Second-hand Books

This engaging book introduces readers to several ways that volunteers can help at school, from helping in the classroom to watching over students in the parking lot. The book also...

Joining the Our World series, this board book with endnotes about life in Pakistan was created by a Pakistani author and illustrator team. Subah bakhair! Come along for a day...

Take an exciting bus ride from a Guatemalan village to a market town with this fresh approach to a favorite song. Features a Guatemalan-inspired, marimba-flavored singalong and educational endnotes about...

Lyrical rhyming text and whimsical illustrations reassure readers that they have the resilience to navigate whatever life brings their way. Inspired by the author's own experience with anxiety, this beautiful...

Joining the Our World series for very young readers, this sweet board book about daily life in Ireland was created by an Irish author and illustrator. Maidin! Come along for...

Greek myth owes its immortality - often in many varied versions - to the fact that it was cultivated for at least fourteen centuries in the places where it was...

In Belgium for Foodies Femke Vandevelde leads you to the best places in Belgium to eat and drink. Femke is a food writer and restaurant critic (for, i.a., De Morgen...

Vancouver seems to have it all: a lively city centre with trendy shops, a diverse cultural scene, clubs and bars for partying, impressive architecture, but also beaches and skiing areas...

Calder Now documents an exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam which explores the enduring influence of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) on contemporary art. Shown alongside pieces by Calder himself...

Unprecedented insight into the role of innovative pattern-cutting in contemporary fashion design. Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design. With...

The green architecture movement is a worldwide phenomenon that addresses sustainability and a parallel awareness of how the built world is enriched by nature. This lavishly illustrated book presents the...

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and the soul - Linda Solegato. The botanical trend tends to grow. - Style-Files.com Ultimate Wonder Plants bundles together the best and most...

Whether lakes, deserts or forest, nature is often a holiday destination, but not every nature traveller wants to camp or stay in cheap hotels. This book is for the discerning...

Wunderkammern are showing up everywhere these days. Design webshops, expos, interior design stores: they all try to bring back the memory of the century-old tradition of Wunderkammer, or 'the Cabinet...

Discover the harmony between Nordic architecture and the beauty of nature. Picturesque Scandinavian archipelagos and extra-long summer days create the perfect environment for dreamy homes. Summer houses that blend smoothly...

Marcel Vrignaud is the founder and permanent professor of the Ikebana Floral Art Centre, an association he set up in 1966 after spending three and a half years in Nagoya...

During autumn 2010, Design Vlaanderen (Flanders Design) will organise the 6th Design Triennial. This book focuses on the social importance of design in Belgium and investigates how design, via its...

Defining Moniek Vanden Berghe as nothing but a 'floral artist' would undermine her multifacted talent. Trained as a sculptor, painter, ceramicist and graphic designer, Moniek found her true passion in...

Initially the collection of the Design Museum Gent predominantly consisted of eighteenth-century period furniture, but along the way it became the only Belgian museum specialising in twentieth-century and contemporary design....

German top florist Annette Kamping became Champion of Germany in 1994 and winner of the Golden Rose in the same year. One year later she became Vice-Champion of Europe. In...

Over the centuries, craftsmen have applied their creativity and technical skills to exploit the generous resources of Nature to marvellous effect. In this case they have employed seeds, leaves, flowers...

Bruce Springsteen: A musician. A family man. A religious man. An activist. A boss. THE BOSS. From podcasts with former President Barak Obama to record smashing sales deals, Bruce Springsteen...

From Coco Chanel and Grace Kelly to Twiggy and Lady Diana, here are ten women who changed twentieth-century fashion forever! Coco Chanel once proclaimed, "I don't do fashion, I am...

*** AUSTRALIAN BAND *** Take four cute, likable boys from Sydney. Add a heavy dose of rock, the fast, electric and fun kind, enhanced by powerful melodies that lend themselves...

'Hats and Caps' is a monograph comprised of more than 1,200 fashion and style photos. It provides a complete and current account of the designs displayed on catwalks by the...

This outstandingly illustrated volume presents an unsurpassed collection of the most original and new characters from designers all around the world. Any animation, cartoon, comic or illustration needs a great...

A book that takes the reader on a journey to some of the most cutting-edge examples in restaurant design and architecture from around the world. In our fast-paced global economy,...

Latest production of Cuban artist, Adrian Fernandez, concerned with the impact of material culture, history and memory on contemporary man. Interested in the symbols that represent ideologies and that construct...

This book analyses the fundamental aspects of graphically depicting a wide variety of jewellery. The relationships of volume, balance between full and empty, treatment of metal surfaces, warm and cool...

This book presents a selection of the most interesting interior design projects, showing a return to more humanized concepts, based on the profound relationship between function and aesthetics, between the...

There are versatile pieces suitable for every style and fashion trends. A book with the theme of "Let's make clothes to wear tomorrow," where adult women can make the clothes...

How did the Neva embankments and Nevsky Prospekt look two or three centuries ago? What was Palace Square like without the Alexander Column? What did people do on the Tsarina's...

The book presents the collection of the State Hermitage, one of the greatest museums in the world. The aim of the authors and compilers is to give an all-embracing picture...

The new edition of the classic Iconic New York surprises with an even larger format, and previously unpublished photographs of the world-famous metropolis on the Hudson River. Christopher Bliss, is...

Jeanne Lanvin was ahead of her time. The French fashion visionary and imaginative businesswoman from a poor background not only created the first designer fashion line for children this was...

In a 2021 study, McKinsey describes Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) within the watch market as 'the industry's fastest-growing segment'. The trade in pre-owned watches is expected to overtake that in new...

What does winter look like in the far north? According to the cliches: as dark and cold as a refrigerator. And yet it is precisely in these wintertime months that...

"My goal with these images is to raise our awareness of the beauty and diversity of the natural world, but - even more importantly - its dreadful fragility and endangerment....

"Everything needs a soul - at least everything that's supposed to have meaning." This is one of the guiding principles for the SKODA Design team and the jumping-off point for...

KEYNOTE: . Includes many explanatory photos, diagrams and coloured artwork The Sturmartillerie were established before the outbreak of World War II as an integrative support arm of the infantry, which...

From the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) to the grey gurnard (Trigla gurnardus), from the Mediterranean hake (Merluccius merluccius) to the kajiki or a'u (Makaira nigricans), which can be found (and...

Filled with breathtaking photographs and inspirational personal texts, these profiles of extraordinary women athletes in action are definitive proof that extreme sports are not male only territory. Whether it's diving...

The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than one hundred and fifty full-color frames. A uniquely powerful form...

Now repackaged in an attractive and great value-for-money format, this overview of twentieth-century horology combines stunning pictures of the most covetable time-pieces with the unparalleled expertise of a world-renowned vintage...

This unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt's oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision....

Fifty years after Picasso's death, this magnificent collection of drawings offers a career-spanning tour of the artist's brilliant and dynamic use of line and a window into the heart and...

Now in paperback, this dreamy, gorgeously detailed picture book leads children on a journey to impossible but wonderfully imagined places. Upside-down mountains, volcanoes that spew bubble gum, a gentle humpback...

This beautifully illustrated collection of nocturnally inspired images and writing introduces children to great art and poetry, while sending them off to a dream-filled sleep. Drawing from centuries of artistic...