Part of Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Product Description: Visually appealing, entertaining and intriguing, this book explores humankind’s enduring curiosity about the animal world.

Product Description: This impressive 12 x 12 book of 184 stunning color portraits and text by award-winning documentary photographer Alison Wright with a foreword by Pico Iyer, is a testament to the connectedness of the universal human spirit. Alison received the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for covering child labor in Asia and is a two-time recipient of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award...read more

Product Description: Alison Wright has spent a career capturing the universal spirit of humanity in her photographs. Though she’s documented landscapes and cultures on every continent, Wright is best known for her intimate images of people. Faces offers a wide-ranging selection of her most compelling portraits in a chunky block-book format — similar to Steve McCurry’s best-selling Portraits — that appeals to gift givers and photography buffs alike...read more

Product Description: An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time Alison Wright, covered human conflict with her camera until her own life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident with a logging truck on a remote jungle road in Laos...read more

Product Description: Famous for their new treatment of heroic, antique subjects and the depiction of the male nude in action, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo ran one of the most successful and advanced workshops in fifteenth-century Florence. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book reexamines the brothers’ careers and multifaceted work to present a fresh understanding of their contributions to the development of Italian art...read more

A powerful documentary of children in developing countries includes photographs from around the globe documenting their cultural traditions and illustrating the difficulties they face trying to survive in a world afflicted by hunger, war, and disease.

A revealing visual biography of one of the world's great spiritual leaders features 150 photographs spanning the fourteenth Dalai Lama's career as well as a series of impressionistic essays designed to capture the essence of his philosophy. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Original.

Product Description: This lovely book details the activities of the leading artists of Florence during the 1470s, when Lorenzo de`Medici and his allies were cultivating the visual arts as an important means of asserting influence. The book discusses the art of Andrea Verrocchio, Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo, Sandro Botticelli, and Filippino Lippi; the competition and collaboration among them; and the religious, political, and social contexts of their work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This visually stunning, full-color portrait of Tibetan life in exile displays the spirit of Tibetan refugees living in the beautifil mountain settings of northern India and shows how they have preserved the best of their unique culture and identity.