People who rescue dogs have a great deal of compassion and enough love to last through what is often a trying adjustment period. But adoptive owner...

Who hasn't dreamed of spending a night in a castle?A heavenly bed, creaking floorboards, silk wallpaper, glittering chandeliers, expansive grounds,...

The hand painted Limoges porcelain from the Paris decorating studio Atelier Le Tallec*TM, dating from 1930 through 2002, are displayed in over 490 ...

This botanical guide to the greater Atlanta region is teeming with more than 200 color photographs, informative gardening tips, and fun facts and s...

Often called “The World's Playground,” Atlantic City is seen over 100 years. More than 250 color images display its evolution into a popular vacati...

A keepsake collection of maps depicting legendary and real places for the lover of literature, history, and cartography. This exploration of the "M...

Explore the natural world through Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s letters on botany—a beautifully written reflection on plants, nature, and philosophy by o...

Where is the best place to meet kind and peaceful aliens? How do we communicate with intelligent interstellar life forms, socialise with Martians, ...

Flowers come in an unbelievable array of shapes and colors. Yet, their leaf and fruit forms surpass even their floral splendor. From Acanthaceae to...

Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth...

This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of  shipwrecks,  great  discoveries,  mysteries,  and disappearances still thrilling a...

Colorful, cheerful -- and in some cases downright funky -- vintage dinette sets from the 1950s to the 1970s will bring a nostalgic smile to your fa...

This work, created in collaboration with Audi Tradition, provides an illustrated glimpse into Audi Group's depot of historical vehicles, which is n...

Hollywood movie monsters are enduring pop culture standards. Kids and adults around the world recognize Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, and th...

Aurora slot cars are legendary. These tiny racing cars captured and held the imagination of American kids for over a decade and their unparalleled ...

Australia has wildly differing topographies and climates, and its best residential architecture draws on those site conditions in inventive ways. T...

Stenciling as space decoration is more up-to-date today than ever before. This book illustrates 140 historic ornaments spanning the past century. E...

Each gorgeous log home shown here was built with reclaimed timbers that were hand-hewn at least a century ago.\nThe homes vary from small to large,...

With more than forty international examples of practical yet architecturally fascinating solutions, this one-of-a-kind book shows innovative, beaut...

The worldwide interest in automatic organs is larger now than ever before. From delicate and musically sublime little organs contained in musical c...

The era of the self-playing or automatic piano embraced the first three decades of the 20th century. Piano-playing cabinets were followed by the pn...

This book is long overdue documentation on automatic wristwatches from countries other than Switzerland. These watches were always considered super...