book.id,book.ts,book.title,book.isbn_13,book.contributor,book.description,book.table_of_contents,book.review_quote,book.pages,book.dimensions,book.publication_date,book.publisher,book.publication_city_country,book.language,book.edition_statement,book.illustrations_note,book.isbn_10,book.bestsellers_rank,book.rating_value,book.sale_price,book.list_price,book.about_author,book.format,book.imprint,book.bnid,book.format_2,book.file_size
226,"2018-01-11 01:17:50",Wales,9780713998931,"Simon Jenkins","From the great citadels of Caernarvon, Harlech, Powis and Beaumaris in the north, to the Victorian glories of Cardiff in the south, St David's cathedral ('the loveliest church in Wales') in the west to the exquisite little hill church of Patrishow in the east, from Plas Newydd above the Menai Straits to the romantic citadel of Carreg Cennan in the heart of the country, the buildings of Wales embody its history and are the equal of any in the British Isles. Simon Jenkins has travelled, it seems, every mile of the country to celebrate, and in some cases to find the very best of them, and irresistibly conveys in this book his enthusiasm for them. Cumulatively they amount to a cultural history of Wales by one of its most devoted sons. Anyone who is visiting Wales or who loves it will want to own this glorious book.",,,304,"160 x 230 x 32mm | 979.75g","27 Jan 2009","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","80 pp integrated colour",0713998938,"190,833",5,,,"Simon Jenkins is Chairman of the National Trust and one of Britain's most prominent journalists. He writes a column for the Guardian, has edited both the Evening Standard and The Times, and has written many books on politics, history and architecture, including England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses, both published by Penguin. His most recent book was Thatcher and Sons. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and lives in London and Aberdyfi.",Hardback,"ALLEN LANE",,,
227,"2018-01-11 01:17:58","Sigurd Lewerentz",9781780750033,"Colin St. John Wilson","This is the only comprehensive monograph of the work of Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975), one of the leading Swedish architects of the twentieth century. Lewerentz was a master of religious architecture and this book includes his major works at Malmo Cemetery, the church of St Peter at Klippan, and Uppsala Cathedral among a definitive catalogue of more than 150 projects researched from the archives of the Stockholm Museum of Architecture. The book also includes an essay on Lewerentz's sacred architecture by the esteemed late architect Colin St John Wilson and the only known piece of writing by Lewerentz - a text on cemetery landscapes.",,,416,"251.46 x 279.4 x 43.18mm | 2,222.59g","04 Jun 2013","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,Reprint,,178075003X,"21,084",4.71,US$95.05,,"Colin St John Wilson (1922-2007) is best known as architect of the British Library in London, an epic project that took 35 years to complete. He was also an influential teacher of architecture, serving as Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University from 1975-1989, and was a prolific collector of modern art. He was knighted in 1998.Gennaro Postiglione (b.1961) is associate professor of interior architecture at the Politechnico di Milano in Italy. He has a specific interest in Nordic architecture and was co-editor of Sverre Fehn: Works (2007).Nicola Flora (b.1961) teaches at the School of Architecture of the University of Camerino in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.Paolo Giardiello (b.1961) teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.",Paperback,"Pall Mall Press",,,
228,"2018-01-11 01:18:07","How to Read Churches",9780847835980,"Denis R McNamara","Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this primer is a must-have for architecture and history buffs, tourists, and churchgoers interested in decoding the styles and symbols of religious buildings. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also who designed it, what kind of congregation it was built for, and why. This practical yet charming handbook is the key to decoding the style, history, evolution, and social significance of religious buildings. Not strictly limited to churches, it also covers abbeys, chapels, and monasteries, among other structures. Organized according to architectural element (windows, domes, arches, etc.), each element is presented in chronological order. Additional chapters explore the architectural influence of geography, history, and various creeds, along with an illustrated timeline showing how, where, and in many cases why certain church features evolved through the centuries. There is also a useful introduction to naming each component of a church, from vaults to buttresses and transepts to apses. All entries are illustrated with period engravings and line drawings. This book will be invaluable for architecture buffs and anyone who has ever wondered why classic New England churches are white with little ornament, why Quaker meetinghouses have no altars, or why Episcopalians traditionally favored the Gothic style.",,,256,"129.54 x 162.56 x 20.32mm | 385.55g","31 Jul 2012","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,New.,"575 COLOR LINE DRAWINGS",0847835987,"125,540",3.86,US$18.43,,"Denis McNamara is a former lecturer in architectural history at the University of Virginia and has written two books on Christian architecture. He is currently assistant director of the Liturgical Institute, University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois.",Paperback,,,,
229,"2018-01-11 01:18:11","Universe of Stone",9780099499442,"Philip Ball","In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows. These were the first Gothic churches, the crowning example of which was the cathedral of Chartres: a revolution in thought embodied in stone and glass, and a bridge between the ancient and modern worlds. In Universe of Stone, Philip Ball explains the genesis and development of the Gothic style. He argues that it signified a profound change in the social, intellectual and theological climate of Western Christendom. As the church represented nothing less than a vision of heaven on earth, this shift in architectural style marked the beginning of the argument between faith and reason which continues today, and of a scientific view of the world that threatened to dispense with God altogether.",,"""[Ball] has a knack for translating difficult concepts into lucid prose: he offers a refreshingly sceptical guided tour of Chartres Cathedral and the intellectual contents that helped produce it"" Daily Telegraph ""Lucid and resplendent...a model of explanatory writing"" -- John Carey Sunday Times ""Consistently and healthily sceptical ... an intelligent, enjoyable and well-produced book which deserves a wide audience"" Times Literary Supplement ""An original and imaginative synthesis of art history and history of science"" History Today ""Lucid and resplendent"" The Times",336,"128 x 196 x 26mm | 339.99g","30 Apr 2009","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Illustrations, maps",0099499444,"214,694",3.76,,,"Philip Ball writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at Nature. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything and Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler.",Paperback,VINTAGE,,,
230,"2018-01-11 01:18:20","The English Cathedral",9781858945903,"Peter Marlow","Among the most magnificent buildings of England are its Anglican cathedrals, great symbols of spiritual and architectural power. No one can fail to marvel at Durham's incomparable Romanesque masterpiece, the elegant stylistic unity of Salisbury, the world-famous stained glass of Canterbury or the striking Gothic scissor arch at Wells. In this breathtaking new book, award-winning Magnum photographer Peter Marlow has captured the nave of each of England's 42 Anglican cathedrals. Taken in natural light at dawn, usually looking towards the east end of the building, these remarkable images bring into sharp relief the full splendour of the architecture, whatever the style. Marlow's spellbinding photographs are accompanied by his commentary on the project, including sketches and preparatory shots; an introduction by curator Martin Barnes on the tradition of church photography in England, particularly the work of Frederick Evans and Edwin Smith; and a concise summary of each cathedral interior by architectural historian John Goodall.",,"'Peter Marlow's hymn to the formidable structures that dot our landscape ""like frozen music"".' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE 'A thorough documentation of some unique and enduring architecture - this is a worthy and noble project.' - AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER MAGAZINE 'Your comprehensive guide.' - PERIOD LIVING 'The formality and the detail of the photos give this traditional pictorial subject matter a welcome new twist.' - MARTIN PARR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2012 '... causes us to reflect on the spiritual and architectural power of these magnificent buildings' - SAGA MAGAZINE 'Marvelously uplifting book' - THE FIELD 'A book to pass down through the generations, just as our forefathers left us their great cathedrals' - FRIENDS OF RIPON CATHEDRAL 'Breath-taking' - FRIENDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL",128,"286 x 352 x 20mm | 1,437.88g","11 Dec 2012","Merrell Publishers Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"50 illustrations, 45 in colour, 1 map",1858945909,"214,248",4.5,US$67.38,US$85.00,"PETER MARLOW has been a member of the international photographers' collective Magnum Photos for more than 30 years. He has exhibited his work throughout Europe. MARTIN BARNES is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. JOHN GOODALL is Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine. His book The English Castle was published in 2011.",Hardback,,,,
231,"2018-01-11 01:18:25","The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800",9780300064650,"Professor Sheila S. Blair","Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art-the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, and the Tahmasp Shahnama-were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early thirteenth century to the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This beautiful book surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era. Conceived as a sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250, by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar, the book follows the general format of the first volume, with chronological and regional divisions and architecture treated separately from the other arts. The authors describe over two hundred works of Islamic art of this period and also investigate broader social and economic contexts, considering such topics as function, patronage, and meaning. They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, techniques, and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world; the one exception was the Maghrib, an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions, where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons. By the sixteenth century, say the authors, the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful, and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles. The authors conclude with a provocative essay on the varied legacies of Islamic art in Europe and the Islamic lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.",,,368,"215.9 x 281.94 x 25.4mm | 1,542.21g","01 Oct 1996","Yale University Press","New Haven, United States",English,Reprint,"150 b-w + 150 color illus.",0300064659,"359,774",3.95,US$45.44,US$46.50,"Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom are area editors of Islam for The Dictionary of Art.",Paperback,,,,
232,"2018-01-11 01:18:29","England's Thousand Best Churches",9781846146640,"Simon Jenkins","Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavishly illustrated with colour photos from the Country Life archive. Jenkins contends that these churches house a gallery of vernacular art without equal in the world. Here, he brings that museum to public attention.",,"'Masterly, perhaps a masterpiece' Independent Books of the Year",880,"160 x 232 x 48mm | 1,542.21g","03 Jul 2013","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,184614664X,"201,525",4.27,US$56.01,,"Simon Jenkins writes for The Times and the London Evening Standard - both of which he has previously edited. In 1998 he was voted Journalist of the Year.",Hardback,"ALLEN LANE",,,
233,"2018-01-11 01:18:33","Sacred Sites of Burma",9789749863602,"Donald M. Stadtner","The sacred sites of Burma are amongst the most beautiful and spectacular in all of Asia. However, the fame and sacredness of these holy places rests almost solely on the myths and legends that surround their founding and the origins of their relics. The Buddha himself presented strands of his hair to two travelling merchants in Bodh Gaya, India. The pair returned to Burma where these 'living hairs' are venerated as the country's most sacred relics, now enshrined in the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. It appears that this myth arose amongst the Mon but today it is known throughout the land. Similar myths and legends abound in Burma, always in connection with a sacred site, whether it be the cast bronze Mahamuni Buddha in Mandalay, the Buddha footprints found at Magwe or curious geological phenomena such as the Golden Rock at Kyaik-hti-yo. These Buddhist tales can arise and evolve with astounding speed and creativity drawing on a variety of sources ranging from local folklore to Sri Lankan chronicles. The author uncovers the evidence for and traces the development of these intricate myths across a wide spectrum of Burmese sacred sites ranging from the Mon State in lower Burma to those dotted around the city of Yangon, to Pagan and Mandalay in upper Burma as well as considering the areas of Shan influence around Inle lake. Furthermore, the author illustrates how sacred sites can emerge with remarkable frequency in our own time with only those that possess myths catching the imagination of the Buddhist faithful having any chance of long term survival. This book therefore is an essential read for anyone interested in the development of Buddhism in its many aspects and facets, be they its art, archeology, history or belief.",,,300,"170 x 232 x 22mm | 938.93g","16 Apr 2011","RIVER BOOKS",Thailand,English,,"350 colour illustrations",9749863607,"212,268",3.8,US$35.06,,,Paperback,,,,
234,"2018-01-11 01:18:35","The Vatican Heresy",9781591431787,"Robert Bauval","In 16th century Italy, in the midst of the Renaissance, two powerful movements took hold. The first, the Hermetic Movement, was inspired by an ancient set of books housed in the library of Cosimo de' Medici and written by the Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus. The movement expounded the return of the ""true religion of the world"" based on a form of natural magic that could draw down the powers of the heavens and incorporate them into statues and physical structures. The other movement, the Heliocentric Movement launched by Copernicus, was a direct challenge to the Vatican's biblical interpretation of a geocentric world system. Declared a heresy by the Pope, those who promoted it risked the full force of the Inquisition. Exploring the meeting point of these two movements, authors Robert Bauval and Chiara Hohenzollern reveal how the most outspoken and famous philosophers, alchemists, and scientists of the Renaissance, such as Giordano Bruno and Marsilio Ficino, called for a Hermetic reformation of the Christian religion by building a magical utopic city, an architectural version of the heliocentric system. Using contemporary documents and the latest cutting-edge theses, the authors show that this Temple of the Sun was built in Rome, directly in front of the Vatican's Basilica of St. Peter. They explain how the Vatican architect Bernini designed St. Peter's Square to reflect the esoteric principles of the Hermetica and how the square is a detailed representation of the heliocentric system. Revealing the magical architectural plan masterminded by the Renaissance's greatest minds, including Bernini, Jesuit scholars, Queen Christine of Sweden, and several popes, the authors expose the ultimate heresy of all time blessed by the Vatican itself.","Acknowledgments  Introduction: Hiding the Truth in Plain Sight   1 The True Religion of the World  2 The Hermetic Movement, Part I  3 The Hermetic Movement, Part II  4 The City of the Sun  5 Urbiet Orbi: To the City and to the World  Postscript The Jesuit Pope  Appendix 1 Campanella, the Rosicrucians, and the Miraculous Birth of the Sun King  Appendix 2 The Ellipse of St. Peter's Square by Sandro Zicari, Ph.D.  Notes  Bibliography  Index","""In this enchanting book, Robert Bauval and Chiara Hohenzollern reveal an astonishing fact hiding in plain sight. Surely thousands of visitors to the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square over the past three centuries have been puzzled by the gigantic ancient Egyptian obelisk featured in its center. Through meticulous research, The Vatican Heresy illuminates the profoundly evolutionary adventurers who employed deep symbolic insights and astute political maneuvering to construct a talismanic Hermetic City of the Sun in the heart of the citadel of Christendom. Read The Vatican Heresy. . . . I couldn't put it down."" * Thomas Brophy, Ph.D., coauthor of Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt and Imhote * ""With his usual care and attention to detail, Robert Bauval spins out the thread that joins the solar religion of pharaonic Egypt to the utopian hopes of the fading Renaissance. His theory climaxes with the dramatic and dangerous project of a pope (Urban VIII), a polymath (Kircher), an architect (Bernini), and an exiled queen (Christina). Their dream was of a united Christendom orbiting around Rome; their method, the marriage of Hermetic philosophy with the new astronomy, through symbolic architecture. Like Bauval's other books about times and places when science and magic were one, The Vatican Heresy arouses curiosity, disbelief, nostalgia, and finally hope."" * Joscelyn Godwin, Ph.D., author of The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance and Athanasius Kircher's * ""Robert Bauval is a brilliant investigator of the hidden corners of history, and he has surpassed himself with The Vatican Heresy. It is a true time bomb of a book revealing stunning intrigues that have shaped the modern world and that call into question our most fundamental perceptions of the role of the Church of Rome."" * Graham Hancock, author of War God and Fingerprints of the Gods * ""It looks like Robert Bauval (now with coauthor Chiara Hohenzollern) has done it again, revealing that not just the pyramids but the Vatican itself is a celebration of sacred architecture. A fascinating theory and very timely."" * Adrian G. Gilbert, coauthor of The Orion Mystery and author of Secrets of the Stone of Destiny *",304,"149.86 x 226.06 x 22.86mm | 498.95g","13 Mar 2014","Inner Traditions Bear and Company","Rochester, United States",English,,"Includes 16-page color insert and 70 b&w illustrations",1591431786,"254,640",3.56,US$17.09,US$18.00,"Egyptian-born Robert Bauval began studying Egyptology in 1983. The author of The Orion Mystery and coauthor of Black Genesis and Breaking the Mirror of Heaven, his theories have been the subject of several major TV documentaries on BBC, ABC, NBC, FOX, Discovery, and the History Channel. He lives in Malaga, Spain. Chiara Hohenzollern is a journalist who specializes in science and history. She lives in Rome, Italy.",Paperback,"Bear & Company",,,
235,"2018-01-11 01:18:44","How to Read Churches",9781408128367,"Denis R. Mcnamara","This handy, easy-to-carry book provides the reader with a strictly visual approach to reading the architecture of churches. Covering all the ecclesiastical building types of Western Christianity, readers are taken on a journey tracing the development of the church building from the simple stone halls of the Anglo-Saxon period right through to the eclectic designs of the nineteenth century. Another addition to the bestselling How to Read series, How to Read Churches is a practical guide, showing readers how to search for architectural clues that tell hidden stories expressing the liturgical function and spiritual symbolism of a church building. The perfect companion to How to Read Buildings.",,,256,"134 x 166 x 20mm | 421.84g","01 Jul 2011","Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Illustrations (some col.)",1408128365,"256,984",3.84,US$15.65,US$15.99,"Denis R. McNamara holds a BA in the history of art from Yale University and a PhD in architectural history from the University of Virginia. He is the author of two books on Christian architecture and is currently assistant director of The Liturgical Institute, University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois.",Paperback,"Herbert Press Ltd",,,
236,"2018-01-11 01:18:52","Rosslyn Chapel Decoded",9781780284927,"Alan Butler","Rosslyn Chapel is a deeply enigmatic 15th-century Gothic masterpiece, situated near Edinburgh. Although generally referred to as a 'chapel' and acting as a local parish church these days, Rosslyn is actually much more than either - and in fact most people who have studied the site in detail come to the conclusion that those who created the structure in the 15th century were not, in reality, intent on building a Christian church at all. In fact, nothing at Rosslyn is what it seems. With its overpowering air of mystery, its superlative stone carvings and its strong Templar and Freemasonic connections, Rosslyn represents one of the most absorbing historical puzzles in Britain. The discovery of new evidence by the authors puts a new slant on the motivations of those who decided to create a New Jerusalem in the Scottish Lowlands. The signs pointed the authors to a lost holy relic - the skull of St Matthew the Evangelist, in whose name the chapel is dedicated. There is startling evidence that this skull came to Rosslyn in the early 15th century, brought there by polymath, librarian and all-round genius Sir Gilbert Hay, who also put together a substantial library. What follows is no less than an adventure, using the clues from the lost books to locate St Matthew's skull - now in Washington, DC. The authors also embark on a thorough examination of Rosslyn Chapel's credentials, both a Christian church and as an icon of the impending Renaissance, a reconstruction of King Solomon's Temple and an astronomical observatory - all suffused with ancient beliefs that would have had the chapel's builders burned at the stake if their true motivations had been discovered.",,,304,"134.62 x 213.36 x 22.86mm | 340.19g","03 May 2013","Watkins Media","London, United Kingdom",English,,"col. Illustrations",1780284926,"275,535",4,US$14.96,US$21.95,"Alan Butler has spent 30 years immersed in world history, writing books delving into neglected recesses of the past. Butler is an expert in ancient astronomy and astrology and proficient in interpreting historical symbolism of the sort represented by Rosslyn Chapel. John Ritchie has travelled the world as film cameraman and a stills photographer. These days he is a broadcaster and a successful historian. He brings to this book his keen eye, a peerless knowledge of Scottish history and a trust on the part of its custodians that have given Butler and Ritchie unrivalled access to Rosslyn Chapel.",Hardback,"Watkins Publishing",,,
237,"2018-01-11 01:19:03","Death and Burial in the Roman World",9780801855078,"J.M.C. Toynbee","Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem-Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.",,"Throughout this book one is continuously conscious of the richness of the material and the difficulties the author must have encountered in trying to keep her work within manageable proportions. This she has accomplished in masterly fashion, giving us enough of each topic to prevent her treatment ever being described as summary, and yet making us aware of unresolved questions and filled with the desire to know the answers... This is most certainly a book which will inspire further research, perhaps in the form of more detailed studies of burial rights in individual provinces and their development from earlier native customs which were neither Greek nor Etruscan. * Times Literary Supplement *",336,"146 x 220 x 22mm | 419.99g","04 Oct 1996","JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS","Baltimore, MD, United States",English,Reprint,"91 Illustrations, black and white",0801855071,"311,573",3.71,US$30.59,US$30.99,"J. M. C. Toynbee was Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University and an honorary Fellow of Newnham College. Before her death in 1985, she served as a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Numismatic Society, and as a member of the faculty of the British School in Rome. She authored numerous articles and books, including Art in Roman Britain, The Art of the Romans, Roman Historical Portraits, and Roman Life and Art in Britain.",Paperback,,,,
