Cutting through the Colleges is a guided tour of the many inspiring Kindersley inscriptions to be found in Cambridge University's 31 colleges. The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop has cut these beautiful...

A Pulitzer nominated poet and novelist, Anthony S. Abbott is a widely read and widely appreciated wordsmith. A compilation of new work and poems from four previous books, New & Selected Poems 1989...

Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a true polymath and has been called the most comprehensive thinker since Aristotle. In these two great works by the founder of modern German speculative philosophy, the...

Fleeing a post-World War I environment marred by materialism, mechanization, and corporate corruption, American writers flocked to the inspirational landscapes of northern New Mexico. These writers...

To many people, the activity called 'philosophy' sounds abstract, rarefied, worthy. But it was never that to Colin McGinn, growing up in Gillingham and Blackpool: it was just part of trying to work...

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed...

Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary available in English (and now with translations into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Italian, and Spanish underway) this...

"In this book, Peter Smith presents a guide to the fundamental aims and basic elements of formal logic. He introduces the reader to the languages of propositional and predicate logic, and then...

Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a...

Now available in an updated edition and attractive new format, this essential book on modern architecture presents over one hundred of the most significant houses of the past hundred years. The...

The ultimate book on King Tut and his tomb—the most exciting archaeological find the world has ever known—now in a compact editionThe tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the...

Ancient Rome: Infographics tells the story of a great empire through graphic design. This book offers readers a new way to conceptualize ancient Rome from the birth of the empire to the Punic Wars,...

""Abstract art is always rooted in experience of the real world." So begins art historian Pepe Karmel's bold new exploration of the origins and evolution of the movement that revolutionized modern...

The essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying, the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working with artists, lenders and art...

The period of musical history from c. 1750 to 1830 gave birth to a body of works that has come to be regarded as the indestructible foundation of modern repertory of Western music. It is the period...

David Hockney is one of the towering figures in the current art scene and of the last half century and more. Since his celebrated earl debut on the public stage at the Young contemporaries exhibition...

An entertaining yet factual insider's guide on how to become a gladiator, hone your fighting skills, and thrill the crowds in the Colosseum.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', this highly desirable album-sized package features rare and unseen backstage and onstage photography and...