Art & Photography Books
Daylight Books Subwaygram
Book SynopsisNew York City subways – the century-old transit system has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and Hurricane Sandy. It and the millions of citizens that rely on it as their daily lifeline will also survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Subwaygram captures mobile phone street portraits of the diverse community of riders two years before and two years after the first case was confirmed in New York City and the commonalities in the fleeting moments of their journeys.Trade Review"Chris Maliwat describes the New York subway as the first slot in a pinball machine. “Whenever I head down there, I know it’s going to be a mini adventure, like I’m about to be launched into the world,” he says. “I saw this woman waiting at Metropolitan Avenue/Grand Street station and wondered which world she was about to shoot out into. Are there people like her where she’s going? Is she headed to her tribe? I think so. Everyone finds their tribe in New York – that’s why people come here.”"-The Guardian, December 3, 2022."I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens through which he recorded his subjects. "Lenscratch, November 18, 2022
£23.99
Daylight Books A Sum of One: Being In-Focus From An Arrangement
Book SynopsisA Sum of One is a compilation of photographs from nine years of travel to six continents. While the photographs (landscapes, streets, people, and abstract) are a documentation, their existence is deeply personal and contemplative to the photographer. The courage to take the journey outward leads to a healing journey inward by the emotional connectivity and embraceable response received. The journey, chances for illumination and cultural tributes aim to create a positive stimulus of growth in the reader.
£23.99
Daylight Books I Burn But Am Not Consumed: Menie, a portrait of
Book SynopsisI Burn But I Am Not Consumed brings together photographs and an archive collated by photographer Alicia Bruce and the residents of Menie, Scotland. The project documents sixteen years of Donald Trump’s impact on the coastal Scottish community from 2006 until present day.
£34.19
Daylight Books Memento Morrie
Book SynopsisIn 1995, photographer Heather Pillar documented Morrie Schwartz’s last six months as he came to terms with his disease, ALS. With Morrie, she created a show of 20 photographs illustrating Morrie’s aphorisms about love and loss and exhibited it at Brandeis University in September 1995 as Morrie wanted to see the exhibition before he died. Heather continued to make more images up until Morrie’s death and at his grave. In the intervening years, Morrie has become iconic largely due to the best-selling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom.
£36.27
Daylight Books Umbria
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£39.75
New Vessel Press A Few Collectors
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£17.84
Graphis US Inc Graphis New Talent Annual 2024
Book SynopsisIn an industry that thrives on innovation and creative evolution, Graphis New Talent 2024 is not just a publication—it''s a treasure trove of inspiration and a barometer for the cutting-edge. Celebrating 80 years of Graphis excellence, this year''s edition shines a global spotlight on the brightest emerging talents and educational institutions across Design, Photography, Illustration Art, and Advertising. Juried by leading industry talents, this volume showcases the heights of young creatives, making it an essential guide for anyone looking to tap into future talents and creative trends. What Sets This Volume Apart? Exclusive Award-Winning Content: This collection features 13 Platinum, 132 Gold, and 587 Silver awards, along with Honorable Mentions. It showcases the polished, highly professional work of students guided by their mentors. Industry-Leading Insight: Judged by a panel of professionals like Dav
£48.59
Graphis US Inc Graphis Poster Annual 2025
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£999.99
Dancing Foxes Press SIREN (Some Poetics)
Book SynopsisPoetics as artistic practice and world-making: practitioners from Bernadette Mayer and Sky Hopinka to Liliane Lijn and Shanzhai Lyric explore the wilder, parapoetic shores of language Through work by artists and poets of various generations and geographies, as well as additional thinkers and artistic contributors, SIREN considers the ways in which language is increasingly employed by artists in works that trouble the line between language as a literary practice and language as a visual one. Both human and nonhuman forms of language-making and poetics are insisted upon, from precolonial myth to scientific speculation, fungal networks to gut bacteria, text to textile, poem to algorithm. Contributors include: Ruth Estévez, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Don Mee Choi, Anaïs Duplan, Katja Aufleger, Patricia L. Boyd, Bia Davou, Sky Hopinka, Liliane Lijn, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Nour Mobarak, Senga Nengudi, Rivane Neuenschwander, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, Aura Satz, Ser Serpas, Shanzhai Lyric, Jenna Sutela, Iris Touliatou, Christa Wolf and Dena Yago.Trade ReviewAssembles media-spanning work from the 1970s to the present to explore poetry in the expanded field, a form of language-making that – like the Sirens’ song – traffics in the unknowable and unutterable. -- Cassie Packard * Frieze *In a sense, the imagined grotesquerie of the Homeric Sirens was yet another way for patriarchs to repress the ambivalence of other voices. These artists claim the possibility that an incantation could be so powerful. -- Travis Diehl * The New York Times *Instead of situating the siren call as a sound that is only perceptible by and exclusive to humans, Latimer posits a mode of listening that is metaphorical, contingent—and at the same time, often pleasurable. -- Wendy Vogel * Art Agenda *Produces a profoundly sensual experience in which reading, looking, listening, and moving become one...No artificial cohesion has been enforced, no top-down epic narrative exerted, but harmonies and resonances have been found, creating polyphony. -- Elvia Wilk * 4Columns *