238,"2018-01-11 01:19:12","The Gargoyle Book",9780486447544,"Lester Bridham","Amid the soaring grandeur of arches and spires lurks a more down-to-earth architectural flourish: the grinning head of a gargoyle. Singly and clustered, these intriguing creatures form as distinctive an element of Gothic architecture as the flying buttress. Nowhere are they more prominent than along the walls of French cathedrals, and this magnificently illustrated volume prowls the ramparts of those medieval buildings to discover hundreds of authentic gargoyle carvings. According to tradition, the gargoyles were posted as sentries, to ward off malevolent spirits and to remind parishioners of the evil beyond the church doors. Author Lester Burbank Bridaham takes a more optimistic view. Noting the stone guardians' whimsical nature, he discusses the artisanal ingenuity involved in their creation. He also points out how they represented a rare sense of freedom in the Middle Ages, in terms of public satire and unbridled artistic enthusiasm. As this book reveals, the timeless appeal of the gargoyle whether symbolic, spiritual, decorative, or fanciful continues to captivate the imagination.""",,,224,"210.8 x 276.9 x 10.2mm | 680.4g","04 Aug 2006","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",0486447545,"310,857",4.22,US$28.22,,,Paperback,,,,
239,"2018-01-11 01:19:13","Sacred Spaces",9780714868950,"James Pallister","A ground-breaking and enlightening exploration of the structures which elevate architecture to spirituality.Sacred Spaces showcases 30 of the most breath-taking, innovative, iconic and undiscovered examples of contemporary religious architecture, including work by well-known architects alongside emerging designers.Spanning all major religions and places of worship from intimate, reflective chapels and cemeteries to dramatic cathedrals and memorials, Sacred Spaces documents each project with lavish-in-depth photography and drawings and texts by James Pallister that provide a modern historical context. An inspiring collection and thorough survey, the buildings in Sacred Spaces will appeal to architects and designers as well as the general public intrigued by creative culture, religion and spirituality.",,"""Beautifully photographed, and elegantly elucidated by James Pallister, Sacred Spaces is a field report from the cult of Corbusier... Pallister has captured their enduring aspirations - and their fleeting perfection.""-Washington Post ""The great strength of this anthology is the detailed coverage of every project... Combine with lucid layouts and high production values to make this a covetable volume...""-Architects Newspaper ""Gorgeous... An elegant,a attractive book... A seductive collection of buildings... The pictures are superb.""-Icon - Edwin Heathcote ""Pallster's pertinently and lavishly illustrated new book comes as a revelation... So many unexpected glories... A compilation that provokes fresh thinking.""-The Tablet ""Ground breaking and enlightening... Spectacular photography, drawings and accompanying texts.""-Wallpaper.com",240,"256 x 298 x 28mm | 1,879.97g","20 Apr 2015","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0714868957,"421,273",3.5,US$61.19,US$69.96,"James Pallister is a journalist and publisher with interests in, amongst other things, architecture, design, technology and publishing. He worked at the Architects' Journal, where he was variously Publications Editor, Senior Editor and Feature Writer. He has written for titles including Creative Review, Eye, Grafik, Computer Arts and the Independent and has lectured and taught at the Illustrative Festival in Berlin, at the Architectural Association, London South Bank University and at the University of Sheffield. Awards include two British Society of Magazine Editors Awards and the 2013 LSL Architectural Writer of the Year Award.",Hardback,,,,
240,"2018-01-11 01:19:15","The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals",9781780289618,"Richard Stemp","Who is depicted in that stained glass window? What is the significance of those geometric figures? Why are there fierce-looking beasts carved amidst all that beauty? Is there a deeper purpose behind the play of light and space in the nave? Why is there a pelican on the lectern and ornate foliage on the pillars? The largely illiterate medieval audience could read the symbols of churches and cathedrals and recognise the meanings and stories deliberately encoded into them. For worshippers these were places of religious education and an awe-inspiring feast that satisfied both the senses and the soul. Today, in an age less attuned to iconography, such places of worship are often seen merely as magnificent works of architecture. This book restores the lost spiritual meaning of these fine and fascinating buildings.The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals provides a three-part illustrated key by which modern visitors can understand the layout, fabric and decorative symbolism of Christian sacred structures - thereby bringing back to life their original atmosphere of awe and sanctity.",,,224,"182.88 x 231.14 x 17.78mm | 368g","19 Jul 2016","Watkins Media","London, United Kingdom",English,,170,1780289618,"487,995",4.14,US$18.54,US$19.95,"Richard Stemp studied Natural Sciences and History of Art at the University of Cambridge, and has a Ph.D in Italian Renaissance sculpture. After a year at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, he now divides his time between art history and acting. He teaches in London for the National Gallery, Tate and Buckingham Palace, as well as on site in museums and churches across Italy for Art History Abroad. He wrote and presented the TV series ""Art in the National Gallery"" and ""Tate Modern"" for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and is the author of several books, including The Secret Language of the Renaissance.",Paperback,"Watkins Publishing",,,
241,"2018-01-11 01:19:26","At Home",9780552777353,"Bill Bryson","What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Norfolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower, from scurvy to body-snatching,from bedbugs to the Industrial Revolution, and just about everything else that has ever happened, resulting in one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.",,"""A work of constant delight and discovery...His great skill is to make daily life simultaneously strange and familiar, and in so doing, help us to recognise ourselves. A treasure: don't leave home without it"" -- Judith Flanders * Sunday Telegraph * ""Enchanting... Bryson tackled science in his brilliant A Short History of Nearly Everything. This new book could as easily be categorised as 'a short history of nearly everything else'... extraordinarily entertaining"" -- Antonia Senior * The Times * ""Not just hugely readable but a genuine pageturner... None of these things, needless to say, are as easy as Bryson in his ever-genial way makes them seem"" -- James Walton * Daily Telegraph * ""Entertaining, fact-packed... He is a cheery, idiosyncratic guide, eclectic rather than scholarly, a true populariser. At Home will have every reader eyeing home rather differently"" * Financial Times * ""The much-loved writer takes the attention to detail that made A Short History of Nearly Everything such a fantastic guide to all things science, and applies it to our homes. Written in his laid-back style, this is a wonderful celebration of what makes a house a home"" * News of the World *",704,"110 x 178 x 44mm | 340.19g","17 Jan 2012","Transworld Publishers Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0552777358,"7,276",3.96,US$14.22,US$20.75,"Bill Bryson is much loved for his bestselling travel books, from The Lost Continent to Down Under, but Notes from a Small Island has earned a particularly special place in the nation's heart (a national poll for World Book Day in 2003 voted it the book that best represents Britain). His acclaimed A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. He has now returned to live in the UK with his wife and family. www.billbryson.co.uk",Paperback,"Black Swan",,,
244,"2018-01-11 01:19:31","The Poetics of Space",9780143107521,"Gaston Bachelard","Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.Houses and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests and wardrobes; nests and shells; nooks and corners: no space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries.With an introduction by acclaimed philosopher Richard Kearney and a foreword by author Mark Z. Danielewski.",,"Praise for Gaston Bachelard: ""[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible - he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ...""- J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books ""[Bachelard] reminds me of skilled chess players who take the biggest pieces with pawns.""-Michel Foucault (trans.) Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves ""Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. And it's a monster. Dazzling.""-Washington Post Book World ""An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book."" - The Wall Street Journal Praise for Gaston Bachelard: ""[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..."" J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books ""[Bachelard] reminds me of skilled chess players who take the biggest pieces with pawns.""-Michel Foucault (trans.) Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski'sHouse of Leaves ""Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. Danielewski'sHouse of Leaves, the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. And it's a monster. Dazzling.""-Washington Post Book World ""An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book."" -The Wall Street Journal"" Praise for Gaston Bachelard: ""[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..."" J.G. Weightman, ""The New York Times Review of Books"" ""[Bachelard] reminds me of skilled chess players who take the biggest pieces with pawns.""-Michel Foucault (trans.) Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski's""House of Leaves"" """"""Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. Danielewski's""House of Leaves,"" the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. And it's a monster. Dazzling.""-""Washington Post Book World"" ""An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book."" -""The Wall Street Journal""""",288,"129.54 x 185.42 x 22.86mm | 226.8g","15 Oct 2015","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"Revised ed.",,0143107526,"3,892",4.18,US$15.26,US$16.99,"The son two of shoemakers, Gaston Bachelard had an illustrious academic career at the Sorbonne, eventually gaining the Legion d'Honneur and the Grand Prix National des Lettres. His work has influenced intellectual titans like Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Althusser. Mark Z. Danielewski is best known for his striking debut novel, House of Leaves.Richard Kearney is the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College.",Paperback,"PENGUIN CLASSICS",,,
245,"2018-01-11 01:19:42","Rock the Shack",9783899554663,"S Ehmann","From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains, by the sea, or in the woods, this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature. For the first time in the history of humankind, more people live in cities than in the country. Yet, at the same time, more and more city dwellers are yearning for rural farms, mountain cabins, or seaside homes. These kinds of refuges offer modern men and women a promise of what urban centers usually cannot provide: quiet, relaxation, being out of reach, getting back to basics, feeling human again. Rock the Shack is a survey of such contemporary refuges from around the world--from basic to luxury. The book features a compelling range of sparingly to intricately furnished cabins, cottages, second homes, tree houses, transformations, shelters, and cocoons. The look of the included structures from the outside is just as important as the view from inside. What these diverse projects have in common is an exceptional spirit that melds the uniqueness of a geographic location with the individual character of the building's owner and architect.",,,239,"246.38 x 304.8 x 25.4mm | 1,428.81g","28 Feb 2013","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,"10. Aufl.","Zahlr. farb. Abbildungen",3899554663,"7,477",4.05,US$41.81,US$59.99,,Hardback,,,,
247,"2018-01-11 01:19:51","Tiny Homes",9780936070520,"Lloyd Kahn","There's a grassroots movement in tiny homes these days. The real estate collapse, the economic downturn, burning out on 12-hour workdays - many people are rethinking their ideas about shelter - seeking an alternative to high rents, or a lifelong mortgage debt to a bank on an overpriced home. Homes on land, homes on wheels, homes on the road, homes on water, even homes in the trees. There are also studios, saunas, garden sheds, and greenhouses. There are 1,300 photos, showing a rich variety of small homemade shelters, and there are stories (and thoughts and inspirations) of the owner-builders who are on the forefront of this new trend in downsizing and self-sufficiency. You can buy a ready-made tiny home, build your own, get a kit or pre-fab, or live in a bus, houseboat, or other movable shelter. Some cities have special ordinances for building ""in-law"" or ""granny flats"" in the back yard. There are innovative solutions in cities, such as the ""capsules"" in Tokyo. If you're thinking of scaling back, you'll find plenty of inspiration shown by builders, designers, architects, dreamers, artists, road gypsies, and water dwellers who've achieved a measure of freedom and independence by taking shelter into their own hands.",,".."".our friend Lloyd Kahn's beautiful book, Tiny Homes."" --Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing ""Tiny Homes is an amazing collection. ...The homes might be tiny but your inspiration is huge."" --Richard Zanuck, Film Producer .."".a quirky photo-rich book that preaches the benefits of a 'grassroots movement to scale things back.'"" --Jeffery Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal .."".a glorious portfolio of quirky makers and dreamers..."" --Penelope Green, New York Times ""Before McMansions, before the counter culture was granite and marble, there was Lloyd Kahn, champion of the hand-built house . . . progenitor of the new do-it-yourself movement"" --Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times ""The common thread that weaves between the stories is the builders' immense pride of place, a drive for independence and a vision that, when little goes to waste, life can have greater meaning."" --HomeGrown.Org "" ...a refreshing view into the wonderful world of small houses."" --Watershed Sentinel, BC, Canada .."".splendid photos of home exteriors, interiors and landscapes..."" --Urban Times ""What these structures might lack in square footage they more than make up for in economy, character and appeal..."" --U-T San Diego",228,"228.6 x 304.8 x 20.32mm | 1,020.58g","13 Mar 2015","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,Original,"colour and black and white",0936070528,"73,759",4.15,US$28.28,US$28.95,"""I started building almost 50 years ago, and have lived in a self-built home ever since. If I'd been able to buy a wonderful old good-feeling house, I might have never started building. But it was always cheaper to build than to buy, and by building myself, I could design what I wanted and use materials I wanted to live with. I set off to learn the art of building in 1960. I liked the whole process immensely. Hammering nails. Framing -- delineating space. Nailing down the sub-floor, the roof decking. It's a thrill when you first step on the floor you've just created. Ideally I'd have worked with a master carpenter long enough to learn the basics, but there was never time. I learned from friends and books and by blundering my way into a process that required a certain amount of competence. My perspective was that of a novice, a homeowner -- rather than a pro. As I learned, I felt that I could tell others how to build, or at least get them started on the path to creating their own homes. Through the years I've personally gone from post and beam to geodesic domes to stud frame construction. It's been a constant learning process, and this has led me into investigating many methods of construction -- I'm interested in them all. For five years, the late '60s to early '70s, I built geodesic domes. I got into being a publisher by producing Domebook One in 1970 and Domebook 2 in 1971. I then gave up on domes (as homes) and published our namesake Shelter in 1973. We've published books on a variety of subjects over the years, and returned to our roots with Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter in 2004, Builders of the Pacific Coast, and The Barefoot Architect in 2008. Building is my favorite subject. Even in this day and age, building a house with your own hands can save you a ton of money (I've never had a mortgage) and -- if you follow it through -- you can get what you want in a home."" --Lloyd Kahn",Paperback,,,,
249,"2018-01-11 01:19:57","The Best of Grand Designs",9780007485628,"Kevin McCloud","A complete celebration of Britain's favourite architectural show.Grand Designs is broadcast in over 130 countries and regularly gleans 5 million viewers in the UK. Its success, says Kevin, is due to 'good old-fashioned story telling; of joy and sorrow, torment and triumph, expressed tangibly in the making of a building'.To celebrate fourteen glorious years of film-making, 100 editions of Grand Designs Magazine, 100 separate programmes and ten years of hosting the Stirling Prize, Kevin now delves into the archives to highlight his favourite projects. The Best of Grand Designs charts where domestic architecture has come from, and is moving to, in the first decade or so of a new millennium. And it places people at the centre of the stories of these buildings.Each project is supported by beautiful photography, building plans and Kevin's own personal analysis, together with commentary from his long-time collaborator, Isabel Allen.From the off-grid ecological approach of woodsman Ben Law in Sussex to the quirky experimentalism of Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till's straw bale house in London, Kevin demonstrates how Grand Designs continues to contribute to television history and why it provides an important legacy for good house design.",,,272,"198 x 248 x 26mm | 1,102.22g","01 Oct 2012","HarperCollins Publishers","London, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","(150 colour photographs)",000748562X,"104,345",4.24,US$37.55,US$37.76,"Kevin McCloud is the presenter of Channel 4's BAFTA nominated `Grand Designs', which has now covered over 100 projects. He has also hosted the annual coverage of the Stirling Prize and made series about the Grand Tour, urban regeneration, the slums of Mumbai and his shed.A building historian and trained designer by background, Kevin has also written extensively about architecture, decoration, design, lighting, colour, sustainability and his shed. His day job is making television programmes. His other day job is running Hab Housing, a green development business he founded. Kevin is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.",Hardback,Collins,,,
251,"2018-01-11 01:20:05",Shelter,9781921383885,"Kara Rosenlund","Driving down a dirt track one day photographer, stylist and adventurer Kara Rosenlund came across a beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse. Its lonely, worn loveliness kindled a passion in Kara to photograph and celebrate Australia's authentic, intriguing rural homes and the people who live in them. As she travelled the country, documenting raw and real interiors and landscapes, she found shelter - under the roofs of beach shacks, grand homesteads, sheep stations and shipping containers, and in the welcome of strangers.",,,272,"219 x 297 x 27mm | 1,652g","01 Mar 2016","Penguin Books Australia","Camberwell, Australia",English,,,1921383887,"10,838",4.36,US$40.13,US$54.99,"Kara Rosenlund is an Australian photographer, stylist, adventurer and travelling vintage wares retailer. She was the youngest person to win the much acclaimed 'Canon Australian Institute of Professional Photography 'AIPP Photographer of the Year' title, and built a successful freelance career taking photographs for magazines and advertising campaigns. Her work has also been included in many prestigious exhibitions and acquired in permanent collections both locally and abroad, most notably a solo exhibition at the Sydney Opera House. Relocating from Sydney to London in 2007, she pursued her love for interiors through prop styling, sourcing and buying throughout Europe. Returning to Australia in 2010 she created the much loved 'Travelling Wares' caravan pop up - housed in a 1956 caravan called Frankie, touring the nation selling utilitarian vintage pieces for the home. Kara also teaches popular Vignette styling classes at Megan Morton's The School. She was recently named by UK interiors 'bible' Elle Decoration as 'A Modern Day Martha Stewart' and can be found at kararosenlund.com.",Hardback,Lantern,,,
252,"2018-01-11 01:20:11","My Cool Shed",9781862059337,"Jane Field-Lewis","Building on the success of my cool caravan and my cool campervan in 2010 and 2011, this follow-up book celebrates the humble and not so humble shed, from artists' studios to beach huts, and the diverse ways in which owners are styling them. my cool shed features 35 sheds, small cabins, garden rooms, beach huts, modern architectural mini masterpieces and other small spaces given purpose by their owners to pursue their hobbies, careers, creative endeavours or just to find some peace and solitude. The book includes high-quality stylish photography to show a wide range of well styled and elegant sheds, cabins, dens and hidewaways in attractive locations. The owners' stories and accompanying style notes offer insight as well as inspiration. This is not a 'how to' book, although a sourcebook will be included, but more of a 'feel good' book and provider of inspiration.",,"""All in all, it's a very good eye-candy ride through the world of tiny cabins and shed."" -RelaxShacks.com",160,"198 x 232 x 18mm | 699.99g","06 Dec 2013","PAVILION BOOKS","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Full colour throughout",1862059330,"23,680",3.91,US$21.98,US$24.95,"Jane Field-Lewis is a London-based stylist working in photography, film and TV. She is the co-author of my cool caravan and my cool campervan, and the author of my cool shed and The Anatomy of Sheds, her new book on stylish sheds, cabins and retreats. She is also the creator and creative consultant and stylist behind the hit C4 series Amazing Spaces. She has an enduring love for both people and style, believing the two are closely entwined. Her career is based on the aesthetic, whether high- or low-style, natural or created, and across people and objects.",Hardback,,,,
253,"2018-01-11 01:20:19","Nano House",9780500342732,"Phyllis Richardson","Drawing on the success of \"XS\" series, \"Nano House\" presents 43 examples of the most innovative, most ingenious and most responsible designs for small-scale (less than 75m2) houses set in a variety of contexts. Each house, shown in texts, photographs and plans, is an object lesson in domestic design. Using digital tools, sustainable materials and new prefabrication technologies, all these projects offer exciting and realistic solutions for houses where space is at a premium, nature must be preserved or accommodation created for those who need it most.",,"...Provides a fine survey for architects, designers, and homeowners alike. Provides a fine survey for architects, designers, and homeowners alike. Small is sexier. Small is sexier. "" Small is sexier.",224,"194 x 206 x 26mm","12 Sep 2011","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"358 illustrations, 335 in colour",0500342733,"94,159",3.37,US$20.91,US$29.95,,Hardback,,,,
255,"2018-01-11 01:20:24","Iconic Australian Houses 70/80/90",9781741968965,"Karen McCartney","In this follow-up to the design classic `50/60/70 Iconic Australian Houses`, Karen McCartney, founding editor of interiors magazine `Inside Out`, has compiled a selection of significant examples of Australian houses of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, each brilliantly photographed and with a depth of coverage rarely seen before. Featured architects include Richard Leplastrier, Glenn Murcutt and Wood Marsh. A detailed introduction places the period in social, historical and architectural context, before each of the selected houses is individually reviewed in an informed and engaging style. In each example the relationship between the architect and owner is discussed, as is the linking of the building to its site, materials and architectural detailing. The author has interviewed many architects and owners for their personal insights. Each study includes a feature on the interior decoration and a discussion of designers and manufacturers of iconic furniture, fittings and fabrics. `70/80/90 Iconic Australian Houses` features stunning photography by Michael Wee, both panoramic and detailed, throughout. The homes from these three decades form a significant part of Australian architectural history. Key points a much anticipated companion piece to the very successful `50/60/70 Iconic Australian Houses`, now a classic in this category and still selling well 4 years after publication. It features 15 houses designed by acclaimed architects including Richard Leplastrier, Glenn Murcutt and Wood Marsh. It offers invaluable advice for anyone wanting to capture the style of the period in their own homes.",,,256,"255 x 266 x 29mm | 1,616g","21 Jan 2012","MURDOCH BOOKS","Millers Point, Australia",English,,Illustrations,1741968968,"53,311",3.83,US$54.07,,"Karen McCartney has a wealth of experience in the areas of art, design and style, spanning 20 years and several continents. After gaining an honours degree in the History of Art and English from University College, London, Karen's first job was on British magazine Art Monthly. She has written for, among other titles, British Elle Decoration and The Financial Times. In Australia, Karen edited Marie Claire Lifestyle before becoming founding editor of interiors magazine Inside Out. She is now Group Editorial Director at News Magazines and this is her second book on the subject of Australian residential architecture.",Hardback,,,,
