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Postmodern Design Complete by Judith Gura 9780500519141
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.25Postmodernism was the defining look of the 1980s. Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, and spearheaded by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro... -
The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.72The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of... -
Chess and other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands by Deborah Freeman Fahid
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.88Among the many treasures of the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, are hundreds of chess and other games pieces dating from the 7th to the 19th centuries ce. Intricately crafted in a rich variety of... -
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with at-a-glance visual guides to each reign and its... -
Off the Grid: Houses for Escape by Dominic Bradbury
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Recent advances in technologies and home-generated renewable energy have made building away from urban and rural infrastructures more practical and affordable than ever. This survey of the world's... -
This Book Thinks You're a Scientist: Imagine * Experiment * Create by 9780500650813
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This book thinks you're a scientist explores seven key scientific areas in the Science Museum's new interactive gallery for children: force and motion, electricity and magnetism, earth and space,... -
The Happy Prince: A Tale by Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde 9780500651551
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late 'Happy... -
Chaumet Tiaras: Divine Jewels by Clare Phillips
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £55.20Founded in 1780 in Paris, Chaumet quickly made history by becoming the official jeweller to Empress Josephine, soon turning the house into the most sought-after jeweller in Europe with a loyal and... -
The Monocle Book of Reportage by Tyler Brule
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20The best photo assignments from the Monocle archive, published to mark the magazine's fifteenth anniversary. Back in 2007 the first issues of Monocle magazine hit newsstands and kiosks around the... -
Tim Walker: Shoot for the Moon by Tim Walker
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £58.35'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars' Norman Vincent Peale Tim Walker's monograph Story Teller, published by Thames & Hudson, introduced audiences to this unique... -
Floral Patterns of India Henry Wilson 9780500298596
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40A unique combination of photography and illustration reveals an extraordinary variety of floral motifs in the historical buildings of India: 'A jewel of a book' Embroidery magazine Following the... -
The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany by James Bentley 9780500289976
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78The elegance of Tuscany's grand cities is found on a more intimate scale in its numerous small towns and villages, the most charming of which are celebrated in this revised, compact edition of the... -
Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period by John Boardman 9780500201633
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £22.26For many people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancient art to break free from 'conceptual' conventions for representing men and... -
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting their Story J. P. Mallory 9780500028636
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500028636Author J. P. MalloryFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Herbarium: One Hundred Herbs * Grow * Cook * Heal by Caz Hildebrand
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80A stylishly illustrated compendium of 100 herbs, designed to enrich our understanding of all their uses. This isn't just a book for the kitchen - it's for the greenhouse, the medicine cabinet, the... -
Botanical Sketchbooks by Helen Bynum 9780500297186
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40A visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world. While... -
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris 9780500297834
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a... -
Graffiti School: A Student Guide with Teacher's Manual by Chris Ganter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Graffiti School is the world's first fully illustrated graffiti coursebook for college use. It opens with an exploration of graffiti's background and history, from Pompeii to the Hip Hop revolution... -
African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent by John Gillow
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.12Now available in a compact paperback edition, this book remains the most comprehensive survey of African textiles on the market today, illustrating in over 570 spectacular colour photographs the... -
Anselm Kiefer by Daniel Arasse
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.75Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today. Through such diverse mediums as painting, photography, artist's books, installations and... -
Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works by David Robson 9780500341872
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and the buildings he created have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. Few architects achieved his harmonious fusion of local building... -
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols by J. C. Cooper
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86People all over the world have always used symbols to express and communicate the things that mean most to them. From a country's flag, which can signify more than patriotism, to a charm bracelet,... -
New Paris Style by Danielle Miller 9780500516300
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38This publication presents a fresh look into the private dwellings of the most exciting creative talents in Paris - individuals from the music, fashion, design, film and art worlds. The 27 properties... -
Metalsmithing for Jewelry Makers by Jinks McGrath 9780500297858
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40An authoritative step-by-step manual, combining tutorials, inspirational galleries, extensive cross-referencing and advice on metal jewelry-making. Thanks to the popularity of workshops and classes,... -
The Jewels of the Romanovs: Family & Court by Stefano Papi
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.60The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of elegance and extravagance for Russia's ruling tsars and the wealthy families with whom they were linked by marriage, and nowhere are these tastes... -
Not for Art's Sake Quentin Blake 9780500966389
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10An art book about art that has a purpose, focusing on work by Quentin Blake that has been commissioned for a particular place or for a particular use. Illustration is the most accessible visual... -
Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style by Jerome Gautier
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £50.93Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style... -
Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication by Michael Horsham
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the 'photograph' of a black hole in deep space. Since the beginning... -
Sadhus: Holy Men of India by Dolf Hartsuiker
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24This new and completely redesigned edition surveys the myriad holy men, mystics and ascetics of India: their prehistoric origins; beliefs, gods and sects; initiation, training and daily lives;... -
Boo! by Janik Coat
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In this latest addition to the Flip Flap Pop-Up series, young readers will be startled by some scary-looking sights... then delighted to discover that there's no need to be afraid - it's only... -
Samurai: The Japanese Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual Stephen Turnbull 9780500298992
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A step-by-step guide to becoming and being a samurai. It is 1615, and the Samurai, Japan's elite fighting class, are at the zenith of their powers. Trained in every manner of combat, from... -
Candida Hoefer: Libraries by 9780500543146
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £36.28Nobody photographs libraries, those splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge, as beautifully as Candida Hoefer. Her photographs are sober and restrained - the atmosphere is disturbed by neither... -
Japanese Dress in Detail by Josephine Rout
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Including garments for women, men and children, the... -
Monet's Trees: Paintings and Drawings by Claude Monet by Ralph Skea
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'I perhaps owe it to flowers', wrote Claude Monet (1840-1926), 'that I became a painter.' One of the leading figures of the Impressionist movement and perhaps the most celebrated landscape painter of... -
Mouse's Wood: A Year in Nature by Alice Melvin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A Daily Telegraph and Observer Children's Book of the Year Described as 'an utter gem' by the Telegraph, this exquisitely illustrated picture book with die-cut flaps follows the woodland ramblings... -
Sacred Britannia: The Gods & Rituals of Roman Britain by Miranda Aldhouse-Green 9780500297261
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A timely and up-to-date account of religion in Roman Britain. Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their Empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very... -
Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons Susan Owens 9780500028896
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'A marvellous book' Ali Smith Shaped by the cycle of the natural world, a fresh look at the life and work of John Constable to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth in 2026. As exhilarating... -
Notebooks by Philip Hughes 9780500027165
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.10A new selection from Philip Hughes' unpublished notebooks going back over twenty-five years. In an astonishing collection of twenty-seven notebooks created over a quarter of a century, Philip Hughes... -
Remarkable Trees Christina Harrison 9780500027202
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75A celebration of the beauty, diversity, importance and sheer wonder of the most remarkable trees, with exquisite illustrations from the incomparable collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ... -
New Deal Art John P. Murphy 9780500205020
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75A fresh and vibrant account of the USA's New Deal art programmes, highlighting diversity, activism, social justice, and urgent lessons for today. Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory in the...