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Featured artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Sandro Botticelli, Gilbert Stuart, Toshusai Sharaku, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Rogier van der Weyden, Diego Velazquez.

An informative Q&A series for dads-to-be, from the best-selling author of The Expectant Father, Armin Brott

Highlights from Brooklyn's world-renowned encyclopedic art museum that forms part of the Tiny Folio series.

The first comprehensive monograph on contemporary artist Karen Gunderson written by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Frank.

Examining the impact of the dynamic interaction of art and science, this volume explores how throughout history these two disciplines have reflected similar values and have used parallel tools and methods. It looks at how art and science have shaped architecture through to music.

What is it about a woman reading that has captivated hundreds of artists over the centuries? Stefan Bollmann's Women Who Read Are Dangerous explores this popular subject in more than 70 artworks - drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints - by iconic artists

The extraordinary story of the loss and rediscovery of the city that fought Troy, told through archaeology, literature, and poetic black-and-white photography.

Keeping clarity and simplicity in mind, Saluja has created Indian recipes easy enough for beginners, yet inspirational enough to encourage inventiveness in the more seasoned cook

Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholar's rocks, or gongshi, have been prized by Chinese intellectuals since the Tang dynasty, and are now sought after by Western collectors as well. In this title, the author turns his lens on some 140 fine gongshi, ancient and modern, from the world-class collection of Kemin Hu.

There is a world of letters just waiting to be discovered in the world around us - in nature to architecture.

A revised and expanded third edition of the leading lexicon of contemporary art, now illustrated in full color throughout.

Includes photographs that focus on the spiritually rich lives of the Burmese people. Featuring temples, portraits, scenes of everyday life, and landscape, this book offers a view of the country that has been closed to - or avoided by - many photographers due to its social isolation and reputation for political repression.

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.

Designed to teach children about the world by looking at art and about art by looking at the world. This title presents sixteen diverse works of art, all devoted to a subject that every child already knows from personal experience. It is filled with thought-provoking questions and imaginative activities.

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.

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.

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.

Create your own imaginary prehistoric beasts by turning over the flaps of this clever book, by Sara Ball.

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 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.