Thames & Hudson
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The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone
$22.95 Read moreWe all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten’s Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky Object, or Chanal’s variable star? For those whose curiosity takes them far beyond Earth’s atm
- Author: Harvey-Smith, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1760761583
- Language: English
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
$34.95 Add to cartThe traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles… [more below]
- Author: Gillow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0500292213
- Language: English
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Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D Animation
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the creators of the wildly successful Wallace and Gromit films and Chicken Run, here is a practical guide to making your own 3-D (or stop-action) animation, a practice whose robust presence in co… [more below]
- Author: Lord, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0500291993
- Language: English
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World Architecture: The Masterworks
$50.00 Add to cartWill Pryce unveils a world of beauty and genius in this unparalleled, specially photographed survey of the world’s architectural master- pieces. More than 350 color photographs celebrate the finest bu… [more below]
- Author: Pryce, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0500342741
- Language: English
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Indigo: The Color That Changed the World
$75.00 Add to cartGloriously pieced together, much like the fine garments it portrays, this colorful book takes the reader on an international tour of indigo-colored textiles, presenting a huge swathe of remarkable clo
- Author: Legrand, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 050051660X
- Language: English
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
$50.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of ar… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0500251789
- Language: English
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Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery
$35.00 Add to cartThe nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as “a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science”; yet, over the next 150 ye… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0500518106
- Language: English
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Red Carpet Oscars
$70.00 Read moreThe red carpet is so much more than fabulous gowns on famous people; it reflects the styles and values of each era and has become a platform to make social statements. Red Carpet Oscars presents over
- Author: Mulhearn, Dijanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1760763020
- Language: English
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How Banksy Saved Art History
$35.00 Add to cartFew would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable work
- Author: Grovier, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027056
- Language: English
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American Geography
$55.00 Read moreWhen Magnum photographer Matt Black began exploring his hometown in California’s rural Central Valley–dubbed “the other California,” where one-third of the population lives in poverty–he knew what h
- Author: Black, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0500545359
- Language: English
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The Emperors of Byzantium
$39.95 Read moreThe Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia for eleven hundred years from the fourth to fifteenth centu
- Author: Lygo, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500023298
- Language: English
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Is Gender Fluid? (the Big Idea Series)
$18.95 Read moreWhen we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience dissonance between their biological sex and their personal identity? Is gender
- Series: Big Idea #3
- Author: Hines, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0500293686
- Language: English
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The Materials Sourcebook for Design Professionals
$95.00 Add to cartToday’s technological advancements have resulted in traditional materials being used in increasingly innovative ways; designers are able to push the materials they use to their limits. Understanding t
- Author: Thompson, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0500518548
- Language: English
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
$34.95 Read moreThe ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0500052158
- Language: English
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Viking Art
$24.95 Read moreThe Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking a
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Graham-Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0500204640
- Language: English
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Sunshine: A Story about the City of New York
$19.95 Read moreFirst published in 1950, this classic picture book by the creator of Madeline tells the story of a music teacher and her crotchety landlord who will do anything for peace and quiet. Readers will meet
- Series: Classics Reissued #5
- Author: Bemelmans, Ludwig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 050065235X
- Language: English
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The Universe: A Biography
$34.95 Read moreEveryone knows astronomers use telescopes to peer into distant space. But did you know that they also use them as time machines to look back into the past? In this fascinating and original book, world
- Author: Murdin, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024642
- Language: English
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Great Battles of All Time
$19.95 Read moreCannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Covering the past twenty-five centuries, edito
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0500286531
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage
$50.00 Read moreJoseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego
- Author: Gooding, Mel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0500022879
- Language: English
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Women in Abstraction
$65.00 Read moreWomen in Abstraction reevaluates the work of women abstract artists, changing the story of modern and contemporary art. A tie-in catalog to a major exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, this volume
- Author: Lewandowska, Karolina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0500094373
- Language: English
