This collection of notes on graphic design is based on over fifteen years experience teaching graphic design concepts to many hundreds of beginning students at the university level. The book contains essential design information that provides a visual vocabulary

This is the story of two great sports. One is "America's game," while the other is "the world's game." Baseball and soccer are both beloved cultural institutions. What draws fans to one game is often a mystery to fans of the other. Despite superficial differences, however, the business and culture of these sports share more in common than meets the eye. This is the first in-depth, cross-cultural comparison of these two great pastimes and the megabusinesses that they have become. The authors illustrate how the different traditions of each sport have generated different possibilities for their commercial organization and exploitation

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love

The book looks towards the present and the future with essays on the images of and by Sikhs in the modern and contemporary world. This includes the image of Sikhs, from early portraits to today's fashion images; the attempts of early-modern Panjab artists to give form to the Sikh ethos and history

Kabuki enciclopedia was in no way image of its japanese counterpart

A history of the gallery from its inception in the 1930s accompanies more than one thousand reproductions of the nation's art treasures housed in the great museum

In the book, the author introduces the art of aerobatics in the aviation sport

A photographic testimony to New Zealand's natural landscapes and cultural hallmarks, this collection is the culmination of 20 years of exploration of New Zealand

A set of 10 undated volumes and a dictionary. "In these pages you will travel to the countries of the world ... you will go with the daring pioneers and adventurers who first opened up new lands ... The wonders of the heavens are explained; there are the enthralling stories of how great industries have grown and so made possible the building of mighty ships, of locomotives and motor cars, and of aeroplanes ... You will read, too, how the familiar things of everyday life are made ... The myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome are re-told as well as the story of the earliest civilisations ...".

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print