Art, Architecture & Design

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486439983Author Ming-Ju SunPage Count 32Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838078331Author Andy CroftsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint This Day in Music BooksPublisher This Day in Music Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310447221Author ZondervanFormat HardbackPage Count 1472Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 1214gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 170mm * 54mm

How to Draw Dogs and Puppies is a step-by-step guide to drawing over 100 different breeds of dogs in pencil and pen-and-ink. Best-selling author J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of dogs with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. The book includes 40...

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage. Heritage is a 'process' that is active and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244689636Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 5mm

Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) is one of the most admired architects of the 20th century. Even today, some 75 years after Gaudi's death, his fanciful, exuberant buildings define Barcelona's cityscape and continue to influence architects, sculptors, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867194791Author Stanislav SzukalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

Learn how to master the art of creating sleek, elegant and chic French interiors with Carolyn Westbrook's The French-Inspired Home. "The French Inspired" has become Carolyn's own signature style. Her stunning plantation house, a sleek urban apartment...

This book is the first comprehensive guide to the historic heart of Brighton and Hove, the greatest of England's seaside resorts. A series of walks trace its development from late medieval fishing settlement to the "Queen of the Watering Places," with a...

Rome's architectural remains date as far back as the city's founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi the capital of the world the largest, most powerful...

In the contemporary world the Islamic community is represented by around 1.4 billion people or twenty-five percent of the global population, from a wide range of ethnic, national linguistic, theological, political and socioeconomic backgrounds. This book...

The two communities of Hampstead and Highgate, perched on London's northern heights, are remarkable for their leafy, atmospheric narrow streets and stunning architecture. They act as a magnet to millionaires and superstars and boast some of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927987124Author Janine VangoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint UPPERCASE publishing incPublisher UPPERCASE publishing inc

Do you know how to draw a square, triangle, and rectangle? Well, then, you know how to draw! Rough: Drawing in 2 Strokes and 3 Moves provides you with a way to start drawing that is based on a very simple observation: the human body, as well as...

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to...

This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late 17th century to join communities already in exile spread far and wide. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024651Author Alison HardieFormat HardbackPage Count 792Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

John Ward (b.1938) has a longstanding reputation as one of Britain's foremost potters, and yet very little has been written about his manifold achievements. Authoritative and enlightening, this will be the first account of Ward's life and work, tracing...

The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.About the AuthorBURNE HOGARTH (1911-1996), hailed as the "Michaelangelo of the comic strip," was...

Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it's spending GBP80m and four years' inquiry into Heathrow's Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645826Author Alice RawsthornFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint JRP EditionsPublisher JRP Editions

"Women are into fashion, men are into style, style is forever" Domenico Dolce Womenswear progresses in leaps and bounds, fuelled by the readiness of women to wear what may at the time be perceived as the radical or outrageous. Not so menswear...

Gordon Strachan, author of Jesus the Master Builder (Floris Books) explores the magnificent structure of Chartres Cathedral, and examines the influences on the medieval master builders.Using Chartres as a starting point, Dr Strachan suggests that the...

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue,...

Go behind the scenes of generations of the British royal family, exploring both the glamour and domestic life inside the spectacular 300-year-old Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is renowned for its architecture, splendid interiors, internationally...

Rituals shape our social relations and are highly significant in all cultures. They define communities and make transformation possible by conveying security and support. In this exhibition catalogue, three up and coming artists - Baptiste Brossard,...

A new collection of vibrant essays to inform, stimulate and inspire every nature lover. Times of darkness offer opportunities to reflect. In Mistletoe Winter, Roy Dennis offers his reflections on the natural world from the past year - from the welcome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399936491Author Duncan WooldridgeFormat PaperbackImprint 1000 WordsPublisher 1000 Words

In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first...

World Cocktail Adventures is a virtual cocktail tour in book form by creative duo Loni Carr and Brett Gramse of The Whiskey Ginger. Each chapter focuses on a different spirit - tequila, whiskey, rum, vodka, gin and speciality - with a total of 40 unique...

A collection of illustrated essays highlights the works of influential Black artists from Washington, DC, from the 1920s to the present In a twentieth century during which modern art largely abandoned beauty as its imperative, a group of Black artists...

The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451496713Author Matthew FrederickFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

In a world desperate for more authentic #content, Nobody Knows What They're Doing is a breath of fresh air that reveals the truths hiding between the lines of Instagram-friendly aphorisms and behind the words of the most inspirational TED talks. An...

Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture- the uniquely strange and exciting buildings built by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting-is a phenomenon as remarkable as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640606302Author Kenneth StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113g

Crewelwork embroidery traditionally features bold striking designs, rich vivid colours and thick textured woollen thread, and these designs are certainly no different. Crewel Inspirations highlights the very best crewelwork has to offer in both design...

On a hot summer night in August of 1973 DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy put on a 'back to school jam' in the recreation room of their apartment block at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx. The rest is history. The birth of hip hop rippled out...

An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen...