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Norman Foster
With a career spanning across continents and over six decades, the work of the renowned architect Norman Foster is nothing short of extraordinary. His creative innovation and holistic approach have made him one of the world’s most influential and well-known architects. From the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, to the Reichstag in Berlin, the enclosed court of the British Museum in London to the Millau Viaduct in France, with his practice of Foster + Partners, he has created celebrated landmarks that stand out for their inventive modernity and for what he calls “a sustainable approach to the design of the built environment.”
This is the first time Foster’s complete body of work has been published in one edition on such a grand scale. Giving a rare insight into the inner workings of his creative practice. It details his personal approach to his work, his inspirations, the link between art and architecture, and the significance and correlation between his passions, such as being an avid aviator, and his work.The XXL monograph encompasses a lifetime of achievement and originality in two volumes.
The first presents his architectural oeuvre and is filled with numerous unpublished images and sketches handpicked by Foster from his archives. Paired with nearly 1000 illustrations, the second book contains eight essays he wrote explaining his sources of inspiration.Aside from the 1999 Pritzker Prize, he has won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, and the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. This is a magnificent visual journey not only through significant buildings of our time but also into the mind of a genius. Norman Foster sketched every page of this book and spent countless hours with the author and the graphic designer to make it one of the most remarkable architecture books ever published.
Also available as an Art Edition of 300 copies with a 1-meter-wide signed print of a drawing by Norman Foster, picturing the upcoming multifunctional community and business center InnHub in La Punt, Switzerland. The two volumes of this edition are collected in a custom-designed slipcase that folds into a book stand.
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Tóparti villa
Amerika ügyeletes hősének kiáltják ki Harris őrmestert, mert megakadályozta az elnök elleni merényletet. A férfit szárnyára kapja a hírnév, és a sajtó minden lépését követi. A katonai mentős úgy dönt, elmenekül a gyűlölt firkászok elől barátja tóparti házába, ahol megváltozott külsővel, magányosan morzsolgatja a nyár hátralévő napjait. Arra azonban nem számít, hogy a szomszéd villába beköltözik Kate, a munkanélküli újságíró a magatartászavaros kisfiával. Aaron a mamájával együtt azonnal belopja magát a férfi szívébe, nem utolsósorban azért, mert anya és fia befogadja a csellengő bakfist, Callie-t, aki a környékbeli nyaralókat takarítja. Amikor mindenki örömére már-már összemelegedik a két szomszéd, Callie váratlanul rosszul lesz, a gyanútlan Kate pedig közli a férfival, hogy folytatni szeretné az újságírói pályafutását, már csak a szenzációs téma hiányzik...
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Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Colour
Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color traces the experiments in color and black-and-white photography of the young Meyerowitz, a pioneer in the history of color photography.
An early advocate of color photography, Joel Meyerowitz has impacted and influenced generations of artists. For fifty-eight years, the master photographer has documented the United States’ ever-changing social landscape.
During the late 1960s, Meyerowitz carried two cameras: one loaded with monochrome stock, the other with color. Just how, when, and why American fine art photographers switched from black-and-white image-making, prized within the gallery system, to color photography, once seen as the preserve of tourist photography, has been the cause of much debate.
In Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color, Meyerowitz tells the story of his early days as a photographer when he was told that serious photographers took black-and-white pictures. "But why," he asked, "when the world is in color?" He then bought a color camera and various rolls of film and began to experiment with color techniques: a passion he continues to pursue.
