Arts, Architecture & Design Books

This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South. This constellation of creative makers...

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann-DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer-identifies how a culture of...

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about black culture and found...

Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century. Raised in the African American industrial city of Bessemer, Alabama, Lockett explored a range of recurring...

If you grew up in the era of mood rings and lava lamps, you probably remember Free to Be . . . You and Me - the groundbreaking children's record, book, and television special that debuted in 1972...

Essential elements of photography for use with any camera with professional controls, including some phones that have added high level functions for more precise control of light for photos. This...

An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that...

A rousing, poignant look at the cultural history of rock & roll during the early 1960s. In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called "the American...

A short but engaging exploration of our changing perception of creativity. Creativity was once seen as the mark of mad geniuses, troubled souls, and avant-garde eccentrics. Today, however, we expect...

"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."-Mid-Atlantic Country This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450...

"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."-Mid-Atlantic Country This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450...

Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822GÇô1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society. Lavishly illustrated...

John Piper was one the most articulate and interesting artists, known for his simple but perceptive language, his breadth and vision and integrity as an artist and who lived through changing and...

To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their...

What would you do if you could see 5 seconds into the future? Jake has the ability to glimpse into the future but will his power help him when he meets a girl who can read his mind? 5 Seconds has...

Sometimes all it takes is a word. When one of Victoria's words goes awry, she sets off on an adventure to try and get things back the way it was. With her dragon Sparky, will she succeed or make...

What would you do if you were brought back to life to fight for the worlds entertainment? Would you comply? The Xtreme Champion Tournament or XCT is set in the year 2069, where what has been...

Where Jesus Walked is much more than a modern travel story. It traces the footprints of a man like no other – Jesus Christ, the carpenter from Galilee. Even after 2000 years, the impact of Jesus’...

This is a reprint of Ken Duncan's timeless calssic "Walking in the Light" with a brand new cover. Celebrating the best of Ken's incomic Australian shosdts - and spannign virtually his whole career -...

Many people have a life-long fascination with Australian cattle stations. They are the largest farms in the world. Quite a few measure more than 10,000 square kilometres in size, running 10,000 head...

From the earliest times, the finest craftsmen in the world created beautiful objects for their wealthiest patrons. Worn by kings and coveted by emperors, these items not only revealed the owners'...

Clemmer was the impetus behind the Smithsonian's 1985-87 traveling exhibition of Newcomb pottery, An Enterprise for Southern Women, as well as the organizer of the Newcomb Centennial 1886-1986...

Enrique Alferez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, but for almost seventy years, he worked in New Orleans, where he left a lasting imprint through his figurative sculptures, monuments, and fountains...

For six months in 1974, two young photographers, fresh out of art school in Chicago, traveled through Cajun country, documenting the people, festivals, material culture, and haunting landscapes of...

The structures of Chaco Canyon, built by native peoples between AD 850 and 1130, are among the most compelling ancient monuments on earth. Recognized as a World Heritage Site, these magnificent ruins...

Georgia O'Keeffe remains an icon, continuing to inspire generations to break barriers and embrace the natural world in both art and life. Featuring sixty-four lush, full-color photographs, this...

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply...

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor...

Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian...

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November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White-the country's most...

A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life. She...

Portraits of dancers rendered through reflective storytelling and exquisite photography, illustrating the varieties of individual paths within the world of ballet Infinite Steps invites readers into...

Tataki Zome is the enchanting art of pounding flowers and plants onto fabric to create stunning botanical prints. With just a few simple tools, you can transform natural materials into beautiful wall...

Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of...

On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of these cataclysmic bombings draws...

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on...

Preaching Magazine Book of the Year (2022) Hearts & Minds Best Books List (2022) Christianity Today Award of Merit in Church & Pastoral Leadership (2023) It's time to give pastors permission to read...

The complete, authoritative study guide to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time--the Dead Sea Scrolls. This indispensable two-volume compendium of the Dead Sea Scrolls contains...

Are the sounds and signposts that direct us towards the meaning of life hidden? One of the greatest luthiers of our time reveals the secrets of his profession-and how each phase of handcrafting a...

How do the arts in worship form individuals and communities? Every choice of art in worship opens up and closes down possibilities for the formation of our humanity. Every practice of music, every...

No single figure has been featured with greater frequency in Western art than Jesus Christ. Sculptures, particularly - though they have received less notice than paintings - provide some of the most...

What would you do if you were brought back to life to fight for the worlds entertainment? Would you comply? The Xtreme Champion Tournament or XCT is set in the year 2069, where through secret...

Grace is a form of resilience. It is love in action. It holds us as we encounter difficulties and trauma. In recent years Australia has faced flood, drought, fire and the COVID-19 pandemic and these...

Where are the limits of medieval art as a field of study? What happens when conventionally trained art historians disregard the chronological, geographical, or cultural parameters that both direct...

Sculptors Against the State considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of three iconic artists whose work transformed European modernism: Umberto...

In the late '90s, third-wave ska broke across the American alternative music scene like a tsunami. In sweaty clubs across the nation, kids danced themselves dehydrated to the peppy rhythms and punchy...

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