£24.30
Dancing Foxes Press A.K. Burns: Negative Space
Book SynopsisChronicling an epic multimedia project 10 years in the making, A.K. Burns’ first monograph grapples with climate change, community and sociopolitical agency Deploying science fiction, material feminism, eco-anarchism, queer theory and technoscience, New York–based artist A.K. Burns (born 1975) explores the fraught relationships between humanity and nature in an epic multimedia work, Negative Space (2015–23). This nonlinear allegory provokes questions about marginalized bodies, environmental fragility and technology. Developed as a cycle of four video installations, Negative Space imagines new relationships to the spaces we occupy and the impact of our bodies in these spaces through imagery, research and critical and creative writings. Set in a speculative present, the tetralogy envisions a new materialist cosmology wherein hierarchical relations are transformed.
£24.30
Dancing Foxes Press Erika Verzutti: New Moons
Book SynopsisLeaving fingerprints and tool marks behind, a São Paulo artist evokes the cycles of the cosmos This volume takes an expansive view of the bold and influential practice of Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti (born 1971), surveying more than 60 pieces made over the past 15 years. In Verzutti’s art, moons recur as symbols of renewal and the multiple phases that a person or entity can pass through. Her work presents novel modes of perception by orbiting outside set systems of being—zooming out, in a telescopic sense, to the point where the relations we take so seriously here on Earth can be rethought. Vibrant illustrations of individual works and installation views of New Moons, the artist’s first US museum survey, highlight how her approaches to display and presentation reveal such relationships. Presenting original scholarship on the art historical and theoretical aspects of Verzutti’s practice as well as the artist’s own writing, this book offers insights on the inspiration and multifaceted ideas at play across her work.
£999.99
Atelier Editions Ted Serios: The Mind’s Eye
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary story of the Chicago bellhop who attempted to transfer mental images to Polaroid film Our thoughts are known to us, and us alone. But for a brief period in the 1960s, Ted Serios (1918–2006) attempted to prove that his inner reality could be documented. Serios demonstrated an ostensibly psychic act termed “thoughtography,” involving the transfer of mental images onto undeveloped Polaroid film. In studies supervised by respected Denver-based psychiatrist Dr. Jule Eisenbud, Serios produced over 1,000 anomalous photographs, a feat that has never been fully dismissed or wholly verified. Existing as an uncomfortable knot in time, the details of the Serios phenomenon can’t be disentangled without questioning the social conditions that produced it in the first place. Contextualizing Serios’ story within the twilight zone of 1960s America, Ted Serios: The Mind’s Eye considers the reaches and restraints of belief and explores the multiple dimensions at play in the Serios phenomenon, including interpersonal relationships, scientific methods, photographic technologies, state militaristic operations and popular culture. Rather than seeking absolute truth, the volume allows the reader to arrive at their own conclusions through a series of thematic essays, narrative photographic stories, select ephemera and contemporary cultural artifacts.
£36.00
Atelier Editions The ArtSmart Method
Book SynopsisThe hassle-free, no-frills instruction manual for commercial success in the art worldIn her 25 years of working with artists at all stages of their careers, Amy Davila has formulated the answer to the quintessential question of the modern art world: Which external circumstances does a tempestuous and original mind need to succeed? For artists, Davila's systematic ArtSmart Method brings order to the chaos of the creative process: whether it's harnessing an idea, generating income, negotiating with collaborators and galleries, or growing their practice into a brand. Now available as a book, The ArtSmart Method offers an accessible and insightful mix of financial advising, business and career consulting, and constructive advice.This much-anticipated volume places Davila's empathy, wisdom and know-how into the hands of artists the world over. Each chapter carries the reader through the stages of the ArtSmart Method, from creation to completion, all the while addressing questions of money, exposure and legacy. Davila guides artists through everything from harnessing their network and turning threats into opportunities, to negotiating business contracts and cash flow management. The thought exercises and business tools in this book are presented from an artist's perspective, taking into careful consideration timing, accessibility and design. Whatever success looks like to each artist, The ArtSmart Method will prove they don't have to suffer to achieve it.Amy Davila is the founder of ArtSmart Inc, a Los Angelesbased art consultancy. Former director of David Zwirner and former faculty member of the Sotheby's Institute of Art and Claremont Graduate University, she founded ArtSmart to help artists, galleries and art organizations achieve financial, business and career success.
