In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892–1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls a...
This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Ro...
How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Loo...
A marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation.Tom Hanks Simply, a masterpiece. Here, An...
A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thre...
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, f...
The power and glory of illuminated biblesIn the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced illu...
Helmut and June Newton's Legendary Joint ProjectA fifty-five-year history of life and loveThis is a photographic love story tracing the fifty-five years of collaboration, partners...
Before there was Instagram, there was WarholAndy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, h...
An encyclopedic guide to the biggest-breasted stars past and presentThe Big Book of Breasts was an immediate best seller when it debuted in 2006. Its 396 pages introduced readers to the...
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family, especially his grandfather Berl, originated: Krakowiec (Krah...
Ćwiczenia z płytą CD to skuteczny i przyjemny sposób nauki języka angielskiego. Dzięki temu zestawowi dzieci poznają i utrwala słownictwo z następujących tematów: Food, Health, Jobs, ...
Ćwiczenia z płytą CD to skuteczny i przyjemny sposób nauki języka angielskiego. Dzięki temu zestawowi dzieci poznają i utrwala słownictwo z następujących tematów: My body, Clothes, To...
Niemiecki dla dzieci 3-7 lat to zaproszenie do wspólnej zabawy edukacyjnej z językiem niemieckim dla dzieci i rodziców. Proponowana forma czytania globalnego, czyli rozpoznawania cały...
Książki z serii NIEMIECKI DLA DZIECI łączą zabawę z nauką. Zawierają różnorodne ćwiczenia ułatwiające przyswajanie języka niemieckiego oraz słowniczek. Opierają się na wykorzystaniu pamięci ...
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. T...
Through buildings of culture, science, and faith, and across his many famous bridges, explore the neofuturistic structures of Santiago Calatrava. This compact introduction explores the architect&rs...
Zestaw składający się z książki i 2 płyt CD AUDIO umożliwiający samodzielną, efektywną naukę języka niemieckiego. Zawiera autentyczne dialogi o różnorodnej tematyce (wraz z tłumaczeniami), p...
Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythma...