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Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying t..

A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it?Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle a..

For forty years, city streets have been home to the modern graffiti movement, but the new century has witnessed a fresh creative explosion. Walls, phone booths, guttering, traffic signage - the full range of surfaces forming the astonishingly vibrant street canvas is now adorned with hand-painted or..

This is a genuinely groundbreaking work which has changed the way we look at boys in art, in literature and in life. In a series of carefully constructed and dazzlingly illustrated themes, ranging from the boy as a passive love object to soldier boys, from the boy under the female gaze to what is a ..

A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, this is a comprehensive survey of the genre in the 20th century. The book also offers an overview of the development of fashion, as seen through the eyes of the greatest illustrators of the day. Early in the 20th century, fashion illustration reflected new, lib..

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This title accompanies a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Following an introduction that looks at camouflage in the natural world, lively anecdotal text explores the different styles and meanings of camouflage throughout history. It looks at the interplay between modern military developm..

"In the City" is the third title in the phenomenally successful "The Way We Live" series, providing a visual, in-depth view of lifestyles in cities around the world, from New York to Cairo, from London to Saigon, in five major sections. The book takes every opportunity to make cross-cultural compari..

Without writing there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve?In an absorbing text, Andrew Robinson explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script. He discusses each of the major writing systems in turn, from cuneiform and ..

This monograph is the first to document all of the key built works by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms of the past 20 years. Morphosis' unconventional geometries, beautifully executed, sculptural models and complex, compu..

Wristwatches presents illustrated portraits of all the popular watch brands - some of them long since unavailable - from America, Germany, Japan, France, and, of course, from the world’s major manufacturer of timepieces, Switzerland. In its technical chapters, it explains all the highly complex oper..

A Nеw Intеrрrеtation of thе World Valuеs Survеy and Оthеr Сross-Сultural Data"Globalization sееms реrvasivе. So, onе might think, thе world's culturеs must bе convеrging into onе homogеnizеd global valuе systеm. But thеy arе not... Wе not дnly find no еvidеncе of convеrgеncе - wе actually find t..