The Man Who Walked in Color (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

The Man Who Walked in Color (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and

Survival of the Fireflies (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber

Bark (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as

The Man Who Died (Tuomainen Antti)(Paperback)

A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been

The Eye of History: When Images Take Positions (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's 'photoepigrams.'From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, War Primer, with war photographs clipped from

Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Gerstein Mordicai)(Paperback)

The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis' The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire

Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had

George Orwell: English Rebel (Colls Robert)(Pevná vazba)

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who

Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis (Sayer George)(Paperback)

As I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called 'Tollers' sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade. 'How did you get on?' he asked. 'I think rather well. I think he will be a most interesting tutor to have.' 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that,' said

Penguin Pocket Jokes (Pickering David)(Paperback / softback)

Have you heard the one about the man who walked into a bar? This book is a useful reading for those searching for the perfect

The Man Who Laughs (Hugo Victor)(Paperback)

'The Man Who Laughs' tells of a facially disfigured boy, Gwynplaine, who is taken in by a carnival vendor and performs at fairs in England. It is later discovered that there is more to his past than meets the eye... Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form,

Into the Wild (Krakauer Jon)(Paperback / softback)

Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people

Civilwarland In Bad Decline (Saunders George)(Paperback / softback)

THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDOIn his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. We're lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen'There is no-one better, no-one more essential' Dave

Judgement In Stone (Rendell Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the illiterate housekeeper, shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on

Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Did P.E. in his Pants (Harrold A.F.)(Paperback / softback)

The Bible Knowledge Commentary Gospels (Walvoord John F.)(Paperback)

Walk with Those Who Walked with Jesus In the Gospels we witness the most crucial turning point in world history and the reason we believe what we do. The New Testament begins with four accounts of the 'good news' of the Son of God. Drawing on the research of Dallas Theological Seminary scholars,

Kosmos (Laing Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

Rookie barrister George Winsome defends a man who thinks he's Merlin on a manslaughter charge. The trial turns Merlin into a celebrity; money and ambition take hold of George and his partner Heather until the secret of Merlin's past is revealed as the spirit of Saint Yves intervenes to ensure

The Man Who Laughs (Hugo Victor)(Paperback)

'The Man Who Laughs' (first published in 1869) is Victor Hugo's scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain's political system. It is the story of Gwynplaine, the two-year-old heir to a rebel lord, who is abducted upon the orders of a vindictive monarch, and whose face is

The Richest Man In Babylon - Original Edition (Clason George S.)(Paperback)

The Richest Man in Babylon, based on 'Babylonian parables', has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its

In Search of the Phoenicians (Quinn Josephine)(Paperback)

Who were the ancient Phoenicians--and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of

Typographic Firsts (Boardley John)(Pevná vazba)

How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Johannes Gutenberg is credited with printing the

Richest Man In Babylon - Original Edition (Clason George S.)(Paperback)

The Richest Man in Babylon, based on 'Babylonian parables', has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its

Vuitton: A Biography of Louis Vuitton (Mason Fergus)(Paperback)

In 1835, at the age of 13, a young boy walked nearly 300 miles to Paris; he worked odd jobs and did whatever it took to survive. He eventually learned a craft: box making. Before long, the young boy had earned enough to open his own box-making store. The tale may seem a bit unremarkable until you