£24.29
Atelier Editions The Farm at Black Mountain College
Book SynopsisA record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards. The exploits of these BMC cultural luminaries have been recounted time and time again.David Silver's fascinating new book offers a very different perspective. The farm was vital to BMC. Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance, while serving as a testing ground for self-sufficiency, communal living and collaborationthe most precious and precarious ingredient at the college.<
£999.99
Hat & Beard, LLC The Doomsday Clock at 75
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£999.99
Radius Books Justin Kimball: Who By Fire
Book SynopsisThe wear and tear of an uncertain present: a photographic account of contemporary America Massachusetts-based photographer Justin Kimball’s (born 1961) Who By Fire considers contemporary American life as it relates to a complex history of economic, religious and political environments. Kimball's work wrestles with the complications of the current moment while trying to imagine the promise of a future that is unknown and tenuous. Unflinching photographs of people in neighborhoods, streets and yards document moments where the burden of the present day visibly presses in upon bodies and physical surroundings, while also conveying the resilience and hope maintained under that weight. The people in these pictures are further contextualized by photographs that point to the visual markers of humanity in the landscape, either unintended or by design: a wall painting of a sun dial, a rising angel nailed to the side of a barn, a woman asleep on a blanket paired with a tree set on fire.
£37.50
Radius Books Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging
Book SynopsisA two-volume collection of materially ingenious photographs responding to identity and the American landscape Binh Danh was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US in 1979. Early in his career, Danh pioneered a technique of printing images directly onto plant matter, activating the plants’ chlorophyll with sunlight. Using this process, Danh printed images associated with the war in Vietnam onto the leaves of tropical plants and grasses. Of this work, Danh explains, “This process deals with the idea of elemental transmigration: the decomposition and composition of matter into other forms. The images of war are part of the leaves, and live inside and outside of them.” Known for his innovative approach to alternative photographic processes, Binh Danh extends and reconsiders the pursuit of pioneering 19th-century photographers. For almost a decade, Danh has traveled across the American West, making daguerreotypes of scenic vistas on silver plates in a mobile darkroom he calls Louis, after Louis Daguerre. Danh imbues this scenery with his distinctly personal perspective—namely, an attempt to negotiate his connection as a Vietnamese American with the landscape and history of the United States. The highly reflective surfaces of Danh’s daguerreotypes literally mirror their surroundings, embracing viewers within the idyllic environs of national sites and landmarks. This inaugural monograph features two volumes in a slipcase, bringing together all three bodies of work and a separate book of essays and memorabilia that serves to contextualize Danh's work.
£49.50
Oro Editions Lunch 15: Thick
Book SynopsisThe latest edition of the University of Virginia School of Architecture’s design journal, LUNCH 15 turns to the concept of Thickness and considers what possibilities lie in poché, thick description, thin assemblies, and in the many layers of the built environment. The issue considers Thickness in four sections: “Places” navigates the ways we understand the spaces in which we live and work. “Materials” delaminates the building blocks of our world and how we know them. “Representation” traces the many forms and layers of communication through which we see or that might obscure our vision. Finally, “Relations” follows threads that bind. In a world operating between the thick and thin of it, how will your lines be drawn?
