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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the... -
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz 9780241315484
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.79How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Look no further than Frida... -
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox 9781399753074
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD.'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same,... -
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38'Supercharged. Highly colourful . . . they're all here, the big names of the time - behaving badly, and, at times, quite madly too' ObserverDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of... -
Collection of Sand: Essays by Italo Calvino
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.23Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and... -
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14The New York Times Bestseller "I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but it took me a... -
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.18Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. In the midst of Christian Europe, artists began to decorate luxury goods... -
On Identity Amin Maalouf 9781860467295
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us... -
Difficulties With Girls by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches... -
On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.35Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in... -
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Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou 9781526614063 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $8.55'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer'Inspirational . . . You can call this good teaching; what... -
Those Who Can, Teach: What It Takes To Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.62'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball 'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer 'Inspirational . . . You can call this good... -
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka 9780141993706
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has... -
Collected Stories by D. H. Lawrence 9781857151800
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.63Lawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this volume makes it possible to... -
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Dr. Moalem
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina... -
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl 9780140296815 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $4.91Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the... -
Muse: Uncovering the hidden figures behind art history's masterpieces by Ruth Millington
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOE ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of art history' JENNY PERY | 'An essential read' EDWARD... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists by Linda Murray 9780140513004
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10This magnificant, bestselling reference book finally leaves its old look to join the modern Penguin subject dictionary series. Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just... -
Bacon in Moscow by James Birch 9781788169769
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount... -
Work Hard & Be Nice to People by Anthony Burrill
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Ask More Questions, Get More AnswersDon't Be Normal, Don't Be OrdinarySay Yes More Than No!Work Hard & Be Nice to PeopleIt's usually the simple truths that provide the most profound answers. Discover... -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for... -
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic GatrellSHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN... -
Things My Son Needs to Know About The World by Fredrik Backman
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood From the 18 million copy... -
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Dr. Moalem 9780241396889
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.45From an award-winning medic and scientist, the game-changing case that genetic females have greater resilience, immunity, endurance and more, compared with males'A powerful antidote to the myth of a... -
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag 9780141035789
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues... -
On Photography by Susan Sontag
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.86'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
POPism by Andy Warhol
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New YorkerA cultural storm swept through the... -
Keeping Your Head in the Game: Untold Stories of the Highs and Lows of a Life in Sport Gary Bloom 9780241451311
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $32.11Drawing on his work with elite athletes, the world's first sports psychotherapist on what to do when life throws you a curveball'Cracking tales, a great read' Nigel Owens MBE, rugby union... -
B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07This an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation of national identities. It's about Hitchcock's... -
Carried Away Alice Munro 9781841593029
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.93Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include 'Royal Beatings', in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and... -
In America by Susan Sontag 9780141190105
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her... -
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Wall and Piece by "Banksy" 9781844137879 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $4.91Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's... -
The Futurist Cookbook by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied... -
Writings from the Zen Masters by Various
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge...