Asia Beyond Growth:
Urbanization in the World's Fastest-changing Continent

A superbly illustrated, authoritative exploration of urbanization – and all that implies – in the world’s fastest-changing continent. Going far beyond architecture, here are the facts and figures on the cities’ expansion and the ecological implications of their enormous growth

New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age

A dazzling kaleidoscope of highly decorated or fancy fonts across a wide spectrum of styles and effects – psychedelia, hip-hop, gothic, flowers, smoke, hair and electricity – and just about anything that is visually expressive.

The Worldwide History of Beads: Ancient • Ethnic • Contemporary

Since its original publication as ‘The History of Beads’, this book has become the world’s definitive guide for bead lovers, collectors and scholars. In this new edition, all chapters have been updated, the many maps have been modernized and 200 new photographs have been specially taken.

New London Style

New London Style looks into the homes of the most exciting young creatives in the city – from the music, fashion, design and art worlds. This new wave is injecting funkiness and bright ideas into highly individual and inspirational interiors.

Objectivity: A Designer's Book of Curious Tools

From thatching tools to collapsible binoculars this strange, brilliantly photographed miscellany celebrates the beauty of simple, useful objects. There is fascination in these accidental masterpieces and all have been chosen for their intriguing functions and their elegant, suggestive forms.

The Artists' Yearbook 2010/2011

The Artists’ Yearbook is the only comprehensive up-to-date reference guide to getting ahead in today’s art world. Offering advice and inspiration in one fact-packed volume, it features carefully vetted information on and contact details for more than 3,000 visual-arts businesses and organizations. All the contacts an artist could ever need – The Times

Falnama: The Book of Omens

In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Iran and Turkey, prediction and insight into the unknown was sought through a series of superbly illustrated manuscripts known as the Falnama (Book of Omens), notable for their impressive scale and brilliant images of prophets, heroes, villains and signs of the zodiac. The large-format, beautifully printed illustrations are complemented with extensive texts on historical, art historical and cultural aspects of the books.

Andy Goldsworthy: Wood

Andy Goldsworthy is one of Britain's best known and most popular artists. His work which deals with natural and ephemeral materials has been documented in books such as Time, Wall and Passage. In Wood, he evokes ideas of growth and perpetual change through works made of leaves, branches, ice, snow, boulders, sand. A vast, ancient oak tree provokes a rich succession of responses as the seasons ebb and flow ...

The Great Cities in History

Introduced by the hugely popular John Julius Norwich, a galaxy of more than fifty distinguished authors, including Jan Morris, Colin Thubron, Simon Schama, Orlando Figes, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Misha Glenny, Adam Zamoyski and A. N. Wilson, evoke the great cities in history from Uruk and Thebes to modern Tokyo and São Paulo and explain the reasons for their success, looking at each city during its golden age.

Paris Vogue Covers 1920-2009

Brings together some ninety years’ worth of iconic Paris Vogue covers, recording all the trends in fashion and design, as well as the whims of popular culture. Here are creations by some of the greatest artists of their era – distinguished illustrators such as Lepape, Gruau and Benito and photographers such as Man Ray, Steichen, Newton, Bourdin and Testino. Here too are the iconic faces: Catherine Deneuve, Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss …

A Writer's Britain

In this enormously evocative and rewarding anthology, Margaret Drabble, herself a star in the literary world, explores the part that a feeling for locality and landscape has played, often quite unobtrusively, in some of the greatest works in the language – Wordsworth and the Lakes, Hardy and Wessex, Crabbe in East Anglia and many others.

Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century

This is a treasure trove of as-yet-untried design ideas and an inspiration for forward-thinking professionals and anyone interested in contemporary architecture – projects by by the world’s greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming stars as J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote.

An Outline of European Architecture

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has long been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students. In this updated, elegantly designed larger format edition an extra dimension is provided by over 200 superb colour photographs.