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Barbara Ireland The New York Times: 36 Hours USA and Canada, West ENBeauty and the beach: The ultimate guide for Western weekendsWith its seasoned writers, original destinations, and expert eye for getting the most of a place on a tight schedule, The New York Times much-loved 36 Hours column has set new standards for the weekend adventure. In this regional collection, TASCHEN presents the best 36 Hours itineraries along the Pacific Coast of North America, and inland to the best of…
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The New York Times: 36 Hours WorldWeekend trips to any city, from Sao Paulo to Seoul to Sydney, can often be daunting, with too much to do and too little time. Enter 36 Hours World, a roundup of 150 cities across six continents, each tailored for a memorable and feasible 36-hour stay...
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Barbara Ireland (editor) The New York Times: 36 Hours, New York & Beyond ENYours for the biting: Weekend adventures in the Big Apple and beyond New York remains one of the most magnetic states in North America. Amid all the excitement, diversity, and history, navigating your way around can be a dizzying experience, especially if you only have a Friday through Sunday to spare. Luckily, this regional special in TASCHEN’s best-selling 36 Hours series with The New York Times excels in making…
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Barbara Ireland The New York Times: 36 Hours, USA and Canada, East ENExploring the expanse of North America that looks toward the Atlantic Ocean means experiencing a kaleidoscope of picturesque towns, rural idylls, pulsating cities, and some of the most dramatic natural scenery on the continent. Such a diversity of riches can be overwhelming, particularly if you only have a weekend to spare. Luckily, the expert writers of The New York Times are at hand with this new regional…
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Edward S. Curtis The North American Indian ENIn search of a lost time: The complete portfolios by Edward S. Curtis on Native Americans At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious, he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian…
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Julius Wiedemann The Package Design BookPackaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting awards to designs from around the world. Designers compete in five main categories―beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets―and no fewer than 50 sub-categories. Featuring a selection of…
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Julius Wiedemann Pentawards The Package Design Book 3 ENPackaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting awards to designs from around the world. Designers compete in five main categories beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets and no fewer than 50 sub-categories.
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Julius Wiedemann The Package Design Book 4 ENGood design stands out. Great design is transparent. Whether its food, drinks, cosmetics, books, or luxury items, successful packaging serves to stir senses and appeal to our emotions in ways that are as subtle as they are striking. In The Package Design Book 4, TASCHEN celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Pentawards with the stars of the 2015 and 2016 competitions. Organized around the key competition categories…
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Pentawards The Package Design Book 5Attract, protect, inform, collect―good packaging is synonymous with multitasking. Creating these ultimate all-rounders calls for a deep understanding of the good, the market, the customer, the environment, the flow of trade―no easy task...
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Francesco Solinas The ParrotsAn unsurpassed monument in the history of scientific illustration. Edward Lear may be best known for his nonsense verse, but in his early years he excelled as an illustrator of birds and reptiles...
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The Playmate Book ENIn celebration of Playboy magazine's 50th anniversary, TASCHEN brings you this ultimate Playboy tribute featuring each and every Playmate of the Month since issue number one. Beginning with Marilyn Monroe herself and including such favorites as Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jenny McCarthy, this chronological look at the history of Playboy centerfolds includes photos of the Playmates as well as updated…
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Dian Hanson The Private Collection 1970-1979 Box ENLong, long ago, in the year 1965, there was no explicit pornography. There was the odd grainy stag film, the occasional French postcard, the rare Cuban chapbook or homemade Polaroid, but the glossy professional color pornography ubiquitous to modern society did not exist. The man who changed all that was Berth Milton of Stockholm, with his audacious little digest, Private. He and Private were directly responsible…
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Mick Rock The Rise of David Bowie, 1972-1973 ENA unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing. In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie’s Stardust alter-ego: A glitter-clad, mascara-eyed, sexually-ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female, straight and…
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Reuel Golden The Rolling Stones ENThe kind of fame and success The Rolling Stones have achieved in their 50-years and counting career is without parallel; their most famous riffs and catchiest lyrics are indelibly engraved in our collective memory. With their bluesy rock ‘n’ roll and mesmerizing off and onstage presence, the Stones redefined the music of the 1960s and 1970s and paved the way for rock as we know it today. They also set the standard…
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Scott Schuman The Sartorialist: IndiaScott Schuman, a.k.a. The Sartorialist, has been traveling to India for over a decade to capture its wildly original beauty in markets, music festivals, city streets, and cricket fields, and across cities like Delhi, Jaipur, Chennai, and Mumbai...
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Priya Hemenway The Secret CodeThis book deals with the Divine Proportion, a secret code that rules art, nature, and science. It is known by many names: Golden Mean, Sacred Cut and Phi are only a few; and it is not by chance that the Divine Proportion was given its name...
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Paul Levitz The Silver Age of DC Comics ENWith Super Heroes nearly extinct at the start of the 1950s, DC Comics reignited the fire that would make them central to modern popular culture by infusing them with science fiction elements. To circumvent the limitations of the self-censoring Comics Code Authority, DC Comics’ writers and editors spun ever-more fantastic tales, bringing Super Heroes and Bob Hope alike into the realm of sci-fi. The results were…
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Stan Lee, Roy Thomas The Stan LeeThis is the big one, True Believers! The mostly true tale of Stan Lee: a Giant-Size extravaganza, nearly ten years in the making, about the one and only Godfather of Comics. From his childhood in Depression-era New York, ...
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Paul Duncan The Star Wars Archives: 1977–1983Star Warsexploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically embraced the positive energy of the Star Warsuniverse ...
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Werner Dressendörfer, Robert John Thornton The Temple of Flora ENMore than two centuries have passed since the publication of Robert John Thornton’s The Temple of Flora in 1799, but its charm remains unsullied. Although trained as a medical doctor, Thornton (c. 1768 – 1837) passionately devoted himself to botany. Only a few decades earlier, Carl Linnaeus had established his revolutionary new system of classification, which today continues to form the backbone of such natural…
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Martin Holz The Ultimate Sneaker BookEvery Sneaker Story Worth Telling! A 15-year anthology of cult magazine Sneaker Freaker. When self-acclaimed Sneakerhead Simon “Woody” Wood decided to pursue his love of sneakers ...