Non-Fiction Books

Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle class houses vi...

Dawkins examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the fin...

The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and develop...

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it...

Raging Bull (1980) represents American film making at its best. Since its initial release, the film has been called the greatest film of the 1980s,...

The book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre...

The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinem...

Marian Bantjes's highly ornamental, craftsman-like word-pictures have earned her professional acclaim and a cult following around the world. There ...

Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women,even absent women - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one...

Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the lat...

Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic ...

Looking at the true value of art, Carey both asks and answers many questions regarding our perception of the arts, as well as making a self-confess...

'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, ...

The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the accl...

A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood's reigning 'blockbuster auteur' whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most...

A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMES Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions,...

David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Adam Ant. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics. 'Excellent' Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable'...

Wes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. He now displays his unique wit and playful vis...

No animal has captured the human imagination quite like the horse, depicted in cave drawings thousands of years ago through countless rendering in ...

The story of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith's photographs. After coming of age in the Midwest in the tumultuous 1960s, she crashed the music scene in...

For 150 years, the French department store Printemps has been the temple of chic for Parisians, a symbol of elegance, beauty and style. It has clot...

Across the Ravaged Land is the third and final volume in Nick Brandt's trilogy of books documenting the disappearing natural world and animals of E...

Published on the 50th anniversary of Maurice Renoma's career, this book offers a retrospective of this French stylist, designer, photographer and d...

Detroit: The Dream Is Now is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Des...

Tastemaker, author, and renowned designer, Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. This book is som...

Product Description Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum in 2012 with a preface from Neil MacGregor, this remarkable book e...

Product Description On the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s extraordinary voyages of exploration, this publication reflects on and charts...

The Second Edition of The Art Book is a substantially expanded and updated version of the hugely successful original. Introducing 100 new artists s...

Product Description Produced from plants by a process akin to alchemy, indigo has a unique chemistry that renders it compatible with all natural f...

The official behind-the-scenes book of the record-breaking award-winning play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child...

On the heels of seven straight box office hits, "Ratatouille" continues Pixar's incredible run of success with the charming story of an ambitious r...

From their years growing up in Liverpool through their ride to fame to their ultimate breakup, here's the inside story.

THE OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE ITV SERIES William Thackeray's Vanity Fair was first published in the 1840s, but its power to entertain and provoke ...

This deceptively simple and addictive sketchbook-with-content includes tons of hip and entertaining things to draw. Encourages artists to try their...

Drawing on the unparalleled collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the ...

For the past 50 years, the covers of Rolling Stone have depicted the icons of popular culture-from John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Mado...

Rare notes, memos, and telegrams from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and more Letters from Hollywood reproduces in...

As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nigh...

*From the author of the New York Times bestseller Capture Your Style* Aimee Song is a fashion icon, a sartorial star, the blogger behind Song of S...

In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's ...

At a time in which a woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and more, what does it mean to dress like a ...

Product Description There are many guidebooks on the market to assist in planning a trip to Africa. The African Safari Journal and Field Guide sta...

Double Take presents thirty-nine uncannily accurate reconstructions of the great images and moments from history - ranging from the earliest known ...

Presented here for the first time is a compendium of one hundred hieroglyphs that are also building blocks of ancient Maya painting and sculpture. ...

This volume, the second catalogue of the Wyvern Collection, celebrates an outstanding group of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, the fin...

This imaginative collection of royalty-free images juxtaposes portraits of Old Japan's samurai warriors with medieval armored knights. The 200 full...

Bill Viola began producing video works in the early 1970s, and since then has captivated audiences with his poignant and beautifully wrought interp...

This is an overview of the top 100 leading young designers working across Asia, selected by the co-founders of one of Asia's foremost interior-desi...