An invaluable reference for any bartender or home entertainer, this book is conveniently organized into informative sections that explain how cocktails are made and include important information about their ingredients. For easy use, more than 500 recipes are arranged alphabetically, each cross-referenced in drink categories.

In this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated volume Georges Vigne examines Ingres's artistic life and brings together a staggering number of drawings, studies, and compositions. Guided by careful scrutiny of drawings and documents, Vigne reappraises deep-rooted assumptions and offers a wealth of candid insights on issues such as Ingres's faithful...

The adventures that fill the strange and wonderful paintings by Remedios Varo (1908-1963) reflect the physical and psychological journeys of her own tumultuous life. Raised in a strict Spanish family and rigorously trained in academic art, Varo first found escape in Barcelona's bohemian avant-garde. After fleeing the Spanish Civil War with the p...

The Heart's Journey is a universal story of love, pain, suffering, and loss and the natural process that leads to healing, greater self-knowledge, and renewal. The story transcends language and speaks directly to our emotions. Artist Judy Pelikan's illustrations depict the human heart's strength and capacity for love so eloquently that words are...

Inspiring photos of Mediterranean places and a practical text guides them through the parts of a large or small home, with chapters devoted to walls, floors, windows, doors, furnishings, and outdoor spaces. Packed with ideas, this book explains how to achieve a simplicity that both reflects individuals taste and is in tune with the style's popul...

Featuring more than 1,000 entries, hundreds of illustrations, and an impressively detailed text, this ultimate handbook for whisk(e)y lovers provides a complete survey of the whisk(e)y producing regions around the world, describes the many varieties of the libation, provides information on distillers, bottlers, and individual brands, and present...