What Happens Next
A History of American Screenwriting
Written by Marc Norman

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39388-3 (0-307-39388-7)

“Fascinating.”
—Los Angeles Times

A brilliant, wildly entertaining history of Hollywood from the screenwriters’ perspective

In this truly fresh take on the movies, veteran Oscar-winning screenwriter Marc Norman gives us the first comprehensive history of the men and women who penned some of the greatest movies of all time. Impeccably researched, erudite, and filled... Read more >

More Graphic Simplicity
Cool, Natural, Sweet, Colorful, Modern
Edited by Saeco Oikawa

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: PIE International
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-4-7562-4076-7 (4-7562-4076-3)

An essential sourcebook for creative people in a wide range of design fields. This is a high-quality collection of art and design from within the world of advertising that features minimal, elegant, and sophisticated graphic design. Read more >

The Changing Face of Portrait Photography
From Daguerreotype to Digital
Text by Shannon Perich

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-274-4 (1-58834-274-3)

A richly illustrated volume examines ten photographers’ portrait work and explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities.

The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection. The... Read more >

Understanding Exposure, 3rd Edition
How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera
Written by Bryan Peterson

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $25.99
ISBN: 978-0-8174-3939-2 (0-8174-3939-0)

Now updated with current technologies, more than one hundred new images, and an all-new chapter, Understanding Exposure has demystified the complex concepts of exposure for countless photographers.
In his trademark easy-to-understand style, author Bryan Peterson explains the relationship between aperture and shutter speed, including how to achieve successful exposures in seemingly difficult... Read more >

The Art Prophets
The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
Written by Richard Polsky

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-406-1 (1-59051-406-8)

In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers an insightful and engaging dialog between artists... Read more >

The Drawing Mind
Silence Your Inner Critic and Release Your Creative Spirit
Written by Deborah Putnoi

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Trumpeter
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-943-8 (1-59030-943-X)

When asked to draw, most people become anxious. The fear of making a “mistake” or not drawing something “perfectly” gets in the way of just drawing and experimenting with the process. And yet the ability to make a mark on a blank page is something that is universal.

The Drawing Mind... Read more >

Acrylic Painting Techniques

Written by Stephen Quiller

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: April 1, 2002
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-0106-4 (0-8230-0106-7)

Who would have thought that synthetic acrylic paint, a still-young medium with a plastic polymer base, would become the most versatile and exciting painting medium in the twenty-five years since it appeared? Today, acrylics are being used by more painters—and with more dazzling results—than any other medium.



Acrylic Painting Techniques shows... Read more >

The Beautiful and the Good
Reasons for Sustainable Fashion
Written by Marco Ricchetti and Maria Luisa Frisa

Format: Trade Paperback, 236 pages
Publisher: Marsilio
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-88-317-1260-6 (88-317-1260-8)

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Artistic Anatomy

Written by Dr. Paul Richer

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: February 1, 1986
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-0297-9 (0-8230-0297-7)

Artistic Anatomy is widely acknowledged to be the greatest book of its kind since the Renaissance. The original French edition, now a rare collector's item, was published in 1889 and was probably used as a resource by Renoir, Braque, Degas, Bazille, and many others. The English-language edition, first published 35 years... Read more >

Cultural Connectives
Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Written by Rana Abou Rjeily

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 978-1-935613-13-8 (1-935613-13-8)

Cultural Connectives bridges the Arabic and Latin alphabets through a family of typefaces designed by author Rana Abou Rjeily that bring the two alphabets into typographic harmony, even in light of their differences. Using her designs, Abou Rjeily applies Arabic rules of writing, grammar and pronunciation to English as a way... Read more >

Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film

Written by Brian J. Robb

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-84023-968-3 (1-84023-968-9)

From Blade Runner to A Scanner Darkly, via Total Recall, Screamers, Impostor, Paycheck and Minority Report, the legacy of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick has revolutionized Hollywood.

Counterfeit Worlds is the definitive history of all the adaptations of Dick's work, not only the films but also TV series, radio plays... Read more >

Le Freak
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52965-5 (0-385-52965-1)

You will hear a Nile Rodgers song today. It will make you happy.

