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Devoted to the domestic Italian space, this book pays homage to 50 of the most beautiful houses in Italy, created by the best and most well-known Italian architects and designers. Far from the beautified and often cliched Tuscan and Umbrian country Italian homes, this books takes a look at real cont..

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as ..

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGA..

The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Man With the Scar" and "The Vessel of Wrath". The storie..

"Egypt: Splendours of an Ancient Civilization" is now available in a user-friendly, compact format at an astonishingly low price. It presents some of the finest photographs ever taken of Egypt's monuments and fabulous treasures, accompanied by a wide-ranging text that covers 5,000 years of Egyptian ..

With the collapse of Modernism in the 1960s, architecture has fragmented and evolved in many different directions, each driven by its own ideologies and theories. This book sets out a clear and comprehensive guide to the prominent styles and movements, tracing the work of the main protagonists of co..

Mark Rotenberg was inspired to begin collecting lost and forgotten erotic photographs after he stumbled upon over a thousand very graphic vintage photos in a dumpster in Brooklyn. His collection now tops out at about 95,000 photos covering the period from 1860 to 1960. This special 25th anniversary ..

America’s third largest city is a veritable textbook of architectural styles. Long known as the birthplace of the skyscraper and modern architecture, Chicago’s buildings rise brilliantly and brazenly from the plains to declare their importance to the world. The city’s renown for twentieth century ar..

Greece's historical and cultural legacy is set amidst landscapes and seascapes of breathtaking beauty. Noted photographer Rainer Kiedrowski's luminous colour images reveal the wonders of Greece both natural and man-made in this stunning visual survey. His beautifully composed pictures capture everyt..

The Universe: 365 Days has been created by the founders of 'Astronomy Picture of the Day', a website created and maintained by two astrophysicists in collaboration with NASA that has been in existence since 1995. The site has become one of the most popular on the web - it now gets one million hits a..

Graffiti world is the ultimate graffiti book. Offering a unique insight into the very essence of graffiti and its creative explosion over the past thirty-five years, it takes us on a whirlwind adventure throughout the Americas and Europe to almost every corner of the globe.With over 2 000 pictur..

There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counte..