£999.99
Oro Editions Wisdom of Place: A guide to Recovering the Sacred
Book SynopsisThis book aims to help readers rediscover the sacredness of the everyday landscapes around them in order to shed light on the ecological imperatives of our time. Drawn from the union of art, nature, and metaphysics, it presents some of the myths and legends of antiquity as they might be recognised by our modern society of earth-shapers. Through word and image the authors reference the ecological and environmental concepts found at the core of traditional environmental knowledge and provide a new context for environmental engagement that merges the spiritual and phenomenological with the scientific and empirical. Wisdom of Place can be used by anyone — from creatives to spiritual seekers, landscape architects to coders — to call forth the voice of the genius loci — the spirit of place — and reveal the creative forces and hidden currents of nature.Table of Contentsintroduction 7 acknowledgments 12 the major arcana 14 The Green Man 16 The Biosphere 20 The Doors of Perception 24 Pachamama 28 Organic Proportion 32 The Geometer 36 The Green Woman 40 Alignments 44 The Hydrologic Cycle 48 Deep Ecology 52 Green Mandala 56 Geomancy 60 Axis Mundi 64 Metamorphosis 68 The Tree of Life 72 Koyaanisqatsi 76 Ecotones 80 Polaris 84 The Moon 88 The Sun 92 Closed Loop 96 Genius Loci 100
£35.96
Oro Editions Artificial Intelligent Architecture: New
Book SynopsisThe impact of artificial intelligence in the discipline of architecture is unavoidable and undeniable. The recent mass adoption of highly accessible machine learning tools including DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney has allowed designers to test their limits and assess their role as an author in the design of the built environment. This book includes speculations on the introduction of artificial intelligence bots/apps into architecture and features a collection of works from 18 architects and designers who are interrogating current AI applications. Within each chapter, authors put forth a position through a framework consisting of theory and application lenses. Additionally, interviews from leading practitioners will offer insights into the current curiosities fuelling investigation. This book will incite dialogue about the potential of AI as an ideation device and extension of the architect’s authorship. As a part of this work, curation plays an important role as the technology generates content at an incredible pace. Architectural design thinking will have to reconcile the injection of this new tool and this book will speculate on the current state in its infancy.
£29.66
Oro Editions Design Matter
Book SynopsisLPA Design Studios rose to national prominence by demonstrating that designers can make a real impact on carbon reduction on a large scale. The firm's integrated design approach breaks down the traditional model, eliminating barriers between disciplines to develop innovative designs that reduce energy and water and create a better human experience. The firm's diverse body of work has earned the industry's top awards and set new benchmarks for building performance, proving that there is a better process for designing buildings.Design Matters: Every project. Every budget. Every scale. presents a beautifully curated collection of LPA projects that illustrate what can be achieved through a collaborative design process with architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects working together from a development's earliest stages. The projects cross a wide range of sizes and types, including transformational education, commercial, civic, cultural and healthcare facilities. Each was created through a repeatable process focused on cost-effective research-driven design strategies. As a collection, LPA's work is an inspirational model for an integrated, inclusive approach that connects design excellence and building performance.
£44.96
Oro Editions Searching for Authenticity
Book SynopsisRustic Architecture in America 1887-1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. It is a history of how both form and technology of construction were determined by the tourist industry and the railroads who built the buildings and the social and environmental damage caused by the larger process of which they were a part. Many of these buildings were constructional shams driven by romantic pretenses, but there is also in the best of this architecture something truly original. It is also a history of how the rustic aesthetic transcended glib, mythic romanticism to produce a truly original architecture, how the unique conditions of the West merged craft with the industrial, of how its designers drew on the landscape of the West in combination with the European traditions of the rustic to create an original architecture and a unique way of building. Forty buildings are examined in detail. The text and the numerous original drawings unfold the story how the work was actually constructed in relation to its many enduring myths.
£44.96
Hearst Home Books Good Housekeeping Organize Your Life
Book SynopsisDecluttering your home has never been easier with this step-by-step action plan. Plus, hundreds of genius tricks help you create a calm and tidy life.
£18.69
George F. Thompson Tibetan Memoies
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£28.00
Oro Editions California Changing
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£22.46
Oro Editions Fountain Safari
Book SynopsisWe build fountains those vibrant symbols of life and physical embodiments of beauty to mark and celebrate our favoured places. This act is an honour to all, and like listening to music, it is understood on an intuitive level. We also build fountains to commemorate life. Water is the basis for, and the symbol of, life. Many fountains are articulated to recognise some person, institution, or idea. Those particular recognitions are fused with water's deeper symbolism to convey everlastingness to the identities being celebrated.Fountain Safari places on the shelf a sharply focused, comprehensive, useful, entertaining, and hopefully lasting survey aimed to provide a panoramic portrait of the fountain class of artistic endeavour. The material attends especially to the aesthetics of water expression by examining numerous esteemed examples. In the process, a sketch is roughed out of the evolution of fountains over some two millennia and across several cultures. Ultimately, the work attempts to deepen the understanding and appreciation of water features by identifying and clarifying their most essential aesthetic qualities.Fountain Safari is written for design professionals, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, students of the arts or the built environmentand everyone else interested in the engaging, one-of-a-kind subject of fountains.