256,"2018-01-11 01:20:32",Veranda,9781618370884,"Lisa Newsom","This title lets you take a private tour of magnificent homes, with their lush gardens, elegant courtyards and inviting pools set amid breathtaking landscapes. This lavish new book from Veranda magazine offers a wealth of ideas for exceptional outdoor rooms and spaces, all created by the world's best designers. Broken down into classic, modern, romantic and exotic styles, these are among the most spectacular environments ever featured in Veranda.",,,288,"258 x 306 x 36mm | 2,219.97g","15 Oct 2013","Sterling Publishing Co Inc","United States",English,,"full colour throughout, includes photographs",161837088X,"51,631",3.91,US$65.74,,"Lisa Newsom founded Veranda in 1987 as a showcase for exceptional design, and from the first issue it distinguished itself with lush visual presentations, as well as substance behind the beauty. Respected by the design community, applauded by a discerning readership and honoured with numerous awards, Lisa, who began her storied career as cofounder of Southern Accents in 1977, has always focused on the best.",Hardback,"Hearst Communications",,,
257,"2018-01-11 01:20:43","The Terrace House",9780500500576,"Cameron Bruhn","With British precedents and working-class origins, the terrace house is a story of remarkable resilience. Today it is highly sought-after for its nostalgic charm and inner-city locale. A new generation of homeowners is making their mark by working with architects and designers to reimagine the terrace house for a twenty-first-century lifestyle. From subtle refinements to bold geometric forms, alterations and additions are often hidden from the street creating a sense of intrigue about what lies behind, above or beyond the romantic facade. This collection of homes celebrates the incredible history and enduring appeal of these well-loved buildings.",,,,"226 x 318 x 30mm | 1,850g","01 Nov 2015","Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","Fisherman's Bend, Australia",,,,0500500576,"26,409",5,US$56.40,,,Hardback,,,,
259,"2018-01-11 01:20:48","A House in Fez",9780091925222,"Suzanna Clarke","When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house - a traditional riad - was beautiful but in desperate need of repair. Walls were in danger of collapse, the plumbing non-existent. While neither Suzanna nor her husband spoke Arabic, and had only a smattering of French, they were determined to restore the building to its original splendour, using only traditional craftsmen and handmade materials. But they soon found that trying to do business in Fez was like being transported back several centuries in time and so began the remarkable experience that veered between frustration, hilarity and moments of pure exhilaration. But restoring the riad was only part of their immersion in the rich and colourful life of this ancient city. A House in Fez is a journey into Moroccan culture, revealing its day-to-day rhythms, its customs and festivals; its history, Islam, and Sufi rituals; the lore of djinns and spirits; the vibrant life-filled market places and the irresistible Moroccan cuisine. And above all, into the lives of the people - warm, friendly, and hospitable. Beautifully descriptive and infused with an extraordinary sense of place, this is a compelling account of one couple's adventures in ancient Morocco.",,,320,"126 x 198 x 20mm | 218g","01 May 2008","Ebury Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"16 pages colour photos",0091925223,"108,100",3.61,US$12.33,US$14.22,"Suzanna Clarke has worked as a photojournalist for more than two decades, contributing to national and international newspapers, magazines and books. Currently, she is the arts editor of a major Australian newspaper. Born in New Zealand, she grew up in several parts of Australia. In her twenties she lived in a Welsh commune, an Amsterdam squat and a Buddhist monastery in Nepal. With her husband, she divides her time between their homes in Brisbane, Australia and Fez, Morocco.",Paperback,"Ebury Press",,,
262,"2018-01-11 01:20:54","Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats",9780847848980,"James Reginato","The history of England is inextricably linked with the stories of its leading aristocratic dynasties and the great seats they have occupied for centuries. As the current owners speak of the critical roles their ancestors have played in the nation, they bring history alive. All of these houses have survived great wars, economic upheavals, and, at times, scandal. Filled with stunning photography, this book is a remarkably intimate and lively look inside some of Britain's stateliest houses, with the modern-day aristocrats who live in them and keep them going in high style. This book presents a tour of some of England's finest residences, with many of the interiors shown here for the first time. It includes Blenheim Palace-seven acres under one roof, eclipsing the splendor of any of the British royal family's residences-property of the Dukes of Marlborough; the exquisite Old Vicarage in Derbyshire, last residence of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (nee Deborah Mitford); Haddon Hall, a vast crenellated 900-year-old manor house belonging to the Dukes of Rutland that has been called the most romantic house in England; and the island paradises on Mustique and St. Lucia of the 3rd Baron Glenconner. This book is perfect for history buffs and lovers of traditional interior design and English country life.",,"""The opulent estates of England and Ireland's royal and blue-blooded dynasties are perennial catnip to those craving inspiration on the grandest scale. ""Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats,"" by James Reginato and photographer Jonathan Becker, longtime chroniclers of the rich and famous, does not disappoint, providing an insiders' portrait of 16 extraordinarily maintained residences belonging to such tenacious tenants as the Prince of Wales and the fourth Baron Rothschild.""--New York Times T Magazine ""The book chronicles the fascinating lineage and examines the amazing architecture of the houses belonging to some of the leading families of Great Britain, in a lush and very weighty tome...If you're starting your holiday shopping early, it's the perfect gift for the PBS-obsessed and lovers of traditional interior design and English country life."" --Adweek Fishbowl NY.."".features noble homes from grand palaces to modest cottages. A book that took years to complete which included convincing extremely private individuals who have never before opened up their homes."" --Forbes.com ""This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the UK's leading families...and their occasional scandal."" --The Society Diaries ""In this book, Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, Reginato has compiled these [aristocratic] profiles in one volume, focusing on the splendid homes of the English and Irish aristocracy. And what a volume it is, with featured homes that include Blenheim, Haddon Hall, Lismore Castle, and Goodwood House. With photography by the esteemed Jonathan Becker, Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats will likely join the league of those coveted books about high-society by Horst and Slim Aarons."" --PeakOfChic.com.."".stands out as an absolute treasure in the release of new books being published this Fall."" --LittleAugury.com""This is a...book of beautiful photographs, bookended with fascinating stories. It's a great present for people who love Olde England and luxury retreats and the titled rich. It's history. It's dish."" --HeadButler.com ""Any great interior design loving Anglophile is keenly aware of the history of manor homes in England....In Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, almost as if on a docent led tour, James Reginato peels back these remarkable stories, layer by layer."" --Color Outside the Lines""Rizzoli International will release Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats in October, filled with opulent photos by Jonathan Becker and a fine introduction by Reginato's friend of twenty years, Viscount Linley. The book focuses on leading aristocratic dynasties and includes marvelous profiles on the gentry. . . . Although Reginato considers himself a journalist rather than a historian, he weaves in the great wars, economic upheavals, and the scandals and tragedies that these great houses witnessed."" --Classic Chicago Magazine ""Here, Reginato brings us stories of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit applied to preserving family homes for future generations - stories that are as intriguing as the houses themselves! Rich photographs combined with Reginato's gift for story-telling make this a delicious read. This is of course a must-have addition to your library and would make a gorgeous gift!""--WhatisJamesWearing.com ""Fall must haves."" --La Dolce Vita""Vanity Fair contributor James Reginato's intimate look at the fabled aristocratic houses of Great Britain and Ireland is the perfect cure for any reader still lamenting PBS's Downton Abbey ending.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""While the photographs are richly detailed and gorgeous, this is one of those few coffee table books that also deserves to be read.""--New York Social Diary ""The opulent estates of England and Ireland s royal and blue-blooded dynasties are perennial catnip to those craving inspiration on the grandest scale. Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, by James Reginato and photographer Jonathan Becker, longtime chroniclers of the rich and famous, does not disappoint, providing an insiders portrait of 16 extraordinarily maintained residences belonging to such tenacious tenants as the Prince of Wales and the fourth Baron Rothschild."" New York Times T Magazine ""The book chronicles the fascinating lineage and examines the amazing architecture of the houses belonging to some of the leading families of Great Britain, in a lush and very weighty tome If you're starting your holiday shopping early, it's the perfect gift for the PBS-obsessed and lovers of traditional interior design and English country life."" Adweek Fishbowl NY.."".features noble homes from grand palaces to modest cottages. A book that took years to complete which included convincing extremely private individuals who have never before opened up their homes."" Forbes.com ""This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the UK s leading families and their occasional scandal."" The Society Diaries ""In this book, Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, Reginato has compiled these [aristocratic]profiles in one volume, focusing on the splendid homes of the English and Irish aristocracy. And what a volume it is, with featured homes that include Blenheim, Haddon Hall, Lismore Castle, and Goodwood House. With photography by the esteemed Jonathan Becker, Great Houses, Modern Aristocratswill likely join the league of those coveted books about high-society by Horstand Slim Aarons."" PeakOfChic.com.."".stands out as an absolute treasure in the release of new books being published this Fall."" LittleAugury.com""This is a...book of beautiful photographs, bookended with fascinating stories. It s a great present for people who love Olde England and luxury retreats and the titled rich. It s history. It s dish."" HeadButler.com ""Any great interior design loving Anglophile is keenly aware of the history of manor homes in England....In Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, almost as if on a docent led tour, James Reginato peels back these remarkable stories, layer by layer."" Color Outside the Lines""Rizzoli International will releaseGreat Houses, Modern Aristocratsin October, filled with opulent photos by Jonathan Becker and a fine introduction by Reginato s friend of twentyyears, Viscount Linley. The book focuses on leading aristocratic dynasties and includes marvelous profiles on the gentry. . . .Although Reginato considers himself a journalist rather than a historian, he weaves in the great wars, economic upheavals, and the scandals and tragedies that these great houses witnessed."" Classic Chicago Magazine ""Here, Reginato brings us stories of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit applied to preserving family homes for future generations stories that are as intriguing as the houses themselves! Rich photographs combined with Reginato s gift for story-telling make this a delicious read. This is of course a must-have addition to your library and would make a gorgeous gift!"" WhatisJamesWearing.com ""Fall must haves."" La Dolce Vita""Vanity Fair contributor James Reginato s intimate look at the fabled aristocratic houses of Great Britain and Ireland is the perfect cure for any reader still lamenting PBS's Downton Abbey ending."" San Francisco Chronicle ""While the photographs are richly detailed and gorgeous, this is one of those few coffee table books that also deserves to be read."" New York Social Diary"" ""The book chronicles the fascinating lineage and examines the amazing architecture of the houses belonging to some of the leading families of Great Britain, in a lush and very weighty tome If you're starting your holiday shopping early, it's the perfect gift for the PBS-obsessed and lovers of traditional interior design and English country life."" Adweek Fishbowl NY.."".features noble homes from grand palaces to modest cottages. A book that took years to complete which included convincing extremely private individuals who have never before opened up their homes."" Forbes.com ""This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the UK s leading families and their occasional scandal."" The Society Diaries ""In this book, Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, Reginato has compiled these [aristocratic]profiles in one volume, focusing on the splendid homes of the English and Irish aristocracy. And what a volume it is, with featured homes that include Blenheim, Haddon Hall, Lismore Castle, and Goodwood House. With photography by the esteemed Jonathan Becker, Great Houses, Modern Aristocratswill likely join the league of those coveted books about high-society by Horstand Slim Aarons."" PeakOfChic.com.."".stands out as an absolute treasure in the release of new books being published this Fall."" LittleAugury.com""This is a...book of beautiful photographs, bookended with fascinating stories. It s a great present for people who love Olde England and luxury retreats and the titled rich. It s history. It s dish."" HeadButler.com ""Any great interior design loving Anglophile is keenly aware of the history of manor homes in England....In Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, almost as if on a docent led tour, James Reginato peels back these remarkable stories, layer by layer."" Color Outside the Lines""Rizzoli International will releaseGreat Houses, Modern Aristocratsin October, filled with opulent photos by Jonathan Becker and a fine introduction by Reginato s friend of twentyyears, Viscount Linley. The book focuses on leading aristocratic dynasties and includes marvelous profiles on the gentry. . . .Although Reginato considers himself a journalist rather than a historian, he weaves in the great wars, economic upheavals, and the scandals and tragedies that these great houses witnessed."" Classic Chicago Magazine ""Here, Reginato brings us stories of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit applied to preserving family homes for future generations stories that are as intriguing as the houses themselves! Rich photographs combined with Reginato s gift for story-telling make this a delicious read. This is of course a must-have addition to your library and would make a gorgeous gift!"" WhatisJamesWearing.com ""Fall must haves."" La Dolce Vita"" .."".features noble homes from grand palaces to modest cottages. A book that took years to complete which included convincing extremely private individuals who have never before opened up their homes."" FORBES.COM ""This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the UK s leading families and their occasional scandal."" THE SOCIETY DIARIES ""In this book, Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats, Reginato has compiled these [aristocratic]profiles in one volume, focusing on the splendid homes of the English and Irish aristocracy. And what a volume it is, with featured homes that include Blenheim, Haddon Hall, Lismore Castle, and Goodwood House. With photography by the esteemed Jonathan Becker, Great Houses, Modern Aristocratswill likely join the league of those coveted books about high-society by Horstand Slim Aarons."" -PEAKOFCHIC.COM ""The book by James Reginato, the writerwhose stories are often within the pages ofVanity Fairand gifted photographer Jonathan Becker, the books' principal photographer, have given readers a reason toread, and to immerse ourselves in the pages of a truly beautiful book."" -LITTLEAUGURY.COM"" ""This stunning book presents the intriguing stories and celebrated histories of some of the UK s leading families and their occasional scandal."" THE SOCIETY DIARIES""",256,"238 x 324 x 22.86mm | 1,859.73g","08 Nov 2017","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"200 colour and B&W photographs",0847848981,"63,300",4,US$48.22,US$59.99,"James Reginato is writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and a contributing editor of Sotheby's Magazine. Jonathan Becker is a photographer who has contributed to Vogue, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. Viscount Linley is Hon. Chairman for Christie's in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and India.",Hardback,,,,
265,"2018-01-11 01:20:57","Small House Living",9780143573357,"Catherine Foster","Smart, space-efficient houses are becoming the way of the future. Small House Living showcases an inspiring collection of homes measuring less than 90m2 from around New Zealand. Family homes, baches and apartments are included in the line-up; all of them demonstrating ingenious ways to reduce space and cut costs within a design-enriched environment. Small House Living is a book in tune with the current preoccupation with creating affordable housing solutions. Anyone interested in living well with less will find inspiration in the compact yet highly considered homes featured.",,,208,"211 x 268 x 20mm | 872g","01 Oct 2015","Penguin Group (NZ)","Auckland, New Zealand",English,,,0143573357,"33,869",3.4,US$46.17,,"Catherine Foster is a freelance writer with a specific interest in home design. She has been a regular contributor of articles to leading New Zealand home magazines, including Your Home & Garden, HOME New Zealand and NZ House and Garden. Although trained as a Costume Designer at the London College of Fashion, Catherine found that single motherhood and a career in the film industry was not the best mix. A return to life in New Zealand opened doors to writing about property and lifestyle in all its various forms and for many years Catherine embraced it as a second career string. Eventually though, a general awareness and interest in the principles of good architecture evolved into a more specific interest about how the application of good design principles can produce outcomes that address specific social needs. Buying Your First Home; an Essential Kiwi Guide (written in conjunction with Shelley Bridgeman) and now Small House Living are direct responses to the growing unaffordability of housing in New Zealand's larger cities. With her belief in consuming the finite resources of Planet Earth responsibly, she sees the harnessing of architectural design principles to build smaller and smarter homes an obvious step in the right direction. No longer needing to accommodate a family, Catherine now li",Paperback,"Penguin Books (NZ)",,,
266,"2018-01-11 01:21:01","Northern Delights",9783899554724,"Emma Fexeus","Its timeless beauty, premium quality, and humane functionality make Scandinavian interior design ideal for homes, restaurants, offices, and any other rooms in which people should feel comfortable. If the goal were to build a house in which everyone would like to live, the architect would likely be Italian, the engineer maybe German, the gardener probably British, and the craftspeople either Swiss or Japanese. The interior designer of that house, though, should--beyond any doubt--be from Scandinavia. Hardly any other interior or product design is so timeless, so functional, so aesthetic, and of such high quality as that of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark. Throughout the years, countless pieces of furniture, objects, and buildings from Scandinavia have become icons of international design and architecture. A current generation of designers from these countries is consciously building upon local sustainable design traditions and further developing them in a way that is consistent, intelligent, and reflects an unerring sense of style. In Northern Delights, design classics meet young talents, individual products meet skillfully staged living spaces. The book's stunning selection of work reveals what makes Scandinavian design so exceptional. The included examples show how the grains of different woods, the clarity of colored glass, the cheery colors of fabrics and patterns, and the overall quality of craftsmanship contribute to creating simple, inviting, and very comfortable living spaces. Northern Delights offers inspiration to designers, architects, and individuals in equal measure. In a Scandinavian dwelling, everyone feels at home.",,,240,"246 x 306 x 26mm | 1,759.97g","25 Mar 2013","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,"4th pr.","Zahlr. farb. Abbildungen",3899554728,"38,322",4.4,US$50.63,US$59.99,,Hardback,,,,
267,"2018-01-11 01:21:09","The Things That Matter",9780679644316,"Nate Berkus","Does your home tell the story of who you are? In The Things That Matter, Nate Berkus shares intimate stories from his life, introduces us to people who influenced him and helped him forge his sense of style, and opens up about the remarkable experiences that have left him forever changed, all of which find expression in how he lives today. From his most cherished flea market finds, to his beloved books and photos, to the many extraordinary mementos he's collected in his travels, every piece defines who he's become and what endures in his world. Berkus invites readers into his own home as well as into twelve others, including a sleek steel-and-glass high-rise that soars above Chicago, a rustic cottage in the Hudson Valley, an ultra-chic atelier that maximizes every inch of space, a Greenwich Village townhouse that holds multiple art collections, and a study in meaningful minimalism in Marfa, Texas. The distinctive interiors beautifully displayed in this book offer revealing portraits of their owners' lives and the inspiring choices that have made them who they are today. The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus's philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we've been and the people we've loved along the way--and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES",,,288,"236.22 x 276.86 x 35.56mm | 1,655.6g","25 Oct 2012","Random House USA Inc","New York, United States",English,,"Colour Photographs Throughout",0679644318,"90,630",3.84,US$40.14,US$45.01,"Nate Berkus is founder of the interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates. For two years he was the host of The Nate Berkus Show, an Emmy Award-winning, nationally syndicated daytime talk show. His work has appeared in Elle Decor, O: The Oprah Magazine, InStyle, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and House Beautiful. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Home Rules. He lives in New York City. Roger Davies arrived in New York at the age of twenty-two, after studying photography and film in England. His work has taken him around the world and inside some of the most amazing interiors imaginable. His photographs have graced the pages of Architectural Digest, AD (France), Conde Nast Traveler, Harpers Bazaar UK, and Elle Decor. He lives in Laurel Canyon, California, with his wife and son.",Hardback,"Spiegel & Grau",,,
268,"2018-01-11 01:21:20","Tree Houses. Fairy Tale Castles in the Air",9783836526647,"Philip Jodidio","The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is surely as old as humanity. Tree houses are chronicled in ancient civilizations and their lore crosses through the history of every part of the world where trees grow. This stunningly-illustrated study offers a tour of the best tree houses in the world, some designed by architects, others the work of unknown craftsmen. A teahouse, a restaurant, a hotel, a playhouse for children, or a perch from which to contemplate life--the tree house can take as many forms as the imagination can offer. In times of concern for sustainability and ecological responsibility, the tree house may also be the ultimate symbol of life in symbiosis with nature. Whether rustic or contemporary in style, tree houses make the most of space. Climb into this trove of tree houses and enjoy a new perspective on the world. 50 tree houses from around the world Covers all different styles, from romantic to modern Every house is depicted in several photos as well as one illustration by artist Patrick Hruby from Los Angeles (who also created the book's cover artwork) Helpful short biographies of all archite",,,352,"260 x 340 x 35mm | 3,175g","15 Nov 2012","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany","English, French, German",,"photographs and 1 illustration",3836526646,"47,999",4.08,US$71.22,,"Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited `Connaissance des Arts` for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's `Architecture Now!` series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.",Hardback,,,,
