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A collection of images and shapes that change before your eyes. This book includes such well-known optical illusions as: Shepard's Tabletop; Wade's Spiral; the Floating Finger Illusion; Ames Room; and Rubin's Face/Vase Illusion.

Rem Koolhaas along with OMA and AMO have grown into an influential architectural phenomenon producing architecture, urban planning and wide-ranging research projects. This double volume explores a total of 29 works and projects produced between 1996 and 2006 through full page colour photographs, plans, models and various investigations. Included are projects such as: Bordeaux House and Pool, the Prada projects, CCTV & TVCC in China, The McCormick Tribune Campus Centre at IIT, and the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin.

For beginners and working professionals looking to improve their skill, this book covers every technique of expressing people, places and things in perspective, by hand or computer. Topics include: light and shade; overlapping, diffusion and convergence; and one-, two- and three- point perspective.

Getting your dream job in the arts is no mean feat these days. This book will help you explore the world of museums and galleries and apply for a job that matches your skills and interests. A team of experts will guide you through the application and interview process.

A reference on both the dictionary thought-process and on printing technique. It features more than 1500 original engravings that illustrated the Webster's dictionaries of the 19th Century. It presents images from Acorns to Zebras, Bell Jars to Velocipedes, that are arranged alphabetically.