(Paperback)

The Little Book of Sketching will help aspiring artists sketch their way through life with just a pencil and some paper.

(Paperback)

In this captivating narrative, Barron tells the story of one Steinway piano, from raw lumber to finished instrument. Barron follows that brand-new piano--known by its number, K0862--on its 11-month journey through the Steinway factory.

(Hardback)

"A complete resource from Mood Designer Fabrics"--Cover.

(Hardback)

Guillaume de Laubier, the renowned photographer of the surprise hit The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World, brings us this lushly illustrated tour through the world's most beautiful and prestigious universities.

(Hardback)

The standard reference manual for all designers- complete with desktop computer graphics and four-colour tint charts.

(Hardback)

The art of setting, compiling or combining disparate objects is a difficult art. This book showcases some of the most successful combinations of treasured heirlooms and contemporary design. It provides insight into the blend of sophistication, symmetry, confusion and minimalism that makes each of these rooms successful.

(Paperback)

"Project sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Art, Science & Technology, [and] University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning"--Colophon

(Hardback)

Thomas R. Schiff's vivid panoramic photographs capture the iconic buildings and landscapes of San Francisco and the Bay Area in new and surprising ways. The Poetics of Distortion: Panoramic Photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area is a mind-bending, eye-opening, very San Franciscan journey.

(Hardback)

Narrative micro-history with a difference - a story not about a voyage of discovery or scientific breakthough but about the birth and life of a legend.

(Hardback)

A global journey that honours the farmers, communities and cultures involved in the worldwide cultivation and harvesting of coffee

(Hardback)

Conceived when Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people - authors, musicians, artists, designers and other cultural tastemakers - in their home environments and posting them on his blog, this book consists of over thirty profiles: half of which are favourites from his web site.

(Hardback, English ed.)

(Hardback)

An entirely new account of Leonardo the artist and Leonardo the scientist, and why they were one and the same man.

(Hardback)

Includes depictions of oak trees consuming children, floating tree stumps with seeing eyes, imaginary wood nymphs, and mythological characters who personify Nature herself. This book shows paintings and sculptures alongside the fruits of the author's research on the tree as myth, from the Buddhas' Bodhi tree, to Adam and Eve.

(Paperback)

A guide to season one of the American television series, "The Walking Dead", which tells the story of a sheriff's deputy leading a band of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead.

(Paperback)

This book does as no other book dares: provide an exhaustive history of the white nationalist skinhead movement.

(Hardback)

This illustrated biography of Gloria Vanderbilt celebrates her long and productive life as an influential decorator, fashion designer, fashion icon, artist, and author.

(Hardback)

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Rediscover the Paris stage sensation devoted to gruesome depictions of violence and sex, now with a color insert of posters.

(Hardback)

The extraordinary true life story of songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, lead singer of the band Eels

(Hardback)

An historical narrative that reveals 300 years of English culture and society through an exploration of seven great gardens, from Tradescant's designs for Hatfield House to Hampton Court, Chatsworth and Jekyll's famous garden at Hestercombe.

(Hardback)

Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at Americas most iconic news show. Its a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself.

(Paperback)

This large-format book contains 90 superbly reproduced black-and-white photographs divided into three sections, or opuses. Opus 1, "Enigmas, Abstractions and Surprises," centers on a variety of images that are alternatively abstract, experimental, and unexpected.

(Hardback)

Painter A E Backus (1906-1990) portrayed an unspoiled Florida that has made his paintings synonymous with the state: backcountry terrain is often described as 'Backus landscape', emotive clouds as 'Backus sky', and translucent waves as 'Backus water'. This celebration of his life and work introduces a remarkable regional painter.