270,"2018-01-11 01:21:28","Home Work",9780936070339,"Lloyd Kahn","Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500"" cable across a river / Ian MacLeod's handbuilt stone house in South Africa, where baboons jump on the roof at night / Ma Page's bottle house in the Nevada desert / artist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural ivillage in Arizona / Bill and Athena Steen's strawbale houses / Ianto Evans' cob houses in Oregon / the Archlibre group of countercultural builders in the French Pyrenees / Bill Coperthwaite's spectacular 3-story yurt in the Maine woods / Bill Castle's finely-crafted log home and sauna in the NY Appalachians / a commune in the Tennesee mountains / the ""Flying Concrete"" brothers in Mexico and their far-out sculptural structures / Barns in California, Washington, and Connecticut / Photo-essays of Lloyd Kahn's trips to Nevada, the Mississippi Delta, Costa Rica, Nova Scotia, and Baja California / Photos of buildings all over the world by photographers Yoshio Komatsu and Kevin Kelly + more, lots more. . .I get excited just listing these things! -LK PS SHELTER, it turns out, had a major influence on builders, and included are buildings our 1973 book inspired, so this is truly a sequel.",,,256,"226 x 304 x 18mm | 1,102.22g","01 May 2004","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,,,0936070331,"79,804",4.48,US$28.04,US$28.95,,Paperback,,,,
272,"2018-01-11 01:21:32","The Eyes of the Skin",9781119941286,"Juhani Pallasmaa","First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. For every new intake of students studying Pallasmaa s classic text, The Eyes of the Skin provides a totally fresh understanding of architecture and a new set of insights. This third edition is intended to meet students desire for a further understanding of the context of Pallasmaa s thinking by providing a new essay by architectural author and educator Peter MacKeith. This text combines both a biographical portrait of Pallasmaa and an outline of his architectural thinking. The new edition will includes a new preface by the internationally renowned architect Steven Holl and a revised introduction by Pallasmaa himself.","FOREWORD Thin Ice by Steven Holl 6    INTRODUCTION Touching the World by 10 Juhani Pallasmaa    PART ONE    Vision and Knowledge 18    Critics of Ocularcentrism 22    The Narcissistic and Nihilistic Eye 24    Oral versus Visual Space 25    Retinal Architecture and the Loss of Plasticity 28    An Architecture of Visual Images 33    Materiality and Time 34    The Rejection of Alberti's Window 37    A New Vision and Sensory Balance 40    PART TWO    The Body in the Centre 43    Multi-Sensory Experience 44    The Signifi cance of the Shadow 50    Acoustic Intimacy 53    Silence, Time and Solitude 55    Spaces of Scent 58    The Shape of Touch 60    The Taste of Stone 63    Images of Muscle and Bone 64    Images of Action 67    Bodily Identification 69    Mimesis of the Body 71    Spaces of Memory and Imagination 72    An Architecture of the Senses 75    The Task of Architecture 76    A DOOR HANDLE, A HANDSHAKE An introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa and his work by Peter MacKeith 78    NOTES 110    INDEX 123    PICTURE CREDITS 127",,130,"132.08 x 203.2 x 17.78mm | 272.15g","22 May 2012","John Wiley & Sons Inc","New York, United States",English,"3rd Revised ed.",,1119941288,"12,683",4.28,US$25.44,US$45.01,"Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers. His previous positions include: Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki; Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; and Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology. He has also held visiting professorships at several universities worldwide. Pallasmaa is the author/editor of over thirty books, including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Academy, 1995 and John Wiley & Sons, 2005), The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) and The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, 2011). Peter MacKeith is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St Louis. He has held academic positions and worked in design practices in both Finland and the United States, and has written and lectured extensively on Finnish and Nordic architecture.",Hardback,,,,
279,"2018-01-11 01:21:33","Interior Design Course",9780764132599,"Tomris Tangaz","Not every home owner or apartment dweller can afford to hire an interior decorator, but this book and a bit of do-it-yourself spirit are all that s needed to give living interiors an elegant, professionally finished look. Presenting all the design principles and techniques needed for creating beautiful rooms, Interior Design Course advises readers on how to think visually and develop distinctive, personal styles of their own. The book is organized into units that reflect interior design courses offered at leading schools. Step-by-step tutorials guide readers through the entire design process, starting with planning the space, then instructing on choosing color schemes and furnishings, and working with a variety of materials. Separate units focus on design principles pertaining to the suburban home. . . the urban live/work loft apartment. . . utilitarian bathroom and kitchen design . . . commercial interiors, including restaurants, retail spaces, and offices. There is also a chapter on becoming a professional interior designer, with advice on preparing a portfolio and marketing one s skills. A gallery of finished examples by professional designers and advanced students presents scores of beautiful and instructive color photos. Here in a single volume are the insights and techniques for producing handsome, highly professional-looking designs. More than 300 color illustrations.",,,144,"220.98 x 220.98 x 12.7mm | 589.67g","01 Mar 2006","Barron's Educational Series","Hauppauge, NY, United States",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",0764132598,"14,398",3.54,US$23.84,,,Paperback,,,,
280,"2018-01-11 01:21:41","Experiencing Architecture",9780262680028,"Steen Eiler Rasmussen","A classic examination of superb design through the centuries.Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence -- ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace -- Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience.In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in ""a remarkably suitable comeliness."" While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time -- its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered ""what instrument the architect plays on.""",,"...so lucid and clear that every layman and beginner will be able to understand and to enjoy it. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * A book of great charm and broad understanding. * Architectural Forum *",251,"132.08 x 200.66 x 17.78mm | 272.15g","28 Dec 2011","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,"second edition","w. 95 ill.",0262680025,"102,144",3.97,US$26.25,US$27.00,"Steen Eiler Rasmussen was Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Visiting Professor at MIT, Yale, Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Berkeley, and lectured widely at universities in Europe and the United States. He was author of London: The Unique City, called ""the best book on London as a town,"" and other books.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
281,"2018-01-11 01:21:43",Rome,9780199546831,"Amanda Claridge","The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. This guide provides: * Coverage of all the important sites in the city from 800 BC to AD 600 and the start of the early middle ages, drawing on the latest discoveries and the best of recent scholarship * Over 220 high-quality maps, site plans, diagrams and photographs * Sites divided into fourteen main areas, with star ratings to help you plan and prioritize your visit: Roman Forum; Upper Via Sacra; Palatine; Imperial Forums; Campus Martius; Capitoline Hill; Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus; Colosseum and Esquiline hill; Caelian hill and the inner via Appia; Lateran to Porta Maggiore; Viminal hill; Pyramid to Testaccio; the outer via Appia; other outlying sites; Museums and Catacombs. * Introduction offering essential background to the history and culture of ancient Rome, placing the city in the context of the development of the empire, highlighting the nature of Roman achievement, and explaining how Rome came to be the largest city in the ancient world. * Comprehensive glossaries of Rome's building materials, techniques and building types, a chronological table of kings, emperors, and the early popes, information about opening times, references and suggestions for further reading and a detailed user-friendly index. For this new edition the original text has been extensively revised, adding over 20 more sites and illustrations, the itineraries have been re-organized and expanded to suit the many changes that have taken place in the past decade, and the practical information and references have been fully updated.","Introduction ; Historical Overview ; Documentary Sources ; Glossary ; The Roman Forum ; The Upper Via Sacra ; The Palatine ; Imperial Forums ; Field of Mars (Campus Martius) ; Capitoline Hill ; Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus ; Colosseum Valley and Esquiline Hill ; Caelian Hill and the inner Via Appia ; Lateran-Porta Maggiore ; The Viminal ; Pyramid-Testaccio ; Across the Tiber ; Parks of the Appia Antica ; Other Sites outside the Walls ; Museums ; Catacombs ; Chronological Table ; Opening Times and Charges ; References and Further Reading ; Index","""We have long needed what no one before Claridge has provided: a synthesis, balanced and user-friendly, of all [the] recent scholarship, one that sets Roman monuments in their proper urban and historical contexts, and accurately describes what is currently known or thought about them. . . . [T]ravellers . . .will welcome a synthesis so balanced, intelligent and well informed, and will find Amanda Claridge a fine companion on their archaeological walks in Rome.""--Times Literary Supplement""Claridge's book will appeal to a range of readers--from armchair archaelogists to serious visitors and students of Rome's archaeology.... Recommended.""--CHOICE ""We have long needed what no one before Claridge has provided: a synthesis, balanced and user-friendly, of all [the] recent scholarship, one that sets Roman monuments in their proper urban and historical contexts, and accurately describes what is currently known or thought about them. . . . [T]ravellers . . .will welcome a synthesis so balanced, intelligent and well informed, and will find Amanda Claridge a fine companion on their archaeological walks in Rome.""--Times Literary Supplement""Claridge's book will appeal to a range of readers--from armchair archaelogists to serious visitors and students of Rome's archaeology.... Recommended.""--CHOICE",560,"138 x 212 x 30mm | 680.39g","15 Oct 2010","Oxford University Press","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,"2nd Revised edition","160 site maps, plans, and photographs",0199546835,"103,492",4.11,US$26.21,US$34.95,"Amanda Claridge is Reader in Classical Archaeology, Royal Holloway, University of London, and was formerly Lecturer in Archaeology at St John's College, Oxford. Assistant Director of the British School in Rome from 1980 to 1994, she is the author of numerous publications on Roman archaeology. Her wider archaeological activities include fieldwork in Italy, North Africa, and Turkey, and the study of Roman marbles and sculptural techniques, on which she is a noted authority.",Paperback,,,,
283,"2018-01-11 01:21:55","Why Buildings Fall Down",9780393311525,"Matthys Levy","The stories that make up Why Buildings Fall Down are in the end very human ones, tales of the interaction of people and nature, of architects, engineers, builders, materials, and natural forces all coming together in sometimes dramatic (and always instructive) ways.",,,352,"152.4 x 228.6 x 22.86mm | 498.95g","17 Feb 2002","WW Norton & Co","New York, United States",English,Reprint,"B/W line drawings",039331152X,"46,904",3.94,US$17.06,US$17.96,,Paperback,,,,
284,"2018-01-11 01:22:05","The Feeling of Things",9788434311862,"Adam Caruso","This is a superb collection of essays focusing on contemporary architecture, from one of its leading British figures. Throughout his career, Adam Caruso - a leading figure in contemporary British architecture, and one half of celebrated London-based architectural firm Caruso St John - has continued to develop his writing and research, focusing his thoughts on the architectural practice and prominent figures of the Modern Movement. ""The Feeling of Things"" brings together a number of Caruso's writings (1997-2008) through which he reveals a new way to see and experience the radical approach to contemporary architecture of the Modern Movement.",,,98,"157.48 x 223.52 x 12.7mm | 272.15g","30 Mar 2009","EDICIONES POLIGRAFA","Barcelona, Spain",English,,"black & white photographs throughout",8434311860,"34,796",4,US$21.70,US$25.00,"Adam Caruso was Professor of Architecture at the University of Bath, 2002-2004. He is currently Visiting Professor on the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics.",Hardback,,,,
285,"2018-01-11 01:22:07","Why Buildings Stand Up",9780393306767,"Mario G. Salvadori","Between a nomad's tent and the Sears Tower lies a revolution in technology, materials, and structures. Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to buildings methods from ancient times to the present day, including recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildings: improved materials (steel, concrete, plastics), progress in antiseismic designs, and the revolutionary changes in both architectural and structural design made possible by the computer.",,"[A] delightful book.... Descriptions of structural milestones, such as the Pyramids, Hagia Sophia, Brunelleschi's Duomo, and the Eiffel Tower, as well as the more familiar examples of Gothic cathedrals, suspension bridges, and skyscrapers, are interspersed with information on basic structural theory.... The author sheds light on some of the problems of contemporary aesthetics. With its photos, drawings, and a readable style, this book will serve both the general reader and the specialist. """,320,"154.94 x 231.14 x 22.86mm | 544.31g","17 Feb 2002","WW Norton & Co","New York, United States",English,Reissue,"B/W line drawings",0393306763,"95,177",3.91,US$17.70,US$17.96,,Paperback,,,,
287,"2018-01-11 01:22:13","Architecture: A Very Short Introduction",9780192801791,"Andrew Ballantyne","This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant garde. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.","1. Adding Value: how buildings become architecture ; 2. Architectural Heritage: how buildings tell us who we are ; 3. Architectural Canons: how architecture achieves greatness ; Further reading","will justify the ambition of every young and aspiring architect - but will also stimulate anyone at all curious about buildings ... Clear and jargon-less it shows how all buildings - good, bad and indifferent - are the truest indicators of the state of a society and of its culture. * Joseph Rykwert, University of Pennsylvania * There is really no better book out there. Ballantyne is a beautiful stylist, and the book combines intellegence with a completely beguiling wruterly style. * Sunday Herald (Glasgow) * an excellent introduction to architecture ... one to recommend to students, friends and family, which is quite an achievement! * Robert Tavernor, University of Bath * a densely fascinating guide * Steven Poole, The Guardian Review *",144,"110 x 172 x 12mm | 140.61g","19 Dec 2002","Oxford University Press","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,,,0192801791,"105,767",3.41,US$8.29,US$11.95,"Andrew Ballantyne qualified and practised as an architect, and then moved into academic work. He has held research and teaching posts at the universities of Sheffield, Bath, and Newcastle, where he is now Professor of Architecture. He has written on architectural history and theory, and his previous books are Architecture, Landscape and Liberty (CUP, 1997) and What is Architecture? (Routledge, 2002).",Paperback,,,,
288,"2018-01-11 01:22:14","Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture",9781568980546,"Kate Nesbitt","Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years.A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism.By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of great value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and the general public, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a critical introduction to each essay.The list of authors in Theorizing a New Agenda reads like a ""Who's Who"" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Sol-Morales Rubi, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on all the contributors are also included.",,"This is a thorough and comprehensive introduction to a small but challenging field of intellectual endeavor. Colin Davies, Architects' Journal",608,"148.6 x 214.1 x 18.5mm | 358.34g","01 Oct 1996","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"28 b&w illustrations",156898054X,"100,049",4.01,US$34.11,US$50.01,,Paperback,,,,
290,"2018-01-11 01:22:16","Writing About Architecture",9781616890537,"Alexandra Lange","Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a handbook on how to write effectively and critically about the contemporary city. The book offers works by some of the best architecture critics of the twentieth century, including Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs to explains some of the most successful methods with which to approach architectural criticism. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a historically significant essay (and organised by typology, such as the skyscraper, the museum, and parks) discussing a specific building or urban project. The author, Alexandra Lange, then offers a close reading of that essay, as well as her own analysis through contemporary examples, to further enlighten the reader about how to write an effective piece of architectural criticism.",,"""Nothing short of miraculous.... Lange's book goes into the ""nuts-and bolts"" level of wordsmithing architectural experiences with a poetic lyricism and technical precision as no book before it. Use it often and you'll never think of the word ""critic"" pejoratively again."" ---ArchNewsNow ""It's not only a delight to read - Jacobs' vivid 1961 description of the everyday ballet on Manhattan's Hudson Street alone is worth the $24.95 price of admission - but an instructive treatise on how great criticisms come to be."" -- Architects + Artisans ""In Writing About Architecture, Lange recognizes the stakes inherent in the act of describing place. While she certainly is pushing writers, readers and her students to aim for clarity in criticism, Lange goes much further, arguing that architecture critics be invested intellectually and emotionally in the world that surrounds them. The iconic critics Lange celebrates enliven the spaces they write about - whether they love them or hate them. They notice things. They're steeped in history, in context and provenance. They take their time. They make the reader want to experience the spaces described."" --- Allison Arieff, The New York Times ""Nothing short of miraculous....Lange's book goes into the ""nuts-and bolts"" level of wordsmithing architectural experiences with a poetic lyricism and technical precision as no book before it. Use it often and you'll never think of the word ""critic"" pejoratively again."" ---ArchNewsNow ""Lange analyzes her key texts with great care and perceptiveness, and happily she is wide ranging in her taste... She understands that the purpose of writing about architecture is to build a constituency for better design, to help people see, to help them feel more agency over the built environment-and to help them take joy in architecture's great moments. She's good at doing that herself, and this book will help others do it, too."" --- Paul Goldberger, The Architect's Newspaper",160,"177.8 x 213.36 x 17.78mm | 439.98g","01 Mar 2012","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,,1616890533,"91,519",3.93,US$19.20,US$24.95,"Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, journalist, and historian. Her work has appeared in The Architect's Newspaper, Design Observer, Dwell, Icon, Metropolis, New York Magazine, and The New York Times, and she teaches architecture criticism at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. She blogs in the Observers Room at Design Observer weekly, and is also active on Twitter (@langealexandra) and Tumblr (abitlate.tumblr.com).",Paperback,,,,
293,"2018-01-11 01:22:21","Studies in Tectonic Culture",9780262561495,"Kenneth Frampton","Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present.Kenneth Frampton's long-awaited follow-up to his classic A Critical History of Modern Architecture is certain to influence any future debate on the evolution of modern architecture. Studies in Tectonic Culture is nothing less than a rethinking of the entire modern architectural tradition. The notion of tectonics as employed by Frampton -- the focus on architecture as a constructional craft -- constitutes a direct challenge to current mainstream thinking on the artistic limits of postmodernism, and suggests a convincing alternative. Indeed, Frampton argues, modern architecture is invariably as much about structure and construction as it is about space and abstract form.Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present. He clarifies the various turns that structural engineering and tectonic imagination have taken in the work of such architects as Perret, Wright, Kahn, Scarpa, and Mies, and shows how both constructional form and material character were integral to an evolving architectural expression of their work. Frampton also demonstrates that the way in which these elements are articulated from one work to the next provides a basis upon which to evaluate the works as a whole. This is especially evident in his consideration of the work of Perret, Mies, and Kahn and the continuities in their thought and attitudes that linked them to the past.Frampton considers the conscious cultivation of the tectonic tradition in architecture as an essential element in the future development of architectural form, casting a critical new light on the entire issue of modernity and on the place of much work that has passed as ""avant-garde.""A copublication of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies and The MIT Press.","Introduction - reflections on the scope of the tectonic; Greco-Gothic and neo-Gothic - the Anglo-French origins of tectonic form; the rise of the tectonic - core form and art form in the German Enlightenment, 1750-1870; Frank Lloyd Wright and the text-tile tectonic; Auguste Perret and classical rationalism; Mies van der Rohe - avant-garde and continuity; Louis Kahn - modernization and the New Monumentality, 1944-1972; Jorn Utzon - transcultural form and the tectonic metaphor; Carlo Scarpa and the adoration of the joint; postscriptum - the tectonic trajectory, 1903-1994; the owl of Minerva - an epilogue.","""Kenneth Frampton's book approaches a very importantissue for understanding the way in which architects proceed: the continuity between form and construction. But to establish this continuity doesn't simply mean to accept pure constructive determinism, and Frampton's book helps us to comprehend that beside whatever technical discovery there is always the architect's effort to produce form. Using the work of outstanding contemporary architects such as Utzon and Scarpa, Frampton is able to show how architectural talent is manifested in continuous form invention."" Rafael Moneo , Professor of Architecture, Harvard University ""Kenneth Frampton's book approaches a very important issue for understanding the way in which architects proceed: the continuity between form and construction. But to establish this continuity doesn't simply mean to accept pure constructive determinism, and Frampton's book helps us to comprehend that beside whatever technical discovery there is always the architect's effort to produce form. Using the work of outstanding contemporary architects such as Utzon and Scarpa, Frampton is able to show how architectural talent is manifested in continuous form invention."" Rafael Moneo, Professor of Architecture, Harvard University",448,"215.9 x 276.86 x 22.86mm | 1,428.81g","01 Oct 2001","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,Reprint,"485 illus.",0262561492,"109,021",4.12,US$47.97,US$49.95,"Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
294,"2018-01-11 01:22:27","The Elements of Modern Architecture",9780500342954,"Antony Radford","This ambitious book is aimed at a new generation of architects who take technology for granted but seek to understand the principles of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Fifty buildings by the best-known and -recognized modern architects, from Aalto to Gehry, from Le Corbusier to Hadid, are represented in illustrations that explore all facets of the buildings creation. Starting from its site, each building is analysed through its surroundings, use of natural light, volumes and massing; its programme and circulation; its details, fenestration and ornamentation, taking the reader straight to the heart and mind of the architect. Targeted at rising students and architects who seek to create architecture that transcends digital tools and techniques, The Elements of Modern Architecture is an essential reference and inspiration for many generations to come.",,"Recommended. "" Recommended.",344,"220 x 304 x 40mm | 1,959.97g","17 Jun 2014","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0500342954,"120,399",4.27,US$53.94,,,Hardback,,,,
