£12.99
By Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger An updated edition of this best-selling cookbook, which was the first to explore the menus and manners of ancient Greece and Rome. Featuring fifty recipes from every stratum of classical civilization, this book covers everything from wedding feasts and...
£3.95
This brilliant notebook is also a passport to the red planet, with travel advice and a detailed passport information page (stardate of issue, carbon based or silicon, etc.). 64 lined page notebook with a card cover.Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
£5.99
What is everything around us made of, and how did it get there? What arcane secrets hide in the modern alchemist's lab? Is there a hidden order to matter itself, known only to a select few? You hold in your hands the probably the smallest...
£15.99
Create ever growing and changing bookends with this fantastic planter set: just add plants. This clever two-pot planter is designed to look like a traditional flower pot split into two. The books are held together by discreet L-shaped metal supports; the pots slide off the...
£5.99
By Matthew Watkins Equations are the magical invocations of millions of modern mathemagicians. Have you ever needed one fast? Mathemusican Watkins and wizardly illustrator Matt Tweed have compiled nearly 3000 years of cogitation into one amazing little book. Mathemagical! Paperback, 58 pp. Illustrated throughout. Measures 12.5 x...
£8.99
A fun way to approach science for children. This interactive book will inform, but more importantly encourage and help children to enjoy science. A creative workbook that encourages children to think like a scientist by noticing details, questioning everything and, crucially, dreaming up new ideas....
£15.00
The Anti-Capitalists: Rousseau, Marx, Adorno. The School of Life has created sets of three notebooks, each dedicated to a Great Thinker. Each notebook carries an introduction to that thinker on the inside front page, his or her name beautifully printed on the cover, and otherwise empty pages...
£8.99
"Do you have...Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe?""Are all your books for sale, or just some of them?""Do you have any piano sheet music, but for guitars?""Is this book edible?""Do you have any books by Jane Eyre?" And many more... A unique collection of bizarre, outrageous, disturbing,...
£14.99
Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Aphra Behn, Sojourner Truth and many more famous women who changed the world enter in this fantastic book. These women went above and beyond to change the world they were in and we recognize their success in 'Bad Girls Through History'....
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In this unique and exquisite little book, Horning examines basic shelters from all around the world: mud-brick adobe structures, nomads' tents, travellers' quick fixes, timber frame buidlings, and more modern solutions, including strawbale designs and geodesic domes. Find out the difference between a yurt and a...
£15.95
This bookend is perfect for any shelf. The tiny poised silhouette of the hummingbird seems to hold up the row of books 27cm high, 23cm deep, 5cm wide, 1.5mm thick. Laser cut powder coated mild steel. Each pack contains a single bookend.
£11.99
Everything you need to put your message into the world. Includes how to make your own stickers, seed bombs, portable idea dispenser, stencils and more. This quirky kit is exploding with ideas to make guerilla art whether your artistic message is fun, non-profit, silly or...
£3.95
Head in the clouds? This pocket-sized notebook to help you identify and record all the different types of clouds around us, with a full guide to cloud types. 64 lined page notebook with a card cover. Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
£8.95
A fun way to approach maths for children. An interactive book that helps children to think like a mathematician by introducing key mathematical concepts in a highly visual and entertaining way. Measures 19.8 x 1.3 x 25.1 cm.Hardback 96 pages.Suitable for 8-12 year olds.
£9.95
This brilliant sketchbook contains Andrew Rae's drawings which show all sorts of real inventions that seem too weird to work. Use his drawings to inspire your own crazy inventions. 100 Colour illustrations.Paperback 128 pages.Measurements: 24cm x 24cm.
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A history of a 5000 year thirst for knowledge. At a crucial time for the future of books as we know them today, this volume tells the story from the very beginning. From inscriptions on tombs to the first writings on papyrus; from scrolls to...
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The Feminists: Greer, Mill, De Beauvoir. The School of Life has created sets of three notebooks, each dedicated to a Great Thinker. Each notebook carries an introduction to that thinker on the inside front page, his or her name beautifully printed on the cover, and otherwise empty pages...
£18.99
This book surveys our long-lasting obsession with trees as metaphors for organising and representing hierarchical information. 200 lavishly illustrated examples, from biblical genealogy and corporate structures to linguistic or conceptual hierarchies. Hardcover 208 pages.Measures 19.10 x 25.40 cm.
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By Miranda Lundy Is there a secret language all around us? What's so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? How can there be something sixy about circles? Beautifully illustrated by the author, this small introduction to one of the oldest and most widespread subjects...
£9.99
The Periodic Table Of Cocktails contains 106 classic cocktails arranged following the logical ordering of The Periodic Table of Elements. A great way to learn about your favourite cocktails and how to make them. Hardback 160 pages.Measurements: 20.5 cm x 13.5 cm.
£8.99
Rosie Revere's Big Project Book For Bold Engineers features art from the picture book Rosie Revere, Engineer, and page after page of projects for any young potential engineer. Paperback 96 pages.Measures 28cm x 23cm.
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A colourful compendium from the Princeton Architectural Press, featuring thoughts from more than 100 of history's leading design minds. Paired like guests at a dinner party, these quotations convey a remarkable range of opinions. Alternately wise and amusing, this gem of a collection will inspire...
£14.99
Cosmology This volume consists of the four Liberal Arts studied from antiquity to the renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. They synthesise number, space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths, good and beautiful everywhere at all times. Life across...
