The first ever guide to understanding Aztec hieroglyphs: a groundbreaking publication built on a lifetime of research by a world expert.

The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world’s most extraordinary artistic and ethnographic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors.

How did we step out into our celestial backyard? From Galileo's shopping list to the first art on the Moon, from early science fiction to Space Invaders, Dallas Campbell weaves together the revolutionary experiments and spectacular scenes that chart our encounters with the final frontier.

The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources – vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone – often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or offer alternative, unfamiliar tellings. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of such important stories as the Fall of Troy, or Theseus and the Minotaur.

T. H. Carpen...

The Books That Shaped Art History provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of the most important texts of art history published during the 20th century. Each of the sixteen incisive chapters, focusing on a single book, is written by a leading art historian, curator or one of the promising scholars of today. In bringing these cross-generational contributions together, the book presents a varied and invaluable overview of the history of art, told through its most en...

A vivid, day-by-day perspective on 2,500 years of human history through the medium of 366 quotations.

A fun, well-structured collection of facts and trivia about the climate.

The first major survey of contemporary apartment buildings that foster a sense of community while giving every resident an inspiring place to live.