295,"2018-01-11 01:22:34","Japan-Ness in Architecture",9780262516051,"Arata Isozaki","One of Japan's leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural history from the seventh to the twentieth century; essays on buildings and their cultural context.Japanese architect Arata Isozaki sees buildings not as dead objects but as events that encompass the social and historical context -- not to be defined forever by their ""everlasting materiality"" but as texts to be interpreted and reread continually. In Japan-ness in Architecture, he identifies what is essentially Japanese in architecture from the seventh to the twentieth century. In the opening essay, Isozaki analyzes the struggles of modern Japanese architects, including himself, to create something uniquely Japanese out of modernity. He then circles back in history to find what he calls Japan-ness in the seventh-century Ise shrine, reconstruction of the twelfth-century Todai-ji Temple, and the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa. He finds the periodic ritual relocation of Ise's precincts a counter to the West's concept of architectural permanence, and the repetition of the ritual an alternative to modernity's anxious quest for origins. He traces the ""constructive power"" of the Todai-ji Temple to the vision of the director of its reconstruction, the monk Chogen, whose imaginative power he sees as corresponding to the revolutionary turmoil of the times. The Katsura Imperial Villa, with its chimerical spaces, achieved its own Japan-ness as it reinvented the traditional shoin style. And yet, writes Isozaki, what others consider to be the Japanese aesthetic is often the opposite of that essential Japan-ness born in moments of historic self-definition; the purified stylization -- what Isozaki calls ""Japanesquization"" -- lacks the energy of cultural transformation and reflects an island retrenchment in response to the pressure of other cultures.Combining historical survey, critical analysis, theoretical reflection, and autobiographical account, these essays, written over a period of twenty years, demonstrate Isozaki's standing as one of the world's leading architects and preeminent architectural thinkers.",,"""Drawing on both his own extensive experience as a practicing architect and a broad grasp of world history, Arata Isozaki takes on the century-old debate over what is (or should be) 'Japanese' about Japanese architecture. This self-reflective critique is fresh and timely, and in the process provides provocative arguments about the shape of all Japanese history.""--Henry D. Smith, II, Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University ""Iconoclastic and erudite, opinionated and insightful, wily and contrarian this exciting book should be widely read not only by architects, but by anyone interested in Japan. Isozaki's essays are at once autobiographical and oracular; the collection, written over decades and discussing buildings spanning centuries, establishes his personal struggle with being Japanese in a global era as one that offers provocative insight into the culture of Japan yesterday, today, and tomorrow."" Dana Buntrock , Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley ""Iconoclastic and erudite, opinionated and insightful, wily and contrarian -- this exciting book should be widely read not only by architects, but by anyone interested in Japan. Isozaki's essays are at once autobiographical and oracular; the collection, written over decades and discussing buildings spanning centuries, establishes his personal struggle with being Japanese in a global era as one that offers provocative insight into the culture of Japan yesterday, today, and tomorrow.""--Dana Buntrock, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley",376,"152 x 228 x 22mm | 639.56g","25 Feb 2011","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,"54 illus.",0262516055,"105,669",3.8,US$28.23,,"Arata Isosaki is a leading Japanese architect. His works include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, the Volksbank Center am Postdamer Platz in Berlin, the Team Disney Building in Orlando, and the Tokyo University of Art and Design.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
296,"2018-01-11 01:22:43","The Project of Autonomy",9781616891008,"Pier Vittorio Aureli","A challenging and polemical argument about the Autonomia movement in Italy, a group of Italian intellectuals who produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and work in the 1960s and '70s, and its intersections with two of the most radical architectural urban theorists of the day: Aldo Rossi and Archizoom. The Project of Autonomy introduces English speaking readers to major figures like Mario Tronti and Raniero Panzieri who have previously been little known here, especially in an architectural context; and draws on siginficant new source material, including recent interviews by the author and untranslated material. Finally, the book includes beautiful illustrations related to the context of these intellectual and architectural movements, with reproductions of rare publications of the 1960s as well as seminal projects and exhibitions. A part of the FORuM Project Publication series published in association with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University.",,,120,"140 x 214 x 14mm | 258.55g","28 Nov 2012","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,Reprint,,1616891009,"91,150",3.9,US$15.12,US$21.95,"Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. His theoretical studies focus on the relationship between architectural form, political thinking, and urban history. Aureli teaches at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and the Technical University of Delft and has been a visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London and Columbia s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a frequent contributor to Log magazine and a cofounder of Dogma, an architectural collective that recently won first prize in an international competition for a new city for 500,000 inhabitants in South Korea.",Paperback,,,,
297,"2018-01-11 01:22:44","Architecture and Disjunction",9780262700603,"Bernard Tschumi","Avant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to 1990, is a lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key issues that have engaged architectural discourse over the past two decades -- from deconstructive theory to recent concerns with the notions of event and program. The essays develop different themes in contemporary theory as they relate to the actual making of architecture, attempting to realign the discipline with a new world culture characterized by both discontinuity and heterogeneity. Included are a number of seminal essays that incited broad attention when they first appeared in magazines and journals, as well as more recent and topical texts.Tschumi's discourse has always been considered radical and disturbing. He opposes modernist ideology and postmodern nostalgia since both impose restrictive criteria on what may be deemed ""legitimate"" cultural conditions. He argues for focusing on our immediate cultural situation, which is distinguished by a new postindustrial ""unhomeliness"" reflected in the ad hoc erection of buildings with multipurpose programs. The condition of New York and the chaos of Tokyo are thus perceived as legitimate urban forms.",,,278,"152 x 226 x 20mm | 439.98g","28 Feb 1996","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,,0262700603,"101,896",3.98,US$34.68,US$35.00,"Bernard Tschumi is Principal of Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris. He was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture from 1988 to 2003.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
298,"2018-01-11 01:22:55","The Landscape Urbanism Reader",9781568984391,"Charles Waldheim","With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism. In ""The Landscape Urbanism Reader"", Charles Waldheim - long at the forefront of this new movement - has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world - including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Belanger, Julia Czerniak, and more - capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field. ""The Landscape Urbanism Reader"" is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.",,,295,"152.4 x 226.1 x 22.9mm | 521.64g","25 Jul 2006","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"200 illus.",1568984391,"141,098",3.82,US$28.66,US$34.95,"Charles Waldheim is Associate Dean and Director o the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Toronto. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of CASE: Lafayette Park Detroit (Prestel/Harvard Design School, 2004), Chicago Architecture and Urban",Paperback,,,,
299,"2018-01-11 01:23:05","Augmented Landscapes",9781568986258,"Scott Tennent","In 1977 Steven Holl and William Stout created a grittier alternative to mainstream architectural publishing called Pamphlet Architecture. With Holl's Bridges, the landmark series was born, and for 30 years Pamphlet has served as soapbox and laboratory for such notable architects and theorists as Lebbeus Woods, Zaha Hadid, Lars Lerup, and Michael Sorkin. With its twenty-eighth installment, Pamphlet Architecture celebrates its thirtieth anniversary no less bold than when it began. Augmented Landscapes features a landscape architecture practice for the first time in Pamphlet history. London's Smout Allen presents five projects that respond to the way in which man has enlarged the landscape through architecture and infrastructure, manipulating and blurring perceptions of what is natural and what is artificial.",,,80,"175.26 x 210.82 x 7.62mm | 90.72g","22 May 2007","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"100 illus.",1568986254,"142,013",4.15,US$16.15,US$19.95,"Mark Smout and Laura Allen have been practicing as Smout Allen since the mid-1990s. Both teach at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.",Paperback,,,,
300,"2018-01-11 01:23:09","The Language of Architecture",9781592538584,"Andrea Simitch","In order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language; the definitions, function, and usage. The Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introduction to architecture design, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines. Whether you're new to the field or have been an architect for years, you'll want to flip through the pages of this book and use it as your go-to reference for inspiration and ideas. This comprehensive learning tool is the one book you'll want as a staple in your library.",,"""Architects Simitch and Warke (both, Cornell Univ.) offer an approachable, visual guidebook and reference to the basics of the discipline, equating learning the foundational principles of the architectural process to learning a new language. The language itself comprises 26 building blocksa?¬a?basic principles that inform the integrity of timeless design. The authors identify these principles as ""vital fundamentals."" Although the authors have limited themselves to 26 elements in a nod to the alphabet, this volume does not belabor the analogy. It is erudite, insightful, and highly illustrated, reflecting the complexity and beauty of architectural language. As the introduction states, architecture is best considered comparable to ""poetic language,"" and the authors deliver by honing difficult ideas to their essentials. In this volume for both students and professionals, each chapter is succinct and thought provoking. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended."" - Choice",224,"200.66 x 248.92 x 15.24mm | 793.78g","15 Jul 2014","Rockport Publishers Inc.","Gloucester, MA, United States",English,Illustrated,"250 color photos",1592538584,"171,497",4.33,US$35.45,US$40.01,"Val Warke is an associate professor at Cornell University's Department of Architecture, where he has been a department chair, a director of graduate studies, and the coordinator of the first year B.Arch. program. In addition to architecture, he is also a member of the graduate field of Fabric Science and Apparel Design at Cornell. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has authored numerous essays on architectural design, criticism, and theory, which have appeared in journals such as Assemblage, A+U, Cornell Journal of Architecture, and Harvard Design Magazine, as well as in many monographs; and he has collaborated with Thom Mayne in writing the book Morphosis. Recently, his research has focused on genre theory, including issues of fashion, formalism, populism, reception, and various associations to literary theory and ctiticism, especially as related to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. As a partner in Simitch + Warke, he has collaborated on the design of numerous projects and competitions from the scale of the house to that of the city. He received his B.Arch. from Cornell University and his M.Arch. from Harvard University. Andrea Simitch is an educator and an architect. She is the Director of the Bachelor of Architecture Program in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University, and an associate professor with tenure. She has also served as Associate Dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, and as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She studied architecture at the Ecole Special d'Architecture in Paris and received her B.Arch. degree from Cornell University in 1979. She began her teaching career at Cornell in 1983 and was the first female architect to be granted tenure in the Department of Architecture there. She teaches courses in architectural design as well as architectural representation and furniture design, with works by her students having been exhibited at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York. She has taught extensively for Cornell in numerous international venuees that include Europe, Central America, and South America. She has been a panelist on the New York State Council on the Arts and a visiting professor at numerous universities including the University of Toronto, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tunghai University, and The University of Minnesota. She is also a principal of Simith + Warke Architects, a collaborative practice with work that includes residential, commercial, and speculative projects. Her collages have been included in Joao Alvaro Rocha's monograph Architectures, and she has contributed several essays to the Cornell Journal of Architecture, most recently ""Re-Collage"" in number 8.",Paperback,,,,
301,"2018-01-11 01:23:18","Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia: v. 1",9780955862076,"Danzig Baldaev","The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of Russian convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, medieval knights in armour, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin these are the signs by which the people of this hidden world mark and identify themselves.",,,400,"127 x 205.74 x 27.94mm | 453.59g","31 Oct 2009","Fuel Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,Repr.,"w. 350 photos and drawings",0955862078,"5,693",4.29,US$23.42,US$32.94,,Hardback,,,,
302,"2018-01-11 01:23:24","The Tattoo Colouring Book",9781780670126,Megamunden,"Packed with stunning illustrations, this unique colouring book celebrates the art of the tattoo. The tattoo designs all specially drawn for the book range from traditional motifs hearts, sailors, girls, skulls, roses to more elaborate compositions with a contemporary edge. It is a perfect gift book that will appeal to anyone who loves tattoo imagery or is looking for inspiration for their next piece of body art.",,,112,"210 x 289 x 12mm | 350g","12 Jun 2015","Laurence King Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"120 B&W illustrations",1780670125,"21,913",3.68,US$13.85,,"Megamunden is a UK-based illustrator whose commissions range from illustrations for advertising, fashion, product design and publishing to large-scale murals and tattoo designs. He is currently working as a Senior Designer at multidisciplinary design agency ILoveDust.",Paperback,,,,
303,"2018-01-11 01:23:29","High Voltage Tattoo",9780061684388,"Kat Von D.","High Voltage Tattoo is a graphic perspective on today's global tattoo culture by Kat Von D, star of The Learning Channel's L.A. Ink and one of the most talented and popular artists working today. Designed in a style that is reminiscent of a handmade Gothic journal with its red padded cover, ornate typography, and parchmentlike pages, it throws the door wide open to tattooing culture in the way only an insider like Kat can.High Voltage Tattoo traces Kat's career as an artist, from early childhood influences to recent work, along with examples of what inspires her, information about the show and her shop, her sketches, and personal tattoos. The book goes deep into tattoo process and culture: readers can see up close the pigments, the tools, and the making of complex, even collaborative, tattoos. With a foreword by Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, the book features images and stories about celebrities, rockers, pro skaters, and everyday citizens, including Slayer's Kerry King, Anthrax's Scott Ian, Margaret Cho, Jackass' Bam Margera, David Letterman, and many others. It profiles and showcases the work of artists Kat has selected from all over the world, her interviews with people who have compelling tattoos and stories, and amazing images of extraordinary tattoo work. Numerous portfolios throughout the book showcase a range of relevant subjects, from the black and gray portrait work for which Kat is famous to a popular tattoo theme, such as the rose or biblical images. There is a knockout ten-page full-body spread of Kat-clad in a yellow bikini and seven-inch, rhinestone-studded red stilettos-that catalogs in detail all her personal tattoos on her front, back, left, and right sides-even her hands and head.",,,176,"212 x 258 x 24mm | 859.99g","01 Feb 2009","HarperCollins Publishers Inc","New York, United States",English,,"200 colour",0061684384,"6,675",3.92,US$25.22,US$29.99,"Kat Von D is a renowned tattoo artist and the star of the former hit television series LA Ink, which ran for five successful years. She is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, High Voltage Tattoo and The Tattoo Chronicles, and is the creator of an exclusive makeup and fragrance line for Sephora. She is also the founder of Wonderland Gallery, an art gallery and boutique located next to her tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, in Hollywood, where she lives.",Hardback,"Harper Design International",,,
304,"2018-01-11 01:23:32","The Tattoo Chronicles",9780061953361,"Kat Von D.","Charismatic star of LA Ink Kat Von D gives fans an unscripted and uncensored look at a crucial year in her personal and professional life in The Tattoo Chronicles, the visually arresting and no-holds-barred follow-up to her first book, the New York Times bestseller, High Voltage Tattoo. A rich anthology of intimate entries from her diary, plus a wealth of personal memorabilia, sketches, and photography shot by Kat especially for the new book, The Tattoo Chronicles reveals the passions, frustrations, and creative process of the real Kat Von D, one of the world's most renowned tattooers.",,,240,"162 x 256 x 28mm | 939.99g","25 Nov 2010","HarperCollins Publishers Inc","New York, United States",English,,"200 Colour",0061953369,"11,871",3.93,US$26.56,US$32.50,"Kat Von D is a renowned tattoo artist and the star of the former hit television series LA Ink, which ran for five successful years. She is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, High Voltage Tattoo and The Tattoo Chronicles, and is the creator of an exclusive makeup and fragrance line for Sephora. She is also the founder of Wonderland Gallery, an art gallery and boutique located next to her tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, in Hollywood, where she lives.",Hardback,"Harper Design International",,,
305,"2018-01-11 01:23:41","A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup",9781781161449,"Tokyo SFX Makeup Workshop","Acclaimed as one of the best books ever published on the subject, ""A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup"" covers everything from basic facial makeup styles, and simple scars and gashes, to masks, molds and cast-making: everything you need to know to create vampires, zombies and other fantastical characters. This title is presented with clear step by step instructions and hundreds of color photos.",,,136,"210 x 268 x 18mm | 599.99g","04 Sep 2012","Titan Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"colour photos throughout",1781161445,"19,596",4.48,US$23.27,US$24.95,"The 7 talented artists who have contributed to this book are Akihito, Tomonobu Iwakura, Keizo, Yuga Takahashi, Akiteru Nakada, Manabu Namikawa, and Tomu (Hyakutake). Between them they have worked on scores of TV series and movies, including Japanese productions like Casshern and Ultraman Max, and Hollywood movies including Alien vs Predator and Land of the Dead.",Paperback,,,,
306,"2018-01-11 01:23:47","Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia: v. II",9780955006128,"Danzig Baldaev","The second volume of the ""Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia"" contains completely new drawings, text and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his fifty years working as a prison guard in St Petersburgs notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, documenting their meanings within this closed society. This volume further explores the extremes of this incredible collection. It is published on 3rd July 2006, and reprinted in 2011.",,,400,"129.54 x 208.28 x 25.4mm | 408.23g","17 Jun 2013","Fuel Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"300 illustrations, 75 photographs",0955006120,"14,828",4.34,US$22.85,US$32.94,,Hardback,,,,
307,"2018-01-11 01:23:49","The World Atlas of Tattoo",9780500517864,"Anna Felicity Friedman","Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of their environment, presents a well-informed and nuanced account of what has become a widespread art practice. Organized geographically, each section is introduced by a short historical overview of the types of tattooing traditionally practised in that area of the world, enabling the reader to trace historical threads in the careers of some of the profiled tattooers, as well as marvel at how other artists have managed to create novel forms of tattooing that transcend any previous context. The book also tracks the movement of styles from their indigenous settings to diasporic communities, where they have often been transformed into creative, multicultural, hybrid designs. Written by an international team of scholars, historians and journalists, this comprehensive atlas will enlighten and excite anyone who is passionate about tattoo art in its many forms worldwide.",,,400,"229 x 242 x 37mm | 1,780g","07 Sep 2015","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"750 colour illustrations",050051786X,"46,583",4.19,US$45.53,,,Hardback,,,,
308,"2018-01-11 01:24:00","Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia: v. 3",9780955006197,"Danzig Baldaev","This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the ""Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia"" trilogy. Danzig Baldaevs unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol. In this title, a medieval knight is surrounded by the severed heads of his enemies, a naked woman simultaneously services a man and two dwarfs, a crying President Gorbachev grips a human bone between sabre-like fangs, a group of angels drinks vodka with God on a cloud, and the meanings of these arresting images are explained to the uninitiated eye. Accompanied by graphic photographs showing the grim reality of the Russian prison system and some of the alarming characters that inhabit it, the illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed society.",,,400,"127 x 205.74 x 25.4mm | 453.59g","15 Nov 2012","Fuel Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,Repr.,"w. 350 drawings and photos",0955006198,"14,826",4.26,US$23.42,US$32.94,,Hardback,,,,
309,"2018-01-11 01:24:11","The Mammoth Book of Tattoos",9781845297404,"Lal Hardy","It is now estimated that as much as 10% of the population in the UK and USA carries a tattoo. The huge recent growth in tattoo culture has in turn led to an influx of new talented artists, advancements in pigments and refinement of the equipment used. This giant volume includes the very best of the new work made possible by modern improvements in tattoo art. Here are 500 striking photographic images of tattoos, covering all styles from bold 'tribal' pieces, Chinese characters and hieroglyphs to delicate air-brushed designs, and from all-over 'body suits' to individual motifs - works as distinctive as the bodies they adorn. Featuring the work of the Discovery Channel's L.A. Ink stars Corey Miller, Kim Saigh and Hannah Aitchinson, and London Ink's Nicole Lowe, Louis Molloy and Phil Kyle amongst many others.",,,448,"140 x 196 x 32mm | 821g","24 Mar 2009","Little, Brown Book Group","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Colour photos throughout",1845297407,"21,062",3.8,US$21.30,,"Lal Hardy is the proprietor of legendary New Wave Tattoo in London, which he has operated since 1979. He has been tattooist to a roll-call of rock stars and movie actors. He lives in London.",Paperback,"Robinson Publishing",,,
