A compelling book of the confessions and secrets from the PostSecret website - the project that captured a nation's imagination

Takes the reader into the houses of forty booklovers to view their personal libraries and reading spaces. This book includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting and shelving.

An illustrated scrapbook covering the years 1956-66, that has been authorised by Bob Dylan himself.

The definitive, official, completely-different-to-anything-done-before Autobiography of The Pythons

This is a mini edition of The Photography Book , containing every sort of photography, from pictures of famous events such as the Royal Wedding and the first landing on the moon, to familiar shots by the masters of photography such as Bill Brandt and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Describing himself as a visual jackdaw , master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distills this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind.

Explores essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths. This book emphasizes the inner - rather than the institutional - dimensions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It conveys the appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and imagination.

The follow-up book to the huge cult hit, PostSecret, this time focusing on the secrets of teens and students

Annie Leibovitz' extraordinary career took off in San Francisco in 1970 when she first submitted a portfolio to Rolling Stone magazine. By 1973, she was the magazine's chief photographer. This book serves as a tribute to a great culture in its widest form by the photographer who has understood more than anybody the power of the iconic image.

Our homes are an extension of our personalities. Home is the place where we are truly ourselves and it reveals a great deal about what makes us tick.

A pictorial dedicated to travel and the world, capturing almost every country on the planet with photographs and useful text. It combines images that captures the essence of being there.

Between 1928 and 1942 George Hurrell photographed all the great Hollywood stars. Perhaps his most notable collaboration was with Joan Crawford: a pair of before and after photographs reveal the extent of her debt to Hurrell's retouching techniques. This book presents 275 examples of his work.

A comprehensive guide to nearly 4000 years of sword making from all over the world. Providing an introduction to the weapons and presenting their historical background, this is a survey of a vast body of superb craftsmanship. It is a useful reference work for weapons enthusiasts, collectors and lovers of military history and fine art.

This is America's story as it has never been told before, with award-winning editor and journalist Harold Evans documenting and celebrating the last hundred years with more than 900 original photographs, cartoons and illustrations.

Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. This work traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity in blue jeans and Gauloises cigarette packs. It tells the history of our favorite color and the cultures that have hated it, loved it, and created great art with it.

From El Escorial in Spain to the Congress in Washington, from Trinity College, Cambridge to the Abbey of Saint-Gall, this volume reveals an exceptional heritage: nearly 20 shrines to culture, entirely devoted to the presentation of knowledge, stacked with writings and shrouded in silence.

Billy Wilder Audrey Hepburn was loved by millions of movie fans and reflected that love back on her audience. Audrey Hepburn was more than a movie star, more than a style icon. This illustrated memoir is the story of her life from her childhood during WWII, to Hollywood, to her work for the United Nations.

A richly detailed history of one of America's best-loved folk arts, featuring more than 250 full-colour images of quilts from the colonial period through the mid-20th century.