Non-Fiction Books

Cinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema ...

Featuring designs by some of the most prominent graphic designers and artists at work in the world today, Green Patriot Posters has grown out of t...

From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout history. Drawing its...

Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments, movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings ...

The visual exploration of India's decorative genius presented here focuses on architecture - forts, palaces, havelis or mansions, tombs, temple and...

Looking at works from a range of different artists and their various approaches, this book examines the process and practice of drawing, showcasin...

William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings, photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries i...

PhotoBox presents a collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world's most prominent photographers, ranging from legendary masters to contempo...

This new and expanded edition of the hugely successful Image Makers, Image Takers explores how celebrated contemporary photographers work, and how ...

This is a volume of living history - the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured it. It is the most comprehensive anthology...

The latest instalment in the Manufacturing Guides series, this book is targeted at students and professionals who create graphics or packaging for ...

In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 pain...

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the yo...

Numerous designers have pioneered cutting-edge garments and collections throughout the evolution of fashion. But all too often a lack of obvious fi...

In Why You Can Build It Like That, John Zukowsky examines buildings from the past half century or so that pushed the boundaries of what was archite...

About the Author Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He began his career as a writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio...

For fifty years, pop music was created and consumed like this: you heard a record on the radio, or read about it in a music paper; you bought it on...

Pierre Boulez was appointed to the College de France in 1976, with the chair devoted to 'Invention, technique and language in Music', and he held h...

Robert Heinecken (1931-2006) was a pioneer in the postwar Los Angeles art scene who described himself as a para-photographer because his work stood...

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houst...

Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure...

`Slightly insane and wonderfully surreal' - Martin Parr Rimaldas Viksraitis's images of abandonment in deepest rural Lithuania mix reportage and vo...

The Book of Durrow is among the earliest surviving decorated manuscripts in north-western Europe, dating to the late seventh century AD. A masterpi...

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...