This book contains everything you need to know about modern history of dress design, from the corset-free styles of 1920s flappers to the conceptual constructions of modern artists.Since Coco Chanel invented the little black dress in 1926 it has become a staple for a...

This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary variations. It was awardedand Financial Times'and Fashion Book of the Year.Clothes maketh the man. For millions of men across the world the common...

This book contains excellent glimpses of the country's history, diversity, people and places, and the enchantment of the vast land called Pakistan. In fact, this book is a mosaic which comprises as detailed a portrait as is possible within the confines of a single...

This book gathers together, for the first time, every Dior haute couture collection, including also ready-to-wear collections after the arrival of John Galliano (when ready-to-wear presentations took on a new importance), and the first two collections designed by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, appointed...

This book is a poetic and timeless memento, a voyage into the heart of jeweler Van Cleef andamp; Arpels' universe to discover their creations.This opus, arranged as an alphabetical guide, is a veritable A-Z lexicon that revisits the themes and codes of the famous...

This book is the first of its kind about Sadequain's calligraphic masterpieces. It captures the circumstances of the epiphany that lead Sadequain on the holy grail of reinventing the traditional art form that in turn transformed him into a legend and larger than life...

This book of maps helps you navigate the big topics that explain the world: science, history, nature, and space.Maps can help you find your way around more than just places, and knowledge can be shared using more than just words. Using maps, children aged...

This book presents all the information on beauty in question-answer format. Many books have been written on the subject but since beauty happens to be the single most obsession with a vast majority of human beings, this book addresses their most common and immediate...

This book reveals how statistics and probability are fundamental to our everyday life - from advertisements to public-opinion polls, weather forecasts to government policies, scientific research to stock market information. Haim Shapira then presents a myriad of anecdotes, riddles, case studies and practical exercises...

This book surveys the work done by European artists who visited the Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa between 1845 and 1906, and the royal visits by three British Heirs apparent between 1875 and 1906, and unusually the Russian Czarevitch to Lahore in 1891.and The book...

This books explains the fundamentals of printed textile design, from design brief through to the completed collection, and introduces the basics of colour, drawing, composition and repeat with a series of step-by-step exercises and examples.and Printed Textile Design helps to demystify the design process...

This compact volume features over 100 of the most spectacular interiors from across the world, spanning the entire 20th century to the present day. It includes interiors assembled by artists and fashion designers, architects, interior and set-designers, bringing together diverse design talents from Piero...

This comprehensive overview, organized by material and period, allows the reader to distinguish, appraise, and date French jewelry from 1800-1950.This highly accessible guide offers a detailed panorama charting the evolution of French jewelry created between the Consulate period in the 1800s through to the...

This desk reference is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of knowledge on North American bird identification, distribution, behavior, habitat, and conservation concerns available today.More an encyclopedia than a field guide, National Geographic's Complete Birds is a browsable treasure trove of facts. This comprehensive...

This detailed survey presents for the first time an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists' ever-evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early twentieth century to now.From early pioneers to key artists of the present, leading authority and film expert David Curtis offers...

This endlessly informative and inspiring guide to interior design shows how sensory perception is the key to creating a happy place inside your own home. What do you see, hear, and smell when you walk in your front door? Do you feel safe and...

This essential reference covers all aspects of the four cheese styles-including 150 varieties; how to select, serve, savor, and store them; and forty-six recipes from around the world.This comprehensive book provides a complete overview of cheese so readers can recognize the properties of each...

This fully-illustrated history of the world's best comic strip art, including Hy Eisman'sand The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, Charles Schultz'sand Peanutsand (1950), Peyo'sand Smurfsand (1958), Steve Ditko'sand Spidermanand (1962), Jack Kirby'sand Black Pantherand (1966) or Bill Watterson'sand Calvin and Hobbesand (1985), or...

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Monet makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Monet's dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure color, changed the way...

This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides an illuminating insight into the material...

This is a book you can comfortably spend hours with, as you wander up and down the highways and byways of its 33 sections and 192 pages. It is a combination of eyewitness accounts, contemporary photographs and extracts from original texts. There is an...

This is large sized scarce Coffee Table Book with is hard cover binding with 620 pages of 18 x11 inches andamp; weighs about 15.9 lbs.
This is a preowned copy hence cover shows signs of shelf life and minor handling marks but inside is is...

This is the first month-by-month guide to gardening with native plants in a state that follows a unique, nontraditional seasonal rhythm. Beginning in October, when much of California leaves the dry season behind and prepares for its own green "spring", Helen Popper provides detailed,...

This is the story of a district that was little known as recently as the 1980s. In the absence of tarmac road, travel was difficult and only the most intrepid outsiders ventured here. In a word, the entire district of Tharparkar was a well-kept...

This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Charting human endeavour from every angle, History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas, political forces, and technological advances that have shaped...

This love letter to London's most cherished shops celebrates the city's past and present, as well as its diversity and vivaciousness. Illustrator Joel Holland created his first book, NYC Storefronts, because he was missing all the places he couldn't visit in his own hometown...

This magnificent boxed-set features stunning, accordion-fold, color reproductions of Van Gogh's essential works, accompanied by a separate booklet with background and descriptions of each painting Van Gogh's brilliant colors and expressive brush strokes come vibrantly to life in this sumptuous book that features approximately...

