Asian Resorts is conceived to be the most comprehensivecollection on Asian resorts. Written and shot by the region'sbest known Asian architecture specialist, TanHock Beng, who has already put together five books on the designand aesthetics of tropical architecture, Asian Resorts promises toshow its readers the biggest variety of Asian resorts that no otherbook has ever shown. With its beautifully' shot images and relevantinformation, this book will certainly serve and entertain youbeyond just the coffee table. In fact, it is a must-have for everyarchitectural office and every home.
When it was originally published in 1970, "How to Draw What YouSee" zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill's best-seller list--and ithas remained there ever since. "I believe that you must be able todraw things as you see them--realistically," wrote Rudy de Reyna inhis introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned todraw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, usingde Reyna's methods. "How to Draw What You See" shows artists how torecognize the basic shape of an object--cube, cylinder, cone, orsphere--and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how muchdetail it contains.
This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated culturalhistory of ideas about what might exist under the Earth's surface.Beliefs in mysterious Underworlds are as old as humanity. From theancient Sumerians to Incas to modern Christians, nearly everyculture has had its special version. However, the idea that theearth has a hollow interior where strange lands, creatures andcivilizations may exist was first proposed as a scientific theoryin 1692 by Sir Edmund Halley (of Halley's Comet fame). Since then,it has been used as a popular literary motif by writers as variedas Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, L Frank Baum andEdgar Rice Burroughs to name a few. "Hollow Earth" traces thisnotion through the centuries and cultures, exploring how each era'srelationship to the notion of a hollow earth reflected itsparticular hopes, fears and values. Lavishly illustratedthroughout, it features a wide collection of artwork includingBosch's inspired surreal nightmares of Hell, seventeenth-centurymaps and dia
