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This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003 An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor. The book is bound in... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73230K Michael Tambini / The Look of the Century In a new and exciting approach to design, objects from toothbrushes to trains, from jewelry to jukeboxes, from clocks to clothing to calculators to coffee tables, are examined in detail. Each spread focuses on a specific item and shows the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. 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MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72786K Martin Gayford / Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89314K Bill Hubbard Jr. / A Theory for Practice: Architecture in Three Discourses (Hardback) To speak comprehensively about a building today requires that we think about the building in three different ways - as an instance of architectural order, as an embodiment of values about living, and as an instrument for bringing about results. With this... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89281K Klaus H. Krippendorff / The Semantic Turn (Hardback) Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89276K Virginia Postrel / The Substance of Style : How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (Hardback) From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and... 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All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Rock, Pop & Music Biography | sku: X90206K Michael Ochs / 1000 Record Covers (Hardback) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90146K William Boyd / Nat Tate : An American Artist (Hardback) Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - The Medium is the Massage - PB Illustrated The Medium is the Massage by Mashall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, paperback reprint, published by Bantam USA. Iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, and a key text of media and communications theory. This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003 An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor. The book is bound in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR60 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné ) Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: LAR61 Jonathan Benington - Roderic O'Conor - HB -1992 ( A Biography with an Illustrated Catalogue of his Work) Published by Irish Academic Press in 1992, a large format hardcover, with many full colour reproductions of O'Conor's work. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, no other marks noted, clean and in very good condition. MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72786K Martin Gayford / Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89314K Bill Hubbard Jr. / A Theory for Practice: Architecture in Three Discourses (Hardback) To speak comprehensively about a building today requires that we think about the building in three different ways - as an instance of architectural order, as an embodiment of values about living, and as an instrument for bringing about results. With this... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89281K Klaus H. Krippendorff / The Semantic Turn (Hardback) Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89276K Virginia Postrel / The Substance of Style : How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (Hardback) From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and... 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This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003 An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor. The book is bound in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR60 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné ) Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: LAR61 Jonathan Benington - Roderic O'Conor - HB -1992 ( A Biography with an Illustrated Catalogue of his Work) Published by Irish Academic Press in 1992, a large format hardcover, with many full colour reproductions of O'Conor's work. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, no other marks noted, clean and in very good condition. MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73230K Michael Tambini / The Look of the Century In a new and exciting approach to design, objects from toothbrushes to trains, from jewelry to jukeboxes, from clocks to clothing to calculators to coffee tables, are examined in detail. Each spread focuses on a specific item and shows the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... 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MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72786K Martin Gayford / Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89314K Bill Hubbard Jr. / A Theory for Practice: Architecture in Three Discourses (Hardback) To speak comprehensively about a building today requires that we think about the building in three different ways - as an instance of architectural order, as an embodiment of values about living, and as an instrument for bringing about results. With this... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89281K Klaus H. Krippendorff / The Semantic Turn (Hardback) Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89276K Virginia Postrel / The Substance of Style : How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (Hardback) From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books Penguin Publishing - Seven Hundred Penguins - PB A collection of Penguin covers from Britain and around the world, Seven Hundred Penguins is a celebration of jackets that remain visually distinctive and addictive to us today, from the beautiful to the garish, design classics to design oddities. A... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2622 Giuseppe Gatt / Turner: 80 Colour Plates (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: VP2561 Michael Klein, Steve Valk / Book of Recommendations - Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change(Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2258 Judith and Roy Christy / Making Pottery (Vintage Paperback). 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Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90146K William Boyd / Nat Tate : An American Artist (Hardback) Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - The Medium is the Massage - PB Illustrated The Medium is the Massage by Mashall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, paperback reprint, published by Bantam USA. Iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, and a key text of media and communications theory. This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003 An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor. The book is bound in... 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Krippendorff / The Semantic Turn (Hardback) Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89276K Virginia Postrel / The Substance of Style : How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (Hardback) From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books Penguin Publishing - Seven Hundred Penguins - PB A collection of Penguin covers from Britain and around the world, Seven Hundred Penguins is a celebration of jackets that remain visually distinctive and addictive to us today, from the beautiful to the garish, design classics to design oddities. A... