With more than 1,200 recipes for various occasions, this compendium includes different classic French dishes, from croque monsieur to cassoulet. It reveals how easy French cooking really is.

Pasta comes in all shapes and textures, and can be simply cooked to create delicious dishes that appeal to both the novice cook and the gourmet. This reference guide to different types of pasta includes 350 classic and modern recipes.

This is a pocket bible for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. Top advertising guru Paul Arden offers his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, and making mistakes.

Art collector, gallery owner and founder of a global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi is famously publicity-shy, a reluctant interviewee who never attends his own gallery openings. This book presents his responses to questions he has been set by leading journalists and critics as well as members of the public.

A guide to the most exceptional talent in the international restaurant world. It presents 100 of the best emerging chefs from around the world.

This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of typical work, accompanied by information on each image and its creator. Artists, styles and subject matter are cross referenced.

Includes 500 great works of art from different periods and regions in the world. This book reveals the diversity of man's artistic achievements through time and around the globe. It includes both fine and decorative arts - most commonly painting and sculpture, but also textiles, masks, ceramics and jewellery.

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.

Following in the tradition of Phaidon's The Art Book , this is an illustrated dictionary which presents in alphabetical order the work of 500 great artists from the 20th century. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a key work and a short text about the work of the artist.

Following the format of The Art Book , this volume looks at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. It contains an A-Z guide to the 500 most important names in fashion since the 1860s, from Coco Chanel and Issey Miyake, to Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton.

Presents a selection of 40 recipes with a short introduction about the origins of the dish, fascinating facts about the ingredients and the Italian culinary culture. This book offers information on seasons, ingredients and basic cooking techniques.

This book offers a guide to the most famous and fascinating images from the birth of photography to the present day. In alphabetical order, 500 of the world's greatest photographers are represented by one outstanding example of their work, each image accompanied by a short text, together with biographical information about the photographer.

A comprehensive bible of Greek food in English. With more than 800 simple recipes, it includes information on regional specialities, local ingredients and the religious and historical significance of the dishes. Presenting recipes for taverna favourites such as moussaka, tzatziki and hummus, it documents variety of local sweets and pastries.

This children's edition of Phaidon's 'The Art Book', presents 30 of the most significant artists and engaging works of art from all periods - each artist featured on a double-page spread - in A-Z sequence.

A collection of Spanish recipes, covering things such as tortilla and bacalao. This title includes menu plans from various Spanish chefs, cooking tips and a glossary of terms and ingredients. It offers readers the opportunity to take their first steps in Spanish cooking, or expand their repertoire of recipes.

Born in Bombay and based in London since the 1970s, Anish Kapoor (b 1954) has been a vital force in contemporary art. His work is hermetic but unmistakable, both for its striking abstract forms and for its distinctive use of materials, from the traditional (marble and bronze) to the high-tech (stainless steel and fibreglass).

Offers a fresh approach to the role of the entertainment industry within the contemporary world of digital media. This book looks at how the proliferation of concepts such as MySpace, YouTube, iTunes and Google, to name but a few, have come to dominate over previous channels of marketing and communication.

Offering an overview of contemporary painting, this work enquires how we experience its images, what they mean and why the practice remains vital. It presents the work of painters organized by themes that have long been central in the genre - ranging from still life and landscape to abstraction and installation.

Marlene Dumas is celebrated around the world for her highly charged depictions of the human form. In her oil paintings, drawings and watercolours she captures the body in all its states, from pain to pleasure, birth to death. This title examines Dumas' work in relation to a range of conceptual legacies in depictions of the human figure.