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Is Our Food Killing Us? by Joy Manning
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Chronic obesity is on the rise; our food is laced with additives and chemicals; and the environment is being devastated by factory farming, pesticides, fertilizers and monoculture. It is time to... -
The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe 9780500290682
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £16.05Chocolate - 'the food of the Gods' - has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies, Michael Coe, and his late wife, Sophie. The book begins 3,000... -
The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This handy guide to the Greek and Roman Myths brings classical mythology to life. Written by a bestselling author on Ancient Greece and Rome, the book features an engaging blend of stories, facts and... -
The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art) by Jiang Jiehong
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Fulfilling a need for an accessible, affordable introduction to a subject of sustained and growing significance in contemporary culture, this volume in the World of Art series redefines contemporary... -
Evolution: The Whole Story by Steve Parker
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.03Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living... -
If I had an octopus by Gabby Dawnay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02I really want a clever pet, a pet with many charms. The sort of pet with talents, and a large amount of arms Have you ever thought about what the best aquatic pet would be? It's an octopus, of... -
Creative Demons and How to Slay Them by Richard Holman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Bedevilled by the demons of self-doubt, fear of failure or lack of inspiration? Lay waste to your mind-forged monsters with the help of Creative Demons and How to Slay Them. If you've ever embarked... -
Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now Fiona Rogers 9780500297230
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40A vivid showcase of work by more than thirty of the world's leading contemporary female documentary photographers. The photographic industry - its exhibitions, galleries, publications and auctions -... -
The Theatre of Apparitions by Roger Ballen
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38The Theatre of Apparitions is a highly anticipated body of work by one of the most original image-makers of our times, whose remarkable artistic trajectory spans the past 40 years. This book is... -
The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55A fresh look at the stories at the heart of Norse mythology, exploring their cultural impact right up to the present day. The heroes and villains of Norse mythology have endured for centuries,... -
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man by Alessandro Vezzosi
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14Leonardo da Vinci may be best known to us as the artist in such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Virgin on the Rocks. However, Leonardo was also endlessly curious about the physical world. His... -
Sapphire: A Celebration of Colour by Joanna Hardy
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £67.70Sapphire is the third and final instalment in Thames & Hudson's showstopping series on coloured gemstones, created by Violette Editions. A feast for all the senses, the book features page after page... -
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael J. Benton
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.33The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90% of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a... -
Modernist Design Complete by Dominic Bradbury 9780500518427
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £46.25The powerful aesthetic and philosophical framework that modernism ushered in during the early part of the 20th century revolutionized the built world, transformed our living spaces and lifestyles,... -
Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs by Michael Embacher
Booksplease Price: £15.93Architect and designer Michael Embacher's unique collection of more than 250 bicycles, the only one of its kind, was lovingly collected over many years and exhibited around the world. This new... -
Keep an Eye on Ivy by Barroux
Booksplease Price: £13.43The hero of our story loves his birthday present: a plant he names Ivy. But little does he know, Ivy is a high-maintenance sort of plant, one who requires special daily attention, and has a secret... -
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural History by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present. Showcasing more than... -
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris 9780500292655
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and... -
Photomontage by Dawn Ades
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, publicity and commercial art, and created evocations of the 'brave new... -
Mok Wei Wei: Works by W Architects Mok Wei Wei 9780500343456
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.35During a career spanning over three decades, award-winning architect Mok Wei Wei has designed numerous large- and small-scale projects in Singapore with his practice W Architects. From apartment... -
Frank Horvat by Viriginie Chardin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A compact survey of the photographer Frank Horvat, best known for his fashion photography published between the mid 1950s and the late 1980s. Frank Horvat (1928-2020) changed the course of... -
The Wild World of Barney Bubbles: Graphic Design and the Art of Music by Paul Gorman
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10A celebration of a graphic design genius, published to mark what would have been his 80th birthday. The Wild World of Barney Bubbles celebrates the graphic design genius whose work linked the... -
Symbols of the Occult by Mark Stavish
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Chosen for their powerful symbolism, the illustrations in this book range from the myths and legends of the ancient world to the icons used in modern culture and science. You will discover the... -
Art in Detail: 100 Masterpieces by Susie Hodge
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.20Great paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter; there is always more to be derived from them. Art lovers may revisit and reconsider the masterpieces throughout their lives, but a... -
The Portrait Photographer's Manual by Cian Oba-Smith 9780500297131
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A comprehensive introduction to the styles and techniques of portrait photography. Through simple projects on subjects such as 'Making Self-Portraits' and 'Capturing Personal Moments' as well as... -
The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint by Ylva Hillstroem
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.94The first children's picture book on Hilma af Klint and her pioneering work. Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) began painting her abstract and highly symbolic images as early as 1906, long before... -
Hokusai: A Life in Drawing by Henri-Alexis Baatsch
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Hokusai: the blue, foam-crested wave rearing above Mount Fuji; the celebrated volcano idealized and reinventedby the artist in every nuance of view, season and painting; extraordinary bridges, the... -
Artists' Film by David Curtis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33This detailed survey presents for the first time an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists' ever-evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early twentieth century to now. ... -
Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century by RoseLee Goldberg
Booksplease Price: £34.71Performance Now charts the development of performance by visual artists across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how live art, so integral to the history of art in the... -
Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales by Jen Campbell
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.62It's Franklin's birthday! Luna and all the villagers are planning a surprise party, and Franklin's family are visiting from the moon. While the party is being set up, Luna takes Franklin book... -
Lump: The Dog who ate a Picasso by David Douglas Duncan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artist's home near Cannes. As a co-pilot... -
The World According to Roger Ballen by Roger Ballen
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.72The World According to Roger Ballen, co-authored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen's career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and collections of Art... -
Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was one of the outstanding draughtsmen of the 19th century: drawing was not only a central tenet of his art, but essential to his existence. Through an examination of the... -
The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs by Alex Webb by Alex Webb 9780500543979
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95Gathering some of Alex Webb's most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, The Suffering of Light brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalogue. Recognized as... -
The Battle for Home: Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa al-Sabouni
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.64Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of... -
Creative Demons and How to Slay Them Richard Holman 9780500029626
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Bedevilled by the demons of self-doubt, fear of failure or lack of inspiration? Lay waste to your mind-forged monsters with the help of Creative Demons and How to Slay Them. If you've ever embarked... -
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David J. Lewis-Williams
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.39What does the breathtakingly beautiful art depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How did these images spring, seemingly... -
Looking At Pictures by Susan Woodford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Looking at pictures can be a delightful, exciting or moving experience, but some pictures - and these are often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood... -
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years by Chase F. Robinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's secondlargest world religion. But... -
Houses That Can Save the World by Courtenay Smith
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40An inspirational sourcebook of innovative and unexpected green design solutions for our homes that address the environmental and social issues facing our world today. Featuring nineteen...