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Cataract by John Berger
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.85What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to... -
Smoke John Berger 9781910749470
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selcuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
SciFier: £16.79"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this... -
How to See the World Nicholas Mirzoeff 9780141977409
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video... -
The Story of Looking Mark Cousins 9781782119135
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.85In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has... -
The Story of Looking Mark Cousins 9781782119111
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLooking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we... -
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them John Yorke 9780141978109
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.50'The best book on the subject I've read. Quite brilliant' Tony Jordan, creator/writer, Life on Mars, HustleWe all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all stories function in an eerily... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1 Robert Irwin 9780140449389
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.25Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter,... -
Marx's Capital by David N. Smith
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.58Karl Marx did not write Das Kapital for the bookshelves of economists and philosophers. It is economics for working people, from their viewpoint and history. It is the classic masterpiece of... -
Marx's Capital Illustrated by David Smith
RRP: £48.00SciFier: £29.59Imagine Karl Marx as a cartoonist, ready to set the record straight about his much maligned classic, Das Kapital. Impossibly difficult? Not in the least. Hopelessly outdated? Far from it. Though... -
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things Dick Hebdige 9780415007375
SciFier: £37.66Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals',... -
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things Dick Hebdige 9781138169531
SciFier: £138.66Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals',... -
But Is It Art? by Cynthia Freeland (, University of Houston, Texas)
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.61In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and... -
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else David Balzer 9780745335971
SciFier: £11.72*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to... -
Night Life of Trees,The - Handmade by Durga Bai a Bhajju Shyam
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £29.33The Night Life of Trees is an exquisite hand-bound and screen-printed book of paintings by three of the finest artists of the Gond tribal art tradition. The Gonds, a tribe of central India, are...