Hľadanie: A History of Photography From 1839 to the Present
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Lacná kniha City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China
The great city of Beijing, capital of China from the ninth century, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth. At a time when London, Paris, or Rome had only several hundred thousand residents, Beijing held over a million. This book tells the history of this great city, and through it provides a highly engaging summary history of China. In the summer of 1997, President Jiang Zemin made a decision to destroy Beijing. There was no announcement, no explanation given, nor any attempt made to justify his decision. Even those working as architects only became aware of what was happening when it was already too late. Expertly moving between historical analysis and reportage, Jasper Becker describes the impact of this systematic destruction, a unique telling of the city's history that encapsulates both the grandeur of its creation and the tragedy of its demise.
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The Monocle Book of Photography
The best photo assignments from the Monocle archive, published to mark the magazine's fifteenth anniversary.
Back in 2007 the first issues of Monocle magazine hit newsstands and kiosks around the globe. At its core was a pledge to commission all original photography - capturing the world on film, on the ground and in the moment. The cover of that first issue featured a Japanese helicopter pilot from the country's defence force - taken as part of a 10-day reportage assignment for both photographer and writer. In the years since, Monocle has continued in its pursuit of documenting the world through its unique lens - from embassies and residences to world leaders and cultural stars. Each issue has featured a dedicated photographic Expo section celebrating lesser-known locales, obscure events and curious characters through truly outstanding photography. Alpine wrestlers, Syrian outposts, French legionnaires, noodle-makers, game show hosts and private member's clubs have all graced the pages.
The Monocle Book of Photography draws on the best of these photographic stories from an archive a decade and a half in the making. A handsome linen bound edition with the highest quality gloss paper and printing, the book also features supporting text about the photo assignments and the stories behind them, including first hand accounts from the photographers involved.
The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People
The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain flourished and subsequently fell into decline before enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century. The genesis, style, and purpose of architectural masterpieces such as Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, and Chatsworth are explored, alongside the numerous country houses lost to war and economic decline. We also meet a cavalcade of characters, owners with all their dynastic obsessions and diverse sources of wealth, and architects such as Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Sir John Soane and A.W.N. Pugin, who dazzled or in some cases outraged their contemporaries. The Story of the Country House takes a fresh look at this enduringly popular building type, exploring why it continues to hold such fascination for us today.
A Cup of Style - Diář 2024 veľký (čeština)
S diárom na rok 2024 od Lucie a Nicole z obľúbeného blogu A Cup of Style si prehľadne naplánuješ všetky svoje aktivity. Týždenný plánovač s priestorom na vlastné poznámky ti pomôže zorganizovať každodenné povinnosti aj zážitky. Okrem toho v ňom nájdeš motivačné plánovače, „to do" listy aj miesto na uchovanie spomienok. Diár dopĺňajú ilustrácie od Anny Vančurovej a obálku, ako vždy, dopĺňa praktická gumička.
Duchové historie - Západní Čechy 1939 - 1945 / Ghosts of History West Bohemia 1939 - 1945
2. doplněné vydání fotografické publikace Duchové historie. Západní Čechy 19391945 s předmluvou George Pattona Waterse a s několika novými fotografiemi. Kniha je věnována veteránům, hrdinům americké armády a dalších jednotek, kteří osvobodili Plzeň a Západní Čechy v květnu 1945. Ve světě velmi oblíbený princip zobrazování historických událostí prolínání historických snímků se současnou podobou stejných míst. Kniha obsahuje šest desítek montáží s uvedením původní fotografie, mapou, kde byly fotografie pořízeny, a stručným dvoujazyčným popisem události.
The History of a Difficult Child
Selam is the youngest child in a large turbulent family. Even before she is born, her omniscience animates life in a Small Town in 1980s southwestern Ethiopia. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes, once an enterprising, land-owning family, are ostracized under the new regime. In the Small Town where they live, nosy women convene around coffee ceremonies multiple times a day, the gossip spreading like wildfire.
As Selam's mother, the powerful and relentlessly dignified Degitu, grows ill, she embraces a persecuted, Pentecostal God and insists her family convert alongside her. The Asmelashes stand solidly in opposition to the times, and Selam grows up seeking revenge on despotic comrades, neighbourhood bullies, and a ruthless God. Wise beyond her years yet thoroughly naive, she contends with an inner fury, a profound sadness, and a throbbing, unstoppable pursuit of education, freedom, and love.
The History of a Difficult Child is about what happens when mother, God, and country are at odds, and how one difficult child finds her voice.
Jackson Michael - History: Continues (Picture Disc) 2LP
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Scream
2. They Don't Care About Us
3. Stranger in Moscow
4. This Time Around
Side B
1. Earth Song
2. D.S.
3. Money
4. Come Together
Side C
1. You Are Not Alone
2. Childhood (Theme from "Free Willy 2")
3. Tabloid Junkie
4. 2Bad
Side D
1. History
2. Little Susie
3. Smile
The History of Art: A Global View
Written by a team of expert authors, this landmark textbook shows that art is more than European and extends far beyond the traditional canon.
The History of Art: A Global View answers the urgent need for a more global, inclusive way to teach the history of the world’s art. Led by Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, eleven specialists have cohered around the shared goal of bringing multiple perspectives to a worldwide narrative. The resulting survey represents every global region as an important part of an integrated, chronological history that emphasizes cross-cultural connections, contrasts and comparisons.
The first major art history textbook of the 21st century, The History of Art: A Global View equips students to understand the history of art in new and revealing ways.
