Presents wisecracks and curious facts from ancient Greece and Rome. This book includes humorous quips by the emperor Augustus and wry observations by the philosopher Socrates.

Focussing on street and graffiti artists, this book showcases a diversity of working methods, approaches and personal fixations, including declarations of love, typographic explorations, alter egos, storyboards, mythological creatures, anatomical studies, architectural drawings and extreme doodling.

Nairobi is a place where slick advertising has made few inroads and shopping malls and supermarkets remain a rarity. As across Africa, that is an opportunity for an outpouring of creativity. This title presents a portrait of the small traders of Nairobi.

Presents an overview of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as a draughtsman. This book discusses the more than 150 drawings culled from a corpus of some 800.

Offers a way to brighten up those dull days and unmotivated moments that are an essential part of office life. This book will help you plot your way into your colleagues good books and vicariously vent your frustration on your boss, tippex over your troubles and scrawl your way to success all from the comfort of your own office chair.

Calligraphy can be a very personal pathway to explore a multiplicity of design concepts. This title invites us to look closely at details and textures, expanding our powers of observation and finding creative ideas in the world around us. It is suitable for enthusiastic beginners and experienced calligraphers.

The Dusseldorf School is renowned around the world, and is synonymous with high artistic standards and a highly diverse and fresh approach to the medium of photography. This title traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s, when husband and wife team Bernd and Hilla Becher gave art photography an institutional roof.

In 1956, William Klein arrived in Rome to assist Federico Fellini on his film Nights of Cabiria . It was on these walks that Rome , a radical and brilliant visual diary of the city, was born. This revised edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Rome's release.

Offers an account of the decorative arts of the Art Deco period. This book celebrates the styles rich variety of form and its diverse international roots as the very factors that make it a perennial favourite of modern collectors and designers.

The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earth from the Air is the bestselling book of aerial photography ever published. This vibrant new edition of the internationally acclaimed original features an updated design and nearly sixty stunning new photographs.

A study of European architecture. Integrating over 200 colour photographs, it explains the author's perceptive understanding of the heritage of past civilizations.

Tells you how to get in and get on in the legions, the best places to serve, life in camp, on campaign and in battle, and such things as how to stop your armour going rusty and how to storm a city. This book is suitable for those who enjoy ancient history, but who want to be entertained at the same time.

The illustrated weekly magazine VU ran over 600 issues between 21 March 1928 and 29 May 1940. This book offers VU the attention it deserves by reproducing a selection of front covers, pages and spreads from its short but prolific history, together with the commentary and analysis.

Presents 25 projects that exemplify the smooth incorporation of evocative historic details into the interiors. This title demonstrates the many successful ways this trend towards a dark nostalgia has been incorporated into recent designs.

Features thirty of the best designs that portray the diversity of southern California's architecture. This title draws examples from Montecito to San Diego and the arid conditions of Joshua Tree to illustrate the wide range of responses to geography, budget and space.

A visual survey of some of our world's rare and endangered mammals. It features photographs of 60 mammals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It combines imagery with factual information, narrative, and a message.

Helps you to discover how design has evolved over the centuries, and how to think visually and create your own personal style. Whether you are decorating your own home or thinking of taking up interior design professionally, this book can be used as a useful source of reference.

Children everywhere will adore this beautiful, chunky colouring and activity book, a follow-up volume to the bestselling The Doodle Book, published in 2003. Packed with over 360 pages of activities, including colouring, cutting and pasting, it is guaranteed to entrance and engage blossoming artists and daydreamers everywhere.

Presents 365 images from master aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The pictures in this book cover various corners of every continent, from icy arctic floes to tropical forests, from the deserts of north Africa to the vertiginous peaks of Nepal.

Presents discoveries in the different fields of Ice Age Research. This book reveals how the epoch was discovered, the profound climatic fluctuations it generated as ice sheets waxed and waned, and the myriad ways in which humans and animals coped with the changing world they lived in.