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2622 Giuseppe Gatt / Turner: 80 Colour Plates (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: VP2561 Michael Klein, Steve Valk / Book of Recommendations - Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change(Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2258 Judith and Roy Christy / Making Pottery (Vintage Paperback). 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This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003 An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor. The book is bound in... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: LAR60 Garrett Cormican - Camille Souter : The Mirror in the Sea - HB - 2006 ( Catalogue Raisonné ) Published by Whyte's Auctioneers, Dublin, 2006. A large format hardcover, fully illustrated , a very handsome production ( heavy volume weighing nearly 3kg) . 1st (and sole) Edition. Catalogue raisoné. Condition -Book - large... MSRP: Now: €95.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press | sku: LAR61 Jonathan Benington - Roderic O'Conor - HB -1992 ( A Biography with an Illustrated Catalogue of his Work) Published by Irish Academic Press in 1992, a large format hardcover, with many full colour reproductions of O'Conor's work. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, no other marks noted, clean and in very good condition. MSRP: Now: €50.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73230K Michael Tambini / The Look of the Century In a new and exciting approach to design, objects from toothbrushes to trains, from jewelry to jukeboxes, from clocks to clothing to calculators to coffee tables, are examined in detail. Each spread focuses on a specific item and shows the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Randal Phillips - Houses for Moderate Means - 3rd Edition UK 1948 Hardcover, Publisher: Country Life Books, London, UK, 1949Used - Very Good. Oversized hardcover without the original dustjacket, Fourth Edition, seventh (1952) impression, 128 pages and a section of period advertisements at the back... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73163K Paolo Martegani / Digital Design The era of digitalisation is bringing about radical changes. We are surrounded by objects which are causing our relationship with the world around us to become increasingly intangible and virtual. Even the work of the designer is coupled with the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73155K John Heskett / Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life Design touches virtually every aspect of our lives, imbuing the most humdrum of objects with meaning. In Toothpicks and Logos , John Heskett illuminates a subject as vast and complex as human life itself, ranging from the earliest found implements in our... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG377 Sean Rothery - The Shops of Ireland - PB Shopfronts have a very special place in Irish landscape. A surprising number of old shopfronts remain in almost their original state even in large cities and towns but age and the strident demands of commerce have reduced the numbers quite dramatically... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: BIG361,BIG362,BIG363,BIG364,BIG365,BIG366,BIG367,BIG368 Trevor White - Malton's Views of Dublin : The Story of a Georgian City - HB - BRAND NEW Commentary by Trevor White with essays by Diarmuid Ó Gráda, David Dickson, Graham Hickey, Merlo Kelly and Kathryn Milligan. HARDCOVER, BRAND NEW. In the 1790s a young artist decided to create a portrait of Dublin. James... MSRP: €29.95 Was: €29.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED332,MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED320,MED321,MED322,MED323,MED324,MED325,MED326,MED327,MED328,MED329 Frank McDonald - A Little History of the Future of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW A superb analysis by Frank McDonald on the past, present and future of Dublin as imagined by various planners over its history (as well as the various ideas of the ‘future’ of the city they suggested), coinciding with an exhibition on the... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €7.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 72786K Martin Gayford / Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter Love not landscape was the making of Constable ...John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89276K Virginia Postrel / The Substance of Style : How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (Hardback) From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books about Books Penguin Publishing - Seven Hundred Penguins - PB A collection of Penguin covers from Britain and around the world, Seven Hundred Penguins is a celebration of jackets that remain visually distinctive and addictive to us today, from the beautiful to the garish, design classics to design oddities. A... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2622 Giuseppe Gatt / Turner: 80 Colour Plates (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: VP2561 Michael Klein, Steve Valk / Book of Recommendations - Choreography as an Aesthetics of Change(Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2258 Judith and Roy Christy / Making Pottery (Vintage Paperback). All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Rock, Pop & Music Biography | sku: X90206K Michael Ochs / 1000 Record Covers (Hardback) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90183K John Armstrong / The Intimate Philosophy of Art (Hardback) How many of us have stopped before a famous painting or building only to realise, with quiet disappointment, that we can't quite see what the fuss is about? What do we have to do - beyond just staring - to get the most out of art? How do we come to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90171K Christopher W. Alexander / The Timeless Way of Building (Hardback) In The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90146K William Boyd / Nat Tate : An American Artist (Hardback) Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - The Medium is the Massage - PB Illustrated The Medium is the Massage by Mashall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, paperback reprint, published by Bantam USA. Iconic book of the 1960s counter-culture, and a key text of media and communications theory. This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. 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This book went on, after multiple... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87395H Gemma Tipton/ Home - Creating A Contemporary Memorial (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books Ethna Le Masney - The International Style house, and its arrival in Limerick in the 1930s - HB Unpublished MA Thesis 2003 An unpublished M.A thesis ( presumably the author's copy as additional copies woyuld be kept by the awarding University ) - written for the M.A degree in History of Art & Design, UL , 2003. John Logan was the MA supervisor. The book is bound in... 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