310,"2018-01-11 01:24:21","Marked in Ink",9780399578779,"Megan Massacre","Megan Massacre brings her wildly popular art style to a colouring book. Her artwork combines dark imagery with bold vibrant colour to create a unique, whimsical style. Megan translates fan favourites such as sugar skulls, fairies, mandalas and tattoo lettering into an intricately detailed colouring book for tattoo and colouring-book- aficionados. Feminine yet edgy, free from stereotypes and full of variation, Megan's tattoo-inspired artwork will take the adult colouring-book genre in a whole new direction.",,,80,"210 x 279 x 10mm | 424g","02 Aug 2016","Watson-Guptill Publications","New York, United States",English,,"FULLY ILLUSTRATED",0399578773,"31,779",4.16,US$15.65,,"Magan Massacre is a tattoo artist and alternative model with 2+ million Facebook fans and starring roles in TLC's NYlnk, Bondi Ink, and America's Worst Tattoos. She is a co-founder of New York's Grit N Glory fashion and tattoo shop.",Paperback,"Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.",,,
311,"2018-01-11 01:24:27",Forever,9783899554427,"R Klanten","Tattoos, which were once an exclusively underground phenomenon, now have mass appeal. This evolution from sub-culture to mainstream has brought fresh ideas, tensions, and shifts with it, and traditionalists and innovators have staked out very different positions. Over the last few years, new influences from the realms of art, fashion, traditional tattoo art, and visual culture have given rise to a dynamic tattoo scene--a new underground. This cutting-edge tattoo culture is as innovative, diverse, inspiring, and controversial as the motifs it creates. One of the most striking facets of this new tattoo scene is its interaction with high fashion and art. The internationally successful artists Scott Campbell or Usugrow, to name just two high-profile examples, began their careers as tattoo artists. Forever breaks the mold of standard tattoo books and their typical displays of flesh. This publication is an in-depth investigation of current developments in contemporary tattoo culture. It introduces key innovators and presents a broad range of styles and approaches. Quality photos and insightful texts document the new self-image of a rapidly expanding and extremely creative scene.",,,240,"233.68 x 294.64 x 27.94mm | 1,564.89g","06 Dec 2012","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,"2nd ed.","Mit farb. Abbildungen",3899554426,"30,651",4.2,US$57.49,,,Hardback,,,,
312,"2018-01-11 01:24:29","Film Listography",9781452106519,"Matthew Rainwaters","Listography for movie buffs! This guided journal features four-colour illustrations and over 70 movie-themed list topics, ranging from the classic (list your favorite films of all time') to the loveably idiosyncratic (list films you walked out on').",,,160,"177.8 x 241.3 x 15.24mm | 458.13g","28 Mar 2012","CHRONICLE BOOKS","San Francisco, United States",English,,"col. Illustrations",1452106517,"24,338",4.44,US$14.45,US$16.95,"Lisa Nola is the creator of Listography.com, a popular social networking Web site for list makers.",Paperback,,,,
313,"2018-01-11 01:24:36","The Japanese Tattoo",9780896597983,"Sandi Fellman","A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of the Yakuza, Japan's feared secret society of gangsters. They are the visions of the Irezumi, the legendary tattoo artists, who spend years creating living masterpieces. Photographer Sandi Fellman describes this strange and violent world both in her text and in her stunning, large Polaroid photographs.",,"""American photographer Sandi Fellman used a rare large size Polaroid camera to create these photos of Irezumi Japanese men and women who wear elaborate full-body tattoos. Fellman treats the tattoos as artworks and their creators as artists. Her text touches on the tattooing process, common motifs, the sociology of the tattoo, and relationships between the tattoo masters and their clients. Author D.M. Thomas has contributed two pages of his reactions to these unusual and even disturbing images. The 46 color plates in this volume, most of them whole body nudes, should prove provocative, fascinating, or repellant to a wide variety of library patrons."" --Library Journal",120,"250 x 302 x 10mm | 721.21g","01 Feb 1988","Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.","New York, United States",English,Reprint,"66 col. ill.",0896597989,"31,551",4.14,US$26.48,US$27.50,"Sandi Fellman is a well-known photographer whose work has been featured in many one-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Her photographs can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale, and Center for Creative Photography. Her work has also been widely published over the past fifteen years.",Paperback,,,,
314,"2018-01-11 01:24:46","Tattoo Coloring Book for Adults",9781519570178,"Adult Coloring World","Get fantastic value for money with this huge Tattoo Coloring Book! These expertly illustrated, professional designs will provide hour upon hour of entertainment! This tattoo coloring book contains 40 single sided coloring pages. This allows you to remove each page for framing or to use as coloring reference in a portfolio for example. This also helps reduce bleed through onto the other designs even if you are using markers, making this book suitable for everything from coloring pencils through to marker pens. The tattoo designs contained within this fantastic book are created by various artists, each handpicked by us here at Adult Coloring World to ensure fantastic quality throughout. We know that sometimes you will buy a book after being impressed initially by an amazing design on the cover, only to be disappointed with the books contents when you open it. Well we make sure this never happens with any of our books and we can assure you that all of the designs inside are of the very highest quality from start to finish. This adult coloring book contains a wide variety of imagery. We have included everything from sugar skulls and mandalas, to moths and snakes. The tattoo designs you will find inside also range from very easy simplistic designs right through to the more challenging and complicated, so there will be something to suit all tastes. If you're interested in tattoo artwork, then you will love this adult coloring book. So what are you waiting for? Get your copy today!",,,82,"203 x 254 x 4mm | 183g","27 Nov 2015","Createspace Independent Publishing Platform",,English,,"Illustrations, black and white",1519570171,"21,955",5,US$12.89,,,Paperback,,,,
315,"2018-01-11 01:24:51","The Piercing Bible",9781580911931,"Elayne Angel","Piercing pioneer Elayne Angel has performed over 40,000 piercings since the 1980s and has brought many practices, such as tongue-piercing, into the mainstream. She brings her exhaustive knowledge to this groundbreaking manual that covers everything you need to know about the process, including: - The best piercings and placements for various body parts and body types - Terminology, tools, and techniques of the trade - Vital sterility, sanitation, and hygiene information - Jewelry designs, shapes, and materials - Advice for people with stretch marks, plastic surgery, and unique anatomy - Healing, aftercare, and troubleshooting for problem-free piercing ""As a piercer, nurse, and educator, I can say without a doubt that this is the most complete book ever written for all people in our industry."" --DAVID A. VIDRA, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF HEALTH EDUCATORS, INC. ""No one is more qualified to write this book than Elayne Angel. With more than three decades of personal experience to her credit, no one knows the subject better."" --JIM WARD, FOUNDER OF GAUNTLET, THE WORLD'S FIRST BODY PIERCING STUDIO ""This is an exciting book for a field that has exploded in the last two decades. National industry standards are needed, and Elayne provides important data."" --MYRNA L. ARMSTRONG, RN, EdD","Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Piercing 101  1

PART 1  The New Piercing
1  Motivations  6
2  Piercing Past to Present  11

PART 2  Groundwork and Preliminary Considerations
3  Risks, Myths, and Warnings  20
4  Is Piercing Right for You?  28
5  You and Your Piercer  34

PART 3  Piercing Preparation
6  Picking and Preparing  44
7  At the Studio  49
8  Piercing Procedures  56
9  Jewelry 101: Sizes, Shapes, and Materials  65

PART 4  The Holes
10  Holes in Your Head: Ear, Nose, and Facial Piercings  82
11  Kiss of the Needle: Tongue and Oral Piercings  105
12  Torso Piercings: Nipple and Navel Piercings  121
13  Below the Belt: Female and Male Genital Piercings  134

PART 5  Healing and Aftercare
14  Healing 101: Standard Aftercare  180
15  Alternative Aftercare  196
16  Trouble and Troubleshooting  201

PART 6  Living with Your Piercings
17  Upkeep and Stretching  218
18  Advanced Jewelry and Practices  232
19  Special Situations  246
20  Sex!  255

PART 7  Piercing in Modern Culture
21  Piercees and the Establishment  262
22  A Career in Professional Piercing  266
23  The Future of Body Piercing  270

Appendix A: A Piercee's Bill of Rights (Association of Professional Piercers)  273
Appendix B: My Piercings and Jewelry Chart  274
Appendix C: Gauge Conversion Chart  275
Appendix D: Minimum Healing Times Chart  276

Notes  277
Glossary  287
Select Bibliography  299
About the Author  301
Index  302",,304,"154.94 x 228.6 x 22.86mm | 317.51g","01 Jun 2009","Crossing Press,U.S.","Freedom, CA, United States",English,,"15 photographs, 35 line drawings",1580911935,"41,570",4.45,US$18.24,US$20.00,"ELAYNE ANGEL has been a professional piercer for more than 20 years and has performed over 40,000 piercings. She was awarded the President's Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Professional Piercers in 2006 and is a contributing writer for PAIN Magazine. She lives in Merida, Mexico. THE AUTHOR SCOOP Have you ever met a famous person? I was acquainted with a piercing customer from the Gauntlet in West Hollywood, and later we became fast friends. One day he asked me if I'd go ""on tour"" with him to be his ""tour piercer."" Not knowing precisely what I was getting into, I agreed; it sounded like fun. I arrived just in time to watch him at work. From my vantage point on the side of a gigantic stage, I saw a stadium full of 50,000 screaming fans. That was the moment I realized that my friend Lenny (Kravitz) was a famous rock star! During my two-week journey with them, everyone got a piercing at his urging: all the members of his band, his bus driver, sound engineer, motorcycle mechanic, and others in his entourage. He is a huge fan and I have performed many piercings on him. After I pierced his nipples, which he clearly enjoyed, Lenny Kravitz announced, ""I wish I had ten nipples so I could have you pierce all of them."" What's the history of your last name? Because of the large angel wings I have tattooed on my back, many people had taken to calling me ""Angel."" Eventually I started to use the name myself because it was easy for people to remember after they saw my tattoo. Do you have any unusual or special family traditions? My mom loves to give multiple birthday cards. This year she gave me one that made me laugh so hard it almost brought tears to my eyes. Cover image: a punk-rocker gal with tattoos, piercings, and a spiked Mohawk. Her dialogue bubble: ""Know how to tell you're getting older?"" Inside: ""Your nipple rings clang against your belt buckle. Happy Birthday."" Any unusual hobbies? In my first career, I was as a sign language interpreter at a university. It always surprises deaf people when they find I can communicate with them so well-particularly when they remark on my appearance before becoming aware that I can understand what they're signing. What do you like to make by hand? I love to crochet-especially in public. It utterly confuses people to see a heavily tattooed and pierced woman engaged in such a grandma-type craft. I once crocheted a round queen-size bedspread that was a stunning replica of a large pizza.",Paperback,,,,
316,"2018-01-11 01:24:56",Tattoo,9781859063071,"Dale Durfee","Tattoos are now worn not only by celebrities and leading media folk but also by everyone in the street. They can be boldly on display or hidden discretely and are a permanent expression of individuality. Tattooing has obviously finally emerged from the back street parlour to become high fashion. ""Tattoo"" contains over 65 superb colour and black and white photographs specially taken for this beautifully produced book. Award-winning photographer Dale Durfee has persuaded a variety of people from every walk of life to show their tattoos. There are close-up details and spectacular whole body canvasses. This is an inspiring and entertaining collection of body art - the ultimate celebration of one of the world's oldest forms of body decoration. It even includes some sensible and practical guidance on getting your first tattoo.",,,80,"236 x 240 x 12mm | 421.84g","14 Sep 2009","Eddison Books Ltd","United Kingdom",English,,"colour & black & white photography",1859063071,"49,357",3.39,,,,Paperback,"Connections Book Publishing Ltd",,,
317,"2018-01-11 01:25:04","Creative Haven Mehndi Designs Coloring Book",9780486491264,"Marty Noble","Exotic birds and butterflies, hypnotic paisley prints, and flowers galore -- these mehndi designs offer colorists an array of exciting challenges. Derived from the ancient art of henna body painting, 31 striking patterns are based on authentic Indian, African, and Middle Eastern sources. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Mehndi Designs and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.",,,64,"208.28 x 276.86 x 7.62mm | 136.08g","21 Mar 2013","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,"First Edition, First ed.",31,0486491269,"28,777",4.1,US$5.96,US$5.99,,Paperback,,,,
318,"2018-01-11 01:25:13","The Tattoo Dictionary",9781784721770,"Trent Aitken-Smith","Discover the true meanings behind over 200 popular tattoos with this comprehensive book, illustrated with over 100 tattoo designs. From sailors' swallows and Mexican skulls to prisoners' barbed wire and intricate Maori patterns, tattoos have been used as a means of communication by cultures all over the world for thousands of years. Through meticulous research, The Tattoo Dictionary uncovers the fascinating origins of the most popular symbols in tattoo history, revealing their hidden meanings and the long-forgotten stories behind them. This beautifully packaged book is an inspiring look at tattoo culture, and an indispensable guide to choosing your own tattoo.",,,256,"158 x 216 x 27mm | 474g","03 Jul 2017","Octopus Publishing Group","London, United Kingdom",English,,"more than 100 illustrations",1784721778,"50,094",4,US$17.98,US$20.00,"Trent Aitken-Smith is an international tattoo journalist and editor of Tattoo Master magazine.Ashley Tyson is a tattoo artist at the award-winning Xotica studio in London.",Hardback,"MITCHELL BEAZLEY",,,
319,"2018-01-11 01:25:20","Go Big or Go Home",9780062108135,"Kat Von D.","The author of ""New York Times""' bestsellers ""High Voltage Tattoo"" and ""The Tattoo Chronicles"", renowned artist Kat Von D raises the expository and tattoo bar with ""Go Big or Go Home"", her most intimate work yet. Someone who has followed her passions with full commitment and courage from a very young age, Kat has always been a risk-taker in her day-to-day life, her creative work, and in love. Aligned with this focus on risk taking, making bold moves, following through, and taking responsibility for her actions in this context is Kat's decision to create only large-scale tattoos especially for this book. These meticulous works of art take hours to plan, draw, and execute, and require hours of concentration and endurance for both Kat and her clients. They represent a large commitment from Kat as an artist and from the client, whose lifelong commitment to the large piece almost always represents a significant event or a visible manifestation of their evolving inner selves. Filled with Kat's sketches, handwriting, and specially commissioned photographs of the large-scale tattoos by celebrity and fashion photographer Patrick Hoelck - both in process and finished pieces - ""Go Big or Go Home"" is filled with a range of astounding work on regular citizens, as well as the many celebrities that seek her out, including songwriter Linda Perry, actor Ewan MacGregor, rapper ""The Game"", and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. Above all, this special book captures the candor, compassion, and enormous talent of an amazing woman beloved by millions worldwide.",,,208,"208 x 264 x 24mm | 1,099.98g","30 Jun 2013","HarperCollins Publishers Inc","New York, United States",English,,"200 Colour",0062108131,"54,111",3.93,US$30.91,,"Kat Von D is a renowned tattoo artist and the star of the former hit television series LA Ink, which ran for five successful years. She is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, High Voltage Tattoo and The Tattoo Chronicles, and is the creator of an exclusive makeup and fragrance line for Sephora. She is also the founder of Wonderland Gallery, an art gallery and boutique located next to her tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, in Hollywood, where she lives.",Hardback,"Harper Design International",,,
320,"2018-01-11 01:25:29","Tattoo Bible",9781929133840,"Superior Tattoo","Whether you are preparing for your first tattoo or your twenty-seventh, you need artwork and designs that are just-right. Tattoo Bible Book One, authored by Superior Tattoo, provides more than 500 pieces of unique flash art. Everything is here, from hearts to dragons, tattoo designs that range from traditional to the avant-garde. Tattoo Bible includes flash never before compiled in one single book. The artists included in this book include the best known names including Kevin LeBlanc, Aaron Coleman, Bob Sims, Nate Powers, and many, many more. While most tattoo books available today concentrate on one specific genre, this book covers many different genres and the ideas are endless. This is not just a book to add to your collection - this is your collection. You can combine different pieces of art from within the book, or just take them as is. This book is for you and your imagination to do with as you wish. The images are represented in range of physical sizes, some are printed two or four per page, the more intricate designs are reproduced as full-page spreads. The categories include hearts, dragons, roses, skulls, butterflies, girls, crosses, celestial, tribal, back pieces, and nautical. Published by ArtKulture, an imprint of Wolfgang Publications, Tattoo Bible covers 144 pages with images that are both striking and very useful to both the tattoo shop, and the tattoo aficionado.",,,144,"214 x 266 x 14mm | 439.98g","15 Sep 2010","Wolfgang Publications","Stillwater, MN, United States",English,,"500 colour",1929133847,"45,553",4.38,US$26.37,US$27.94,"Superior Tattoo is one of the premier suppliers of equipment and supplies to tattoo shops all over the world. In fact they are rated the number one supplier of quality tattoo equipment by International Tattoo Art magazine. From tattoo machines to inks of every color, Superior Tattoo sells and services everything a shop needs to create high quality, colorful tattoos. Because of their position in the industry and relationships with some of the best-known tattoo artists, Superior Tattoo is in an ideal position to author a book of unique flash art.",Paperback,,,,
321,"2018-01-11 01:25:33","Extreme Face Painting",9781440302701,"Brian Wolfe","Whether you're looking for fun and friendly costumes, or strikingly horrible masquerades, this easy to follow book shows readers how to paint super-cool face designs step by step, starting with materials and basic techniques; moving on to 50 projects of the most popular subjects from basic to advanced. Even if you've never done it before, you can create striking faces including animals, romantic themes, humorous characters, sports and Halloween themes. The author is a respected professional, the quality of whose work gives readers something to aspire to, but the instruction will be easy to follow, even for beginners.","The only step-by-step book of this size with award-winning artists and coolest projects

Face painting is popular everywhere, from events and parties to holidays and conventions

Includes bonus DVD with 2 videos of face painting in action",,128,"193.04 x 274.32 x 10.16mm | 544.31g","02 Sep 2010","F&W Publications Inc","Lebanon, United States",English,,"300 Illustrations, color",1440302707,"24,762",4.05,US$23.28,US$24.99,"Brian Wolfe is known for his fast-paced face and body art techniques. He has worked with Universal Studios Florida, contributed to face-painting publications, taught classes and workshops. He conducts face-painting classes, including full-day workshops at conventions. He was named World Champion at the World Bodypainting Festival in July 2009.",Paperback,"F & W Publications Inc",,,
322,"2018-01-11 01:25:36",Bushido,9780764312014,"Takahiro Kitamura","This gorgeous book delves into the elusive world of traditional Japanese tattooing. The Samurai spirit, Bushido, is an integral component of Japanese tattooing that is traced through the imagery and interpersonal dynamics of this veiled subculture. The eloquent text is based largely on Takahiro Kitamuras experiences as client and student of the famed Japanese tattoo master, Horiyoshi III. Over 200 beautiful photos by Jai Tanju capture the breathtaking tattoo artistry of Horiyoshi III. Five original, unpublished prints by Horiyoshi III, like those in his acclaimed book, 100 Demons of Horiyoshi III, are included here. Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo is certain to fascinate everyone with an interest in tattoo culture.",,,160,"216 x 278 x 14mm | 799.99g","01 Jan 2001","Schiffer Publishing Ltd","Atglen, United States",English,,"220 color & 32 b/w photos",0764312014,"85,400",4.24,US$28.38,US$29.99,"Takahiro Kitamura, who tattoos as Horitaka, currently resides and works in California. Katie Kitamura is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of London. Jai Tanju is a photographer in San Jose, California.",Paperback,,,,
323,"2018-01-11 01:25:39","Sailor Jerry's Tattoo Stencils",9780764315626,"Kate Hellenbrand","American tattoo master Sailor Jerry Collins of Hawaii is best known for his remarkable tattoo designs, blending the fluidity of Asian motifs into classic American tattoo imagery. Until now, most of Sailor Jerrys work has been controlled by a handful of collectors, seen only at museum or art gallery exhibitions or in short-run, self-published books. Here is a sizeable portion of Sailor Jerrys stencils, the newest tattoo collectible, spanning his tattoo career, from the 1940s to the early 1970s. The basic line work of hundreds of his staple and surprisingly beautiful designspin-ups, roses, bluebirds, hearts, and banners, and Jerrys infamous military/political cartoons. The stencils themselves were handcut in celluloid, vinyl or acetate sheets by the master himself for use during his day-to-day thriving tattoo trade in downtown Honolulu. They are, in the best sense, permanent tattoos carved in plastic, enduring through time. In their original condition, most carry residual charcoal dust from their last use. All are signed by Jerry with one of his several distinctive signatures. This is the only book of its kinda workbook for artists, and a design catalog for folk art historians. The value of the stencils is included, along with descriptions of stencils and their usage and a glossary of tattoo terminology.",,,80,"226.06 x 302.26 x 10.16mm | 657.71g","30 Aug 2002","Schiffer Publishing Ltd","Atglen, United States",English,,"100s of images",0764315625,"55,871",4.28,US$25.99,,"Kate Hellenbrand is an award-winning tattoo artist and writer. She began tattooing in 1971 in New York City, where she lives today. She worked with Sailor Jerry in his Honolulu shop in 1972 and remained his friend until his death in 1973.","Mixed media product",,,,
324,"2018-01-11 01:25:42","Tattoo Mystique",9780957768444,"Angelique Houtkamp","The follow-up to Angelique Houtkamp's hugely successful Tattoo Darling (Outre, 2009 - available from Turnaround), which has sold out of its first print run. Houtkamp is celebrated for bringing togther the tattoo aesthetic, nostalgia and a magical vision. This second volume documents all new artwork, glimpses into the artist's personal collection and inlcudes an introduction by the renowned tattoo artist Mike Giant and an interview with the artist herself. AVAILABLE FROM NOVEMBER 2009",,,80,"187.96 x 238.76 x 10.16mm | 430.91g","12 Nov 2009","Outre Gallery Press","Melbourne, VIC, Australia",English,,"1 Illustrations, unspecified",0957768443,"70,543",4.4,US$23.08,,,Paperback,,,,
325,"2018-01-11 01:25:52","Tattoo Colouring Book",9781782122340,"Arcturus Publishing","A delightful coloring book with an edge, offering a range of imagery that users will love to personalize and make their own! Each design allows the reader to utilize their creative instincts while at the same time providing a finished piece of art to show for their endeavors. Packed with amazing original tattoo designs to color and bring to life.",,,128,"226 x 274 x 10mm | 439.99g","01 Sep 2013","Arcturus Publishing Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"illustrations throughout",1782122346,"76,348",4.1,US$12.22,,"Arcturus Publishing is dedicated to creating a broad range of high quality books at excellent prices. With the help of a wide range of talented authors and illustrators we aim to combine strong content, attractive design, great production values and exceptional value for money. From practical art to philosophy, history to crafts and true crime to humor, there is something for everyone.",Paperback,,,,
