Navajo textiles have been avidly sought after and collected for more than two hundred years and provide examples of both historic and contemporary primitive art. Navajo Weaving Tradition is a detailed history and appreciation of these wonderful textiles

Mary Gray's A Guide to Chicago's Murals is the first definitive handbook to the treasures that can be found all over the city. With full-color illustrations of nearly two hundred Chicago murals and accompanying entries that describe their history—who commissioned them and why, how artists collaborated with architects, the subjects of the murals and their contexts—A Guide to Chicago`s Murals serves both a general and a specific audience. From post offices to libraries, fieldhouses to banks, and private clubs to street corners, Gray chronicles the amazing works of artists who have sought to make public declarations in this most social of art forms

The striking landscape of the Pacific Northwest has inspired painters to put brush to canvas ever since the first European explorers sailed into local waters. A continuous, robust, and evolving artistic view of the region is represented in the140 paintings selected for this beautiful book

Paul A. Van Dyke's Merchants of Canton and Macao is an invaluable addition to our knowledge of Sino-Western trade in the eighteenth century. The level of detail is outstanding, amassed from a rich source base in multiple languages. And from that data base Van Dyke brings the financial actors in this complex commercial story vividly to life." — Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China

A book for children, children get acquainted with Indonesian culture and history, food, language and natural beauty of this charming country, from popular sports to traditional dances, from everyday clothes to food and school activities, gives an idea of the daily life and culture of this exotic faraway country

Since gaining independence and the discovery of oil, huge changes and rapid modernization have taken place in this region, Kazakhstan is the most stable and far-sighted country in Central Asia