Arts, Architecture & Design Books

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book...

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book...

Learn to play the ukulele at home or in the classroom with these popular kids instruction books and video lessons specially written for beginners! Continue your musical journey on the ukulele with...

Learn to play the ukulele at home or in the classroom with these popular kids instruction books and video lessons specially written for beginners! Continue your musical journey on the ukulele with...

A brand new book of great pieces to work alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD, providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year. Anyone...

A brand new book of great pieces to work alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD, providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year. Anyone...

A brand new book of fantastic pieces to work alongside the bestselling Abracadabra tutorial books. Accompaniments are provided on the CD, providing great pieces for concerts throughout the year...

Learn theory as if by magic! Abracadabra Beginning Theory is the ideal workbook to use alongside the best-selling instrumental series. Split into small chunks which can easily be tackled weekly,...

Learn to play the ukulele at home or in the classroom with these popular kids instruction books specially written for beginners! Start your musical journey on the ukulele with Ukulele Magic Tutor...

This book helps you to prepare neurodivergent music students to succeed, using all the tools that are available. It is packed with practical advice for teachers and parents on how to make the...

COUCH TO CONCERT: BEGINNER PIANO PIECES AND PRACTICE: A Get Set! Piano book for adult and teen beginners

COUCH TO CONCERT: BEGINNER PIANO COURSE: A Get Set! Piano book for adult and teen beginners

The most popular children's songbook ever! This much-loved collection contains 52 of your favourite childhood songs: nursery rhymes, song-stories, folk tunes, pop hits, musicals and music hall...

The popular beginner instruction books for kids with fun exercises, theory and easy songs to play. This book contains over 30 carols for the beginner pianist, featuring a range of techniques and...

This guide is aimed at providing a useful instrument for understanding the architectural history of London as well as a means for analysing the new construction trends that are characteristic of the...

Tornabuoni art returns to the origins of sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro's work (1926, Morciano di Romagna), specifically to the years 1956-1965, a pivotal period of the artist's production. His creations,...

The influence of Anjou and Aragon, and the traces left by Bourbon, Hapsburg and Napoleonic domination have made Naples a treasure-trove of different styles and periods, rich in original imperfections...

The last fifteen years of Russian history have profoundly altered Moscow, bringing dramatic changes to the Communist city it was in the eighties. These alterations have increasingly highlighted...

Florence is aimed at showing how one of the Italian cities most strongly linked with its past, the quintessential symbol of the Renaissance period, conceals a myriad of innovative architecture...

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost figures in the generation of artists who, in the 1950s and '60s, helped bring about a radical conceptual and linguistic...

One of the traits that Arte Povera artists have in common is to deconstruct things and not to privilege the material as an end in itself. It is likely that, among the artists of the movement, there...

Catalogue of the TECHNOTOPIA exhibition, which will be held at MAXXI in 2022, focusing on the relationship between artistic and scientific disciplines, nowadays closer than ever, and the consequent...

Gender Gap, curated by Laura Andreini, documents an exhibition of projects and maquettes by 20 international female architects. Created in conjunction with "The Architect's Table", a series of events...

This curated guide to contemporary building design in Istanbul explores new architectural directions and urban development in Turkey's largest and most visited city. In addition to 86 itineraries...

This most recent guidebook in the On the Road series explores the complex urban story of Paris, one of the most densely constructed cities in Europe, through its 20th and 21st century architecture...

New York City is a metropolis in a constant state of metamorphosis. Amidst continuous construction, the redevelopment of the existing cityscape plays a fundamental role in the evolution of the Big...

Rome, the 'Eternal City', is not only enriched by buildings and monuments that preserve the culture of Italy in the symbolic centre of Christianity and the hub of the Italian Republic. The...

This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, takes as a starting point four important paintings in the collection of the Museo Novecento, which belonged to collector Alberto Della Ragione,...

Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest...

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses...

Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of 2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this...

In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical...

Uncompromising and innovative, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the citys youth. Shayna L. Maskell explores DCs...

In a completely unexpected way, Aurelio Amendola, a world-renowned photographer, goes beyond his consolidated practice of printing on paper to take up the challenge of the contemporary medium par...

"Venice Deserted is an exceptional photographic report of the most beautiful city in the world under the exceptional circumstances of the Corona virus lockdown in Spring 2020. During the Corona virus...

Fan Zhen is an abstract painter whose art centres on the therapeutic colour field and energy expansion. Her visual creations strongly echo Daoism and Buddhism, which are mysterious yet existentialist...

The beautiful Anglo-Italian artist Maria Cosway was one of the most talented and dynamic women active in Regency England, but one whose achievements have been largely overlooked. Born in Florence in...

'It seems that making art is chasing after an elusive dream of perfection that sits somewhere in my head. It will not go away, even after fifty years of trying. After all this time the process of...

Launched in 1987 and published bi annually - the Rare Record Price Guide 2024 is the SEVENTEENTH edition of the World's most comprehensive guide to prices of UK releases from 1950 to the current day...

When I worked at the store with my dad, Id often sneak off to the stockyards. Watching the cow boys herd cattle and horses, their ropes spinning effortlessly, left an indelible impression on me. It...

In Spina Americana (American Spine in Latin), Sharum attempts to determine what the people, and their land, of the Central US have to do with contributing towards what he considers to be the...

This is Taylor as the ultimate icon of our times. This perfect fan book delves into her success story, her music and how empowering a role model she has become for millions of fans around the world...

The story of a young girl who transformed herself from an impoverished orphan to one of the wealthiest and most famous women in the world, this book features images and photographs of Chanel's many...

Following Henry VIII's break with Rome, in just five short years his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, masterminded the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was one of the most dramatic and fast-paced...

The nineteenth century saw the emergence of more professional women artists than ever before. But they still faced the age-old presumption: that a womans role in life was to marry and have children...

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk...

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called dirty blues songs, stretching back beyond the earliest...

I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger. As the enigmatic frontman of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the...