Non-Fiction Books

Every fashion collection begins with research. But how do you start? How much should you do? How do you use that research? Fashion Design Research ...

The physical model is an important communication tool for architects. Although the proliferation of CAD programs has enabled the creation of increa...

Over the last ten years there has been a huge growth in the area of materials for design, but most books on this subject deal with advanced, semi-f...

Think you know photography? Think again. Through a carefully curated selection of quotes and images, this book reveals what matters most to the mas...

Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to un...

Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe-the brightest stars of the silver screen couldn't resist curling up wi...

"Women are into fashion, men are into style, style is forever" Domenico Dolce Womenswear progresses in leaps and bounds, fuelled by the readiness ...

For the first time, this book explores to the full, with dazzling visual accompaniment, the fascinating story of the Impressionist love affair with...

Bob Dylan has always regarded himself as a songwriter: 'I am my words', he wrote in 1964. Distilling a lifetime's passion and study, leading Dylan ...

The great age of ocean travel has long since passed, but ocean liners remain one of the most powerful and admired symbols of modernity. No form of ...

'Each shoot is a total love letter to an object from the V&A, sometimes several objects. My relationship to objects is like falling in love wit...

Influenced by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, and literature, the author chooses drawing to put his ideas and thoughts into practice, stati...

Polarnography is a collection of 100 previously unpublished Polaroid pictures by Nobuyoshi Araki in 2016, in which portraits of women and sky equal...

Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broa...

'If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it.' - Grey Gowrie, Financial Times 'All the good ...

In The Photographer's Vision, international bestseller Michael Freeman examines the work of photography's greats, explaining how to view a photo an...

Pit your wits against some of the brightest minds in Britain by taking up the challenge of this ultimate quiz of 2000 questions from the Brain of B...

'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you bu...

Street Craft is the next chapter in the story of Street Art. Encompassing urban crochet, craftivism, yarnbombing, origami and lace graffiti, guerri...

Each volume in this series contains 48 sheets with drawings printed on professional drawing paper in very light grey lines, encouraging you to trac...

Chris Moore is the undisputed king of catwalk photography. His six-decade career includes images of all the iconic catwalk shows because he was at ...

`This book will delight both New Order-ites and general rock readers' MojoA ROLLICKING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED ACCOUNT OF NEW ORDER'S ENTIRE HISTORY. Two ...

`This book will delight both New Order-ites and general rock readers' MojoA ROLLICKING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED ACCOUNT OF NEW ORDER'S ENTIRE HISTORY. Two ...

In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece that should have been a mere formality. For seventy years, rapid and spec...