Temples of KnowledgeExceptional access to the world’s illustrious librariesFrom the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library i...
More than 200 years of surfing cultureThis volume is a comprehensive visual history of surfing, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half years...
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...
A catalogue raisonné of “the painter’s painter”Manet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that...
“Sirs” begins the missive from our imaginary correspondent. “It’s not that I don’t love your original Big Penis Book, but that, perhaps, I love it too much. I now beco...
Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Freaker and his life was never the same.Fro...
On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aerona...
The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This co...
The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and c...
“A woman once rang me up and said, ‘Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.’ I rep...
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that fl...
Decades’ worth of images have been distilled down to 512 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself.F...
Botanical masterworks from the National Library of ViennaIn pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship bu...
Od 2000 r. systematycznie, co dwa lata, publikujemy raport o stanie wsi, towarzysząc przemianom zachodzącym na terenach wiejskich i w rolnictwie – począwszy od ostatniego etapu przygotowań do...
ROCZNIK STRATEGICZNY jest jedyną w Polsce i w Europie Środkowej publikacją, która systematycznie i całościowo przedstawia główne wydarzenia i tendencje w życiu międzynarodowym mijając...
W tytule książki pojawia się istotne rozróżnienie na dawniejsze i nowe metafory Internetu. Nie chodzi tu o dychotomiczne przeciwstawienie jednych drugim, lecz o dostrzeżenie różnicy, ...
The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous pass...
Helmut and June Newton's Legendary Joint ProjectA fifty-five-year history of life and loveThis is a photographic love story tracing the fifty-five years of collaboration, partners...
Before there was Instagram, there was WarholAndy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, h...
A unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbr...