Product Description: Featuring one week and one full-page image per spread, this title contains hardcover cloth-bound.

Product Description: Featuring one week and one full-page image per spread, this title contains hardcover cloth-bound.

Product Description: "The Serra Effect", is a project conceived by Drago for the 36 Chambers book series. The title alludes to the impact of Ivory Serra's gaze on the world. The result is portraits of characters, idols of the neopop culture. Among the icons immortalized by Serra are: Umberto Eco, Elisabeth Hurley, Tony Alva, Any Warhol, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Aaron Rose, Mark Gonzales, Harold Hunter, James Taylor, Richard Serra, Jonas Mekas, Colin McKay, Phil Frost, Alanis Morrissette, Peter Gabriel, Davis Bowie and Moby, Stacey Peralta, Rodney Torres, Barry McGee, Tom Sachs, Robert Plants, Philip Glass, Wu Tang, Moorcheeba, Avril Lavigne, Lenny Kravitz, Hiroshima Survivor...read more

Product Description: The most poignant are the ones of decomposing elephants where, over time, as they disintegrate, the bones form magnificent sculpture - sculpture which is not just abstract form but has all the memory traces of life, despair and futility...read more

A lively chronicle of the oldest arms manufacturer in the world looks back on nearly five centuries of gun making that began in Italy with a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A history of the American West, as detailed by the broad range of arms and their users.

Product Description: Breathtaking images and an illuminating text portray the nomadic Samburu of Northern Kenya, one of the vanishing warrior peoples of Africa. In this richly illustrated, large-format journal, a Japanese photographer and American writer team record their cross-cultural experiences living in a hut of a family of the Samburu tribe at various times for nearly a decade...read more

Product Description: Ever since the virtual overnight success of his first book, The End of the Game, Peter Beard has managed to transform the stuff of his life into beautiful and meaningful works of art. Whether he’s documenting the travesty of big game hunting in Africa or reworking the detritus of his daily life into richly evocative photographic collages, Peter Beard remains one of the most revered contemporary photographers...read more

Product Description: The first book devoted to Peter Salter's work in 12 years, Building Projects shows off a number of the architect's works in Japan, including the Osaka Folly, Thai Fish Restaurant, Kamiichi Mountain Pavilion and Inami Woodcarving Museum...read more

Product Description: More than 200 recipes selected from the files of "Culinary SOS." The popular recipe request column in the Los Angeles Times. This is the third volume of the Dear SOS series.

Product Description: Isak Dinesen and the land and people she loved are nowhere so real and compelling as in Longing for Darkness, written by Dinesen's majordomo, Kamante, and now boasting a smart new cover. Readers familiar with Out of Africa may recognize many of the enchanting stories...read more

Product Description: The use of wax, paper, clay, and other materials to prevent the effects of heat, fire, smoke, chemical reactions, colors, and glazes from altering or contaminating the surfaces of work is very popular with ceramicists. However, learning to use these techniques can be a long and frustrating process, particularly when complicated by considerations of the state of the clay and the form of glazing to be used...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A photographic study of more than one hundred beautiful ceremonial artifacts created by the Maasai people of Kenya over several generations is complemented by an evocative portrait of the Maasai and their traditions, rituals, and customs.