Winner of the UKLA academic book award, 2013

Children’s Picturebooks is an all-encompassing overview of children’s picture books: from their early history and evolution, to their place in education today.

Picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a huge part in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a...

Philip's Month-by-Month Stargazing 2020 is the new, bestselling and most-up-to-date guide for Stargazers in Britain and Ireland. The new 2020 edition (an ideal Christmas gift) has been completely revised to make it even more essential for exploring the night skies - making the night sky accessible to beginners and experts alike.

"IF YOU BUY JUST ONE GUIDE...

Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent – beginning in the 1980s when the term ‘world music’ was coined as a marketing label and African musicians, notably Youssou N’Dour and his contemporaries, began to appear on the international stage.

This book explains the musical styles that developed from the 1960s, when many African...

Explore and create expressive palettes and paintings with Color Harmony for Artists.

Watercolor author, artist, and teacher Ana Victoria Calderon guides you through choosing, mixing, and using color with watercolor and mixed media to create the most expressive and appealing combinations and effects for a wide range of moods and subjects. You'll explore...

Explore one of America’s most creative cities in a new way with the trailblazer for city-based studies of contemporary craft. For craft and history enthusiasts alike, this collection of essays from writers and curators connects Philadelphia’s heritage to its current stature as a national craft capital. We discover how small workshops for fabric, wool...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork.

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the...

Pioneering women and their soundtrack of searching in country music

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman...

There is nothing like the vibrant colors and crisp Autumn air to make you excited to thrive. In the cycles of the earth, glory rises and falls in the vintage breezes. Let all things autumn slip under your skin in the rakishness of dying blooms.

A harvest time souvenir, Ah, Autumn is a deep breath of colorful joy. Inhaling the pages will fill you with...

You too can enjoy yourself in the process of learning to relax and free your mind. And there’s no better way to do it than with “Learn How to Draw for the Non-Artist”.

“Learn How to Draw for the Non-Artist” was published for those who want to learn how to draw as well for those who want to improve their drawing skills. What I mean by Non-Artist is that any...

This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a...

Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His work and art call attention to attacks on democracy and free speech, abuses of human rights, and human displacement--often...

A visual chronicle of life in New York’s gay community circa 1970, by the incomparable Fred W. McDarrah, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion and World Pride Day in June 2019.

Fifty years ago this spring, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village—an event that marked the coming-out of New York’s gay community and a...

Break the rules and explore acrylic paint in a free and fun way. This book encourages you to get over the fear of the blank canvas and the anxiety over the outcome so you can focus on the process of painting and the pure joy of creating. Whether you're a novice who doesn't know how to get started or a classical painter looking to try something new...

The meaning of Bob Dylan’s songs has long been debated by fans, critics and academics. When, in 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the significance of his songs was confirmed. Yet their meaning has never been demonstrably explained. Dylan himself has said that people can learn everything about him through his songs: “if they know where...

Artists’ Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Arranged thematically, it includes writings and musings on love, work, daily life, money, travel and the creative process. 
On the theme of friendship, for example...

''Haiku world'' celebrates nature, relationships, social events and the weather.

The haiku invoke the sense of smell, touch, sight, smell and feel in this little book.

This book is rich and it is a most have and a most read for those new to the haiku genre.