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From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism Now Updated with New Material" Lange might be the most influential design critic writing now." -The Los Angeles Review of BooksFrom building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of the ways children's playthings and surroundings af...

This sumptuous double volume provides a connoisseurial roundup of the world's ultimate watches, from early aviators' timepieces by the likes of Longines to legendary vintage chronographs by, among others, Patek Philippe, Rolex, and Audemars Piguet to state-of-the-art contemporary pieces. Also includ...

The most detailed history of this iconic brand told through 120 watches from James Dowling, aka 'Mr Rolex'.In celebration of 120 years, this book offers a unique decade-by-decade journey through the legacy of Rolex, featuring 12 chapters that tell the story of the brand and the exceptional watches t...

The essential companion for making informed investments in Rolex sports models. Your journey into the realm of Rolex investments begins here.your essential companion for making informed investments in Rolex sports models. Offering a comprehensive overview of market trends, this guide ensures you mak...

The definitive history of the world-renowned watchmakers,.Founded in Geneva in 1839, and to this day a family-owned company, makes what are widely regarded as the world’s finest mechanical watches. Among them, the most valuable watch ever made: the famous 1933 pocket watch known as the “Graves...

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art and idea...

Detailed insights into the world of authenticating and pricing the finest high-value Patek Phillipe wristwatches.offers detailed insights into the world of authenticating and pricing high-value wristwatches, for all collectors from amateur to connoisseur.This publication includes the vast majority o...

'Hell of Solitude' presents a bold and varied selection of writings by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, one of the central figures of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Bringing together fiction, poetry, and philosophical prose - much of it appearing in English for the first time - this collection showcase...

In her new cookbook, Michèle Roberts casts her net further afield with handpicked recipes adapted from an array of historical and personal sources. Containing over 170 recipes, many of them introduced with the author’s distinctive flair for witty and charming anecdotes, about friendship as much a...

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she...

The plot goes like a train. vivid and compelling' IAN RANKINThe trial of the century. One chance to crack the case. A million ways to lose.Federal prosecutor Nora Carleton has spent years building a case against a powerful New York mobster. She finally has a star witness- an insider whose testimony...

"The 2020 election was a total FRAUD!" "I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." "There is NO WAY Biden got 80,000,000 votes !" These and other lies by Donald Trump sparked a historic insurrection to topple US democracy and undermined the public's faith in el...

In this brilliant new book, one of the world’s leading restaurateurs shares wit and wisdom from a distinguished 40-year career and offers deep insight into some of life’s most intriguing issues.''Wildly, warmly and wonderfully readable and revealing'' Stephen Fry''A true masterpiece that leaves...

The definitive biography of one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of American finance who revolutionized Wall Street and whose story reads like a real-life Great GatsbyJ.P. Morgan. John D. Rockefeller. Charles E. Mitchell. These are some of the most prominent icons of wea...

The international bestselling author of Gut with a spellbinding journey through the human bodyIn a world that is becoming ever louder and more complicated, sometimes the answer is to look inward. For thousands of years, our bodily organs - from our muscles to our brain - have faced problems and foun...

‘Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard-working people came here and settled the land, now jars. Weirdly, even the lawn looks different.â...

New Zealand's leading Maori writer decides at eighty to go back and learn his own language - and write about it.

Return to Daevabad in the spellbinding sequel to THE CITY OF BRASS.In Daevabad, where djinn can summon flames with a snap of their fingers, where rivers run deep with ancient magic, and blood can be as dangerous as any spell, a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a kingdom.Nahris lif...

The final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war.Daevabad has fallen.After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh a...

Discover this spellbinding debut from S.A. Chakraborty.‘An extravagant feast of a book – spicy and bloody, dizzyingly magical, and still, somehow, utterly believable’ Laini Taylor, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling authorAmong the bustling markets of eighteenth century Cairo, the cit...

Brimming with beauty and loss, Fiona Pardington’s avian portraits resurrect the charisma and wildness of native birds preserved as taxidermy specimens in museum collections. On these pages, her manu are not merely replicated but reborn.Ancestral memory is brought to life under the gaze of photogra...

Painted poetry: the ultimate monograph on Cy Twombly’s painting, drawing, sculpture and photographyRecognized as one of the greatest and most idiosyncratic artists of the postwar era, Cy Twombly left behind an oeuvre of incredible versatility, sensitivity and originality upon his death in 2011 at...

Diese provokative Fortsetzung von der Autorin und dem Autor von «Are We Human?» präsentiert ein dringliches Manifest für eine alternative Architekturphilosophie. Es behandelt Bakterien als die wahren Architekt:innen, Bauarbeiter:innen, Wartungsteams und Bewohnenden von Gebäuden. Colomina und Wi...

His grandfather had been a Catholic priest. A story in seven words, and his life the unsolved mystery.Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he’s ever known...