Chronicles the story of stock car racing from its origins some fifty years ago through the events of the 1996 Winston Cup season, offering a behind-the-scenes look at everything from top players to the races themselves. Reprint.

Chronicles the story of stock car racing from its origins some fifty years ago through the events of the 1996 Winston Cup season, offering a behind-the-scenes look at everything from top players to the races themselves. Reprint.

Product Description: William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language"...read more

Product Description: Would you take your toothache to a dentist called Wong Kwee Mau? Dine out at Cafe Buck Butt? Or book a cruise with Turismo Titanic? No? Perhaps you prefer to travel with Git Holidays then...? These are just a few of the many baffling, alarming and unwittingly amusing signs spotted by readers of the Telegraph whilst trotting the globe...read more

Product Description: Famed and prized among Andy Warhol aficionados, the Swedish Moderna Museet's massive catalogue for the artist's 1968 solo exhibition was one of the great accomplishments of art publishing. In The Photobook: A History, Vol. II, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger describe it as "a quintessential photobook, cornucopias of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snapshots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves silk-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol...read more

Credit sequences have packaged films for more than 100 years and although many people have seen them, few have considered this essential element of film from a graphic point of view. This title looks at the work of designers such as Tibor Kalman, Milton Glaser, David Hillman, Juan Gatti or Simon Taylor.

Product Description: The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books...read more

Product Description: Crosspicking is a stunning and beautiful guitar technique played with a flatpick. It has a unique sound that in some ways mimics a three-finger guitar or five-string banjo roll yet is completely different from either. "Old-Time Gospel Crosspicking Guitar Solos," aimed at intermediate guitar players, includes 30 of the most popular and best loved traditional Gospel Songs...read more

Product Description: In order to be a competitive candidate for pharmacy school, applicants must excel on the PCAT. This book offers a thorough review of all sections, along with comprehensive test practice. Inside, you will find: Practice questions with detailed answer explanations in every chapter, TWO full-length practice exams―one in the book, one online, Strategies for reducing stress and managing study time, Information on the profession and tips on how to find a lucrative career...read more

Product Description: Throughout his life, Rubens was closely connected with the world of books, executing or supervising the designs for over 80 title pages, book illustrations, and theses. It was through his long association with Balthasar Moretus, the creative force at Plantin Press, that book illustration took on a new dimension in 17th-century Antwerp...read more

The design of books today we enjoy today was fundamentally influenced by a handful of preeminent designers who were active during the 20th century. This book provides an entertaining and informative overview of eleven key designers - D.B. Updike, Jan Tschichold, Bruce Rogers, Stanley Morrson, Hermann Zapf, Jan Van Krimpen, Francis Meynell, Gotthard de Beauclair, Max Caflish, Joseph Blumenthal, and Giovanni Mardersteig - and explores their influence on one another. The lively text provides biographical overviews and information about the designer's work, as well as an assessment of the elements that they created that have gone into producing what we now see as a "well-designed book." There are over 110 pages of visually stunning examples of their work featured in this book. A must have book for any book designer and book lovers alike!

Product Description: Almost three years after putting our worldwide bestseller Los Logos together, dgv announces its much-anticipated follow-up. Dos Logos presents extensive examples of contemporary logo design in even greater depth and charts new developments in the field...read more

Product Description: A 60th anniversary celebration of the renowned Stamperia Valdonega, founded in 1948 by Giovanni Mardersteig - one of the finest printers of this century - and ably maintained today by his son Martino Mardersteig. Curator Jerry Kelly has written that 'The presswork, composition and design of this shop rose to the pinnacle of modern printing art, just as the work of Officina Bodoni [founded by Giovanni Mardersteig] set the standard for hand press printing...read more

This compendium, the best work from Patricia Carter's three previous books on illumination, shows exquisite designs in watercolour and gouache to enhance calligraphy, texts and a host of other decorative items.

Product Description: One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belle Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (ca. 1405–1408/9), is the only manuscript with miniatures executed entirely by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its royal patron, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, belonged to the duke's large collection of prized possessions...read more

Product Description: Nintendo’s Wii gaming console is revolutionary: The gamer’s actual movements are synced with the movements of on-screen characters, using a special controller (see cover). In other words: no more gaming sitting down! This new “movement” has been given an artistic forum in Wii love arts...read more