Spanning more than 100 years, New York: 365 Days is a spectacular collection of then-and-now photographs that capture the rhythms and moods of the greatest city in the world. Selected from the vast archive of The New York Times, the extraordinary images in this book include many rarely-seen moments, with stops at famous landmarks and memorable events as well as a dizzying array of evocative everyday New York scenes

Portraits of America features 165 of Allard’s finest photographs. Presented in chronological order, with incisive introductions to each section written by Allard himself, these photographs show the creative development of a remarkably gifted artist

How to Draw Hip-Hop shows the principles of drawing and constructions, and combines them with the style and spirit of hip-hop culture through its gear, characters, graffiti, environments, and more to create a definitive guidebook for aspiring artists

Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the captivating story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Fascinating period views and original plans and drawings, many previously unpublished, are complemented by Miller's breathtaking new photographs, which reveal the restored park in all its glory

This work focuses on themes related to daily life, depicting the natural scenery along the banks of the Bian River, and the hustling and bustling life in the early twelfth-century city of Bianjing, then the capital of Northern Song Dynasty, as its citizens celebrate the Qingming Festival

Washington Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of the city since the dawn of photography, around 50 years after its founding. It provides a unique historical and architectural document of a city that changes either very little or dramatically

The purpose of the compilation and publication of this album is to introduce this great epic to both domestic and foreign readers through thangka, an art form unique to the Tibetan ethnic group

This work sets out to investigate the Chinese conception of space. It attempts, to discover the underling mechanism of reasoning, the way in which mental constructions of space lead to formal structures, which carries meanings

Child imagery has played an important role in China"s traditional art of painting. The earliest depictions of children were found during the Warring States Period

Kite-flying is an age-old tradition in China. Famous kite-makers of the Qin-Han period included Han Xin and Zhang Liang