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Mr Zed's Reflections
ISBN: PB: 9780857428219, ISBN: HB: 9780857422248, Seagull Books, March 2021
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and "Mr. Zed's Reflections" is no exception. Every afternoon for almo...
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£9,99
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£16,00
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Money, Money, Money! A Short Lesson in Economics
ISBN: HB: 9780857427342, Seagull Books, November 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's never enough of it in their family.   Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fe descends on the city....
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£16,99
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Little Dancer A Children's Book Inspired by Edgar Degas
ISBN: HB: 9783791374499, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 16 colour illus.
Degas's ballerina paintings are well known and admired and his sculptural work Little Dancer Aged Fourteen – the only sculpture he exhibited in his lifetime – is particularly beloved for capturing the essence of a ballerina. This book tells the ficti...
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£10,99
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Book of Sleep
ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...
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£16,99
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Silences of Hammerstein
ISBN: PB: 9780857427038, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 64 halftones
"The Silences of Hammerstein", the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences...
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£12,99
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Kite
ISBN: PB: 9780857426369, ISBN: HB: 9780857420435, Seagull Books, March 2019
303 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Edde's "Kite" defies categorization. Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late '80s, it is at once a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately tragic, relationship between...
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£14,99
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£19,00
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Shift Sleepers
ISBN: HB: 9780857425997, Seagull Books, March 2019
204 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere....
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£18,99
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Anarchy's Brief Summer The Life and Death of Buanaventura Durruti
ISBN: HB: 9780857426000, Seagull Books, December 2018
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, its importance peaked during its "brie...
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£21,99
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Little Bit of Palmistry An Introduction to Palm Reading
ISBN: HB: 9781454932253, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2018
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.
By studying the hand's shape and lines of the palm, you can divine your own or someone else s past, present, and future. Cassandra Eason lays out the basics of this ancient practice by discussing the importance of life lines.heart lines and other tru...
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£8,99
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50 Impressionist Painters You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791384436, Prestel Publishing, April 2018
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 120 colour illus.
Now available in a new edition, this array of masterpieces by the luminaries of the Impressionist movement is the next best thing to viewing them in person. No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of Impressionism. Here fifty of the...
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£14,99
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