Wills has merged cultural anthropology and history to reflect through the prism of a single year the shape of the world poised on the edge of modernity. Wills thus succeeds in producing a vivid picture of life in 1688.Granta, 2002; 330 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 17,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
The Battle of Austerlitz is universally regarded as the most impressive of Napoleon's many victories. Here is a detailed and balanced assessment that places familiar French accounts in their proper perspective and exposes many myths.Greenhill Books, 2005; 368 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 28,90 Voor/Our Price € 10,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Curry is the gateway to Indian cooking and the backbone of Indian cooking. Curry is the dazzling layering of spices and ingredients, the familiar made new and the exotic made accessible. 660 Curries is traditional, contemporary, extraordinary.Workman, 2008; 809 pp.; EN; index; pbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
One of Agatha Christie's novels Unfinished Portrait is largely autobiographical. In this biography, Andrew Norman delves deep into the crime writer's past to discover the desperate insecurity that sparked her disappearance in 1926.Tempus, 2006; 192 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 28,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 65 %
Few victories have been so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V, king of England, against the army of the French sovereign Charles VI at the small French village of Agincourt on October 14, 1415.Cooper Square, 2000; 176 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Alexander the Great's empire stretched across 3 continents. But for all success as a conqueror, Grainger argues that he was one of history's great failures. After his death, years of warfare led to the destruction of his empire and the Macedonian kingdom.Continuum, 2007; 236 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 12,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Illustrator Laura Stoddart illuminates a choice collection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens on the subject of love with her genteel watercolour cartoons. Divided into sections on the nature of love, love and marriage, the love affair, this book lets us smile at the silliness of those blinded by love, feel a pang for jilted lovers, and take note of P.G. Wodehouse advising girls that chumps make the best husbands, while enjoying the verse of Sappho, Marlowe and Wordsworth.Chronicle, 2007; 83 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 15,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
This exhibit catalogue celebrates the extensive Anderson Graphic Arts Collection of prints, series works, and monotypes by major contemporary American artists. Here are works on paper by Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Kiki Smith a.o.Fine Arts Museum, 2000; 192 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; L; pbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 52 %
Inventive and prolific, Andre Kertesz, 1894-1985, possessed a combination of modernist vision and poetic wit. This compact, beautifully produced book is dedicated to his early Hungarian images from 1912-1925.Norton, 2005; 160 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; S; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 5,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 70 %
Antonio Carluccio believes that food and music go well together, especially Italian food and grand opera. He has created 15 delicious menus to accompany a selection of his favourite arias in this unique book-CD presentation.Pavilion; 88 pp.; EN; index; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 10,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Regarded as a Michelangelo of the modern age, Rodin mirrored the multiple facets of the human condition through the lifelike quality of the figures he portrayed. This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of sculptures in marble and plaster.Thames and Hudson, 2006; 128 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 12,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
This book examines one of the key notions of modernist architecture formulated in Vienna around 1900. Providing a close analysis of 4 major buildings, Topp investigates how truth had a variety of meanings -purpose, symbolist, authenticity.Cambridge, 2004; 231 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 99,95 Voor/Our Price € 29,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 70 %
From the eerie spectacle of a bristling hedgehog of Swiss pikemen oozing its way across the battlefield to a gargantuan cannon that breached the walls of Constantinople, Turnbull tells the story of the knight and the technology of warfare during the 14th and 15th centuries.Greenhill, 2006; 272 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 13,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
Celebrating both the diversities and commonality of creche nativity sets from around the world, this vividly illustrated book presents more than 100 creches from 70 countries. Featured here a.o. work in the Spanish colonial santos tradition, Cambodian landmine victims who carved a nativity with Khmer features, carving based on Maori and various African traditions and more.Merrell, 2007; 207 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 14,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
This annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. He emerges from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, revealing a man whose character and exploits rival that of his famous creation.Penguin, 2007; 706 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 37,95 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 71 %
This monograph looks at Arthur Rackham's life and work and uses diaries, letters and personal belongings in order to provide a picture of the artist. Here are his most famous watercolours of fairies and goblins as well as his portraits.Arcade Pub; 200 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 50,00 Voor/Our Price € 22,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 55 %
Focusing on a series of Tuscan centres -from the Etruscan capitals of Cerviteri and Tarquinia to the great Medieval and Renaissance city-states of Lucca, Pisa, Siena, and Florence a.o., the author spans time, geography, and a wide variety of art forms in her tour of Tuscany. Illustrated with vivid colour and some b-w photographs.Abrams, 2008; 265 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 50,00 Voor/Our Price € 21,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
From the Cynical Realism and Political Pop movements associated with the post-Tiananmen generation of artists, this book showcases the work of the most important contemporary artists to emerge from China in recent years.Kodansha, 2008; 176 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 39,95 Voor/Our Price € 17,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
This chunky encyclopedia of international product design offers more than 300 entries on influential designers, studios, marketers, and manufacturers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Philippe Starck, Apple, Ikea, BMW.Merrell, 2006; 539 pp.; EN; ills. col; pbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 52 %
A celebration of an American musical giant, this book charts B.B. King's rise from abject poverty in the Mississippi Delta to his place as an internationally respected entertainer. The focus is on the music he has made over a 51-year recording career.Backbeat Books, 2005; 352 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
In a Chinese village, Bamboo, a simple farmer falls in love with a peasant girl, Ming, and soon they are married. When Bamboo goes to the New World to seek his fortune, his sister-in-law makes life a misery for Ming.Simply Read Books, 2006; 30 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 17,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,49Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
Battles of the Medieval World introduces 20 key battles from Europe and the Near East beginning with the Battle of Hastings, 1066, and finishing with the battle of Brunkeberg, 1471, where a Swedish militia defeated a professional Danish army.Amber Books, 2008; 224 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 39,95 Voor/Our Price € 15,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
John, Paul, George, and Ringo share the spotlight in this portrait of the most famous group in pop history. The Beatles are seen here in publicity photos and candid shots that follow the touring of their early years until their final rooftop performance.Transatlantic Press, 2009; 224 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; flexi bVan/List Price € 19,99 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 55 %
Cecil Beaton was at the very heart of the Swinging Sixties, contributing to Vogue and surrounded by the rich, the famous and the beautiful such as Greta Garbo, Mick Jagger, Nureyev, vied with the Snowdons, photographed the Queen. His 1960s diaries.Phoenix, 2003; 494 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 18,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
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