A chronological guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths, retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time.

Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt.

Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.

No matter if works are created in total symbiosis with the tropical landscape or surrounded by flourishing nature, Concrete Jungle presents the dichotomy of the rough ma...

A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world.

This copiously illustrated work by the ever-provocative Morris is a pioneering and lively exploration of the importance of body language in how people understand art.

A compact edition of Joseph Banks' extraordinary botanical engravings of flora discovered on Captain Cook's first voyage.