Nature, recreation and sports / Antiques & collectibles

Freshwater Game Fish of North America

by Peter Thompson

Freshwater Game Fish of North America is an illustrated encyclopedia of freshwater game for anglers, scientists, and nature lovers. In this first book from Fly Rod & Reel Books, Peter Thompson provides the most...

Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World

by Roger Zetter & Georgia Butina Watson

Roger Zetter and Georgia Butina Watson have produced a fascinating book that explores the concept of urban sustainability within the context of urban design in the developing world. Using a wealth of examples...

Using Museums as an Educational Resource: An Introductory Handbook for Students and Teachers

by Graeme K. Talboys

Visits to museums have long been recognised as an important aspect of the education of young people. Graeme K. Talboys offers a comprehensive introduction for students, practising teachers and other educators...

Art Practice in a Digital Culture

by Hazel Gardiner & Charlie Gere

In this unique book artists, art historians, art theorists and curators of new media reflect on the idea of art as research and how it has changed practice. Intrinsic to the volume is an investigation of the...

Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See

by Beth Cook & Rebecca Reynolds

This book looks at the interaction between Design students and museums, and explores issues, projects and emerging ideas about how museums can better support HE students. It illustrates the general lessons that...

Interfaces of Performance

by Maria Chatzichristodoulou & Janis Jefferies

This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading...

The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century

by Caroline Lang & John Reeve

The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's...

Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook to Corporate Buying

by Charlotte Appleyard & James Salzmann

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature...

Vinyl Junkies

by Brett Milano

Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of...

Hello, Cutie!: Adventures in Cute Culture

by Pamela Klaffke

An irresistible illustrated guide to all things cute and collectible, from a history of cute culture to profiles of collectors.

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist

by Caroll Michels

The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist," (The New York Times) with a brand-new chapter on Internet art marketing

Now in its sixth...

The Red Circle

by John David Mann, Brandon Webb & Marcus Luttrell

BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS… HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.

Brandon Webb’s experiences in the world’s most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training...

The Shakespeare Thefts

by Eric Rasmussen

The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the...

Naked in Baghdad

by Anne Garrels & Vint Lawrence

As National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage,...

Warrior Police

by Gordon Cucullu & Chris Fontana

For the first time ever, an explosive inside look at modern military police units and their role in defending our freedom

America has been at war on several fronts since the 9/11 attack. While public attention...

Task Force Black

by Mark Urban

When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised were there. They quickly...

SEAL Team Six

by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin

A book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six – the covert squad that killed Osama Bin Laden

SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic,...

Sniper One

by Dan Mills

When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their...

Aesop's Mirror

by Maryalice Huggins

“Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it” What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode...

Seeds of Terror

by Gretchen Peters

Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan...