Synopsis: Treasures from southern Russian and Siberia have fascinated the world since their discovery. We now know that they are from people who roamed the steppes between the 6th century and the early Christian era.

Synopsis: Looks at the patriotic symbols which have emerged during two centuries of American folk history and popular art and pictures numerous items that bear witness to the imagination of the craftsmen who have reproduced these images

Synopsis: Briefly discusses the lives and works of twenty-two American folk painters, carvers, and environmentalists.

Synopsis: The American Heritage(R) High School Dictionary features more than 200,000 clear, understandable definitions enhnaced by 2,500 photographs and illustrations. Unparalleled in design and ease of use, its features such as usage notes and etymologies distinguish it from every other high school dictionary.

Synopsis: In this unusual and entertaining counting book, ten pig siblings embark on new adventures. Ac-companying each adventure is an etching containing the numbers 0 to 9, as well as the ten piglets hidden within.

Synopsis: Great Moments in Architecture is a wondrous portfolio that has to be seen to be fully savored-or even believed for that matter. Here are the plans for the Tower of Pisa-on a skewed drafting table, the Eiffel Tower tipped over across the Seine, the ruins of a McDonald's stand following some future Vesuvius, the disastrous meeting of the Great and Lesser Walls of China, and many other gems.

Synopsis: Detailed instructions on how to make miniatures and how to make money on them.

Synopsis: A history of art in the United States which includes the contributions of the Indians and early settlers and discusses art movements and important individual artists in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Synopsis: The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the…

Synopsis: Book illuminates world architecture from ancient to modern times. Over 800 illustrations, 400 in full color, 320 drawings created as special cut-away drawings depicting the insides of buildings.

Synopsis: The author has developed a failure proof method, teaching beginners as well as more advanced knitters the mastery of one stitch at a time.

Synopsis: For Rembrandt as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance; the strutting and mincing; the wardrobe and the face paint; the full repertoire of gesture and grimace; the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes; the belly laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked like to seduce, to intimidate, to wheedle, and to console; to strike a pose or preach a sermon; to…

Synopsis: In a definitive guide to digital photography, the author of the best-selling The iPod Book furnishes a comprehensive overview of the latest in digital technology, including cameras and equipment, as well as the essential techniques and skills of the photographic process--exposure, lighting, shutter speed, depth of field, and resolution--and tips on how to avoid hours of photo-editing by taking great photographs the first time. Original. (…

Synopsis: Exceptional color and black-and-white prints of various works highlight this description of the career and life of Leonardo

Synopsis: The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely…

Synopsis: Winding through fourteen states from Maine's northern tip to the Florida Keys, U.S. 1 ambles across woods, zips by beaches and straggles down the troubled streets of aging cities like Boston, New York, Richmond and Philadelphia. The road's 2467 miles are strewn with history: George Washington chopped down the cherry tree in Fredericksburg, Va.; New Haven, Conn., once the independent colony of Quinnipiack, was absorbed into the Colony of…

Synopsis: 'Winslow Homer' is considered among the greatest American artists of the nineteenth century. This book examines the immensity of Homer's artistic accomplishments, focusing not only on his masterpieces in various media but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's essentially modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically. The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings,…

Synopsis: Monet's famous series paintings--the haystacks, poplars, and Rouen Cathedral that he painted in the 1890s--have long been seen as the supreme realization of his interest in light, color and fleeting moments in time. In this beautiful new book, Paul Hayes Tucker provides a fresh context for these heralded canvases. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from popular broadsides to political speeches, Tucker proposes that Monet's series paintings were…