vienna. Portrait of a City by Christian Brandstatter 9783836567268
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur-but... -
The Book of Colour Concepts. 45th Ed. Alexandra Loske 9783754401248
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25The earliest forms of human creativity - in carvings, markings, and cave paintings - bear witness to humanity's engagement with color. Almost as old as these examples is the desire to assign... -
Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll by Robert Santelli
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £45.74"Elvis who?" was photographer Alfred Wertheimer's response when, in early 1956, RCA Victor asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be... -
Motorcycles. 40th Ed. Charlotte & Peter Fiell 9783836598774
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Dream Rides: The most spectacular bikes on the planet. From the 1894 Hildebrand & Wolfmuller to the 2020 Aston Martin AMB 001, this book lavishly explores 50 of the most desirable motorcycles to have... -
Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today... -
Small Houses by Philip Jodidio 9783836587013
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57Small Houses is a tribute to the endless artistic inventiveness of architects and ingenuity of perception of the familiar and known concepts. It is also a conscious pivot towards sustainability and... -
Fashion Designers A-Z. Updated 2020 Edition by Suzy Menkes 9783836578820
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.56From Azzedine Alaia, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century's worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection... -
King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld Sandro Vannini 9783836571463
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.89Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an... -
Michelangelo. Complete Works by 9783836586122
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter,... -
Dalí. The Paintings by Robert Descharnes
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics-and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was... -
Redoute. Book of Flowers by H. Walter Lack 9783836568937
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.24French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper... -
Warhol by Klaus Honnef
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.00Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism,... -
Hieronymus Bosch. Complete Works by Stefan Fischer 9783836526296
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £117.51In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch's paintings are... -
Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World by Philip Jodidio 9783836571173
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £56.57Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV,... -
The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of... -
Compression by Steven Holl 9781616898519
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.82Steven Holl celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark book Anchoring with Compression, a collection of thirty-five major projects from the past decade. Holl applies concepts from... -
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. The Ultimate History by David Gerstein 9783836583558
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.34On November 18, 1928, the world's most famous mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney... -
Contemporary Japanese Architecture. 40th Ed. by Philip Jodidio 9783836595728
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the...