Not for sale in selected countries! From the author of the best-selling Perspective! For Comic Book Artists, a fully-illustrated, graphic novel guide to the principles of perspective for artists, using multimedia projects to teach the fundamentals....

"It is safer to be feared than loved". These words embody the spirit of "The Prince", Niccolo Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy. Machiavelli's advice for how a ruler should acquire and ruthlessly exercise power over others continues...

This volume celebrates the poetic heritage of the Emerald Isle, with more than 50 classic poems about Ireland's people, history, character and myths and legends. Its contributors include William Butler Yeats, William Allingham and other well-known Ir...

Photographers are visual people. They communicate in pictures. So, what better way to explore and explain the creative tools and techniques of photography – and the science behind them – than through info-graphics? "Photo-Graphics: Exposure" looks be...

Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality – and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field. Brief, enaging and beautifully illust...

Not for sale in selected countries! Lush landscapes combined with lucid instruction to help artists of all levels achieve results. Known for his use of luminous color, Albert Handell, whose lush landscapes light up these pages, provides lucid instr...

Horror hides behind an attractive face in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". So begins "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's classic novel of manners and mores in early nineteenth century England. As the Benn...

Press photography is not just a career – it's a way of life – and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. This book explains how to capitalise on that ringside seat. Written by an expert in the field, "Practical Photojournalism...

Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror is an anthology of twenty tales of horror and the supernatural published in the nineteenth century. In addition to works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins!, and other well...