Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century. This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early phot...

A collection of traditional Japanese patterns plus a CD ROM companion featuring 250 for use in design work. Pattern design has a long history on the Japanese culture. This book presents a collection of carefully selected traditional Japanese patterns...

With large clear type and attractive line drawings {look like Pauline Baynes'}, this colection of stories makes the ideal starting point for young readers from five to eight years old. The stories are carefully chosen to be easily understood in terms...

153 color photos, 4 color plates, 1/35 scale plans Much has been written about the Coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, but there has been much less written about the United States Marine Corps' role specifically. Indeed, there are very few volumes th...

A further episode in the Unquiet Bones series, following the life and fortunes of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in medieval Bampton, Oxfordshire Alan, the beadle of the manor of Bampton, had gone out at dusk to seek those who might violate curfew. When,...

Packed with dynamic new features that make birding more rewardind than ever- and covering more species than any book of its kind- National Geographic's new regional field guide delivers carefully selected informations on every species found from the...