Beijing: Forbidden City Publishing House, 2016. 10.5 x 13", 7.5 kg，762 pp., color plates, texts in Chinese with English foreword and captions, hardcover. This book is an exhibition catalogue compiled by the Palace Museum in collaboration with National Museum New Delhi. Nine Indian museums and historical monuments, as well as..... More
1995. Softcover. More
Baur Collection, 2001. More
C.A. Design, 2013. Hardcover. More
1981. This book about Taiwan is an early attempt to tackle coherently the various aspects of the island's developmental experience in the 30 year period covered. It delves into the sociopolitical aspect of its great economic success and how it achieved a more equitable distribution of wealth. Both the achievements..... More
Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 2018. 8.8 ×11.8", 1.5kg, xi, 294pp., color plates, text in Japanese with English greetings and list of works, paper cover. This catalogue is compiled by the Tokyo National Museum for the exhibition celebrating the 130th Anniversary of KOKKA and the 140th Anniversary of The Asahi Shimbun..... More
Puzzle size: 20 x 27 in. Box size: 10 x 13 x 1⅞ in.Edward Gorey Cat Fancy Edward Gorey had a fondness for cats. One can only imagine what’s happening in Cat Fancy. Is a cat outside looking in the window at the pampered feline? Is the kitty on..... More
Sichuan Art Publishing Company, DATE1992. The catalogue documents the featured artworks in the First 1990s' Biennial Art Fair (Oil Painting Section) held in Guangzhou, China. More
1996. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Buddhist Culture Research Institute of China, 1996. This 2-volume set illustrates in its entirety 2 picture albums: The Life of Buddha Sukyamuni and The 53 Visits of Sudhana, now kept in the Shanxi Provincial Museum. They are copies of the wall paintings of the Chongshan Monastery (formerly called..... More
2015. Bored of business jargon? Tired of hearing the same expressions at meetings and in emails? This game brings a fresh perspective to the world of office speak. From more recent sign-of-the-times expressions such as 'al desco' and 'influencer' to old favorites like 'blue-sky thinking' (via linguistic gems including 'entremanure'!)..... More
Set of twenty assorted 5" x 7" note cards (5 each of 4 designs) plus envelopes in a decorative card box featuring paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The 4 paintings of these high quality cards are: La Pia de'Tolomei (1868-1880), Bocca Baciata (1859), The Beloved (1865-1866) and Monna Vanna..... More
East West Center Press, 1966. More
Nara: Nara National Museum, 2014. 8.2x 11.8", 1.5kg ,326pp., color plates, texts in Japanese with English caption, paper cover. Daigoji temple has played a prominent role on the historic stage as a leading institution in the Shingon tradition of esoteric Buddhism since its inception in 874 (Jogan 16). Much..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press. More
Thirty color reproductions bound in a handy postcard collection Oversized postcards measure 6½ x 4¾ in.The fight for American women to gain the vote lasted more than seven decades, upending traditional notions of gender roles and forcing a reconsideration of the duties and privileges of citizenship. Recorded in photographs..... More
Forbidden City Publishing House, 2002. More
Oxford University Press. In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. Such a fundamental..... More
Yale University Press, 2014. Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day..... More
University of California Press, 2010. Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the..... More