A Cup of Style - Diář 2024 malý (čeština)
S minidiárom na rok 2024 od Lucie a Nicole z obľúbeného blogu A Cup of Style si prehľadne naplánuješ všetky svoje aktivity. Týždenný plánovač s priestorom na vlastné poznámky ti pomôže zorganizovať každodenné povinnosti aj zážitky. Okrem toho v ňom nájdeš motivačné plánovače, „to do" listy aj miesto na uchovanie spomienok. Diár dopĺňajú ilustrácie od Anny Vančurovej a obálku, ako vždy, dopĺňa praktická gumička.
A banda 1: Boys of Brayshaw High. A Brayshaw bandái
Ezek a Brayshaw-srácok leigáznak?
"A magadfajta lányokat nem szívesen látják az ilyen helyeken, szóval süsd le a szemed és nézz inkább félre." Pontosan ezeket a szavakat intézte hozzám a szociális gondozóm, mikor kirakott a legújabb pokol kapujában. Egy problémás tiniknek fenntartott helyen.
Persze nem fogadtam meg a tanácsát, és ők most kipécéztek maguknak. Azt várják tőlem, hogy alávessem magam a hatalmi játszmáiknak, és hogy beálljak a sorba, ahogy ők elképzelik.
Pechjükre: sosem tartom be a szabályokat.
Pechemre: eltökélték, hogy betartatják velem.
Közben elképesztően vonzóak, és a többiek királyként bánnak velük.
Ők a fiúk a Brayshaw High-ból.
És én vagyok a lány, aki az útjukba került.
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The History of Graphic Design, 40th Ed.
Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design?with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea?has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist packaging to colorful adverts, smart environmental graphics to sleek interfaces: graphic design is as much about transmitting information as it is about reflecting society’s cultural aspirations and values.
With his sweeping knowledge of the field, author Jens Müller curates the standout designs for each year, a running sequence of design milestones. This collection of important graphic works represents a long-overdue reflection on the development of a creative field constantly changing and challenging itself. These key pieces act as coordinates through contemporary history, helping us trace the sheer influence of graphic design on our daily lives.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program?now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea.
From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you've never seen it before.
Life teems through Henry Gee's words - colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from 'gregarious' bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life's evolutionary steps - from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.
A History of Western Architecture, Seventh Edition
Far and away the best narrative of western architecture in existence...it stands out as an intellectual triumph. - Sir John Summerson
In this highly acclaimed, classic reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the late twentieth century. For this seventh edition, revising author Owen Hopkins provides a new introduction contextualizing Watkin's approach. The final chapter on the twenty-first century has been completely rewritten by Hopkins, who brings the story right up to date with the inclusion of such topics as re-use, digital cities and virtual architecture.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway
The only holidays I want to hear about are the ones where things went WRONG. That way, I don't feel bad about missing out.
Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town in the twelfth instalment of Jeff Kinney's bestselling series.
With the cold weather setting in and the stress of the Christmas holiday approaching, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation.
A few days in paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled family.
But they soon discover that paradise isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Sun-poisoning, stomach troubles and venomous creatures all threaten to ruin the family's vacation.
Can their trip be saved, or will this island getaway end in disaster?
Whether a loyal fan already or new to the Wimpy Kid books, THE GETAWAY is the perfect book for young readers!
Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication
A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the 'photograph' of a black hole in deep space.
Since the beginning of our time as humans, we have never stopped making images and inventing channels for visual communication. From the cave dweller creating paintings on a wall at the dawn of civilized time to Instagram influencers today, technology may keep changing, but our need to reach one another, to move one another, to persuade, inform and entertain, has never been so vital.
Hello Human traverses the entire landscape of our diverse, expansive and yet familiar means of visual communication. From the use of the human hand as a symbol, the power and use of gestures and the genesis of the printed book, to the movement between dimensions of reality and the digital realm, pixilation, optics and the understanding of light, Horsham takes his readers on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns, laying out a temporal narrative in the form of an intricate map of objects, events and people tied together by a common purpose - to communicate.
Za hranice fotografie. Beyond photography
Eva Heyd je profesionální fotografka, novinářka, spisovatelska a kurátorka. Především je však výtvarnice, která pracuje a experimentuje s fotografickým obrazem. Tato kniha představuje reminiscenci její více než čtyřicetileté tvorby, jež zahrnuje klasické fotografie, fotomontáže, koláže i trojrozměrné objekty.
Výtvarné aktivity autorky byly zásadně ovlivněny její emigrací do USA v polovině osmdesátých let. Zatímco její raná česká díla nepřesahují rámec klasické černobílé fotografie, v New Yorku, kde žila dvacet let, začíná experimentovat s daným médiem a překračuje jeho hranice.
Tatry-Portrét regiónu – Tatra-Portrait of a region – Tatra-Porträt des Region
Prelomová kniha o všetkom, čo sa dá v regióne Tatier zažiť a vidieť. Súčasný pohľad, živé fotografie vťahujúce do prostredia. 272 strán unikátnych fotografií od najlepších slovenských fotografov so živými opismi.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it's shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it.
But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
The fourteenth laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide!
This paperback edition features EPIC fluorescent sprayed edges!!
Big changes are in store for Greg Heffley and his family. They are making home improvements!
But with unwelcome critters, toxic mould and the walls coming down, soon Greg discovers renovations aren't all they are cracked up to be.
When the dust finally settles, will the Heffleys be able to stay . . . or will they need to get out of town?
WHAT'S IN DIARY OF A WIMPY KID?
50% words, 50% cartoons, 100% hilarious!
Stories that all readers can't wait to get their hands on
Laughter guaranteed!
*BRAND NEW* DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE DEEP END IS OUT NOW!
And DON'T MISS an all-new fantasy from Greg's best friend in Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure, the follow-up to the instant #1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal.
'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' Independent