194 illustrations / 120 in color
Karel Foucauld
Já sám si neumím představit lásku bez naléhavé potřeby shody, podobnosti, a hlavně bez sdílení všech bolestí, těžkostí, tvrdosti života... Být bohatý, mít se dobře, žít v poklidu ze svého majetku, když ty jsi byl chudý, nuzný a těžkou prací sis namáhavě vydělával na živobytí – to bych já, Bože, nedovedl. Nedovedl bych takto milovat. Služebník nemá být větší než jeho pán.“ /ukázka/ Karel Foucauld (1858–1916) zemřel mučednickou smrtí na Sahaře už před sto lety. Svou životní cestu hledal bratr Karel klopotně. Studoval prestižní vojenskou školu, ale byl z ní vyloučen. Proslavil se zeměpisnou výpravou do Maroka, ale cestovatelem nezůstal. V jednom pařížském kostele prožil radikální obrácení a vstoupil k trapistům, aby za pár let zjistil, že hledá jiný způsob následování. Usadil se jako poustevník v Nazaretě, ale nakonec odešel na Saharu, aby žil „spiritualitu Nazareta“ uprostřed kmene Tuaregů v Alžírsku. Až po čtyřicítce se nechal vysvětit na kněze, stále toužil založit komunitu, ale nikdy nezískal jediného učedníka. Jeho spiritualita záhy oslovovala mnohé křesťany, ale až léta po jeho smrti vznikly fraternity Malých bratří a Malých sester Ježíšových. Roku 2005 jej papež Benedikt XVI. zapsal mezi blahoslavené. Bratr Karel byl od svého obrácení doslova fascinován Kristem, chtěl se mu připodobnit úplně ve všem. Kéž by touto fascinací „nakazil“ všechny, kdo knihu budou číst.
The Witcher Volume 7: The Ballad Of Two Wolves
Hailed as the greatest monster slayer—the infamous witcher Geralt is beckoned to the town of Grimmwald. When a strange occurrence stirs murmurs of a werewolf on the prowl, rumors spread surrounding the arrival of three wealthy sisters—who turned the poverty-stricken town into a flourishing tourist destination, but this change wasn’t welcome by all the town’s residents. Change creates more than fear and anger—but can conceive new enemies . . . and even monsters. With a grand mystery and a beast to slay, Dandelion may just find the inspiration he needs to write the perfect ballad.
Created in close collaboration with CD Projekt Red! Collects issues #1–#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series The Witcher: The Ballad of Two Wolves.
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Mai
Nejznámější česká báseň o lásce a smrti, Máchův "Máj", v novém, zvukomalebném překladu do němčiny rakouského básníka českého původu Ondřeje Cikána (*1985). Dvojjazyčné, zrcadlové vydání s ilustracemi Antonína Šilara (*1986). S doslovem překladatele. "Es war spät Abend - erster Mai - abends der Mai - war Liebeszeit." Mit diesen Worten beginnt das Kurzepos über Liebe und Tod des tschechischen Romantikers Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836). Ein Räuberhauptmann wird hingerichtet, weil er die Verführung seiner Geliebten gerächt hat. In eindrucksvollen Bildern verabschiedet er sich von der Erde. Das Kurzepos "Mai" ist nicht nur eines der wichtigsten Werke der Romantik, es diente auch wegen seines avantgardistischen Bilderreichtums den tschechischen Surrealisten als Vorbild. Endlich erscheint es in einer zweisprachigen Ausgabe und in einer neuen, lautmalerischen Übersetzung des österreichisch-tschechischen Dichters Ondřej Cikán (*1985). Illustriert von Antonín Šilar (*1986).
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Tom Jones + CD
The kindly gentleman, Mr Allworthy, returns home from a voyage to find that someone has left a baby boy in his house. He adopts the foundling, giving him the name Tom Jones. Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a son called Master Blifil. While Tom grows into a wild but honest young man, Blifil becomes a scheming hypocrite. But what happens when Tom falls in love with a neighbouring gentleman’s daughter, Sophia, whose family wish her to marry Blifil?
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Lacná kniha Tom Jones + CD
The kindly gentleman, Mr Allworthy, returns home from a voyage to find that someone has left a baby boy in his house. He adopts the foundling, giving him the name Tom Jones. Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a son called Master Blifil. While Tom grows into a wild but honest young man, Blifil becomes a scheming hypocrite. But what happens when Tom falls in love with a neighbouring gentleman’s daughter, Sophia, whose family wish her to marry Blifil?
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BTS - The Ultimate Fan Book
Experience the K-Pop phenomenon of BTS in this best-selling fanbook – FULLY UPDATED for 2023!
BTS are much more than just a group of seven talented individuals, they are a band acclaimed for their record-smashing, barrier-breaking, trend-setting dance-pop and hip-hop tunes and personal philosophies. Featuring brand new content and sensational new photos, BTS: The Ultimate Fan Book includes everything you need to know about Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook, as well as the BTS ARMY.
A celebration of the K-Pop phenomenon, exploring in stunning technicolour detail the group's origins, members and super rise to success, this Ultimate Fan Book is beautifully accompanied by photographs showcasing the band's kaleidoscope of personalities and passions that have made them famous. BTS are more than just a boy band – they are a way of life.
