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Rising dramatically above other skyscrapers at the tip of Manhattan, the World Trade Center symbolized New York. From any direction the Towers were lodestars, Manhattan's local mountains. This book presents seventy-two images of the World Trade Center that portray the site from different directions.

Sixteen works of art show the many different ways a selection of great artists - from Winslow Homer and Childe Hassam to Georgia O'Keeffe and Romare Bearden - have perceived the breathtaking variety of landscapes and the diversity of people living in the four major regions of the United States.

Examining the life of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), arguably America's most celebrated architect, this work explores the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wright's work: from early prairie houses to the giant Midway Gardens, and from theatre curtain designs to office desk and chair sets.

The collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, encompasses more than 450,000 works of art, from ancient coins, gems, and mummies to work by some of today' s most celebrated contemporary artists. This attractive little volume provides an illustrated springboard into the heart of the MFA.

Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world.

A photographic tribute to the untamed heart of Central Park

Deals with the dramatic history of the War Between the States. This title includes the biographies of fifty famed commanders from both the Union and the Confederacy, accompanied by lifelike portraits and more than seventy full-page battle scenes, including images from Currier and Ives and the treasured Kurz and Allison series.

Offers students and their parents a step-by-step strategy that helps students not only compete academically with other qualified applicants but also develop a defining interest - in incremental, attainable steps - that distinguishes them from their peers and gives them an edge with college admissions officers.

A collection of choice anecdotes that takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor's, 21, and Sardi's, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, The Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era.

By turning over the flaps of this clever book, you can put together 1,000 imaginary dinosaurs, like the Stegodocus, the Oviplosaurus, or the Diploraptops.

An authoritative and magnificently illustrated survey of Mesoamerican architecture from pre-Olmec times to the Spanish conquest.

Takes children to the magic and beauty of art. This series features twelve diverse works of art from around the world, centered on a theme that little ones love: Babies, Dogs, Horses, or Trains. It gives young learners different ways in which artists see the world.

A sumptuous artistic tribute to the city of light, this hardcover, slipcased volume brings Paris to life in paintings that range from the medieval to the modern.

A one-of-a-kind collection of movie posters spanning fifty years, from silent films to Cinemascope

A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.

Two dozen of Argentina's most magnificent country estates are featured in this sumptuously illustrated volume.

Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me - I'm the Gingerbread Man! is the infectious refrain that this legendary character taunts at his hungry pursuers through this classic, playful romp. In the end it is the sly fox who knows a better way to get a bite of this runaway afternoon snack.

This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific - told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service.

A lavishly produced volume featuring stunning duotone images of China's fabled Yellow Mountains by the celebrated photographer Wang Wusheng

Hockney's engaging personality, his quirky but always enlightening ideas about art, and his inexhaustible inventiveness are captured with clear-eyed intelligence and grace.

Botanica Magnifica features two hundred and fifty stunning photographs of rare and exotic plants and flowers by Hasselblad Laureate Award winner Jonathan Singer.

A distinguished Curator and Research Scientist at the Smithsonian Institution, W. John Kress, recounts his natural history exploration over the course of nine years in the wild lands of Myanmar in search of rare, beautiful, and scientifically unknown plants.

This long-awaited 'little sibling' of Abbeville's bestselling How Artists See series shows preschoolers the varied and beautiful ways in which artists see the world around them.

This long-awaited "little sibling" of Abbeville's bestselling How Artists See series shows preschoolers the varied and beautiful ways in which artists see the world around them. Recommened for 2 to 6 year-olds.

This long-awaited 'little sibling' of Abbeville's bestselling How Artists See series shows preschoolers the varied and beautiful ways in which artists see the world around them.

Chronicling stories of beauty and grace, work and family, spirituality and devotion, while redefining photographic documentation and representation. This book features photographs which explore India and its links to the past.

A collection of photographs, which introduces us to an array of individuals.

"Wow! If you have been looking for a way to get children interested in art, call off the search, it doesn't get better than this."

In How Artists See Heroes sixteen works of art show the many different ways a selection of great artists have perceived and expressed the diversity and variety of heroes throughout the ages.