Nothing If not Critical - Selected Essays On Art And Ar...
The most controversial art critic in America—author of the ...
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists - University textbo...
Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural Hi...
Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History...
Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essay...
Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essays - U...
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edou...
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Wor...
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working ...
The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography
The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography - Uni...
Property&Sustainability: Selected Essays
Property&Sustainability: Selected Essays - University textbo...
Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity: Selected Essay...
Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity: Selected Essays - U...
Nothing If Not Critical - Selected Essays On Art And Artists
Winston Effect - The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio
For over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and technicians have been creating characters, creatures and monsters for the silver screen, from “The Terminator” and the extraterrestrial monstrosities of “Aliens” and “Predator” to the amazing dinosaurs of “Jurassic Park” and the fanciful character of “Edward Scissorhands”. Now, at last, he’s opening up the Stan Winston Studios ...
Too Much and Not the Mood - Essays
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming in and the cutting out” to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying.The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to w...
RHS Botany for Gardeners - The Art and Science of Gardening Explained & Explored
‘Clever… valuable introduction to the study of plant science.’ – Gardeners Illustrated RHS Botany for Gardeners is more than just a useful reference book on the science of botany and the language of horticulture – it is a practical, hands-on guide that will help gardeners understand how plants grow, what affects their performance, and how to get better results. Illustrated throughout with ...
The Net and the Butterfly - The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking
The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It’s beautiful and erratic, hard to catch and highly valued as a result. If you want to capture it, you need a net. Enter the executive mode, the task-oriented network in your brain that help you tie your shoes, run a meeting, or pitch a client. To succeed, you need both modes to work together—your inner butterfly to be active and free, but yo...
Baking and Pastry - Mastering the Art and Craft, Third Edition
The leading learning tool for all levels of baking and pastry ability, newly illustrated and updated Praised by top pastry chefs and bakers as “an indispensable guide” and “the ultimate baking and pastry reference,” the latest edition of Baking and Pastry from The Culinary Institute of America improves upon the last with more than 300 new recipes, photographs, and illustrations, and completel...
STEAM Lab for Kids - 52 Creative Hands-On Projects for Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math
While many aspiring artists donÂ’t necessarily identify with STEM subjects, and many young inventors donÂ’t see the need for art, one is essential to the other. Revealing this connection and encouraging kids to explore it fills hungry minds with tools essential to problem solving and creative thinking. Each of the projects in this book is designed to demonstrate that the deeper you look into art,...
Gin - The Art and Craft of the Artisan Revival
New Gins are hitting the market seemingly every day. This book will help the reader make sense of this rapid expansion, and contextualize them within ginÂ’s illustrious history from the Renaissance apothecaries of Europe, to the streets of London, to the small local distilleries and cocktail bars of the United States, Canada, England, Spain, Australia and beyond. Features distilleries and gins fr...
Perfectly Imperfect - The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice
A little over a decade ago, Baron Baptiste published his seminal book, Journey into Power. The first of its kind, it introduced the world to Baptiste Power Vinyasa, his signature method that marries a lifetime of studying with some of the worldÂ’s most renowned yoga masters with his uniquely powerful approach to inner and outer transformation.Since then, yoga has steadily moved into the mainstream...
Tangle Art and Drawing Games for Kids - A Silly Book for Creative and Visual Thinking
Tangle Art and Drawing Games for Kids is perfect for families who want to sneak a little more creativity into their lives and have fun doing it. ItÂ’s about exploring, experimenting, and getting lost in creativity. ItÂ’s is not focused on goals, but on enjoying the process. Professional artist, Jeanette Nyberg brings to life 52 drawing games that offer playful, easy ways to get a pen moving acros...
The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization - Second edition
Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a ‘learnin organisation’. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where poeple expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nutured, where collective aspiration is s...
The Huxtaburger Book - The art and science of the perfect burger
The definitive guide to the hippest (and most delicious) burger in town! The Huxtaburger Book examines the elements that make up the ultimate burger: the perfect squishy bun; a pickle that has just the right amount of tang and crunch; the exact quantity of mayo and ketchup to deliver maximum flavour without over-powering the burger; and the ultimate wagyu beef pattie thatÂ’s meaty, juicy and umam...
Wonder Woman - The Art and Making of the Film
Embargoed until 1st June 2017 An Amazonian princess leaves her island home to explore the world and, in doing so, becomes one of the worldÂ’s greatest heroes. Patty JenkinsÂ’ Wonder Woman sees the hero brought to the big screen for the first time in her own movie, and fully realizes the breathtaking wonder, strength, and grace of such an historic character. Showcasing the concept art, costume d...
How to Make Repeat Patterns - "A Guide for Designers, Architects and Artists "
This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Escher-like repeats. The book also shows how to make ‘wallpaper repeats’, where the elements of the pattern merge into each other, apparently seamlessly. Using letters as the basic elements, the book demonstrates how all repeat pattern-making comes out o...
Fantasy Modern - Loudon Sainthill's Theatre of Art and Life
Australian painter and theatre artist LoudonSainthill and his partner, entrepreneur and gallery director Harry TatlockMiller, were at the heart of avant-garde artistic and literary circles inmid-twentieth century Melbourne, Sydney and London. This sumptuously illustrated biography details theirlife and times, and contains much of SainthillÂ’s work along with never-before-published archival photogr...
Red - The Art and Science of a Colour
Red grabs your attention. Today we associate red with danger, sex, anger and more, yet the colour was once so significant that things which have a profound impact upon our lives were widely called red, even though they are often not red at all. In this book, Spike Bucklow looks for the reasons why red, of all the colours, has captured the imagination. The first part considers materials that have p...
Nature and Selected Essays
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of EuropeÂ’s traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many ...
Upstream - Selected Essays
One of O, The Oprah MagazineÂ’s Ten Best Books of the Year! The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. So begins Upstream, a collection of es...
Keeping an Eye Open - Essays on Art
Flaubert believed that great paintings required no words of explanation. But, as Barnes notes, it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And when this does happen, we feel compelled to explain the very silence into which we have been plunged. In this illuminating collection of essays on art, Barnes turns his narrative gifts toward some of the most important paintings in the West...
The Selected Adventures of Bottersnikes and Gumbles
Launching alongside the animation television series on Channel 7, a new edition containing selected stories of these favourite Australian characters. Deep in the bush live some very strange creatures Â… Bottersnikes live in rubbish heaps along dusty roadsides in the lonely Australian bush. They have green wrinkly skin, cheese grater noses and long, pointed ears that go red when they are angry. W...
Superforecasting - The Art and Science of Prediction
What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. The problem is, weÂ’re not very good at it. In a landmark, twenty-year study, Wharton profes...
Jeff Leatham - Revolutionary Floral Art and Design
In the mold of Preston Bailey, Jeff Leatham is known for his extravagant floral designs and large-scale installations. As the artistic director of the Georges V Hotel in Paris and with celebrities such as Madonna, Tina Turner and Eva Longoria as his clients, Leatham has been known as a rock-star floral designer for more than 15 years, but this is the first book to cover his wide-ranging body of wo...