The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican by Benjamin Blech & Roy Doliner
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
On the 500th anniversary of when Michelangelo started his masterpiece, we discover that the Sistine Chapel ceiling is full of hidden, never-before-revealed messages rooted in an underground movement of freethinking protest that Michelangelo created right
The Smaller Home: Smart Designs for Your Home by Dan F. Sater II
$15.00 NZD
Category: architecture
The Smaller Home introduces readers to new ways of thinking about their home. It demonstrates how efficient use of space makes their lives easier, more economical, and more enjoyable. Conserving space means more options for details, upgraded features, better materials and quality construction.
The Spirit of the Wild by Steve Bloom
$71.00 NZD
Category: photography
A snow monkey emerges from the streaming water of natural hot springs; a Camargue horse streaks through water in a blur of movement; brown bears from Alaska wait in a waterfall for sockeye salmon; scarlet and blue-yellow macaws sweep across the Peruvian sky... As renowned conservationist Jane Goodall ...Show more
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature by S. J. Chambers
$58.00 NZD
Category: Design
Over the past fifteen years, Steampunk - a mash-up of Victorian and sci-fi aesthetics with a splash of punk rock attitude - has gone from being a literary movement to a part of pop culture and a way of life. This subculture celebrates the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro ...Show more
The Still-Life Sketchbook by PRESS, ILEX
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The Ilex Sketchbook
Master proportion, tone, texture and form with this inspirational sketchbook. Line, shape, space, composition and depth are most simply understood through the study and practice of still-life drawing. The artist can enjoy the freedom of arranging objects exactly as desired, testing perception and pushin ...Show more
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
$40.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text - the perfect gift for every art connoisseur and student For more than 60 years Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Arthas been a global bestseller - with more than 8 million copies sold - the perfect introduction to art history, from the earliest ...Show more
The Story of Colour: A Voyage Through the Hidden Messages of the Spectrum by Gavin Evans
$35.00 NZD
Category: General
Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black `evil'? Why is white pure? Why do we `feel blue' or `see red'? Why do colours have different meanings for different cultures? This book offers a lively, anecdotal treatment of the cultural mysteries of colour, and focuses on the way we respond to colours, th ...Show more
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
$45.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where did writing evolve? In a succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated text, Andrew Robinson discusses the history of decipherment and then each of the major writi ...Show more
The Story of the World's Greatest Paintings by Charlie Ayres
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
This fun book introduces young readers to some of the greatest paintings of all time. Twenty world-famous artworks are featured in easy-to-follow chronological order, accompanied by informative texts that bring each masterpiece and its story vividly to life. Complete with extensive reference material, c ...Show more