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The design book
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The design book

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2013

Abstract: A 'design classic' is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date. The objects in this book - all of which are still in production today - are presented chronologically: each on a single page with a large image and a concise caption, written by one of over fifty experts in the field of design. These texts provide a historical context, with key information about the development of the design, and an explanation as to why that particular design is important and groundbreaking. This mini edition of the best-selling Phaidon Design Classics series gives the reader an understanding not only of the history of design, but also the history of taste and culture. It is an extraordinary journey through the objects that have shaped our society, from the first attempts to combine function and beauty in the nineteenth century, through the machine aesthetics of the thirties, the advent of plastic and other new materials in the fifties and sixties, up to the 'classics'-to-be of the last ten years. The book includes not only classic objects created by great and internationally renowned designers, such as Breuer, Le Corbusier, Dreyfuss, Eames, Yanagi and Castiglioni, to name but a few, but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, the deck chair, the corkscrew and the chopstick, which, in spite of lacking a specific designer, have achieved such perfection in design and functionality that they have eliminated the possibility of improvement. From the paperclip, to the Alvar Aalto Savoy vase, to the Jaguar E Type, all of the objects featured in the book fill our desks, cupboards, kitchens, purses, dreams and pockets.

The chinese art book
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The chinese art book / [introduction by Colin Mackenzie ; texts by Keith Pratt, Jeffrey Moser, Katie Hill]

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2013

Abstract: The Chinese Art Book presents a definitive selection of 300 works, from the earliest dynasties to the new generation of contemporary artists enlivening the global art world today. From painting, calligraphy, ceramics and bronzes, to contemporary installations, photography and performance art; outstanding examples from all periods are showcased side by side, to create fascinating combinations linked with detailed cross-references. Also includes an informative introductory essay, comprehensive glossary and an illustrated time line placing the works in their political and cultural contexts.

Missing
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Carroll, Jenny

Missing : when lightning strikes / Meg Cabot writing as Jenny Carroll

London : Simon and Schuster, 2004

Farther away
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Franzen, Jonathan

Farther away / Jonathan Franzen

London : Fourth estate, 2013

Abstract: The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator. In 'Farther Away', which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing from the reader.Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. 'Farther Away' is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

The testament of Mary
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Tóibín, Colm

The testament of Mary / Colm Tóibín

London : Penguin books, 2013

Abstract: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family. From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human. Praise for The Testament of Mary: "This is a short book, but it is as dense as a diamond. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical...Toibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her".(Edmund White, Irish Times). "Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sons...Toibin creates a reversed Pieta: he holds the mother in his arms". (Independent). "A beautiful and daring work...it takes its power from the surprise of its language, its almost shocking characterization". (Mary Gordon, New York Times). Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels, including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award, and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family.

Six years
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Coben, Harlan

Six years / Harlan Coben

London : Orion, 2013

Abstract: Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for...but she is not Natalie - and Jake's world is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart - and who lied to him - soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.

Suspect
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Crais, Robert

Suspect / Robert Crais

London : Orion, 2013

Revenge wears Prada
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Weisberger, Lauren

Revenge wears Prada : the devil returns / Lauren Weisberger

London : Harper, 2013

The red house
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Haddon, Mark

The red house / Mark Haddon

London : Vintage books, 2013

Wild art
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Carrier, David - Pissarro, Joachim

Wild art / David Carrier, Joachim Pissarro

London : Phaidon, c2013

Abstract: Wild Art is a visual exploration of everything and anything from outside the exclusive and rarefied spectrum of the ‘Art World’. It will present a highly illustrated account of the most exciting examples of the vast multitude of ‘other’ art worlds – mostly left unmentioned within the professional art literature – that proliferate outside the boundaries of the Art World. The art that most professionals – art critics, art historians, artists, auctioneers, collectors and dealers tend to ignore. At its heart, this book raises the question of what constitutes 'art' by celebrating the artists and art forms that are usually ignored by the art establishment.

Maya's notebook
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Allende, Isabel

Maya's notebook : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the spanish by Anne McLean

London : Fourth estate, 2013

The great Gatsby
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West, Clare

The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; retold by Clare West

Oxford : Oxford university press, 2013

Complete PET
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Heyderman, Emma

Complete PET : student's book : [without answers] / Emma Heyderman and Peter May

Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower
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Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower : official guide

London : Houses of Parliament, [2013?]

Marlon Brando
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Colombani, Florence

Marlon Brando : anatomy of an actor / Florence Colombani

[London] : Phaidon, 2013

Cambridge english key for schools
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Quintana, Jenny

Cambridge english key for schools : result / Jenny Quintana

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013