The Fairytale Princess
R330Seven classic fairytales, beautifully illustrated by dramatically lit photographs of sumptuous paper-cut sculptures.
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The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies
R360Truly global coverage spanning the past three million years, from human origins in Africa and the spread of modern humans around the world to the great civilizations of Egypt and Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, South and East Asia, and the Americas.
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The Incas: Empire of Blood and Gold
R120When Pizarro arrived in Peru in 1532 he found a vast empire rich in gold and silver. Ruled by monarchs claiming descent from the sun, its people built roads, bridges and fields through the Andes. But within months the empire had been conquered and its subjects killed or enslaved.
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The Living, Breathing, Thinking, Responsive Buildings of the Future
R290One of the more exciting realities of 21st-century life is that objects are now able with the help of embedded technology to sense, think, act and communicate. Very soon, every building, city and landscape component will be equipped with communicative and computational capacities: we shall be surrounded by sentient architecture.
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Out of stockThe Neanderthals Rediscovered
R400The Neanderthals’ story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals behaviour was surprisingly modern. They buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals, harvested seafood, used red paint and spoke.
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The New Creative Home
R440The New Creative Home is a celebration the city’s rich mix of living spaces – from a spacious, contemporary flat in trendy Clerkenwell to a stylish Victorian terrace in Notting Hill.
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The Perfect Gentleman: The Pursuit of Timeless Elegance and Style in London
R650Today, this enclave of excellence has the highest concentration of firms trading in luxury goods for the well-appointed male. Here the modern gentleman who values quality and craftsmanship can still walk in the footsteps of such as Beau Brummell, Edward VII, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Prince Charles and, latterly, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
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The Rolling Stones 50
R900This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs and more recently we’ve filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago.
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The Shard: The Official Guidebook
R140The Shard is the tallest building in western Europe. From February 2013, the public will be able to visit floors 68 to 72, where they will experience an amazing 35-mile vista over London and beyond.
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The Theatre of Apparitions
R540The Theatre of Apparitions is an immersive and groundbreaking monograph by the critically acclaimed art photographer Roger Ballen. The author of numerous publications, including Asylum of the Birds and Outland, Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and masterfully composed images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation, and photography.
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The Vikings: Lords of the Sea
R120In their lifetime these lords of the seas terrified the world, causing 8th-century Europe to pray for deliverance.
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Type Deck: 54 Iconic Typefaces
R330A sampler of typographic personality and a primer on expressive visual communication, Type Deck is the perfect gift for type geeks everywhere. Each card features a hand-drawn character on one face, and fascinating insights into its historical context, design and purpose on the other. The 54 cards are divided into six categories: Victorian; Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau; Black Letter; Modern; Eclectic; and Post Modern. Six tabs enable you to arrange and index type families.
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Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art?
R220What am I looking at?
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Out of stockWilliam Kentridge – Fortuna
R1050This, the first major monograph on the widely acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge brings together nearly two hundred of his works made between 1989 and 2012. Exploring Kentridge’s diverse expressions across a wide range of media, from film and video to sculpture, design, drawing, and printmaking, the book is lavishly illustrated with more than 2,000 images.
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World of Art: American Art and Architecture
R145This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work
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World of Art: Bruegel
R180Although Pieter Bruegel’s pictures have been celebrated throughout the past four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure.
