Take a tour through the history of painting from the Early Renaissance to modern day in this richly illustrated hardback guide, filled with spectacular full-colour artwork.

Great artists change the…

He did not paint his pictures; it was like he exhaled them in a gasping, boiling breath - Julius Meier-Graef

Van Gogh's distinctive style of expressive brushstrokes and bold colors…

This book reviews the techniques, mechanisms and architectures of the way disputes are processed in England and Wales. Adopting a comparative approach, it evaluates the current state of the main…

An essential guide to teaching reading in primary classrooms and leading whole-school implementation of literacy teaching. The practical companion to the bestselling The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading.

An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood's diaries and letters

An engrossing new biography of the man…

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Third Edition, explores the ways in which we make sense of music and how we respond to it-cognitively, physically, and…

The first study to use the critical lens of work to re-evaluate the postwar British avant-garde novel and its fraught relationship with realism during a unique period in British history…

What was Cubism? How did this strange new way of making paintings and sculptures enable artists so decisively to change the trajectory of 'Modern Art'? In responding to these questions…