£40.50
Oro Editions Greatness
Book SynopsisGREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture is a compelling exploration of the contributions of diverse architects to the field of architecture. This book delves into the essence of various architectural typologies, including residential, institutional, and master planning, through the lens of designers from varied backgrounds. It highlights the historical evolution of these typologies and their impact on urban planning and architecture, reflecting a wide range of lifestyles, cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds.The book addresses the darker aspects of architectural history, such as housing injustice and redlining, while also celebrating the healing power of design in fostering community well-being and environmental sustainability. It emphasises the importance of community-centric approaches in residential design and the role of architecture in shaping equitable and sustainable environments.Featuring global projects, the book showcases how architects and designers worldwide address unique challenges and opportunities, enriching our understanding of architecture''s role in shaping human lives. GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture is a call to action for architects and designers to create inclusive, sustainable, and responsive environments that foster community, dignity, and a sense of belonging for all.
£31.50
Oro Editions Between Light and Shadow
£37.80
Oro Editions Reimagining Environmental Identity
Book SynopsisReimagining Environmental Identity by Ping Jiang presents a compelling exploration of architectural practice designed to navigate the dynamic urban landscapes of China and beyond.
£33.75
Oro Editions New York Geologics
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£30.00
Oro Editions Episodes in Public Architecture
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£40.50
Oro Editions Home on Earth
Book SynopsisThe prototypical recipe book provides a loose framework for BLDUS's unique farm-to-shelter architecture in Home on Earth, offering delectable suggestions for healthy modes of human habitation. Using traditional materials processed with contemporary techniques, BLDUS designs and builds sustainable houses in and around Washington D.C. that pay tribute to their contexts and gain integrity as they age. Home on Earth showcases built houses alongside material studies and models to propose a healthy building cuisine specific to the Mid-Atlantic Region. These contextual houses are advocates for simple healthy building materials that work well in the Mid-Atlantic region and have low impacts on their points of growth, manufacture, installation, inhabitation, and eventual disposal.Excerpts:''Humanity's most cherished architecture brings to mind the relationship between buildings, the four elements, and the cosmos.''''We don't follow a precise rubric to value a material's relative health; we follow our guts, and these materials taste good.''''These contextual houses are advocates for simple healthy building materials that work well in the MidAtlantic region and have low impacts on their points of growth, manufacture, installation, inhabitation, and eventual disposal.''
£35.96
Oro Editions UPDN
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£27.00
Oro Editions Its About the People
Book SynopsisThis book is about architecture, but not about formal architectural images. It is about the people who inhabit and use buildings and places.
£35.96
Oro Editions Soundscape Architecture
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£35.44
Oro Editions The Architecture of Will Bruder
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£33.30
Blurring Books Inside the Burlesque Boudoir
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£17.09
Applied Research & Design Smallx20
£27.00
Oro Editions Notes of Happiness
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£26.69
WestBow Press A Father's Dreams, a Daughter's Scenes: Poems
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£14.20
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Star Wars: Tribute to Star Wars
Book SynopsisForty-five of Japan’s leading manga artists illustrate Star Wars!Explore the galaxy through the beautiful artwork of 45 outstanding Japanese manga artists and illustrators, including Akira Himekawa, Kamome Shirahama, and Taiyo Matsumoto.Celebrating the universal appeal of these iconic characters and their timeless stories, this collection presents each artist’s unique tribute to the Star Wars universe and is a must-have for fans of Star Wars and manga alike!
£16.99
Little, Brown & Company Sword Art Online abec Artworks Wanderers
Book SynopsisThis second collection of gorgeously illustrated artworks highlights events fromvolumes 10 through 15 of the main story. The definitive edition also includesillustrations from volumes 1 through 3 of Sword Art Online: Progressive, as well as artfrom animated productions, games, and conventions. A must-have for SAO fans andabec fans alike!
£21.59
Little, Brown & Company Visions 2022__Illustrators Book
Book SynopsisThe ultimate collection of pixiv artists is back! The 2022 compilation features 170 of some of the greatest creators on the platform who have all made an impact on the artistic field. With an abundance of styles from retro-inspired to modern and beyond, there's something for everyone to love!
£32.39
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual
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£12.34
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of
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£26.40
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Colorful Living
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£18.70
University Press of Kentucky Nobodys Psychic
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£26.55
Concordia University Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical
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£18.04