This never-before-undertaken project is the first quintessential guide to celebrating Balkrishna Doshi the painter. One of the few pioneers of modern architecture in India and a celebrated post-modern artist, Doshi's practices create a dialogue between a profound Western influence (by working with Le Corbusier...

This new edition of DK's knitting bible takes you from beginner to expert, with hundreds of step-by-step techniques, more than 120 stitch patterns for a variety of knitting stitches, and 20 knitting projects suitable for all abilities.Fully illustrated and easy to use, The Knitting...

This new publication is dedicated to the Baranger Motion Displays of the R. F. Collection housed at the Vitra Design Museum. Motion Displays were conceived as eye-catching and novel moving objects, which - primarily in the US - were used in jewellers' shop-window displays...

This scintillating volume takes readers on an exclusive journey through Paris, guided by Mathilde Favier-the charismatic public relations director at Dior Couture.'Mathilde Favier Pens New Parisian Lifestyle Book: No one embodies the cultural and artistic prowess of Paris quite like Mathilde Favier. The Dior...

This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track!Packed with stunning photography,and The Train Bookand catalogues the development of trains from early steam to diesel engines and electric locomotives, explores in detail iconic trains such as the Palace on Wheels...

This ultimate reference on the legendary Parisian jeweler showcases Chaumet's key creations from 1780 to the present, drawing on unpublished archival material and contemporary designs.Quintessential Parisian jeweler Chaumet has shaped the face of elegance since 1780. This monograph covers all of the company's innovative...

This updated guide to video production features tips on all aspects of filming from camera operation and placement to digital postproduction techniques. New material stresses the fine points of cutting-edge video techniques such as digital effects, the HOTstudio, and posting video on the Internet....

This volume commemorates Vacheron Constantin's uninterrupted 260-year history devoted to watchmaking excellence.Geneva-based Vacheron Constantin has maintained its reputation for producing exceptional timepieces, from its first watch circa 1760 to its extraordinary mechanical watches of today. Highly collectible, these prestigious timepieces are conceived as much...

This volume features 40 speeches with a great emotional impactThe great speeches since post-World War II to the present have marked eras and interpreted feelings, in a continuously evolving world, when faced with the eternal problems, like life and freedom, and also new challenges....

This volume offers unique and previously unpublished insight on the world of jewellery. Calling upon specialists from every creative and intellectual discipline-artist or composer, botanist or perfumer, novelist or philosopher - this reference volume examines jewellery in all of its different facets, from anthropology...

This volume presents vessels, fittings and other objects made in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Yemen from the early Islamic period through to the end of the Ottoman era in the 19th century. The pieces include exquisite platters, serving-vessels, candlesticks and pen-boxes produced for royal...

Throughout his eventful life Ajmal Husain kept a diary of his activities, his art exhibitions in countries throughout the world, and the celebrities he met along the way.He enjoyed showing his scrapbooks to friends and would discuss the biography he planned to write one...

Throughout history, patterns have come in countless permutations of motif, colour-way and scale. Yet what all have in common is the regularity of repetition, that insistent rhythm that animates a flat surface with a sense of movement and vitality and gives it depth. Evident...

Throw away those measuring tools and let your senses guide the way!Cooking begins with the senses, and nobody knows this better than Bilal Bhatti. Before he became @GoldenGully, Bilal grew up learning to cook by paying close attention to his mother in the kitchen....

To have a colour named after you is one of the highest accolades in fashion. Valentino Garavani is one such icon.Since the founding of the House of Valentino in 1950s Rome, Garavani has been celebrated for the desirability of his designs. His stunning gowns...

Today from haute couture to ready-to-wear parkas, puffer coats and backpacks, as well as garments made of neoprene and Mylar are everywhere. But the roots of these ubiquitous items of dress and cutting-edge textiles are rarely acknowledged or understood. Inspired by the so-called heroic...

Trace the epic history of World War 2 across the globe with more than 70 detailed maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. In this stunning visual history book, purpose-made maps tell the story of the Second World War from the...

Travel back in time almost eight million years to explore the roots of the human family tree.Written and authenticated by a team of experts and with a foreword by Professor Alice Roberts,and Evolutionand brings us face to face with our ancestors. Interweaving latest discoveries,...

TThis book contains different types of products and industrial designs for the household and personal use, introducing projects from all over the world, including innovative furniture, lighting and accessories ranging from baskets to bookshelves, carpets, vases, stationary, and many more. Each featured object includes...

TTravel through time to discover the paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects that enrich our world.Are you seeking a lavishly illustrated timeline that showcases a glorious gallery of art from all around the world? Thenand Art Year By Yearand may be the book for you!Over...

Unparalleled variety in style and type: traditional and modern, and everything in between; grand villas and homes with small footprints; posh seaside or rural escapes, resplendent and remote cabins; urban townhouses and dream dwellingsCoverage of projects ranges across most continents, from alpine regions in...

Unprecedented insight into the role of innovative pattern-cutting in contemporary fashion designWritten by a professor at the world-renowned art and design college Central Saint Martins, and developed in collaboration with the fashion programme thereIncludes over 200 illustrations, including key dress designs, photo-collages, innovative pattern-cuttings,...

Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works.Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works...