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - My Life
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrowis Sophia Loren's definitive autobiography, revealing her personal journey from the hardship of her childhood in Naples to her life as a screen legend, sharing stories of work, love, and family. Each chapter begins with a letter, a document, a photograph, or object that prompts her reminiscences. In her own words, these memoirs originated as, "Unpublished memories, curious anecdotes, tiny secrets told, all of which spring from a box found by chance, a precious treasure trove filled with emotions, experiences, adventures." In her incredible life story, Loren vividly recounts her difficult childhood in Naples during World War II, remembers her parents and their tempestuous relationship, and reveals the pain of growing up in her grandparents' house with her single, unmarried mother and younger sister. She tells how she got her start by winning a beauty pageant ('La regina del mare') and how her ambition drove her success in cinema before revealing the influence of the producer Carlo Ponti, who cast her in her early roles and later became her husband. Loren takes us behind the scenes of the movies, her early stardom and move to Hollywood revealing intimate and never before shared stories of her famed costars: Brando, Newman, Burton, Peck, Heston, and many more.
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Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 12
Can muscles crush magic?!
In the magic realm, magic is everything—everyone can use it, and one’s skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he’s become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competition without revealing his secret—he can’t use magic!
Just as the battle with Doom and Mash is nearing its climax, something goes wrong with Mash’s body. Luckily, the Divine Visionaries arrive, prompting Innocent Zero and Doom to withdraw. But the battle isn’t over yet! Innocent Zero has the Wand of Beginnings and plans to use it to bring destruction to the world. With the final battle in sight, Mash, Dot, and Lance undergo a series of trials to prepare themselves for their biggest conflict yet.
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Plot
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen
In this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the classic plot: boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. The couple's journey is charted through dreams, conversations and reflections, in a text like no other, deftly moulding language and crossing genres to arrive at new life: baby Ersatz.
Plot is an inventive and engrossing meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. Each fear compounds Liv's reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. A profoundly daring collection, it explodes the emotive capabilities of language and form to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence
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Western Lane
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.
Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.
But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.
An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.
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Science of HIIT
Get the best results from your HIIT workouts by understanding the muscle action needed to perfect each exercise.
Explore the physiology of more than 90 essential HIIT exercises, to master each movement with confidence and control.
Recent scientific research shows that HIIT is the most efficient form of exercise for raising fitness levels, increasing cardio-respiratory health, and losing weight.
Science of HIIT reveals the facts, with annotated artworks that show the mechanics, the angles, the key muscle and joint actions working below the surface of each exercise, safe alignment, and much more.
Look no further to achieve technical excellence in your practice and develop your own programme of varied workouts, to optimize the benefits of HIIT to body and mind.
This Much is True
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait.
Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?'
From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.
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The Sandman Book Five
Neil Gaiman’s award-winning masterpiece The Sandman continues here, filled with the art from the medium’s most gifted talent.
Sandman Book Five collects Sandman Midnight Theatre, Sandman Endless Nights, and Sandman: The Dream Hunters!
Sandman Midnight Theatre takes place in the late 1930’s. A mysterious suicide leads the Golden Age Sandman (Wesley Dodds) to a dark circle of mystics known as the Order of Ancient Mysteries. The Order holds a number of disturbing secrets…and the greatest of these is Morpheus, the imprisoned Dream King!
In Sandman Endless Nights Neil Gaiman explores the seven brothers and sisters of the Endless, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction.
Sandman: The Dream Hunters is a love story, set in ancient Japan. Telling the story of a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox who find themselves romantically drawn together. As their love blooms, the fox learns of a devilish plot by a group of demons to steal the monk’s life. With the aid of Morpheus, the King of All Night’s Dreamings, the fox must use all of her cunning and creative thinking to foil this evil scheme and save the man that she loves.
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Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 25
The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends.
Komi is in her final year of high school, and that means she’s running out of time to achieve her goal of making 100 friends! She starts off strong on the first day of classes, but a cynical new classmate’s bitter outlook soon sparks a school-wide battle royale. Can Komi make a new ally in the trenches, or will pessimism win the day?
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Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life these days.
After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn’t done with him.
On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he’s ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself.
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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed.
Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914 doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia.
Ryan Gingeras's superb new book explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told here.
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