Ruiyan XuA dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion...

Michael KernanWhen ancient notebooks turn up in a Long Island garage, Peter Van Overloop, a Columbia graduate student, sets to translating them, and finds himself immersed in the life and...

AS ByattEach story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in...

CDB BryanAn updated and enlarged edition of the centennial history of the National Geographic Society which first appeared in 1987. All text and pictures from the original book are included...

Robert Scholes and Robert KelloggReexamines the development and the popular conception of narrative literature and looks at meaning, characterization, plot, and point of view in various narrative forms.

Mitchell BeazleyFeatures: Reusable peel-off stickers and grid to design your own kitchen.The up-to-the minute way to plan your kitchen, complete with layout grid and reusable, peel-off stickers for all your...

Kenneth Clark These A.W. Mellon Lectures delivered at the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1953 and here presented with 298 illustrations explore the tradition of the nude in...

Alan BlackwoodA colorfully illustrated guide for children to classical music features sections explaining the history of the orchestra, presenting the individual instruments, and showing a day in the life of...

Susan Vreeland   From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's...

Cynthia BlancheThe world is vibrating with colour. Imagine being able to harness that energy into improving not only your health and well-being but every aspect of tyour life. Use colour...

Annie Sloan With renowned decorative painter Annie Sloan's help, anyone can bring a touch of the past into their home. Sloan introduces simple techniques for people with a taste for...

Josie Warshaw A highly accessible approach to creating beautiful ceramics, with fully illustrated techniques and a range of beautiful step by step projects! January 1, 2001 by Hermes House