Baroque Baroque. The culture of excess
Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the ‘culture of excess’ in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in...
When a mysterious traveller slits his wrists in a Bangkok hostel, he leaves Richard a map to `The Beach`. Legend has it that The Beach is an Island Paradise where a select community lives in state of blissful...
A satirical fantasy on the rise of a tyrant state. Adam Krug stands alone in opposition to the new regime. His antagonist is the leader of the new party, Paduk. Grieving over his wife`s recent death, Krug is at first...
A founder partner of the leading design firm Pentagram, Alan Fletcher is considered by many in the graphic design world to be a contemporary master, known for his sharp and unerring sense of style. From the initial...
Bill Jacklin is one of the most exciting and individual artists of the generation that first came to prominence in the 1960s. From the start, he seemed destined to swim against the stream. In an era of Pop Art he...
The last great work of Melville\'s seafaring genius was Billy Budd, Sailor, set aboard H. M. S. Bellifwtent. When Billy, a handsome, unpretentious, stuttering young able-seaman, is falsely accused of inciting...
Black Hair. Art, Style, and Culture
Black Hair celebrates the diversity and creativity of black women\'s hairstyles, from traditional African ceremonial styles, and sleek trendy hairdos to the infinite variety of braids, plaits, and twists which pepper...
A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond`s Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on...
Bonjour tristesse = Здравствуй, грусть
Издательство "Менеджер" продолжает знакомить читателей с творчеством известной французской писательницы Франсуазы Саган. Роман "Здравствуй, грусть" - первая её книга, которая была опубликована в 1954 г. и принесла...
Cath and Si are best friends. Total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy, and emotionally closed. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. When Portia...
