Product Description: Full-color guide • Make your trip to Morocco unforgettable with illustrated features, maps, and color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Top experiences and attractions • Field-tested itineraries • Easy-to-read color regional mapsExplore Fez, Marrakesh, Rabat, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on Sahara Desert safaris, shopping for local crafts, and enjoying Moroccan hammams • Best festivals, beaches, and local specialties Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s Morocco–based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Revised annually to provide the latest informatio...read more

Product Description: This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's Renaissance frames. The book will teach the reader to recognise frame style, structure and surface decoration of the period, as well as additions and alterations and later frames in the style...read more

Product Description: This novel is an incredible journey into unknown Wry territory ...beyond physical existence. To return to an earthly plane from such a journey is to face the daunting struggle of learning to live with a knowledge no human being should possess...read more

Product Description: By the late 19th century, cloisonné enamels were among Japan's most successful exports. This visually stunning book, filled with new research and abundantly illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, examines the techniques and social history behind the craft...read more

Product Description: Ceramics from this era have always been prized by both Asian and Western collectors for their purity of form and glaze, and their inventiveness of decoration. Admired in China since the thirteenth century, they are still avidly collected throughout the world today...read more

Product Description: Confucius (551-479 BC) praised jade as 'the embodiment of virtue'. Excavations in China since the 1970s have shed much light on the use and production of jade in neolithic and early dynastic periods. Excavated jade artefacts dating from the seventh to seventeenth centuries are rare, so it is particularly valuable that a number of specimens have been unearthed from tombs and pagoda foundations during the past two decades, thus allowing heirloom jades to be compared with these excavated examples and correctly dated...read more

Showcases one hundred definitive examples from the Victorian and Albert Museum collection, offering insight into major carpet-weaving traditions from China to Turkey while explaining through diagrams and photographic details how to examine and interpret the structure of individual carpets.

Product Description: Drawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum's fine collection, Japanese Netsuke examines these appealing, accessible, and often humorous works of art in the broadest possible context. In a text that is both comprehensive and entertaining, Julia Hutt traces the history of netsuke, showing how these highly collectible objects originated from belt hangings used by nomads along the Silk Road...read more

Product Description: Originally published for the opening of the Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book celebrates and sets in context many of its greatest treasures. The museum's Japanese holdings, acquired over a period of 150 years, started with the international exhibitions of the second half of the 19th century and the great private collections formed in Britain at the beginning of the 20th...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This gem of a book sparkles with the diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and exceptional examples of goldsmith's art in the spectacular collection of England's grand Victoria and Albert Museum. Ranging from exquisite early medieval pieces to superb examples of the jeweler's art from the Renaissance through Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau to twentieth-century treasures, outstanding photographs illustrate and illuminate examples of elaborate techniques such as chasing, enameling, and cameo carving...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With fabulous illustrations of objects from a unique collection of Chinese art, this comprehensive volume reveals the splendors of seven thousand years of Chinese culture, from the elegant mansions of privileged Chinese citizens to the splendid setting of the Imperial Court...read more

Product Description: This illustrated book highlights Korean art ranging from the 5th-century AD to the present day. The five central chapters discuss how the objects were made and used. They deal with ceramics, metalwork, furniture and lacquer, textiles and contemporary crafts.

Product Description: The 'studio pottery' movement is one of the key artistic forces of the twentieth century. It emerged in Britain from the Arts and Crafts movement at the end of the nineteenth century, placing great emphasis on small-scale pieces and individual craftsmanship and establishing pottery as an expressive art form...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents photographs of 124 Korean pieces housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, including ceramics from every major dynasty, metalwork, textiles, furniture, and screens and paintings from 2000 years of Korean art-making

Discusses the medicinal use of herbs and lists herbs from agrimony to yarrow and how they may be used

Describes the uses, chacteristics, and care requirements for a variety of the most popular herbs, and includes advice on herb gardening

Product Description: 'This book is simply written and will be of much help to new converts and defeated Christians in starting them off to a victorious spiritual life.' -- Bibliotheca Sacra 'Major Thomas points out how many dedicated people, ministers, Sunday school teachers, and the like, have come out of the old life but never gone on to the full, joyous life in Christ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)