Nature photography at its highest level serves to both overwhelm our senses and deepen our relationship with this planet, our home. To describe this book as anything less than the end-all coffee-table book would be an injustice. Read More

Fifty million people visited Manhattan last year, and those who put a museum on their itinerary probably chose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Halpern and Harvey Applebaum have nothing against the Met, but they’d like you to know... Read More

It’s the dead of winter: time to get out of town. Most folks will think beach, but National Geographic’s latest coffee-table offering inspires creativity. Why not celebrate snow instead of flying away from it? Quebec City’s Winter... Read More

In the 1870s, Americans began buying books as prestigious decorative objects (as well as literature), and publishers invested grandly in top artists and expensive production methods. The one-hundred-plus covers herein are stunning works... Read More

This entertaining poetic display captures inner experiences and converts them into meaningful words, with musicality and grace. Patricia Jamison, a Midwesterner who currently lives in Texas, has been writing poetry for fifteen years. She... Read More

Savor these rich images, valuable for street photographers and those wishing to keep alive the memory of 1980s New York. Robert Herman’s "The New Yorkers" is as much an historical document as it is art. It records a time in American... Read More

This inspirational book encourages artists to view art as worthy of the effort required to master it. Early chapters of Making Art a Practice: 30 Ways to Paint a Pipe, by Cat Bennett, include essays about the artistic process and how to... Read More

Reaney’s emblems are examined as a multi-leveled artform, as Thomas Gerry presents a guided journey through the artist’s imagination. In this illustrated book, The Emblems of James Reaney: Magnetically Drawn, Thomas Gerry, professor... Read More