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Goude Touch by Jean-Paul Goude 9780500514863
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.23Jean-Paul Goude is one of the world's most brilliant and unorthodox imagemakers. This book assembles a collection of advertising artwork he created over a ten-year period for Galeries Lafayette,... -
Paolo Roversi Chiara Bardelli-Nonino 9780500411308
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A compact survey of photographer Paolo Roversi's romantic, intense and ethereal fashion images and portraits. Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of... -
Rembrandt: Substance and Shadow by Pascal Bonafoux
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating works in the whole... -
Bruce Gilden Hans-Michael Koetzle 9780500411261
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The perfect primer on American street photographer Bruce Gilden, best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City. Bruce Gilden was born in 1946 and grew up... -
The Celts by T.G.E. Powell 9780500272756 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $3.46Since its first publication, The Celts has been widely acclaimed as a major pioneering study. Using the evidence of history, archaeology and linguistics it portrays the rich variety of Celtic life,... -
Cleopatra Tells All! by Chris Naunton
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Cleopatra tells her version of events as the ruler of the last ancient Egyptian dynasty. In this hilarious and revealing tell-all, the politically savvy, multilingual, cosmopolitan ruler of... -
J. M. W. Turner: The Man Who Set Painting on Fire by Olivier Meslay
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92In 1801, at the age of 26, Joseph Mallord William Turner became the youngest ever member of the Royal Academy. His early paintings combined great historical themes with inspired visions of nature,... -
Rembrandt: Substance and Shadow by Pascal Bonafoux 9780500300220 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $2.64Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating works in the whole... -
Bonnard by Timothy Hyman 9780500203101
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $23.50Reviewing the work of Bonnard, one of the best-loved artists of the modern period, this book draws insights into his personality from his paintings. It is published on the occasion of a retrospective... -
The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know About The Past by Jane McIntosh 9780500281819 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $3.42This reference to the world of modern archaeology provides a practical understanding of what archaeology is, how archaeologists work, and how they interpret the evidence they find. This revised... -
What's Hidden In The Body? by Aina Bestard
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.38At first glance, all you can see on the page are simple outlines of body parts or seemingly abstract shapes. But look closely through the three coloured glasses and the amazing intricacy of the human... -
Amazing Animal Babies by Aina Bestard
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $13.08Have you ever wondered how animals have babies? Maybe you've seen your cat or dog give birth - but what about a turtle or a seahorse? There are lots of different kinds of animals living on planet... -
Boatload of Madmen by Dickran Tashjian 9780500976128
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.61The American art community had its first glimpse of Surrealism in 1932. Its revolutionary art galvanized an emerging avant-grade, and four years later a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art... -
Pocket Museum: Ancient Egypt by Campbell Price 9780500519844
Booksplease Price: $9.73If all the portable artefacts of Ancient Egypt were in a single location, the lives of students, historians and connoisseurs would be immeasurably simpler - but the objects are scattered in museums... -
Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945 by Andrew Gladwell 9780752423517 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.50Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945Book InformationISBN 9780752423517Author Andrew GladwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffatt 9780500297803
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history. Scotland's history is full of famous kings, queens, saints and warriors. But... -
The Book of Dirt: A smelly history of dirt, disease and human hygiene by Piotr Socha
Booksplease Price: $33.69A deep dive into the history and science of dirt. Millions of people on Earth start their day the same way: we get out of bed, go to the loo and wash ourselves. But this hasn't always been the... -
American Art and Architecture by Michael J. Lewis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81New in the renowned World of Art series, this is a concise, reliable introduction to the history of American art and architecture from its 17th-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation... -
Rendering with Pen and Ink by Robert W. Gill
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.14'Rendering' is the reproduction or representation of an architect's design in the form of a drawing of the building as it will appear, complete with accessory details such as trees, traffic and... -
Romanticism and Art by William Vaughan 9780500202753 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $2.67In the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo an historic and irreversible change. The ideas of... -
Josef Koudelka by 9780500410837
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41When he arrived in Paris, Koudelka had already produced two outstanding works of reportage. One documented the Prague Spring, while the other, on gypsies, could almost have been an ethnological study... -
Graphics and Packaging Production by Rob Thompson
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.21The latest instalment in the Manufacturing Guides series, this book is targeted at students and professionals who create graphics or packaging for mass production. With some 400 specially... -
Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist by Sylvie Patin
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.92In 1874 Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise caused uproar among the critics and a revolution in painting. His inventiveness was inexhaustible: with paintings of haystacks, poplars and,... -
Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Can I Build Another Me? follows a child's hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought as he decides to make a clone of himself - and starts to ponder what makes him HIM. Is it the scar on his knee... -
Thames Path: with Ordnance Survey mapping (A-Z Adventure Series) A-Z Maps 9780008780524
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.95The A-Z Adventure series features the accuracy and quality of Ordnance Survey's 1:25000 mapping in a convenient book, therefore eliminating the need to fold and re-fold a large sheet map to the... -
Is it Just Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A humorous new book from the acclaimed author-illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake. Everyone has something that makes them feel self-conscious. It might be the smell of your breath, the size of your... -
The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire by Serge Gruzinski 9780500300183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $3.56The gruesome Aztec practice of mass human sacrifice horrified Cortes when he entered Tenochticlan in 1519. Yet these bloodthirsty warriors also created a refined society, monumental architecture,... -
Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s by Alastair Duncan
RRP: $87.10Booksplease Price: $81.58Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, fomenting in the great cities of Europe and America and shaping everything... -
Van Gogh by Melissa McQuillan 9780500202326 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80Placing the artist in the context of his time, Melissa McQuillan looks at the influences on his life and work and discusses his paintings in depth. Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo and other... -
Numbers: The Universal Language by Denis Guedj 9780500300800 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $3.91Numbers are all around us and we take them for granted. Who first invented them? How old are they, and how were they developed? How did they come to represent abstract, universal concepts? How do... -
British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939 by Clifford S. Ackley
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $24.63Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist... -
Alexander the Great: The Heroic Ideal by Pierre Briant
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23In 334 BC the twenty-two-year-old King Alexander of Macedon led his army across the Bosphorus to challenge the mighty Persian empire. Ten years later his conquests had taken him to the edge of the... -
Susan Meiselas Susan Meiselas 9780500411278
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Best known for her work documenting the political upheaval in Central America during the 1970s and 80s, American photographer Susan Meiselas has been at the forefront of ethical debates around... -
Forever by Beatrice Alemagna 9780500652282
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Sometimes things change Sometimes things fly away Sometimes things disappear But there's one thing that lasts forever...A poignant look at the way things come and go, beautifully illustrated by... -
The Body In The Thames: 6 by Susanna Gregory 9780751541830 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.11London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality... -
Art Nouveau by Alastair Duncan 9780500202739 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $4.13Alastair Duncan tells the story of the meteoric rise and fall of Art Nouveau, which began as a general reaction by young artists and designers to the stifling traditionalism and revivalism of the... -
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs by Michael D Coe
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.50This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Recent findings have been added to expand our... -
Daido Moriyama by Daido Moriyama
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07Daido Moriyama is one of two new books this season in Thames & Hudson's acclaimed 'Photofile' series. Each book brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive... -
River Thames Dockland Heritage: Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend by Malcolm Batten
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65London's docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed piecemeal from the beginning of the nineteenth century as the existing riverside wharves became too congested and pilfering became... -
Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism 1933-1943 Andy Friend 9780500027417
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $37.65Author and curator Andy Friend explores the legacy of the Artists International Association in a compelling group biography set against a background of resistance to the rise of fascism in Europe. ...