The monograph presents a review of classical and a presentation of new methodologies of non-invasive (non-contact) flow measurement techniques of nultiphase media and a number of algorithms applica...więcej »
The author proposes a redefinition of critical flow conditions that become universal for pressurised flows, free-surface flow conditions in any shape of channel cross-sectional areas. In fact, t...więcej »
Universal symbols have been used as a form of communication from the Bronze Age, when the dynasties of ancient Egypt began the evolution of the thousand characters used in Egyptian hieroglyphics. I...więcej »
1001 Whiskies You Must Try Before You Die takes you on a fascinating global whisky tour - from Scotland and Ireland through North America, Japa, India and the rest of the world, providing insight i...więcej »
A Century’s Worth of Pleasure and PauseSelling the most delicious vicesVices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feast...więcej »
This fully-illustrated history of the world’s best comic strip art, including Hy Eisman’s The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, Charles Schultz’s Peanuts (1950), Peyo&rsqu...więcej »
What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousnes...więcej »
The art of astrology, from ancient science to modern-day practiceFrom the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The mo...więcej »
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other ...więcej »
The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu – a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion ...więcej »
Interaktywna podróż po włoskiej brutalistycznej architekturze, od kultowej Torre Velasca w centrum Mediolanu, po kontrowersyjny kompleks mieszkaniowy Vele di Scampia na peryferiach Neapoluwięcej »
The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Lo...więcej »
Focusing on a carefully curated selection of Catholic art and artefacts, this book explains the meaning of the iconography and the mystic power of the faith's ritual objects. A wealth of often hidd...więcej »
Tom "Chiny i Azja Wschodnia. Dziedzictwo w obliczu przemian" powstał z okazji 80. rocznicy urodzin profesora Krzysztofa Gawlikowskiego (1940–2021), badacza Chin i Azji Wschodniej, o...więcej »
Księga pokongresowa Chopin 1810–2010. Ideas – Interpretations – Influence zawiera materiały z III Międzynarodowego Kongresu Chopinologicznego (zorganizowanego w Warszawie przez Na...więcej »
Mieczysław Tomaszewski, Chopin: The Man, His Work and Its Resonance, jest poprawioną i uzupełnioną wersją anglojęzyczną książki – laureatki wielokrotnych nagród Chopin. Człowiek, dzieł...więcej »
This is the third book in the innovative TRACEY series on contemporary drawing. Drawing Ambiguity builds upon its predecessors, Drawing Now and Hyperdrawing, by proposing that a position of ambigui...więcej »
Across digital and print media, editorial illustrators create visuals to support text and convey ideas, but there is more to these illustrations than meets the eye.Internationally-recog...więcej »
Two bestselling book creators bring prehistoric sea beasts to life in this spectacular pop-up masterpiece!While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpion...więcej »
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'Astonishing ... ...więcej »