Book/Office Theme Art Prints

Text on the tag: Book related expressions that you may not know: “Tsundoku” is a Japanese word meaning buying a load of books and not getting round...

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Text on the tag: Just to confirm, the definition of the word “best” according to the Oxford dictionary: “That which is the most excellent, outstand...

Text on the tag: A large-scale study by the Reading Agency, showed the immense benefits of reading, including increased self-esteem, reduced anxiet...

Text on the tag: Reading transports us to other realms, where stresses, anxieties and negative emotions melt away. Studies show also that it helps ...

Text on the tag: The benefits of enjoying a glass of wine, has been documented for over 5,000 years, as it transiently calms the central nervous sy...

Text on the tag: Quote from Napoleon Hill, the American personal-success author, who also quoted: “a positive mind finds a way it can be done; a ne...

Text on the tag: When drinking coffee, caffeine stimulant travels to the brain leading to an enhanced firing of neurones resulting in improved ener...

Text on the tag: Make a goal, dream it, make it specific, keep that mental picture, and imagine the scene in as much detail as you can. Before you ...

Text on the tag: Our minds can take us away on a mental journey, but can equally empower us, through the power of thinking and imagination. As quot...

Text on the tag: The brain of a cat is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to that of a dog. Not known to many, both humans and ...

Text on the tag: The world’s first full-length novel is said to be the Tale of Genji written by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu around 100...

Text on the tag: Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), a social critic, and considered by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. H...

Text on the tag: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British medical doctor and prolific writer, is namely recognised for his character Sh...

Text on the tag: Unlike the joy of sunbathing, or devouring a board of cheese and wine, the act of reading is a passion without any unwanted side e...

Text on the tag: It is said that the longest sentence published in literature belongs to Victor Hugo from Les Misérables where there is a sentence ...

Text on the tag: 1874 saw the introduction of the first commercial typewriters, but it was not until after the mid 1880s that they would commonly ...

Text on the tag: An estimate of the number of books ever published was announced by Google back in 2010. It reached the impressive number of 129,8...

Text on the tag: The books depicted in the painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), are recognisable as French paperback novels of the time. Van G...

Text on the tag: According to Google, the number of books published in all of modern history totals to around 13 million. With publishers constantl...

Text on the tag: Many of us love the smell of old books, with the aroma of dust and all its history. Other times we enjoy smelling brand new books,...

Text on the tag: A play on the Latin phrase “carpe diem”, usually translated as “seize the day”. The extended version of the phrase “carpe diem, q...

Text on the tag: Painted by Carl Spitzweg. The love for books is expressed showing a man intently reading a book up close to his face, holding a s...

Text on the tag: We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars. Mary Carolyn Davies, 20thC American Poet.

Text on the tag: Depicted is Monet's first wife Camille Doncieux. Prior to their marriage, she had been his mistress whilst serving as a model. Ca...

Text on the tag: In ancient Egypt, all the ships that visited were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria. The books were co...

Text on the tag: One of the world’s most impressive private book collection with over 300,000 volumes belongs to Karl Lagerfeld, who stated: ‘Toda...

Text on the tag: For reading comprehension, several brain regions are involved. The temporal lobe responsible for decoding and discriminating sound...