A collection of photographs including India, Africa and Latin America. This book also presents images of Burma, Japan, China, Vietnam.

Belgian artist and designer Isabelle de Borchgrave has created exquisite paper dresses evoking high fashions from the courts of the Medici in the Renaissance to the legendary Fortuny silks of the early twentieth century. This book features photographs of his works.

Features one little boy who can't wait for summer to finally be here. He keeps asking, 'Mama, is it summer yet?' Mama responds saying, 'Not yet', but there are plenty of signs that indicate spring is changing into summer: The earth is soft and there are seeds to plant, birds singing, ducklings in the pond, and pink blossoms blooming.

Part Velveteen Rabbit and part The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane , this picture book with beautiful seaside imagery can capture readers' hearts with the bear's adventure, as he tries to get back home where he belongs. When a teddy bear is lost by the child who loves him, the bear begins an amazing journey to get back home again.

Every New York City tour bus stops at Strawberry Fields; countless movies have been filmed at Bethesda Terrace and concerts from the Great Lawn are broadcast throughout the nation. This work tells the story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history.

Includes images of natural phenomena and images that bear witness to the ingenuity of the world's greatest architects over the centuries. This title covers sacred places, fortified towns, skylines punctuated by domes, bell towers, and minarets, along with deserts, mountain ranges, magnificent volcanoes, and oceans.

From the amazing success of the documentary March of the Penguins to the popular penguins in Madagascar to the penguin-themed movie Happy Feet , penguins are everywhere! This pop-up advent calendar features the house and family from the story.

A biographical account of Black Elk - a Lakota/Oglala medicine man - which follows him from childhood all the way through adulthood. It begins with visions he had as a young boy. It helps readers to follow Black Elk through his trials and tribulations of life on the villages to being a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

A fresh, modern retelling of Longfellow's famous love poem Evangeline . It tells the story of Evangeline and Gabriel, two teenagers who live in the idyllic village of Acadia. On the day that the young lovers are to be wed, their village is attacked and the two are separated. Thus begins an epic search for the two to be reunited.

Features the things and places that no longer exist - such as flying on Pan Am, people dressed in 60s fashions and the skyline of New York City that is missing the World Trade Centre.

Yves Saint Laurent's signature design style is marked by its intertwining of references from the art world with those of popular culture and social revolution. This book presents a survey of the history of the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house.

Beginning with the author's own storybook childhood in England, this book tells how his imagination and artistic talents were fed by his family's love of music, literature and nature and how his talent was further enriched by travel, teachers, friends and his wife and their three children.

How are children around the world different from us? Part of a series in which readers learn about each country's traditions and history, as well as how kids around the world spend their daily lives, this book provides an introduction to Chinese culture. It also features some of the most important architecture and historical figures of the region.

How are children around the world different from us? Part of a series in which readers learn about each country's traditions and history, as well as how kids around the world spend their daily lives, this book provides an introduction to Indian culture. It also features some of the most important architecture and historical figures of the region.

As beacons of safety alerting sailors at sea, lighthouses have been a part of the coastal landscape for thousands of years. This book traces the history of these powerful beacons from the first known structure, built in Alexandria Egypt in 300 BCE, through the introduction of the powerful Fresnel lens, and up to the fully automated behemoths.