326,"2018-01-11 01:25:58","Tattoo Johnny",9781402768507,"David Bolt","This title includes a wide range of styles, all by renowned artists: angels, flowers, stars, zodiac signs and more. Tattoos are very popular and this book will help readers find the perfect one for them. These days, it seems like everybody - male, female, young and old - wants a tattoo. But choosing the right design isn't always easy. ""Tattoo Johnny"" to the rescue! Taken from the world's leading tattoo website, this in-depth resource offers more than 1,000 designs in a wide range of styles. Whether readers are getting their first tattoo or a second, third, or tenth, this is the ideal place to find the perfect pattern.",,,352,"180.34 x 180.34 x 22.86mm | 703.06g","01 Jun 2010","Sterling Publishing Co Inc","New York, United States",English,,"full colour throughout, includes illustrations",1402768508,"71,032",3.84,US$17.36,,"Tattoo Johnny is the largest supplier of designs to professional tattoo studios around the world.",Paperback,STERLING,,,
327,"2018-01-11 01:26:06",Muerte,9788888493190,"Mike Giant","The renowned graffiti artist, illustrator and tattooist, Mike Giant, has been bringing his signature style to concrete, paper and skin for years. Now, he collates his masterpieces in an enticing volume. Muerte is a vibrant celebration of the master of black ink and a jewel in the crown of the Drago s36 Chambers series.Drawing inspiration from Mexican folk art and Japanese illustration, his unique images depict everything from voluptuous femme fatales to skulls and animal tentacles. Mike Giant has the rare ability to create technical and precise drawings, but also show depth and soul in everything he does Matt Revelli, editor of Juxtapoz Magazine. Flawless lines and the use of low key icons are only one aspect of Mike Giant s work. Check out what lies beneath. Though everything seems controlled, under the surface there is an incredible amount of references one can find. His references are not only about folk art or religious or philosophical, there is much more. It is a lacquered, trapped in time, reflection of the world complexity where love and hate mix, where everything is dual, so simple and yet so hard to live. In this sense, being a great and original artist, Mike Giant has this capacity to go beyond and bring us back the unseen, the unspoken. -Magda Danysz, renowned gallerist of contemporary art.""",,,96,"167.64 x 236.22 x 10.16mm | 340.19g","01 Jan 2011","Drago Arts & Communication","Rome, Italy",English,,"96 Illustrations, unspecified",8888493190,"84,036",4.54,US$21.82,US$29.00,,Paperback,,,,
328,"2018-01-11 01:26:12","Tattoo Sourcebook",9780007289943,TattooFinder.com,"A lush sourcebook of nearly two thousand tattoo designs from artists around the world. From the editors of TattooFinder.com, it's a fantastic compendium for people who want to think before they ink! Whether you're tattoo-curious or tattoo-crazy, The Tattoo Sourcebook has everything you need to pick and choose the perfect design for you. Browse the nearly two thousand designs included - everything from Celtic and tribal to butterflies and fairies. It's a visual compendium of high-quality, detailed designs from artists all over the world including contributions and commentary from famed tattooists Friday Jones (who inked Angelina Jolie and Janeane Garofalo), Lyle Tuttle (who tattooed Cher and Jane Fonda), Guy Aitchison, Rand Johnson, Edward Lee, and more. And if you're a tattoo newbie, find out everything you need to know before you get inked. Crosses, dragons, astrological signs, snakes, phoenixes, and more - this is a treasure trove of inspiration for anyone whose tattoo itch is starting to burn!",,,520,"215.9 x 271.78 x 38.1mm | 1,973.12g","29 Aug 2011","HarperCollins Publishers","London, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","1998 col illus",0007289944,"80,438",3.82,US$61.38,,"TattooFinder.com was founded in 2003 after owners Lou Bardach, Rachael Bardach, Brad Hutchinson, and Brett O'Connor received multitudes of requests from individuals looking to browse individual tattoo designs before getting them inked. TattooFinder.com works with tattoo artists and studios all over the world, and their site was ranked by PC Magazine as one of the Top 100 Websites.",Paperback,"HarperCollins Publishers Ltd",,,
329,"2018-01-11 01:26:15","Creative Haven Modern Tattoo Designs Coloring Book",9780486493268,"Erik Siuda","Enter into a racy world of tattoo art with these edgy, imaginative renditions of flowers, dragons, skulls, hearts, wild animals, angels, and other creatures of fantasy and nature. Designed by an accomplished tattoo artist who appeared on season five of the Spike TV show Ink Master(R), the full-page illustrations form a stunning array of images to color. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Perforated pages are printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.",,,64,"203.2 x 271.78 x 7.62mm | 240g","19 Sep 2013","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,,"black & white line drawings",0486493261,"85,130",3.73,US$8.73,,"Designer and professional tattoo artist Erik Siuda studied illustration at New York City's School of Visual Arts and is skilled in several media, including watercolors and digital arts. He manages Red Rocket Tattoo in Levittown, New York, and has appeared on season five of the Spike TV show Ink Master(R).",Paperback,,,,
330,"2018-01-11 01:26:23","Swear Word Coloring Book",9781944575403,"Color Mom","Over 25 Unique Hand curated Designs To Color This Adult Coloring books Contains Dozens of hilarious swear words (Containing All the F-Bomb Words) imaginable Coloring Pages designed for Adults Each Swear word is Designed with cats, dogs, butterflies patterns Each Coloring Page is designed for fun and Relaxation The Variety of Pages Ensure there is something for every skill level Your Choice of coloring tool can be used (Pens, Pencils, Markers, Crayons etc) Each Coloring Page is printed on a separate sheet to avoid bleed through Join Our list to receive weekly freebies at www.swearwordscoloring.com Scroll Up Now and Order Your Copy to Get started Immediately",,,60,"216 x 280 x 3mm | 165g","24 Feb 2016","Adult Coloring Books",,English,,"25 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white",1944575405,"37,746",3.9,US$12.54,,,Paperback,,,,
331,"2018-01-11 01:26:32","Folding Techniques for Designers",9781856697217,"Paul Jackson","Many designers use folding techniques in their work to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal and many other materials. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling. An elegant, practical handbook, it covers over 70 techniques explained by clear step-by-step drawings, crease pattern drawings, and specially commissioned photography. This book will be accompanied by a CD containing all the crease pattern drawings.","1. Basics 1.1 Divisions 1.2 Symmetrical Repeats 1.3 Stretch and Skew 1.4 Using Different Polygons  2. Basic Pleats 2.1 Accordion Pleats 2.2 Knife Pleats 2.3 Box Pleats 2.4 Progressive Pleats  3. Other Pleats 3.1 Spiral Pleats 3.2 Closed Pleats 3.3 Twisted Pleats  4. V-Pleats 4.1 Making By Hand 4.2 Variations 4.3 Multiple Vs 4.4 Grid Vs 4.5 Cylindrical Vs 4.6 Complex Surfaces  5. Spans and Parabolas 5.1 X-form Spans 5.2 V-fold Spans 5.3 Parabolas  6. Boxes and Bowls 6.1 Boxes: Flat Box, Gusset Box, Square Gusset Box, Hemmed Box, Hemmed Box Variations, Masu Box, Masu Box Variations, Facted Box 6.2 Bowl Forms  7. No Crease, One Crease 7.1 No Crease 7.2 One Crease  8. Crumpling 8.1 The Basic Technique 8.2 Parallel Crumples 8.3 Rotational Crumpling 8.4 Crumpling Pre-made 3D Forms  9. How to Develop Your Own Folding",,224,"215.9 x 215.9 x 25.4mm | 725.74g","05 Sep 2011","Laurence King Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"w. 575 ill.",1856697215,"45,192",4.26,US$27.05,US$35.00,"Paul Jackson has been a professional paper folder and paper artist since 1982 and is the author of 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on more than 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel. These include courses in Architecture, Graphic Design, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Jewellery, Product Design, Packaging, Ceramics, Industrial Design, Fine Art, Basic Design and Interior Design. He has also taught many workshops in museums, arts centres and festivals and has worked as 'folding consultant' for companies such as Nike and Siemens.",Paperback,,,,
332,"2018-01-11 01:26:38","The Complete Metalsmith",9780871922403,"Tim McCreight","Best techniques of working with gold, platinum, copper, brass, steel, plaster and more. ""Surprisingly comprehensive.""-- ""N.Y. Times. ""A gem of a handbook.""-- ""Whole Earth Catalog. ""No metalsmith or jewelry maker is 'complete' without this easy-to-use resource.""-- ""Lapidary Journal. 208 pages, 2500 b/w illus., 7 3/8 x 9 1/8.",,,189,"195.6 x 231.1 x 20.3mm | 476.28g","31 Dec 1991","Davis Publications Inc.,U.S.","Worcester, United States",English,"2nd Revised edition",illus,0871922401,"80,317",4.46,US$19.08,US$21.95,,"Spiral bound",,,,
333,"2018-01-11 01:26:44","Hardening, Tempering and Heat Treatment",9780852428375,"Tubal Cain","In this valuable book Tubal Cain takes the reader beyond the superficial or the simply practical with explanations of the composition of steel, its additives, and the effects of different temperatures on its constituents. With a grasp of what changes are actually taking place in the metal the care needed in following the practical processes described becomes understandable and will lead to better and more consistent results. Flame, salt bath and furnace heating are detailed, with information on accurate measurement or recognition of temperature levels. For the average small workshop operative or model engineer the discourses on tool material, hardening and tempering will be of most use, and in this connection this book replaced the author's earlier Hardening and Tempering Engineers' Tools, providing a broader-based, more detailed and up to date examination of the subject.","Iron & Steel.  Principles of the Hardening Process.  Heating and Quenching in Practice.  Tempering.  Heating Equipment.  Casehardening.  Other Heat Treatment Processes.  The Measurement of Hardness.  Home Construction of Furnaces.  Safety Precautions.  Thermocouples and Pyrometers.  Carbon Steel Cutting Tools.  British Standard Steel Specification Numbers.  Hardness Conversions.",,124,"147.32 x 205.74 x 7.62mm | 158.76g","01 Dec 1984","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","4 pages of colour photographs; 32 black & white photographs; 34 graphs, tables and diagrams",0852428375,"14,210",4.05,US$8.85,US$14.00,"Tubal Cain was the pen name of engineer and craftsman Tom Walshaw, the writer of many best-selling home workshop and model engineering guides",Paperback,,,,
334,"2018-01-11 01:26:48","The New Artisans",9780500515853,"Olivier Dupon","This book captures the new mood a return to a preference for the unique and the handmade. Design expert and acclaimed blogger Olivier Dupon has sourced the cream of the contemporary design world from all over Europe, Australia and the United States, profiling 75 artisans who use craft techniques, rather than mass-production methods, to create stylish, whimsical, covetable objects. Hundreds of colour photographs feature a huge variety of crafts, including art, ceramics, furniture, glasswork, jewelry, lighting, metalwork, papercraft, textiles and woodwork. Complete with a directory of products, and Dupon's personal recommendations for inspiring shops and websites to visit, this is the perfect resource for discovering unique and beautiful objects made by new, talented artisans from all around the world.",,"Featured in ""Our Finds"" ...a fine pick for those who have developed a romance with the ways of human craftsmanship. Featured in Our Finds "" . . . a fine pick for those who have developed a romance with the ways of human craftsmanship. Readers interested in the latest home design trends and alternative fashion will be inspired as they browse through this picture perfect book. A must have book. A beautiful, simple celebration of the handmade and the one of a kind.",320,"202 x 256 x 36mm | 1,401.59g","30 Dec 2011","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"col. Illustrations",0500515859,"27,279",4.04,US$32.74,US$45.01,,Hardback,,,,
335,"2018-01-11 01:26:54","Soldering and Brazing",9780852428450,"Tubal Cain","Joining metals by one form or another of soft or hard soldering, or brazing with various alloys, are run-of-the-mill jobs in model and light engineering workshops - so much so that little thought is given as to whether there might be a quicker, more efficient or less expensive means of achieving the required end. In Soldering and Brazing respected engineering writer Tubal Cain examines in detail the processes, equipment and materials, and explains what is happening in the joints as they are made with practical examples, test pieces, tabulated data etc. This is a thorough, comprehensive and, above all, useful book.","The Characteristics of Filler Metals.  Soft Solders.  Brazing Alloys.  Fluxes.  Soft Soldering Techniques.  Tools for Soft Soldering.  Brazing Techniques.  Brazing Equipment.  Capillary Joint Design.  Safety Precautions.  Properties of Brazing Alloys.  Data on Fuel Gases.  Hazards Arising From Cadmium-Bearing Alloys.",,136,"144 x 208 x 10mm | 199.58g","17 Jan 1998","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","70 black & white photographs; 40 graphs & scale diagrams; 18 tables of data",0852428456,"28,480",4.28,US$9.36,US$14.00,"Tubal Cain was the pen name of engineer and craftsman Tom Walshaw, the writer of many best-selling home workshop and model engineering guides",Paperback,,,,
336,"2018-01-11 01:27:04","The Queen's Diamonds",9781905686384,"Hugh Roberts","Published on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this book tells the story of the magnificent royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to the present day. Illustrated with a wealth of archive material as well as extensive new photography of the jewels, this important publication includes stones of international importance as well as items of great historic significance, and will be a standard work of reference on diamond jewellery for many years to come.",,,324,"262 x 320 x 42mm | 2,739.96g","31 Aug 2012","Royal Collection Trust","London, United Kingdom",English,,"348 colour illustrations",1905686382,"43,065",4.64,US$77.95,US$95.00,"Sir Hugh Roberts is Surveyor Emeritus of The Queen's Works of Art and was the Director of the Royal Collection from 1996 to 2010. He is the author of For The King's Pleasure: The Furnishing and Decoration of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle, and has also written extensively on the decorative arts, contributing to the catalogs for numerous exhibitions.",Hardback,,,,
337,"2018-01-11 01:27:06","Milling Operations in the Lathe",9780852428405,"Tubal Cain","Despite the growing numbers of milling machines in amateur workshops, a majority of model engineers still rely on a lathe and a drilling machine as the basic equipment. The lathe, 'the king of machine tools', can be adapted for almost any function, but next to turning its most valuable use is for milling operations, either using the lathe itself to drive the cutters or by extending its scope by the addition of a separate milling attachment. One of the most popular titles in model engineering books for almost sixty years was Milling in the Lathe, which first appeared in the 1920s and continued in updated and revised editions until 1983. This book replaces it, covering all the basic information it contained and adding to it from recent experiences and developments. The author, Tubal Cain, needs no introduction to Model Engineer readers as a highly experienced engineer and skilled craftsman with an ability to write on engineering subjects in a clear, simple and thorough style.","The Lathe as a Milling Machine.  Milling Cutters.  Tooth Geometry, Speeds, Feeds and Cutter Holding.  Workholding.  Milling Attachments.  Indexing and Dividing.  Procedures and Case Studies.  Combined Operations and Complex Milling.  Care of Cutters.",,126,"148 x 204 x 8mm | 158.76g","10 Jan 1998","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","135 black & white photographs; 38 scale diagrams; 7 tables of data",0852428405,"28,479",3,US$8.85,US$14.00,"Tubal Cain was the pen name of engineer and craftsman Tom Walshaw, the writer of many best-selling home workshop and model engineering guides",Paperback,,,,
338,"2018-01-11 01:27:12","The Queen's Dolls' House",9781905686261,"Lucinda Lambton","From simple one-room cottages to multilevel castles, dollhouses have long been treasured by children and adults alike. In an ever-expanding array of sizes and styles, they may be closely modeled on reality or wildly whimsical. Few, however, approach the splendor of the royal dollhouse on display at Windsor Castle. With running water, electricity, two working elevators, and many other delights, there can be no question that this is a dollhouse fit for a queen. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a detailed history of the creation, decoration, and furnishing of this extraordinary dollhouse. Commissioned in the 1920s for Queen Mary and designed by renowned architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the house is a perfect scale replica of an Edwardian residence, complete in every detail. Its library boasts original works by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, and Edith Wharton. Its wine cellar is replete with tiny bottles containing thimblefuls of real vintage wine. And, naturally, its tiny residents eschew pink convertibles in favor of the fleet of elegant Rolls Royce limousines housed in the miniature garage. These and hundreds of other charming features are lovingly detailed in color, with extensive use of material from the royal archives, detailing for the first time the contributions of the artists, craftspeople, and donors involved in its creation. An imaginative tour of this smallest and grandest of aristocratic residences, which receives thousands of full-sized visitors each year, ""The Queen's Dolls' House"" is full of surprises that will captivate toy collectors, miniaturists, and fans of the royal family alike.",,,132,"202 x 208 x 18mm | 598.74g","15 Nov 2010","Royal Collection Trust","London, United Kingdom",English,,"col. Illustrations",1905686269,"38,846",4.45,US$31.25,,"Lucinda Lambton is a writer, photographer and broadcaster well known for her much-loved books on architectural oddities.",Hardback,,,,
339,"2018-01-11 01:27:19","Graffiti Coloring Book",9789185639083,Uzi,"In The Graffiti Coloring Book, sixty of Scandinavia's best graffiti writers have provided the outlines. You choose the colors. The Graffiti Coloring Book is as fun for children as adults. Get out your crayons and walk the path of the kings of graffiti.",,,64,"214 x 276 x 6mm | 280g","20 Apr 2009","Dokument Forlag","Arsta, Sweden",English,,"black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings",9185639087,"45,522",4.75,US$11.72,,,Paperback,"Dokument Press",,,
340,"2018-01-11 01:27:28","Imagine a Forest",9781631062353,"Dinara Mirtalipova","From the inspired mind of Dinara Mirtalipova comes Imagine a Forest, a drawing and design guide to creating your own Eastern European folklore inspired artwork. Escape to your own forested fairy tale. Imagine a Forest explores the unique style of illustrator Dinara Mirtalipova; a style which is rooted in the rich traditions of Eastern European folklore. This drawing and design guide features instructions and tips on how to draw your own beautiful art in a modern folklore style. Create charming flowers, birds, animals, fairy tale characters, mythical creatures and more.The lush and captivating illustrations and encouraging, easy-to-follow advice featured in these step-by-step tutorials will guide you through Dinara's gorgeous folk-art drawings and inspire you to create your own. Dinara even gives you design ideas and project suggestions so you can make and decorate practical things with your beautiful art. Don't spend every day in the boring real world--escape to a beautiful Eastern European fairy tale with Imagine a Forest. Who knows what you might find!",,,144,"216 x 241 x 20.32mm | 780.18g","01 Feb 2017","Rock Point","New York, United States",English,,"80 color photos",1631062352,"6,651",4.69,US$20.04,,"Dinara Mirtalipova is a self- taught illustrator/designer. Born and raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she eventually landed in snowy Ohio. Raised in Soviet Uzbek culture, she inhabited Uzbek/Russian folklore that still influences her work. For a long time Dinara has been among illustrators and designers at American Greetings. She left her creative role at American Greetings in February 2014 to pursue her ever growing freelance career and to start a new chapter as a free spirit independent designer. Currently Dinara works from her home studio in Sagamore Hills, OH.",Hardback,,,,
341,"2018-01-11 01:27:32","Workholding in the Lathe",9780852429082,"Tubal Cain","The centre-lathe is by far the most versatile machine tool in the workshop, but as soon as you depart from plain turning between centres, the question arises 'how to hold the work'. This book explains the methods and techniques required. A fundamental requirement of lathe operation, for accuracy and safety, is the ability to hold any workpiece securely and, preferably, repeatedly on the machine. While few problems arise with straightforward work on a properly aligned lathe, the variety of jobs undertaken by small workshops and model engineers is bound to give rise to occasions when how to hold work requires consideration. When great accuracy is essential, working methods and lathe set-up are vital for an acceptable result. In this book Tubal Cain discusses in his inimitable, practical style all aspects of the subject with the whys and hows, including basic lathe alignment.","Between Centres.  Faceplate Work.  General Chuckwork.  Universal or Independent Chuck.  Self-Centreing Chuck.  Unusual Chucks. Collets.  Work Steadies.  Lathe Alignment.",,112,"144 x 216 x 8mm | 181.44g","03 Jan 1998","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","88 black & white photographs; 56 plans & scale drawings",0852429088,"61,825",3.57,US$9.13,US$14.00,"Tubal Cain was the pen name of engineer and craftsman Tom Walshaw, the writer of many best-selling home workshop and model engineering guides.",Paperback,,,,
342,"2018-01-11 01:27:38","Sheet Metal Work",9780852428498,"R.E. Wakeford","Model engineers, DIY enthusiasts and other amateur home craftsmen are from time to time called upon to work with sheet metal. These people may be newcomers to the techniques and working with limited funds and equipment. This introduction has been written for them. Whether folding a chassis for a piece of equipment, beating or spinning a curved shape, drilling or punching holes or repairing a tank or car panel, the how and why is simply explained in this comprehensive book.","Tools.  Metals and their Characteristics.  Marking and Cutting.  Shaping Methods.  Seams, Edge Finishes, Joints.  Soldering, Hard Soldering and Brazing.  Rivets and Riveting.  Welding.  Repair Work.  Spinning.  Finishing Processes.  Sheet Thickness.  Judging the Temperature of Metals.",,152,"144 x 208 x 14mm | 222.26g","01 Dec 1985","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","18 black & white photographs; 120 diagrams and line drawings; 4 tables of data",0852428499,"81,414",4,US$9.65,US$14.00,"R.E.Wakeford is a technology teacher and instructor in metalwork and allied crafts and uses his teaching experience to describe clearly all the processes likely to be encountered by the hobbyist or in a model or light engineering workshop.",Paperback,,,,
