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A Short Book About Painting Andrew Marr 9781849499934
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.11In A Short Book About Painting, writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr tackles the subjects of inspiration, creativity, politics, beauty and form. How does the artist make good work? What constitutes... -
Alice, Curiouser and Curiouser by Kate Bailey
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.26Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into 170 languages. But why does it have such enduring... -
Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle 9781800173231
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow - and even glimpses of... -
Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $12.62Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies... -
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570 Keith Christiansen 9781588397300
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.48Portraits, an inherently personal subject, provide an engaging entry point to an exploration of the politics, patronage, and power in Renaissance Florence The Medici family ruled Florence without... -
The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years. Admired by many... -
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary... -
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 by Pat Kirkham 9780300196146
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $64.36A survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the... -
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery 9781857549065
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.79"Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long title poem, a meditation on Parmigianino's famous... -
Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38"Modern Women Poets" is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, "Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets". While its selections illuminate and illustrate... -
The Sinister Side: How left-right symbolism shaped Western art by James Hall
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.89Why does the Mona Lisa have an uneven smile? Was Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon an exploration of Satanism? Why did Michelangelo depict so many left-handed archers? Why did the British Queen look so... -
Philip Guston: Poor Richard by Philip Guston 9781942884576
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $12.36Philip Guston's legendary, prescient political satire of Richard Nixon In the summer of 1971-two years before the Watergate hearings-Richard Nixon was an incumbent whose grip on power was being... -
Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology by Evan Jones 9781857549386
Booksplease Price: $27.06Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology charts a nation's poetic history from Modernism to the present day. Here are 34 cosmopolitan poets whose work deserves recognition beyond national boundaries. The... -
Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.72A global history of self-taught artists advocating for a nuanced understanding of modern and contemporary art often challenged by the establishment "An essential addition to any discerning art... -
An End to Suffering by Pankaj Mishra 9781035085538
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Mishra's book is in the best tradition of Buddhism, both dispassionate and deeply engaged, complicated and simple, erudite and profoundly humane' The New York TimesAn accomplished history of the... -
The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative by David Ekserdjian
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $64.09The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period... -
Mary Magdalene: A Visual History by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $20.69From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. Illustrated in full colour, this visual history... -
Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme 9780300097542
Booksplease Price: $64.55What was childhood like for medieval boys and girls in England? How were children named and brought up, what hazards faced them, what games did they play, and how were they prepared for adulthood?... -
Franz Kafka: The Drawings Andreas Kilcher 9780300260663
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.75The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings "The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves."-Lauren... -
Other Traditions John Ashbery 9780674302440
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $22.30"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the... -
Philip Guston Now by Philip Guston
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $48.80A sweeping retrospective of Philip Guston's influential work, from Depression-era muralist to abstract expressionist to tragicomic contemporary master A Wall Street Journal 2020 holiday gift guide... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927-1939 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $58.11The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden's poems-including some that have never been published beforeW. H. Auden (1907-1973) is one of the greatest poets of... -
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 9781913107260
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.45A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a... -
Green: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691159362
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.41In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to... -
Supervision and Evaluation for Learning and Growth: Strategies for Teacher and School Leader Improvement by Daniel R. Tomal 9781475813739
Booksplease Price: $56.45This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about... -
Supervision and Evaluation for Learning and Growth: Strategies for Teacher and School Leader Improvement by Daniel R. Tomal 9781475813722
Booksplease Price: $105.10This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about...