Non-Fiction Books

No longer considered merely decorative, ceramic art has broken free from the dusty display cases to which it was once relegated and is now taking c...

What makes a magazine into a design classic? How can timeless ideas be incorporated into an ever-changing contemporary context? While many books on...

Over the past 40 years, Lois Greenfield has earned a reputation as one of the world's most accomplished and respected photographers of human motion...

The nations bordering the North Sea have always been engaged in a dialogue with water. The sea is the source of livelihoods as well as leisure, ind...

Thirty of the world's leading architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed ...

PHUNK is a contemporary art and design collective based in Singapore. Founded in 1994 by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Tan and William Chan when ...

Light makes an architectural space livable, shapes it and guides us within it. The role of light reaches well beyond practical needs and can create...

Ambitious in scope, democratic in nature, Magnum Streetwise is an unmissable tour through the photographs and practices that have helped define wha...

One of the most important designers and architects of the 20th century, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) wielded enormous influence - though often unacknowl...

All knowledge, the cosmos arranged on shelves, in cupboards, or hanging from the ceiling, 'infinite riches in a little room' - such were the cabine...

This stylish publication celebrates the impact of contemporary Nordic style on interiors, furnishings and product design. Its attractiveness lies i...

From the intricate embroidery on a Palestinian wedding dress to the complex iconography on an Afghan war rug, textiles reflect the beliefs, practic...

This ambitious and fascinating book traces the history of fashion in every part of the world, from Greco-Roman woven-cloth clothing and the silk co...

A year-by-year history of people and events, The Chronicle of Jazz tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. Each chronologically ...

A Chronology of Architecture presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the compl...

This book captures the new mood - a return to a preference for the unique and the handmade. Design expert and acclaimed blogger Olivier Dupon has s...

Created in collaboration with Dronestegram, the world-leading drone photography website, and Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, a highly renowned photography ed...

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose...

David Bailey flew to Afghanistan earlier this year to take photographs for auction to raise money for Help for Heroes, a charity that aims to help ...

The accessibility and familiarity of a postcard makes it an artistic medium rich with potential for subversion, appropriation or manipulation for ...

The ultimate repertoire of wit and wisdom from fashions sharpest pin Karl Lagerfeld is a modern master of couture. He is also famously outspoken: h...

Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice and construction of architecture. But behind the superslick, ph...

No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassai (1899-1984) is with Paris. From the moment he moved there in 1924, he devoted h...

Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, Paolo Roversi discovered photography at the age of seventeen on a family holiday. A chance meeting with photograph...

Anders Petersen (b. 1944) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photogr...

Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful ...

The architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries was revolutionary, both in terms of design and building technique. From St Peter's in Rome to the C...

In 1801, at the age of 26, Joseph Mallord William Turner became the youngest ever member of the Royal Academy. His early paintings combined great h...

Egon Schiele lived in Vienna during its last years as capital of the declining Habsburg Empire. Rejected by his family and hounded by society for h...

The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomething...

In Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart's poem, Herbert White. Though the main character, Herbert White ...

Adapted for the screen by the author from his celebrated memoir, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, is directed by long-standing collaborator Nich...

Complete with full-colour, heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case (and, when necessary, uku...

Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to peop...

In recent years, museums have achieved the status of architectural monuments in their own right, especially in America, where the museum itself is ...

From the end of World War II through the 1980s, Aarons photographed the rich and famous, the beautiful and the celebrated: Hollywood royalty, Europ...

An overview of Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, which houses a terrific collection of American and European works from the early twentieth ce...

Longchamp, the French leather goods company, is perhaps best known for its Le Pliage line - a collection of foldable travel bags made of vinyl with...

Product Description Exquisite jewelled minaudières, nécessaires and compacts from the l8th to the 21st. centuries, photographed in great detail ar...

Creative Activities for Young Children is a rare combination of an art and curriculum text that has gotten better with every edition. Teachers, par...

The first book to tell the visual story of the USSR's war against religion of all denominations, from the 1917 revolution to its fall in 1991 '...

Product Description In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed ...

This is a new cross-curricular series full of exciting creative ideas and activities. Each set of activities is based around a colourful in-class d...

This lavish fourth volume in Abrams' Slim Aarons collection revels in his longtime love affair with Italy. From breathtaking aerials of the Venetia...

Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Style culls the best pieces of advice and wisdom from the Council of Fashion Designers of America's 400 designers. F...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and howev...

'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans wi...

Murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more, from the 1920s to Hollywood's Golden Age in...