Amazing Craze A guide to the world’s weirdest, most thrilling contests Whether it’s flinging frozen rats or parading in holly evergreens, racing snails or carrying wives, human beings have long displ
Art ablaze: Pyrotechnics and pure self-expression in the parched Black Rock Desert“You voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death by attending”100 miles from the gambling town of Reno, in
A SNEAK PREVIEW OF 21ST CENTURY AESTHETICS VIA THE VISION OF TODAY'S MOST INNOVATIVE DESIGNERS HOW DO TODAY'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST DESIGNERS SEE THE FUTURE OF DESIGN? INCLUDING A CROSS SECTION OF THE WO
“It’s dangerous to be an honest man.” —Michael Corleone, Godfather IIIAs special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remark
How green is your blueprint? Architecture as sustainable technology The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue in recent years. Badly designed
The vivid history of the capital of love and photography A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the S
Globetrotting from Mumbai to Melbourne. Dream weekends with practical itineraries throughout Asia & Oceania Asia and Oceania offer such a wealth of experiences that a lifetime seems too s
The dos and don’ts of web entrepreneurship Have you ever wondered why your websites didn’t quite match up to the success of your competitors or peers? Have you ever looked at oth
Is this a man's world?: Bright, bold pictograms from Yang Liu revisit the roles, relationships and age-old cliches of male and female experience. Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress mig
This book offers a connoisseur’s overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume ed
The King of Rock ’n’ Roll is born: The making of Elvis, behind the scenes“Elvis who?” was photographer Alfred Wertheimer’s response when, in early 1956, an RCA Victor publicist asked him to photograph
Produced in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s estate, this book explores the artists’ complex personal and professional relationship through hundreds of photogra
Tour contemporary home decors around the world The Interiors Now! series features the world's most amazing, exquisite, and interesting contemporary apartments and houses. With an inspirational richn
LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the long-awaited third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Packed with astoni
Dinosaurs Are ForeverA pictorial history of paleoartIt was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehist
Drawing with ScissorsMatisse’s revolutionary late-period workToward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a
Unclassifiable Rheims: 35 years of daring, defiant photographySince her first photographs in the late ’70s, Bettina Rheims has defied the predictable. From her series on Pigalle strippers (1980) to he
Stroke of GeniusThe complete painted oeuvre of Leonardo da VinciThe paintings of a renaissance master Inventor, painter, sculptor, scientist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was
