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I denna magnifika bok går konstvetaren Hayden Herrera på djupet i den fascinerande och sprakande historien om Frida Kahlo, en av världens mest ikoniska konstnärer och människor: Hennes barndom i Mexiko City under den mexikanska revolutionen. Hennes fascination för mexikansk folklore och kultur. Samröret med kommunisterna. Det stormiga äktenskap med konstnären Diego Rivera. Hennes många […]

Hong Kong is a city practically bursting at the seams with incredible food and with people who love to eat it. The city’s cultural and economic promise attracts dreamers and travelers from around the world, and its known as a one-of-a-kind melting pot of Eastern and Western influence. Take a culinary tour, this book begins […]

Richard Avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer―as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and then Vogue), groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. He also went on the road […]

In this revealing publication, Mario Testino presents a 50-part series exploring the intersection of eroticism, anatomy, fashion, and art. Coinciding with an exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, the collection centers on the naked body, blurring the line between public and private personas as well as laying Testino’s archive bare with a number […]

Claudia Roden is credited with revolutionising Western attitudes to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food. Over thirty years on from her first Mediterranean cookbook, Claudia shares the sun-soaked simplicity of the Mediterranean with new recipes for effortless, everyday cooking. This is how Claudia cooks for friends and family – always putting flavour first, beautiful ingredients, fuss-free […]

Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell’s masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of “Sardonicus,” “Sanguinarius,” and “Sagittarius.” The characters that

Crucial Interventions is a startling look at the golden age of surgery through gruesome yet beautiful technical illustrations and paintings from the Wellcome Collection, written by the bestselling author of The Sick Rose . Chaptered from head to toe, this compelling volume interweaves graphic illustrations of surgical techniques and instruments from rare, nineteenth-century textbooks with engrossing and enlightening […]

  I mars 1995 iscensattes ett av de mest djävulska terroristattentaten i modern tid, en gasattack i Tokyos tunnelbana i rusningstrafik. 12 döda, och de skadade kunde räknas i tusentals. De ansvariga visade sig vara medlemmar av den så kallade Aum-sekten, en svårdefinierad auktoritär meditationsrörelse med hinduistiska och buddhistiska inslag, blandade med rena undergångsprofetior. Anledningen […]