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Look for Me All Around You Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
ISBN: PB: 9783791358512, Prestel Publishing, December 2020
270 pp., 24x17 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Accompanying "Look for Me All Around You", one of the three sections of Sharjah Biennial 14, this book charts a non-chronological time-space (dis-)continuum between the Americas and the Emirates, building unexpected trans-oceanic and multi-diasporic...
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£19,99
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Mirror Sound The People and Processes behind Self-Recorded Music
ISBN: HB: 9783791386539, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
192 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
Everywhere you look, musicians are creating, recording, and selling their music without the help of big-name studios, producers, or labels. This book offers tangible – and visually stunning – proof that self-recording is a path to artistic freedom. E...
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£29,99
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Self Evident Truths 10,000 Portraits of Queer America
ISBN: HB: 9783791386911, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
544 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10000 black&white illus.
The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren't heteronormative. Believing that it's impossible to deny the h...
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£29,99
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School Come in and Take a Closer Look
ISBN: HB: 9783791374420, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
128 pp., 23.5x17.3 cm, 62 colour illus.
Few authors move as easily between the different worlds children inhabit as Britta Teckentrup. Whether she's leading the littlest readers through the seasons, or exploring the science of bird feathers, Teckentrup's warm and wonderfully detailed illus...
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£14,99
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Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980
ISBN: HB: 9783791359168, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
336 pp., 29x25 cm, 220 colour illus.
Focusing on the extensive influence of Scandinavian design in the United States, this book shows how Nordic ideas about modern design and the objects themselves had an indelible impact on American culture and material life. It also considers America'...
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£49,99
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Seedling that Didn't Want to Grow
ISBN: HB: 9783791374291, Prestel Publishing, March 2020
48 pp., 30x23 cm, 40 colour illus.
It's early spring and below the earth's surface seeds are just starting to sprout. One by one they stretch through the dirt and towards the sun, extending their shoots and leaves and growing tall. All except for one seedling, who isn't quite ready. E...
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£10,99
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Near Life The Gipsformerei: 200 Years of Casting Plaster
ISBN: PB: 9783791359403, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
265 pp., 29.7x23 cm, 260 colour illus.
For the last two centuries the Gipsformerei-or Reproduction Workshop-in Berlin has produced outstanding plaster cast replicas of some of the most famous works in the history of sculpture. Still in operation today, it is one of the oldest and most exp...
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£39,99
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Taxi Ride with Victor
ISBN: HB: 9783791374062, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
40 pp., 23x25 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.
Victor is everyone's favorite extraterrestrial taxi driver, but he has a big problem. His memory is terrible! He can never remember his way around the galaxy. When he drops off his passengers at the wrong locations, there are some unexpected and hila...
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£10,99
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My Little Book of Big Questions
ISBN: HB: 9783791373768, Prestel Publishing, April 2019
192 pp., 20.5x16 cm, 100 colour illus.
What will my life be like? Will I be happy? Will I ever be able to reach the stars? There are no answers to these questions, but in this eloquent picture book Britta Teckentrup lets children know that they are not alone in asking them and gives paren...
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£14,99
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Cat and Mouse
ISBN: HB: 9783791373744, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
24 pp., 24.5x19 cm, colour illus.
This charming book about a cat and a mouse features cut-outs that help teach young readers about prepositions in a fresh, innovative way. The perfect place for a mouse is inside a cozy, warm house, but a cat lives there too, and once the cat sees the...
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£10,99
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