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Art & Architecture Louvre

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and

Art & Architecture Musée d'Orsay

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and

Art Pocket Street Art

Packed with information, the most important facts and background stories are presented at a glance

The Major Works

Tennyson was acclaimed in his own day as the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters

Gauguin

The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the

Patty Diphusa

Patty Diphusa, estrella internacional (eso dice ella) de fotonovelas porno, es invitada por el director de un posmoderno magazine a relatar sus memorias. Patty no

Thirteen Reasons Why

Read this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch the 13-part Netflix series, executive produced by Selena Gomez.You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the

Smoothies: Refreshing, healthy & delicious

Each recipe comes with a short informative text with background information on, for example, the nutritional content of the fruits used and tips on preparation or modification. A

Art & Architecture: Egypt

Travel Guide and Art Guide in one. Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated

A Certain Justice

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her

A Thousand Splendid Suns (format de buzunar)

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local

Living in Greece

Go island hopping with the Stoelties and discover the best of Greece's hidden treats, such as the hilltop vacation house of Robert Browning, descendent of

Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality (Basic Art)

Les portfolios TASCHEN proposent des impressions de grande qualite qui ne demandent qu'a etre encadrees. Chaque portfolio contient 14 reproductions en grand format, chacune decrite

Aventuras de Don Quijote de la Mancha. Versión infantil

Para ello, una vez seleccionados los capitulos mas emblematicos, pero manteniendo siempre su hilo conductor, el lenguaje, depurado de toda afectacion y dificultad semantica, facilita

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

Dali

Dali brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dali in full

de Lempicka

Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and

El peregrino de Compostela

 En compania de su guia espiritual, el misterioso y enigmatico Petrus, Paulo se enfrenta a una serie de pruebas y ejercicios, conoce a figuras que

Oxford. Dictionar scolar englez-roman

La scoala sau acasa, dictionarul este un instrument de nelipsit. Grafica: Peter Bull Editor

Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter about Almost Everything

The Freakonomics books have come to stand for something: challenging conventional wisdom using data rather than emotion to answer questions and learning to unravel the

Paper Towns

Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she

Lake House (editie de buzunar)

'The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and

Fashion Illustration

Fashion illustration is essential for transforming ideas into reality. It is a first vital step that allows us to analyse volumes, alterations and the way

The Major Works

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the

El tunel

El amor ilimitado truncado por un engano convertira el corazon de un hombre en un pedazo de duro y frio hielo y colocara en sus

Man Ray

Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built. Though little

Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum

The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry,

Case Study Houses

Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture American and international

Chagall

Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning

M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work

Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though

Caspar David Friedrich

Now widely considered to be the most important German artist of his generation, Friedrich died in obscurity and wasn't fully appreciated until the early 20th

Tierra de nadie

El presente puro, sin vestigios del pasado ni atisbos del futuro, y la accion, casi siempre nimia, caracterizan a estos personajes que circulan por esa

España en los diarios de mi vejez

Este es un libro que se lee con el deleite de quien sacia la sed. Un texto hecho de pinceladas de infancia, de lecturas, de

Me Before You (Film Tie In)

She’s too young for him. He’s too good for her. She seduces him away from the gentleman he tries to be. He leads her to

At the Water's Edge

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the

Raphael

 This overview traces the life's work of this Renaissance master who achieved the height of greatness in only two decades of creation and whose influential

Vermeer: The Complete Paintings

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreamsLittle is known of Vermeer's early life and training, though we can be certain that he never knew great success

See Inside London

Colourful scenes with flaps to reveal details of life in different universes

Illustrated Stories from Around the World

A collection of stories ideal for young readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme

Fallen

There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori. Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day

A Certain Justice

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her

The Major Works

Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to think that the Christian religion is true? What is truth,

Caravaggio

Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and,

Amuleto

La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga, un crimen atroz y lejano. Auxilio, uruguaya de mediana edad, se oculta en los lavabos de

Cezanne

In Paris, but above all in Provence, Cezanne quested tirelessly for a harmony parallel to Nature—discovering it in still lifes of apples, in bathers, or

Hopper

Many of Hopper's pictures represent views of streets and roads, rooftops, and abandoned houses, depicted in a brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholy mood

Impressionism

The monograph also examines the Impressionist movements that emerged in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern and South-East Europe, Italy, Spain, Britain and North America.

