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2 unusual facts about Coffee table book


Alas Smith and Jones

Tie-in books included The Smith and Jones World Atlas (a humorous gazetteer of the world's countries), Janet Lives With Mel and Griff, and The Lavishly Tooled Smith and Jones Instant Coffee Table Book (co-written with Clive Anderson), which was designed to look as if it could be made into a coffee table.

Coffee table book

One of the most famous was the Scottish Book created by mathematicians working on the University of Lvov.


Indian Thought Publications

In 2006, on Narayan's birth centenary, the company came out with a commemorative coffee table edition of his 1974 autobiography, My Days, with an introduction by his long-time admirer Alexander McCall Smith.

Jackie Estrada

Most recently she edited Comics: Between the Panels, a lavish four-color coffee table book from Dark Horse Comics.

Nautch Girls of India: Dancers, Singers, Playmates

Nautch Girls of India: Dancers, Singers, Playmates is a 1996 coffee table book by Pran Nevile, based on the lives of nautch girls.


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Elena Filatova

Los Angeles Times journalist Mary Mycio traced some of the pictures on the website to a Ukranian coffee table book and identified some as anachronisms, showing chemical showers that no longer existed and saplings that had grown into trees by the time of Filatova's tour.

Justin A. Nylander

Casas to Castles is a hard cover coffee table book featuring over forty historic homes in the Mediterranean revival style throughout Florida, including magnificent seaside palaces of the rich and famous, including Donald Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.

Rajiv Menon

This documentary was made for the event of releasing the coffee-table book "Voices Within" by the contemporary musicians T.M Krishna and Bombay Jayashree.

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

Peter Antonelli, reviewing the book in SIAM Review, writes that it presents a "beautifully designed 'coffee-table-book'" summary of Lindenmayer's school of thought, explaining how Algorithmic Language Theory, like Noam Chomsky's theory of grammar, can describe how repeated structural units can arrange themselves.

The Girlie Show: Live Down Under

To accompany it, Madonna released her second coffee table book, The Girlie Show which includes a bonus CD with three live tracks from the concert; "Like a Virgin", "Why's It So Hard" and "In This Life".