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If you love cinema and would like to know more about it, look no further than Cinema: The Whole Story. This is an indispensable book for all those who love watching and reading about films, and who want to understand more about the internat

The ultimate resource for those with an interest in contemporary design and modern living. Packed with 350 pages of inspiring text and images, it showcases the most stylish interiors of the last decade. The Independent

Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off even the most linguistically savvy Westerners ... until now. Breaking down the Great Wall of language, ShaoLan has unpicked Chinese characters and created a simple system for qu

Fashion is more exciting and more accessible than ever. If you love fashion and would like to know more about it, look no further than this! With more than 1,000 illustrations, Fashion: The Whole Story follows the evolution of fashion via

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This is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever assembled. An enormous international success in hardback – now available in a new, compact, paperback edition. The best work of every LIFE magazine staff photographer, as we

Sneakers: The Complete Collectors' Guide was a phenomenal success and a key influence in the transformation of sneaker collecting from an underground subculture into a mainstream, multi-billion dollar business. Following publication of that

Paul Klee (1879–1940) created some of the most innovative and best-loved works of the twentieth century in etching, drawing, ink, pastel, oil paint, and watercolor. Although he moved freely between media and from figuration to abstraction,

Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo contest has set the standard in visual journalism. World Press Photo 44 brings you the winners - the most striking images and compelling stories from 2013. Selected from nearly 100,000 pictures taken