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First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to the colors of the natural world for artists and scientist. Abraham Gottlob Werner devised a standardized color scheme that allowed him to describe even the subtlest of chromatic differences with consistent terminology. His...
£16.99
For anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by their to-read pile, these metal bookends carry the phrase 'so many books' on one and 'so little time' on the other. They are crafted from cut metal. Black metal, 15cm high. Each pair of bookends comes boxed.
£5.99
Equations are the magical invocations of millions of modern mathemagicians. Have you ever needed one fast? Mathemusican By Matthew 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...
£3.95
A notebook which contains star charts, guides and a tear-out astrolabe to help you record your astronomical adventuring. 64 lined page notebook with a card cover. Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
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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...
£30.00
This astonishing miscellany of maps is a treasure trove of curious and interesting facts and a glorious celebration of our beautiful and diverse world. The atlas contains 64 maps and infographics including four fold-out maps and a double-sided removable poster. Maps and subjects include The...
£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...
£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....
£14.99
A funny and fascinating guide to the chemical elements, full of fabulous facts and explosive experiments. Scientific sleuth Sherlock Ohms investigates the mystery of how absolutely everything came to exist, and where you can find many of the elements hiding in your own house. With...
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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...
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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.
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Are you fascinated by the structure and processes of the human brain? Both fun and functional, this book includes state-of-the-art knowledge about the brain and how it works, and is designed for amateurs and professionals alike. As we grow up do we ever lose the...
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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...
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Are YOU the ultimate map-reader? Do you know trig points from National Trails? Can you calculate using contours? And can you fathom exactly how far the footpath is from the free house? Track down hidden treasures, decipher geographical details and discover amazing facts as you...
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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...
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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...
£13.99
True stories of princesses we don't find in Disney movies - from Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, the Nazi spy, to Princess Olga of Kiev, who slaughtered her way to sainthood and Princess Lakshmibai who fought on the battlefield with her toddler on her back. These...
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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.
£15.99
This highly-acclaimed book presents a wonderful selection of paintings, drawings and photographs of women reading through the ages, from Vermeer, Manet and Whistler to Edward Hopper and photographer Eve Arnold. The images are accompanied by detailed commentaries that explain the context in which each image...
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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.
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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.
£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...
£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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Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters. This collection was produced during the upsurge in political activism in the 2016 US presidential election campaign. Over 300 international artists and designers contributed their poster art to support the rights of minorities and concerns about animals, the environment...
£10.99
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...
£14.95
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...
£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.
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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, to quince marmalade and ipocras (a spiced wine). Each chapter is centred around a...
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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...
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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...
£20.00
A handsome book containing 8 paper cut-out models celebrating post-war architecture of Britain, from the iconic slabs of Sheffield's Park Hill and experimental tower blocks at Cotton Gardens in London, to the demolished Birmingham Central Library. With a foreword by architectural historian Barnabas Calder, this...
£7.50
A lovely paper notebook with a cover design based on Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's iconic Barbican development - specifically, one of the three towers. Includes informative short note on the building. Measures 9 cm x 14 cm64 blank pagesPaper: 80 gsm, 100% recycledBinding: 100% recycled,...
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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.
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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.
£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...
£5.99
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 engage with...
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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...
£12.99
This fantastic book gives insights into the secrets of equations. From heralded classics, like Zeno's Dichotomy and Pythagoras's Theorem, to The Schrödinger Wave Equation and Google Page Rank, each equation is broken down and explained in a unique, illustrated way in order to help the...
£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...
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This is a practical guide for people who want to make a change, from Huck, the magazine which celebrates people and movements that paddle against the flow. Find out everything you need to know, from how to design and make placards to strategies for using...
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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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A great fascinating book that introduces children to some of the greatest examples of this, one of the most striking and pure kinds of civil engineering. The book includes pictures, a history of the bridges, and lots more information. Hardback 48 pages.60 colour illustrations.Measurements: 24cm...
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Write a to-do list for a villain. Describe your dream tree house. Create a haiku about your shoes.Young writers will get their creative juices flowing with this collection of smart, funny, and thought-provoking writing exercises. Kids can open to any page to find inspiration, express...
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For all those young creative architects this book holds 40 exciting architecture and design products and activities. From drafting and doodling to building and blueprints this book holds many inspiring ideas. Measurements: 22.9 cm x 1 cm x 27.7 cm.Paperbacks 96 pages.Ages 8 - 12...
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This book is perfect for writers: not only can you keep all your scribblings and notes all in one place but you can also find inspiration in the prompts and motivating quotations. Measurements: 12.7 cm x 2.9 cm x 16.5 cm. Hardback 388 pages with...
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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.