343,"2018-01-11 01:27:40","The Art Journal Workshop",9781592536849,"Traci Bunkers","""Step by step, the reader is brought to art journaling in a method that makes even a novice want to pick up a paint brush and begin making art that expresses your soul.""-Diana Gonzalez, Brooklyn Crafting Examiner ""Back when I was the managing editor of Art Journaling, I remember when Traci Bunkers' journals arrived on my desk. I spent hours pouring through them, wondering to myself, 'How does she do this?' With Traci's new book, The Art Journal Workshop, you get to see exactly how.""-Christine Olivarez, Somerset Studio Many people want to express themselves through visual journaling, but are stuck or intimidated with how to get started, what to write, or how to move beyond gluing down a few images or putting some paint on the paper. With beautiful illustrations, The Art Journal Workshop breaks down the entire working process of journaling with step-by-step photos and instructions from start to finish. You'll learn how to use different media such as paint, photographs, and collage, while following journaling prompts and exercises to help you dig deeper and enrich the journaling process and experience. Traci Bunkers discusses the benefits of visual journaling, and walks you through battling a creative funk when you're feeling down or uninspired. Additionally, The Art Journal Workshop provides exclusive access to online videos that show the author creating six visual journal pages from the book, start to finish, through time-lapse video clips. This visual guide enhances the information in the book, showing her work progress in a way that goes beyond what can be captured in still photographs or through text.",,"The Artist Journal Workshop, Bunkers, Tracie (Author) May 2011. 128 p. Quayside/Quarry, paperback, $24.99. (9781592536849). 745.593.Kansas artist Bunkers' second book is much akin to Alice's fall down the rabbit hole. We wonder, initially, where we're going when Bunkers starts with a psychological caveat about the art of visualjournaling. Even more confounding is that her process, complete with call-to-action exercises and prompts, is not a real methodology to follow. Rather, it's a series of how-to instructions exploring differentemotions. Confusion aside, Bunkers provides the usual upfront information about tools and materials aswell as useful narratives to help avoid visual blockages. To get unstuck, for instance, she advises cuttingout magazine words and pictures or figuring out what's being avoided. Along the way, her very personallayout entertains, as do her examples. Tips, such as to take photos up-close and to save removed pages, inform novices and pros alike. An accompanying DVD takes readers through her instructions, but takecare, for it's all too easy in using this kind of crafts book to slavishly copy the samples withoutcustomizing or starting afresh. - Booklist, May 2011. The Artist Journal Workshop, Bunkers, Tracie (Author) May 2011. 128 p. Quayside/Quarry, paperback, $24.99. (9781592536849). 745.593.Kansas artist Bunkers second book is much akin to Alice s fall down the rabbit hole. We wonder, initially, where we re going when Bunkers starts with a psychological caveat about the art of visualjournaling. Even more confounding is that her process, complete with call-to-action exercises and prompts, is not a real methodology to follow. Rather, it s a series of how-to instructions exploring differentemotions. Confusion aside, Bunkers provides the usual upfront information about tools and materials aswell as useful narratives to help avoid visual blockages. To get unstuck, for instance, she advises cuttingout magazine words and pictures or figuring out what s being avoided. Along the way, her very personallayout entertains, as do her examples. Tips, such as to take photos up-close and to save removed pages, inform novices and pros alike. An accompanying DVD takes readers through her instructions, but takecare, for it s all too easy in using this kind of crafts book to slavishly copy the samples withoutcustomizing or starting afresh. - Booklist, May 2011.""",128,"213.36 x 256.54 x 12.7mm | 544.31g","25 May 2011","Quarry Books","Minneapolis, United States",English,"includes DVD","1 colour illustrations",1592536840,"57,265",4.06,US$21.43,US$24.99,"Traci Bunkers is a self-employed mixed-media and fiber artist living in Lawrence, Kansas. Through her one-woman business Bonkers Handmade Originals, she sells her nifty creations such as hand-dyed spinning fibers and yarns, original rubber stamps, handmade books, kits and original artwork. She also creates an artzine called Tub Legs, designs knitwear, and is a knitting, spinning, and crochet technical editor.",Paperback,,,,
344,"2018-01-11 01:27:49","The Art of Welding",9780852428467,"W.A. Vause","The art of welding wrought iron has been practiced by village smiths in their forge fires for centuries. Gas and electric arc welding are however comparatively recent developments. This introductory book explains the process as it has been developed and used in industry, and its applications to model engineering. Welding, by oxy-acetylene or electric arc, is a skill in increasing demand and one for which the basics can be learned without great difficulty. In this book, the author sets out the basic techniques and the art for oxy-acetylene welding, brazing, flame-cutting and electric arc welding with mild steel, cast iron, stainless steel, copper, brass and aluminium etc in sheet plate or cast form.","Welding by the Oxy-Acetylene Process.  Exercises with Mild Steel.  Gas Welding Other Metals.  Brazing.  Oxy-Flame Cutting.  Arc Welding.  Exercises in Welded Joints.  Cast Iron and Stainless Steel.  Pipe Welding.  Vertical and Overhead Welding of Mild Steel.  Building Up and Reinforcement.  Resistance Welding.  T.I.G. Welding.  M.I.G. Welding.  Weld Symbols.  Aids to Assembly.  Welding Defects.",,96,"146 x 204 x 8mm | 140.62g","01 May 1985","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.","15 black & white photographs; 76 scale diagrams; 3 tables of data",0852428464,"64,833",4,US$8.62,US$14.00,"W.A. Vause spent forty years as a welder and several as welding instructor at Queen Elizabeth College for the Disabled. He wrote this book with the assistance of the Engineering Industry Training Board.",Paperback,,,,
345,"2018-01-11 01:27:58",Marimekko,9781452134048,Marimekko,"Internationally beloved Finnish design brand Marimekko's iconic patterns grace home decor, apparel and accessories and have informed and influenced tastemakers worldwide for over half a century. Richly illustrated with photographs and prints both classic and new, this vibrant volume (launching along with covetable notebooks and postcards) offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the brand's creative process. A colourful legacy is revealed, along with the innovative creators, from 1950s pioneers to twenty-first-century masters, who have shaped the company's heritage and continue to make visual magic today. Rare sketchbook pages, in-depth looks at particular eras and page after page of gorgeous designs make this a book sure to enchant anyone interested in fashion, art, or the patterned and colour-drenched world of Marimekko.",,,248,"220.98 x 279.4 x 17.78mm | 1,043.26g","02 Oct 2014","CHRONICLE BOOKS","San Francisco, United States",English,,"Full colour photographs and illustrations",1452134049,"63,322",4.03,US$32.97,US$35.00,"Marimekko is a Helsinki-based textile and clothing-design company internationally celebrated for its original prints. Since their founding in 1951, Marimekko has helped people express their unique personalities through pattern and colour, with their high-quality fabrics, apparel, accessories and housewares.",Paperback,,,,
346,"2018-01-11 01:28:04","Vertical Milling in the Home Workshop",9780852428436,"Arnold Throp","The increasing appearance of vertical milling machines in model engineers' and other small workshops has brought the versatility of this type of machine to the notice of a large and growing group of potential users, but until the first edition of this book was published in 1977 there was little available guidance for the average amateur or small user. This third revised edition includes descriptions of many of the very wide range of operations possible with photographed examples, plus information on machines, accessories, cutters, chucks, requirements and methods of work-holding.","Evolution of the Vertical Miller. Milling Flat Surfaces.  Slitting and Cutting.  Keyway Cutting.  Fluting Components Other Than Tools.  Boring.  Jig-Boring.  Profiling.  End-Rounding.  Dividing Heads.  Gear-Cutting.  Tool Making.  Graduated Scales.  Cutter Speeds For Vertical Millers.  Work-Holding With Difficult Shapes.  Chucks For Milling Cutters.",,94,"144 x 202 x 6mm | 181.44g","03 Jan 1998","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,"3rd UK ed.","52 black & white photographs; 7 tables and diagrams",085242843X,"81,670",3,US$9.13,US$14.00,"Arnold Throp C. Eng., F.I.Mech.E. enjoyed a long and successful engineering career starting with very large steam and oil engines and including high-tension switchgear, mining machinery and machine tools. He has achieved over 55 years of membership of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.",Paperback,,,,
347,"2018-01-11 01:28:07","The Craftsman's Handbook",9780486200545,"Cennio D'Andrea Cennini","This is D. V. Thompson's definitive English translation of Il Libro dell'Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques of the great masters, it served as an art student's introduction to the ways of his craft. Anyone who has ever looked at a medieval painting and marveled at the brilliance of color and quality of surface that have endured for 500 years should find this fascinating reading. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saints' diadems, coloring parchment, making goat glue, and regulating your life in the interests of decorum -- which meant shunning women, the greatest cause of unsteady hands in artists. You are told how to make green drapery, black for monks' robes, trees and plants, oils, beards in fresco, and the proper proportions of a man's body. (-I will not tell you about the irrational animals because you will never discover any system of proportion in them.-) So practical are the details that readers might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here for their own amusement and curiosity. Today artists are no longer interested in specific directions on keeping miniver tails from becoming moth-eaten. The Craftsman's Handbook, in which these are ordinary parts of the artist's work, appears quaint and naive to us. And that is much of its charm. But when we remember the magnificent mosaics, paintings, and frescoes these methods produced, the book takes on an even greater value as a touchstone to another age. -Recommended to the student of art.- -- Craft Horizons. -Obviously of great merit.- -- Art Material Trade News. -Delightful flavor.- -- New York Herald Tribune. Recommended in Harvard List of Great Books on Art, Shaw's List of Books for College Libraries.","Preface
I
I The first chapter of the first section of this book
II ""How some enter the profession through loftiness of spirit, and some, for profit""
III Fundamental provisions for anyone who enters this profession
IIII How the schedule shows you into how many sections and branches the occupations are divided
V How you begin drawing on a little panel; and the system for it
VI How to draw on several kinds of panels
VII What kind of bone is good for treating the panels
VIII ""How you should start drawing with a style, and by what light""
VIIII ""How you should give the system of lighting, light or shade, to your figures, endowing them with a system of relief""
X ""The method and system for drawing on sheep parchment and on paper, and shading with washes""
XI How you may draw with a leaden style
XII ""How, if you have made a slip in drawing with leaden style, you my erase it, and by what means""
XIII How you should practice drawing with a pen
XIIII How to learn to cut the quill for drawing
XV How you should advance to drawing on tinted paper
XVI How the green tint is made on paper for drawing; and the way to temper it
XVII ""How you should tint kid parchment, and by which method you burnish it""
XVIII How you should tint paper turnsole color
XVIIII How you should tint paper with an indigo tint
XX ""How you should tint papers with reddish color, or almost peach color""
XXI How you should tint papers with flesh color
XXII ""How you should tint papers greenish gray, or drab""
XXIII How you may obtain the essence of a good figure or drawing with tracing paper
XXIIII The first way to learn how to make a clear tracing paper
XXV A second way to make tracing paper: with glue
XXVI How to make tracing paper out of paper
XXVII How you should endeavor to copy and draw after as few masters as possible
XXVIII How you should regulate your life in the interests of decorum and the condition of your hand; and in what company; and what method you should first adopt for copying a figure from high up
XXX ""How you should first start drawing on paper with charcoal, and take the measurement of the figure, and fix it with a silver style""
XXXI ""How you should draw and shade with washes on tinted paper, and then put lights on with white lead""
XXXII How you may put on lights with washes of white lead just as you shade with washes of ink
XXXIII How to make good and perfect and slender coals for drawing
XXXIIII About a stone which has the character of charcoal for drawing. This ends the first section of this book
II
XXXV The second section of this book: bringing you to the working up of the colors
XXXVI ""This shows you the natural colors, and how you should grind black""
XXXVII How to make various sorts of black
XXXVIII On the character of the red color called sinoper
XXXVIIII ""How to make the red called cinabrese, for doing flesh on the wall; and about its character""
XL On the character of the red called vermilion; and how it should be worked up
XLI On the character of a red called red lead
XLII On the character of a red called hematite
XLIII On the character of a red called dragonsblood
XLIIII On the character of a red called lac
XLV On the character of a yellow color called ocher
XLVI On the character of a yellow color called giallorino
XLVII On the character of a yellow called orpiment
XLVIII On the character of a yellow called realgar
XLVIIII On the character of a yellow called saffron
L On the character of a yellow called arzica
LI On the character of a green called terre-verte
LII On the character of a green called malachite
LIII How you make a green with orpiment and indigo
LIIII How you make a green with blue and giallorino
LV How you make a green with ultramarine blue
LVI On the character of a green called verdigris
LVII How you make a green with white lead and terre-verte; or lime white
LVIII On the character of lime white
LVIIII On the character of white lead
LX On the character of azurite
LXI To make an imitation of azurite with other colors
LXII ""On the character of ultramarine blue, and how to make it""
LXIII The importance of knowing how to make brushes
LXIIII How to make minever brushes
LXV ""How you should make bristle brushes, and in what manner""
LXVI How to keep minever tails from getting moth-eaten. This ends the second section of this book; begins the third
III
LXVII ""The method and system for working on a wall, that is, in fresco; and on painting and doing flesh for a youthful face""
LXVIII The method for painting an aged face in fresco
LXVIIII The method for painting various kinds of beards and hair in fresco
LXX The proportions which a perfectly formed man's body should possess
LXXI The way to paint a drapery in fresco
LXXII The way to paint on a wall in secco; and the temperas for it
LXXIII How to make a violet color
LXXIIII To execute a violet color in fresco
LXXV To try to imitate an ultramarine blue for use in fresco
LXXVII To paint a shot green drapery in fresco
LXXVIII To paint in fresco a drapery shot with ash gray
LXXVIIII To paint one in secco shot with lac
LXXX To paint one in fresco or in secco shot with each other
LXXXI To paint a greenish-gray costume in fresco or in secco
LXXXII ""To paint a costume, in fresco and in secco, of a greenish-gray color like the color of wood""
LXXXIII ""To make a drapery, or a mantle for Our Lady, with azurite or ultramarine blue""
LXXXIIII ""To make a black drapery for a monk's or friar's robe, in fresco and in secco""
LXXXV ""On the way to paint a mountain, in fresco or in secco""
LXXXVI ""The way to paint trees and plants and foliage, in fresco and in secco""
LXXXVII ""How buildings are to be painted, in fresco and in secco""
LXXXVIII The way to copy a mountain from nature. This ends the third section of this book
IV
LXXXVIIII ""How to paint in oil on a wall, on panel, on iron, and where you please""
LXXXX How you should start for working in oil on a wall
LXXXXI ""How you are to make oil, good for a tempera, and also for mordants, by boiling with fire""
LXXXXII How good and perfect oil is made by cooking in the sun
LXXXXIII ""How you should work up the colors with oil, and employ them on the wall""
LXXXXIIII ""How you should work in oil on iron, on panel, on stone""
LXXXXV The way to embellish with gold or with tin on a wall
LXXXXVI How you should always make a practice of working with fine gold and with good colors
LXXXXVII ""How you should cut the golden tin, and embellish""
LXXXXVIII How to make green tin for embellishing
LXXXXVIIII ""How to make the golden tin, and how to lay fine gold with this vermeil""
C ""How to fashion or cut out the stars, and put them on the wall""
CI How you can make the diadems of the saints on the wall with this tin gilded with fine gold
CII How you should model up a diadem in lime mortar on a wall
CIII How from the wall you enter upon panel-painting. This ends the fourth section of the book
V
CIIII The system by which you should prepare to acquire the skill to work on panel
CV How you make batter or flour paste
CVI How you should make cement from mending stones
CVII How to make cement for mending dishes of glass
CVIII ""How fish glue is used, and how it is tempered""
CVIIII ""How goat glue is made, and how it is tempered; and how many purposes it will serve""
CX A perfect size for tempering gessos for anconas or panels
CXI A size which is good for tempering blues and other colors
CXII To make a glue out of lime and cheese. This ends the fifth section of this book
VI
CXIII How you should start to work on a panel or anconas
CXIIII How you should put cloth on a panel
CXV How the flat of a panel should be gessoed with the slice with gesso grosso
CXVI How to gesso sottile for gessoing panels
CXVII How to gesso an ancona with gesso sottile; and how to temper it
CXVIII How you may gesso with gesso sottile without having gessoes with gesso grosso first
CXVIIII How you should temper and grind gesso sottile for modeling
CXX How you should start to scrape down an ancona flat gessoed with gesso sottile
CXXI ""How the gesso sottile on the flats should be scraped down, and what these scrapings are good for""
CXXII ""How to draw on panel with charcoal, to begin with, and to fix it with ink""
CXXIII How you should mark out the outlines of the figures for gilding the grounds
CXXIIII ""How to model on a panel with gesso sottile, and how to mount precious stones""
CXXV How you should cast a relief for embellishing areas of anconas
CXXVI How to plaster reliefs on a wall
CXXVII How to model with mortar on a wall the say you model with gesso on panel
CXXVIII ""How to take reliefs from a stone mold, and how they are good on wall and on panel""
CXXVIIII How you may model on a wall with varnish
CXXX How you may model on a wall with wax
CXXXI ""How to lay bole on panel, and how to temper it""
CXXXII ""Another way to temper bole on panel, for gilding""
CXXXIII How you may gild on panel with terre-verte
CXXXIIII How to gild on panel
CXXXV What stones are good for burnishing this gilding
CXXXVI How to prepare the stone for burnishing gold
CXXXVII ""How you should burnish the gold, or mend matters in case it could not get burnished""
CXXXVIII ""Now I will show you how to burnish, and in what direction, especially a flat""
CXXXVIIII ""What gold is good for burnish and mordant gilding, and what thickness""
CXL ""How you should begin swinging the diadems and do stamping on the gold, and mark out the outlines of the figures""
CXLI How to design gold brocades in various colors
CXLII How to execute gold or silver brocades
CXLIII Several rules for cloths of gold and silver
CXLIV ""How to do velvet, wool, and silk""
CXLV How to paint on panel
CXLVI How to make draperies in blue and purple
CXLVII How to paint faces
CXLVIII How to paint a dead man
CXLVIX How to paint wounds
CL How to paint water
VII
CLI ""A short section on mordant gilding. How to make a standard mordant, and how to gild with it""
CLII How to control the drying of the mordant
CLIII How to make a mordant out of garlic
VIII
CLIV Introduction to a short section on varnishing
CLV When to varnish
CLVI How to make a painting look as if it were varnished
IX
CLVII ""A short section on illuminating: first, how to gild on parchment""
CLVIII Another kind of size: for grounds only
CLIX How to make and use mosaic gold
CLX How to grind gold and silver for use as colors
CLXI Colors for use on parchment
X
CLXII ""A section dealing with work on cloth: first, painting and gilding""
CLXIII Various ways to do hangings
CLXIV How to draw for embroiderers
CLXV ""How to work on silk, on both sides""
CLXVI How to paint and gild on velvet
CLXVII How to lay gold and silver on woolen cloth
CLXVIII How to make devices out of gilded paper
CLXIX How to model crests or helmets
CLXX How to do caskets or chests
XI
CLXXI ""A short section on operations with glass: first, for windows""
CLXXII How to gild for reliquary ornaments
CLXXII Arrangements for drawing on this glass
CLXXII How to draw on the gilded glass
CLXXII How to scrape the gold off the backgrounds
CLXXII How to back up the drawing with colors
XII
CLXXII ""Part of a section dealing with mosaic: first, a fragment from the end of a chapter otherwise lost""
CLXXII Mosaic of quill cuttings
CLXXII ""Mosaic of crushed eggshells, painted""
CLXXII Mosaic of paper or foil
CLXXII ""Mosaic of eggshells, gilded""
XIII
CLXXIII ""A section dealing with miscellaneous incidental operations: first, block printing on cloth""
CLXXIV How to gild a stone figure
CLXXV The dangers of a wet wall for fresco
CLXXV Preliminary precautions against moisture
CLXXV Waterproofing with boiled oil
CLXXVI Waterproofing with pitch
CLXXVI Waterproofing with liquid varnish
CLXXVII How to distemper inside walls with green
CLXXVIII How to varnish terre-verte
CLXXIX How to clean off the paint after you have made up a face
CLXXX The perils of indulgence in cosmetics
CLXXXI ""The final section, devoted to methods of casting, begins here""
CLXXXII How to take a life mask
CLXXXIII The breathing tubes
CLXXXIV The operations of casting the matrix
CLXXXIV How to cast this waste mold
CLXXXV How to cast whole figures
CLXXXVI How to make a cast of your own person
CLXXXVII Castings in gesso for use on panel
CLXXXVIII How to cast medals
CLXXXIX How to make a mold from a seal or coin
Index",,142,"134 x 198 x 10mm | 199.58g","01 Jun 1954","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",048620054X,"85,513",4,US$9.26,US$10.95,,Paperback,,,,
348,"2018-01-11 01:28:15","Islamic Geometric Design",9780500516959,"Eric Broug","Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvellous intricacy, yet in truth they are seldom understood. Indeed, their complexity and artistry can seem almost beyond the powers of human ingenuity. In this handsomely illustrated volume, artist and teacher Eric Broug analyses and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context. His own original drawings accompany magnificent photographs of mosques, madrasas, palaces and tombs from the Islamic world, ranging from North Africa to Iran and Uzbekistan, and from the 8th to the 19th centuries. Chapters are devoted to each of the main families of geometric design fourfold, fivefold and sixfold and to the complex combined patterns. Every design is carefully explained, and illustrated with a wealth of stunning photographs and clear, meticulously detailed drawings. Readers can follow the design processes by which these patterns were created and even learn to reproduce and invent geometric patterns for themselves, using exactly the same tools as the Islamic craftsmen of old: a ruler and a pair of compasses.",,"A rich collection. A rich collection. "" An exemplary and detailed practitioner account of Islamic pattern design. . . . the lush photographic images are accompanied by visualized formal analysis that gives the patterns conceptual depth. . . . Highly recommended. An extremely effective and thorough work on the geometric designs found throughout Islamic art and architecture and the process by which these designs were created. . . . Well written, well-thought-out, and extremely well-illustrated. Enthusiastically recommended. This visually stunning look conveys the beauty and complexity of Islamic patterns . . . A hybrid of coffee-table, informational, and how-to book. Uniquely comprehensive. . . . Clearly written so that a total understanding of the material is possible for specialist and novice alike.",256,"250 x 330 x 30mm | 1,979.97g","21 Oct 2013","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0500516952,"73,607",4.62,US$60.62,US$75.00,,Hardback,,,,
349,"2018-01-11 01:28:24",Electroplating,9780852428627,"Jack Poyner","The techniques of depositing a thin metallic layer on an object for decoration, corrosion protection, electrical conductivity, wear resistance and so on have been known for many years but have been developed and improved to a remarkable extent in the second half of this century. This book sets out to discuss the principles and practice of those forms of plating most suited to the amateur and small workshop, using relatively simple and inexpensive equipment to produce results virtually undetectable from work carried out by major plating concerns. Jack Poyner, a professional involved in all forms of plating for many years, is also a keen model engineer able to recognise the dividing line between what his average fellow enthusiast would consider practical and worthwhile and what is really better left to experts in the field. The result is a really useful and practical book, which will be of value to both amateur and light industrial users in many diverse fields.","Principles of Electroplating.  Electrical Supply.  Electroplating Tank.  Cleaning of the Substrate.  The Electrolyte.  Electroforming and Electroplating on Non-Conductors.  Electroless Electroplating.  An Example.  The Consideration of Electroplating.  Finishing of Aluminium and its Alloys.",,62,"142 x 204 x 4mm | 81.65g","01 Nov 1987","Special Interest Model Books","Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom",English,,"9 black & white photographs; 23 scale diagrams; 4 tables of data",0852428626,"72,661",4,US$7.89,US$18.95,"Jack Poyner, a professional involved in all forms of plating for many years, is also a keen model engineer able to recognise the dividing line between what his average fellow enthusiast would consider practical and worthwhile and what is really better left to experts in the field.",Paperback,,,,