Thames & Hudson
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Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery
$39.95 Read moreThe nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as “a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science”; yet, over the next 150 ye… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0500518106
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Traveler’s Guide from Aswan to Alexandria
$24.95 Add to cartJoin Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on an entertaining tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemie
- Author: Shaw, Garry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252289
- Language: English
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Red Carpet Oscars
$70.00 Read moreThe red carpet is so much more than fabulous gowns on famous people; it reflects the styles and values of each era and has become a platform to make social statements. Red Carpet Oscars presents over
- Author: Mulhearn, Dijanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1760763020
- Language: English
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How Banksy Saved Art History
$35.00 Add to cartFew would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable work
- Author: Grovier, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027056
- Language: English
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American Geography
$55.00 Read moreWhen Magnum photographer Matt Black began exploring his hometown in California’s rural Central Valley–dubbed “the other California,” where one-third of the population lives in poverty–he knew what h
- Author: Black, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0500545359
- Language: English
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The Emperors of Byzantium
$39.95 Read moreThe Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia for eleven hundred years from the fourth to fifteenth centu
- Author: Lygo, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500023298
- Language: English
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Is Gender Fluid? (the Big Idea Series)
$18.95 Read moreWhen we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience dissonance between their biological sex and their personal identity? Is gender
- Series: Big Idea #3
- Author: Hines, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0500293686
- Language: English
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The Materials Sourcebook for Design Professionals
$95.00 Add to cartToday’s technological advancements have resulted in traditional materials being used in increasingly innovative ways; designers are able to push the materials they use to their limits. Understanding t
- Author: Thompson, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0500518548
- Language: English
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
$34.95 Read moreThe ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0500052158
- Language: English
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Viking Art
$24.95 Read moreThe Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking a
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Graham-Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0500204640
- Language: English
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Sunshine: A Story about the City of New York
$18.95 Read moreFirst published in 1950, this classic picture book by the creator of Madeline tells the story of a music teacher and her crotchety landlord who will do anything for peace and quiet. Readers will meet
- Series: Classics Reissued #5
- Author: Bemelmans, Ludwig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 050065235X
- Language: English
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The Universe: A Biography
$34.95 Read moreEveryone knows astronomers use telescopes to peer into distant space. But did you know that they also use them as time machines to look back into the past? In this fascinating and original book, world
- Author: Murdin, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024642
- Language: English
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Great Battles of All Time
$19.95 Read moreCannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Covering the past twenty-five centuries, edito
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0500286531
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage
$50.00 Read moreJoseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego
- Author: Gooding, Mel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0500022879
- Language: English
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Women in Abstraction
$65.00 Read moreWomen in Abstraction reevaluates the work of women abstract artists, changing the story of modern and contemporary art. A tie-in catalog to a major exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, this volume
- Author: Lewandowska, Karolina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0500094373
- Language: English
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Velázquez
$24.95 Read moreDiego Velázquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of Western painting and baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was… [more below]
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Verdi, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204748
- Language: English
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Color Mania: Photographing the World in Autochrome
$65.00 Read moreOffering unprecedented access to the V&A’s collection of autochromes–one of the greatest collections of early color photography in the world–Color Mania presents the pioneering photographic process
- Series: V&a Museum
- Author: Langford, Catlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0500480761
- Language: English
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Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague
$21.95 Read moreIn 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 caused pandemonium worldwide, a painter and writer returned to a childhood home to reflect upon the transcendence of nature and the work of the artists he most admir
- Author: Neve, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0500025797
- Language: English
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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the first book to focus on the succession of rulers of imperial Rome, using timelines and other visual aids throughout. Now no one need be in any doubt as to who built the Colosseum or when Ro
- Author: Scarre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500289891
- Language: English
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Dick Bruna (the Illustrators)
$29.95 Read moreBy the time Dutch artist Dick Bruna retired, he was an international star, far beyond the sphere of children’s books, and his creation, Miffy, had become a global sensation, translated into more than
- Series: Illustrators #5
- Author: Ingman, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0500094136
- Language: English
