"Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globall…
Taking on the myth of France's creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars, whose research offers English readers a rich and complex overview of the place of France and French artists in the visual arts …
"This is the first volume to explore the place of photography in archaeology: the parallel histories of the two fields, their similarities and differences, and their current and future relationships. Since its earliest beginnings, photography has been innately archaeological. It…
"This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design. Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consump…
August Strindberg and Visual Culture' addresses the multiplicity of Strindberg's artistic and literary output. The book charts the vital intersections between theatre, aesthetic theory, and visual elements in his work that have been left largely unexplored. Rather than following…
As the environmental movement gains followers and momentum, Dean Kuipers gives us an insider look at its radical wing and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream.
Costuming Cosplay: dressing the imagination
The untold history of the most famous relation in mathematics and what it illustrates about the nature of human reasoning.
Provides the reader with the fundamental skills, knowledge and inspiration to design and create their own innovative knitted textiles. This book offers an introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design. It describes the varieties of yarn and fibre, their characteristics a…
Named Best Science Book for Fall 2011 by Publishers Weekly The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus, and the revolution he inspired, in an utterly original and groundbreaking new book.