No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series. Since her untimely death in 1998...

Thomas Demand is known for his large-format photographic work. As the head designer of Dior Homme, Hedi Slimane revolutionized men s fashion. He is also known for his work as an artist. Peter Saville wrote design history with his album covers for Bri...

Alan Lee, the beloved illustrator of many of Houghton Mifflin’s Tolkien editions, and a talented team of other artists, including the renowned Tolkien illustrator John Howe, have spent more than three years creating the sets, props, creatures, and lo...

Japan's love hotels are kinky, high-tech sexual spaces where couples live out sexual fantasies in pirate ship rooms, playboy grottos, princesses' bed chambers, or S&M dungeons. Love hotels takes you behind the scenes of Japan's wildest sexual spaces,...

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today...s agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactic...

Voted one of the "six best books for data geeks" by The Financial Times. Never has it been more essential to work in the world of data. Scholars and students need to be able to analyze, design, and curate information into useful tools of communicatio...