Today’s pop music—genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal—is the world that Nile Rodgers created. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote and produced the songs that defined that era and... Read more >

Sculpting the Figure in Clay
An Artistic and Technical Journey to Understanding the Creative and Dynamic Forces in Figurative Sculpture
Written by Peter Rubino
Foreword by Dave Brubeck

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-0-8230-9924-5 (0-8230-9924-5)

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SCULPTING THE HUMAN FIGURE IN CLAY

In Sculpting the Figure in Clay,acclaimed portrait bust sculptor and author Peter Rubino teaches a master class in the essentials of figurative sculpture. In this intensive, all-inclusive guide, he introduces students to a natural, straightforward geometry that will help them become masters... Read more >

The Mushroom in Christian Art
The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity
Written by John A. Rush
Foreword by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-960-5 (1-55643-960-1)

In The Mushroom in Christian Art, author John A. Rush uses an artistic motif to define the nature of Christian art, establish the identity of Jesus, and expose the motive for his murder. Covering Christian art from 200 CE (common era) to the present, the author reveals that Jesus, the Teacher... Read more >

The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6907-8 (0-8129-6907-3)

The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and... Read more >

Artists on Comics Art

Written by Mark Salisbury

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale: December 1, 2002
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-84023-186-1 (1-84023-186-6)

In-depth interviews with comics art legends reveal the secrets of translating comics script to graphic storytelling for the first time. Technique, style, layouts, approach, pencilling, inking... no facet of the artist's craft is left unexplored, and this is just the beginning.

Salisbury introduces the lively creative genius behind the pencil and... Read more >

The Fast Track Photographer Business Plan
Build a Successful Photography Venture from the Ground Up
Written by Dane Sanders
Foreword by David DuChemin

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-8174-0000-2 (0-8174-0000-1)

This book is a groundbreaking book by the popular author of "Fast Track Photographer". Aspiring and working photographers (as well as other creatives) can revolutionise their business with the simple, concrete strategies in this book by the popular author of "Fast Track Photographer". This book shows professional photographers how to build... Read more >

Fast Track Photographer, Revised and Expanded Edition
Leverage Your Unique Strengths for a More Successful Photography Business
Written by Dane Sanders
Foreword by Richard N. Bolles

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-8174-0001-9 (0-8174-0001-X)

Competition in the photography industry has never been fiercer. But in this empowering guide, acclaimed photographer and speaker Dane Sanders reveals that the key to success is to stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and start focusing on your most powerful resource: you. Discover how to:

· Use your unique... Read more >

The Last Good War
The Faces and Voices of World War II
As told to Veronica Kavass
Photographed by Thomas Sanders
Introduction by Hampton Sides

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-59962-085-5 (1-59962-085-5)

World War II remains one of the most galvanizing and defining events in the history of America. Seemingly overnight, the entire nation unified behind a singular cause. By 1945, the size of the U.S. armed forces had grown from two to twelve million men and women of every color, religion, and... Read more >

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
Politics and Culture
Written by Carl E. Schorske

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 12, 1980
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74478-0 (0-394-74478-0)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

This is Schorske's magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.

"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an... Read more >

Dime-Store Alchemy
The Art of Joseph Cornell
Written by Charles Simic

Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-59017-486-9 (1-59017-486-0)

In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.

“Dime-Store Alchemy...is the most sustained literary... Read more >

My Hollywood

Written by Mona Simpson

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47502-2 (0-307-47502-6)

Claire, a composer and a new mother, has moved to Los Angeles so that her husband can follow his passion for writing television comedy. Suddenly the marriage—once a genuine 50/50 arrangement—changes, with Paul working late and Claire left at home with baby William, whom she adores but has no idea how... Read more >

Back to Our Future
How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
Written by David Sirota

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51878-1 (0-345-51878-0)

Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past.

In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes... Read more >

Forrest Bess
Key to the Riddle
Written by Chuck Smith
Foreword by Robert Thurman

Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-57687-622-0 (1-57687-622-5)

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The Mural at the Waverly Inn
A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians
Written by Edward Sorel

Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37731-9 (0-307-37731-8)

The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can’t guarantee you a reservation... Read more >