Art & Architecture Florence

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and

Consolation

An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite.Charles Balanda is

The Girl in the Photograph

When Alice Eveleigh arrives at Fiercombe Manor during the long, languid summer of 1933, she finds a house steeped in mystery and brimming with secrets.

The Forsyte Saga

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920.

The Major Works. Including poems, plays, and critical prose

W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound

Hundertwasser

This presentation of Hundertwasser's work in all of its different facets is guided by the artist's own view of himself and his purpose. And, because

Industrial Design A-Z

Here, you'll find the likes of Enzo Ferrari, Philippe Starck, Zanussi and Apple Computer, among many others. Exploding with color, aesthetic, and style, Industrial Design

Kandinsky

Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the Blauer Reiter in Munich. His art then freed itself more

The Male Nude

It features the pioneer homoerotic nude photographs of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, posing nude youths in classical postures at Taormina in Sicily. It includes illustrations

Best Movies of the 70's

Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas, American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon: the blockbuster. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, while the Nouvelle Vague

O'Keeffe

Our Basic Art Series study traces the idiosyncratic of O'Keeffe's career, and numerous illustrations document the most important periods in her lengthy life in art

Atget, Paris

Eugene Atget (1857-1927) roamed the streets with his bulky large format camera, systematically cataloguing turn-of-the-century Old Paris down to the very smallest details. His skilled, wonderfully

Pop Art

Everything is beautiful, ? raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, and the world of the media and its

Schiele

Many contemporaries found Schiele's expressive nudes and self-portraits, with their strange movements and morbid colours, to be ugly and even morally objectionable—criticism which culminated in

El último cuaderno

Nos acerca al mundo de Kafka, o a la inevitable tristeza de Charlot, o nos describe la soberbia aventura de coronar la cima de la

Her Fearful Symmetry

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their

Tiempo de un centenario

Escrita en la decada de 1970, Tiempo de uncentenario –que ha servido de inspiracion para una pelicula de Francis Ford Coppola– auna la ciencia-ficcion y

Gaudi: The Complete Buildings

It was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works, including villas for the well-to-do

Sputnik, mi amor

El narrador, un joven profesor de primaria, esta enamorado de Sumire pero ella, quien se considera la ultima rebelde, tiene una unica obsesion: ser novelista.

Klee

His Tunisian water-colours depicting landscape, architecture and, above all, the North African light of this Mediterranean land constitute the true beginning of Klee's painting career.

The Golden Pot and Other Tales

Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground

The Major Works

Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to

Ulysses

One of the most important works of modernist literature, James Joyce's Ulysses was originally published in serial format from 1918 to 1920 and then published

Horror Cinema

Depicting deep-rooted, even archetypal fears, while at the same time exploiting socially and culturally specific anxieties, cinematic horror is at once timeless and utterly of

Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion

Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably

Keith Haring

Haring original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art

Living in China

Sneaking a peek at an array of different homes, from ancient to modern, Living in China brings you to places that most will never have a chance

Leonardo

Leonardo also advanced numerous artistic techniques, and implicated a complex psychology into his paintings of The Last Supper and the enigmatic La Gioconda, or Mona Lisa. Famous horseman, rival to Michelangelo,

Michelangelo

From his earliest youth Michelangelo transformed personal torment into exquisite creativity—attempting to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhabited him: his earthly passions and his fear of

Monet

In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny

New Erotic Photography

The New Erotic Photography is the room, and dozens of photographers from various countries are the hosts of this intimate gathering. In this 320 page volume

Best Movies of the 80's

Without a doubt, sci-fi was the most important genre of the decade, with non-human characters like E.T. winning the hearts of millions, while the slimy

Edward Weston

Through the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, Weston was a major force in pushing forward the art of photography. His photographs are monuments of sensual realism,

Jackson Pollock

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912 1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting,

Renoir

I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape, he said, or pass my hand over breast or back

Toulouse-Lautrec

More than any other artist, Toulouse-Lautrec captured the belle epoque's pursuit of fleeting pleasure: directly and without flattery, his paintings, lithographs, and posters offer a