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                            Celebrity model Ines de La Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure. Ines de La Fressange Frances icon of chic shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Her step-by-step dos and donts are accompanied by fashion photography, and this book is personalized with her charming drawings. Ines also shares how to bring Parisian chic into your home, and how to insert your signature style into any space even the office. The ultra chic red volume is flexi-bound with a wrapper band and features off set aquarelle paper. Complete with her favorite addresses for finding the ultimate fashion and decorating items, this is a musthave for any woman who wants to add a touch of Paris to her own style. 

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                            A new home decor bible by one of the Web's most popular and beloved design bloggers. Grace Bonney created her daily Web site Design*Sponge as an antidote to the fussy (and expensive) shelter magazines of her mother's generation. The New York Times has dubbed the site, with its 60,000 daily readers, "Martha Stewart Living for millennials." DESIGN*SPONGE at Home is Bonney's definitive guide to home decor for her fellow design sponges, those house-proud young homeowners and renters who adore soaking up design ideas and using them as inspiration to decorate and personalise their own homes. This design compendium contains peeks of 75 real-life interiors, where the decor was culled from flea markets and the owners' imaginations, as well as more than 100 projects (with detailed instructions) from a table made out of abandoned chair legs to a butterfly dome. Packed with hundreds colour photographs and illustrations ...

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                            Since the 1999 retrospective organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jeffrey Smart has consolidated his position as one of the most outstanding Australian painters of the 20th century. Now at the age of 90 it is possible to assess his achievement in this comprehensive monograph by Barry Pearce, which covers the artists oeuvre from the earliest works painted in Adelaide to the most recently...
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                            Notebooks - Betty Churcher - Hardback!
                            In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velzquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Czanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the artworks and the processes of their creation. With the gift for making art accessible that characterised her popular television series, she gently leads your eye ...

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                            Like a trusted and impossibly cool girlfriend you rely on to inspire and surprise you, The Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide reveals the secrets of what women really want to know about four of the world's most fabulous cities: Paris, London, New York and Rome. Born in a handbag from scribbled tips shared between holiday goddesses whose work, love and life adventures scattered them all over the globe, it will take you where few women have been before. Release your inner goddess as you follow Audrey Hepburn's footsteps in Rome, delve into the secret diaries of shopoholics in New York, learn 'chiconomical secrets' in Paris, where to love the nightlife in London, and how to find to-die-for shoes, lustworthy cult local brands, the best vintage markets, heavenly spas or sanctuaries to escape the hustle and bustle, the most original art, the best...

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                            Prings Photographers Miscellany
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                            - The Queen (of Twitter)
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                            Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy
                            It's Lonely in the Modern World
                            Boganomics
                            McSween
                            In & Out with Dick and Jane
                            I Am Maru
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                            How to Speak Wookiee
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                            - demetri-martin

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                            The Wave
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                            The Long Road to Paris
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                            The view atop the cycling world from the winner of the 2011 Tour de France"" ""My mind took control of my body. I had nothing left in the legs, but as a cyclist, you just keep going until the finish. I kept reminding myself that I had to get to the finish."" Filled with never-before-seen pictures and revealing insights into the thoughts of the champion, this book celebrates in words and photographs Cadel Evans's indomitable will and champion's heart....

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                            "Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics' history: something that actually occurred. "MAUS" is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt". ("New Yorker"). "MAUS" is widely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of art and literature ever written about the Holocaust. It is adored by readers and studied in colleges and universities all over the world....





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