This book explores the critically acclaimed work of the Spanish Hasselblad Award-winning photographer Joan Fontcuberta. Joan Fontcuberta is one of the most inventive contemporary photographers, with a career spanning more than three decades, during which time he has constantly investigated, experime[...]
In Fire and Ice: Timescapes Joan Myers gathers volcanoes photographs of iconic sites from all over the world, including Volcano National Park on the island of Hawai'i, Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, Cotopaxi and Picincha in Ecuador, Nevada del Ruiz in Colombia, Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, Krakatoa [...]
Joan Miro's paintings are among the most widely recognized of any modern artist, reproduced everywhere from books to T-shirts to posters. While he is most often seen as a surrealist or a postwar abstract painter, terms he rejected, this book brings new insights into Miro's work by framing it in the [...]
This is a collection of 70 beautifully detailed greetings cards from leading cross stitch designer, Joan Elliott. It features eight themed chapters with everything from sophisticated Oriental-inspired designs and Celtic celebrations to fun childhood events and adorable baby motifs. A number of chapt[...]
This remarkable book is for everyone who fishes with a fly rod - or wants to learn. With a fly rod, fishing for trout, salmon, bass, pike, panfish, or saltwater gamefish can become the most exciting kind of sport there is. "Joan Wulff's New Fly Casting Techniques "pioneers a set of casting "mechanic[...]
In a novel that is based on The Watsons, an unfinished Jane Austen novel, Emma Watson returns from years spent with a much-loved aunt to tend her father's household and to deal with her petty and jealous sisters, ailing father, and vulgar brothers, only to find herself caught up in an adventure as t[...]
Rock-and-roll goddess Joan Jett holds a beloved place in the world of music. She started her first band, The Runaways, at age fifteen and has blazed a trail that has inspired and thrilled her fans to this day. AMMO Books is proud to release this authorized, loving tribute conceived and authored[...]
Spanish photographer Joan Colom (born 1921) is one of the great chroniclers of Catalan culture, in particular of Barcelona's working classes and its criminal underworld during the 1950s and 60s. Colom spent years on the streets of Barcelona's Raval neighborhood, with a camera surreptitiously attache[...]
This affordably priced monograph provides an ideal introduction to the joyful visual world of Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the twentieth century's greatest and most beloved artists, whose pictorial language--for once the right term--was appropriated by a gamut of modernist causes and avant gardes, [...]
American artist, Joan Jonas' experimental projects in the late sixties and early seventies were essential to the development of contemporary performance, video, and conceptual art. Born in New York in 1936, she is regarded as a pioneer of video art and performance. Her work fuses video, dance, theat[...]
This one-time cattle herder is now a popular guard dog. When properly trained it can become a loyal home companion. This book describes the Rottweiler's origins and covers all aspects of care, feeding, and training. Titles in Barron's popular Pet Handbooks series instruct pet owners on health care, [...]
The stars of the European porn studio Bel Ami usually look a little more like "Love Me Tender" than "Rebel Yell". The new photo book by Spanish celebrity photographer Joan Crisol is proof that they can switch mode at any time. He portrays the handsome boys in bold poses and puts the spotlight on the[...]
Dog be gone The big old dog wants to play. Can the little boy make him go away?
"We will go to America "It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.[...]
This extraordinary book contains in one unique volume, the most wide-ranging history of apples ever written and a detailed survey of over 2,000 of the world's apple varieties. Beautifully illustrated with 32 exquisite colour paintings, the last edition of this book received many accolades and was q[...]
Many children love cats, and there is so much to know about America's most popular pet. Why do they meow, hiss, and purr? Why do they have whiskers, tails, and claws? Beginning readers can find out the answers to those questions and many more in this fun, fact-packed book filled with colorful feline[...]
The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed while dangling from helium-filled balloons, and deployed an array of instruments on The Mike Douglas Show that included her cello, a whistle, a cap gun, a gong, and a belch. She did a striptease while pl[...]
In this groundbreaking book, nutritionist Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D., founder of Minnesota's esteemed Health Recovery Center, offers her revolutionary formulas for healing your emotions--biochemically. Through proven all-natural formulas, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find the emoti[...]
Responding to a new surge of interest in beads, this reissue edition with all new color plates examines the role of these intriguing objects in human affairs. The first chapter traces the travels of beads by mule-pack, caravan, and cargo. Egypt, India, and Mesopotamia were connected by trade routes [...]
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is [...]
"Brad" explores the ups and downs of van Gogh's life and art in this colorful report, featuring Brad's funny cartoons alongside reproductions of classic paintings like Starry Night.[...]
Now readers can discover how to make their own cards, toys, and gifts that slide, spring, and revolve From greeting cards with moving parts, to a pop-up menagerie, this book offers dozens of wonderful ideas for three-dimensional paper fun. Includes easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for more [...]