£16.95
This guide explores and explains the myriad typefaces we see around us in out day-to-day lives, from public transport to computer fonts, from billboard hoardings to road signage. It covers over 125 typefaces with photographic references to help spotters find them in the wild. Full...
£7.99
The perfect notebook for all the random notes that pop into your brain on the move! Attached is a coloured elastic band which functions as a place-marker. 160 pagesMeasures approximately 10 x 15cm.
£3.95
This passport-sized notebook will transport your imagination by unlocking the deepest recesses of your unconscious mind. The notebook includes a book of tips for safe travel through the unconscious as well as many blank ruled pages for notes and memos about your travels. 64 lined...
£15.00
The Existentialists: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre. The School of Life has created sets of three notebooks, each dedicated to a philosophical School of Thought. Each notebook carries an introduction to a great thinker on the inside front page, his or her name beautifully printed on the...
£3.95
A passport to bring you back to the good old days... the REALLY old days. Also a handy notebook which includes travel tips and an official passport information page. 64 lined page notebook with a card cover. Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
£17.99
This fantastic book is an analysis of the geometry behind hand-stitching patterns. It features illustrated instructions for 100 stitches for right and left handed people. A great way to learn new stitches. Flexi-binding 144 pages.Measures 27.3 cm x 21.6 cm.200 colour photos and 280 black...
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The 25th anniversary edition of Molly Bang's 'Picture This' expands her earlier work: a definitive book about the elements of art composition and the way shapes, colors, position in the frame, and space between elements affects the way viewers interpret the image. Critics, artists, reviewers,...
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A one-of-a-kind journal that holds a treasure load of inspiration for writers. Illustrations, writing prompts, and space for writing are used in order to help writers with their work. Paperback 176 pages.Measurements: 24 cm x 19 cm.Full colour illustration.
£14.95
This architecture activity book includes fun ways in order to learn about architecture. Using its beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus...
£13.99
By Andrea Beaty and David Roberts The story of Rosie, who dreamed of becoming a great engineer. Where some people see rubbish, Rosie Revere sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends: hot-dog dispensers, helium trousers, python-repelling...
£20.00
The Atlas Of Improbable Places investigates the geography and geology of our world in search of lost cities and hidden lairs. Hardback 224 pages.Measurements: 19.5 cm x 26.5 cm.
£20.00
Search continents with Damien Rudd who journeys in search of the world’s most joyless and dispiriting place names and their fascinating etymologies. From Disappointment Island in the Southern Ocean, Misery in Germany, Lonely Island in Russia, to the Australian Mount Hopeless this book is a...
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The perfect gift for your favourite teacher! This notebook has the words "World's Most Awesome Teacher (who now owns the world's most embarrassing notebook)" on the front cover. It's an A5 notebook with an elastic closure, yellow gilded edges and printed endpapers. 192 lined pages.A5...
£12.99
My Bibliofile is filled with pages for recording and reviewing the books you've read, as well as reading lists (award winners, notable books and genre favourites). 160 pages. Measures 15 x 18 cm. Hardback.
£13.99
Filled with useful and beautiful charts of shapes, leaves, stems, and fruit to help you name a tree, this durable notebook also features ruled pages and blank maps to create your own tree census or simply reflect on the beauty of the planet's longest-living, grandest...
£15.00
Our night thoughts might sometimes sound weird. They can be tricky to share with friends or family; they need us to be a certain way. We don’t want to frighten them, yet at the same time, we have to give our deeper selves some attention...
£5.99
By Daud Sutton What sort of things happen when space crystallises? Why were primordial sages fascinated with five simple forms? Does the 3D jigsaw fit simply together? If so how? An understanding of the Platonic Solids and their close cousins, the Archimedean Solids, will help you...
£10.99
We were particularly pleased to find this one, published by The British Museum Press. This book contains over forty original recipes from the prolific food literature of Shakespeare's period, alongside fully tested modern adaptations; from Double rib of beef and rabbit in cider and mustard,...
£17.99
In The Map as Art, Katherine Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists — such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz — and many less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. Essays by Gayle...
£22.50
Cartographies of Time is the first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time in Europe and the United States from 1450 to the present. With compelling illustrations and a fascinating historical narrative by two renowned historians, Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, this is a must-read...
£15.00
Being a Writer contains wit, wisdom and hard-won practical advice from some of the world’s greatest authors about the art of writing and how they came to define themselves as writers. Hardback 240 pages. Measurements: 19.5 cm x 15.5 cm.
£10.99
Find out about 13 of the men and women responsible for famous buildings around the world, including Brunelleschi, Palladio, Wren, Gaudi, Hadid and more. This book includes timelines, quizzes, interesting facts, drawings and photographs and is a great introduction. Hardback, 48 pages.Suitable for ages 7...
£15.00
The Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. The School of Life has created sets of three notebooks, each dedicated to a Great Thinker. Each notebook carries an introduction to that thinker on the inside front page, his or her name beautifully printed on the cover, and otherwise empty...
£12.99
An astronomically good notebook. A beautiful cloth bound notebook with hand sewn lay-flat binding. Hardback notebook, with ribbon marker.Printed with soy Inks on acid-free paper.Measures 13 x 18cm.
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This book is perfect for writers, not only can you keep all your scribbling and notes all in one piece but also get inspired by the prompts. The journal also includes motivating quotations. Measurements: 12.7 cm x 2.9 cm x 16.5 cm. Hardback 388 pages...
