Scotland History Of A Nation - David Ross

Brida

Con veintiun anos, Brida conoce a un mago al que pide que le ayude a convertirse en bruja. Para ello, debera superar una serie de

La tia Julia y el escribidor

Ya en el titulo de esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa, publicada en 1977, se recoge la doble historia en que se vertebra su argumento:

Dictionar vizual Francez-Roman

Contine peste 6000 de notiuni si index alfabetic detaliat. Este ideal pentru calatorii in strainatate, afaceri sau studiu individual

The New York Trilogy

In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a

O sută de cuvinte

Editie bilingva romana-engleza Lea și Gabe merg la același curs de scriere creativa. Se uita la aceleași seriale, comanda același fel de mancare și umbla

La orgía perpetua

En este brillante ensayo, Mario Vargas Llosa analiza una de las novelas que han marcado su carrera como escritor: Madame Bovary, de Gustave Flaubert, considerado

Stories We Could Tell

Three boys write for The Paper – England’s answer to Rolling Stone. Terry is back from Berlin, basking in his friendship ship with debauched rock

Dracula

A new edition of one of the greatest horror stories in English literature, the novel that spawned a myth and a proliferation of vampire franchises

A Tale of Two Cities

As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval.

Selected Poetry

By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox thinker, Blake was for years ignored or derided. Sustained by his belief in the

Impressionism

The Impressionists and the succeeding Neo-Impressionists were avant-gardist and revolutionary, paving the way for modern art. Present-day viewers, hardly realizing this revolutionary potential, can be

Bruegel: The Complete Paintings

Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965: The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching

Claude Monet, 1840-1926

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

Pop Art

Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging

Pre-Raphaelites

Founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the original Pre-Raphaelites were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson,

Renzo Piano

Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project. This explains

Auguste Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings

This volume examines the sculptures and drawings of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917

Nicolas Poussin: 1594-1665

 Poussin was highly prolific and was considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest living painter, a man whose work embodied the ideal of French

Redon (Back to Visual Basics)

In his studio, Redon would dedicate his energies, like an alchemist, to the creation of his black pictures, those barely tangible charcoal drawings teeming with

Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640: The Homer of Painting

Combining typical Flemish realism with classical themes influenced by the Renaissance, Rubens caught the attention of all of Europe and helped put his native Antwerp

Shigeru Ban

This survey traces his entire career to date, showing clearly why he is one of the world's most innovative and significant architects. Unlike many of his

Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: Pictures as Drama

An overview of the life and work of artist Mark Rothko, this volume exhibits his mythological content, simple flat shapes, and imagery inspired by primitive

Egon Schiele 1890-1918

After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough

Surrealism

Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement 35 most

Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist (Basic Art) (German Edition)

Van Eyck left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. This title in the Basic Art series features

Titian, 1490-1576

 The freedom exhibited in his pictorial compositions was unprecedented and greatly influential on later artists, notably Manet, who closely studied Titian's work at the Louvre.

Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions

The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one

Antoine Watteau 1684-1721

Watteau was inspired by the theater and in particular the commedia dell'arte, hence elaborately costumed actors, dancers, and musicians were recurrent subjects he was also

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987: Commerce Into Art

Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings (Campbell- and Brillo series), as well as their fascination for

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: Building for Democracy

His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most

The Creeping Man (Student's Book+CD)

Components:Students's Book (Story Book and Activity Section)Multilinhual glossaryAudio CDTeacher's notes

Dictionar medical de buzunar englez-roman/ roman-englez

De asemenea, poate fi folosit cu succes in traducerea si redactarea articolelor de specialitate, intrucit ofera atit sinonime, cit si expresii echivalente pentru termenii ce

Umbrela rosie

Editie bilingva romana-englezaIn 1961, la doi ani de la revolutia lui Fidel Castro, Lucia Alvarez, numara cu nerabdare zilele pana la petrecerea ei de cinsprezece

Abstract Art

Each book in Tachen's Basic Genre series features: a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural,

Tadao Ando: 1941

Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water,

The Bauhaus: 1919-1933: Reform and Avant-Garde

Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and

Francis Bacon: 1909-1992

FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM.

Bosch : C. 1450 1516 Between Heaven and Hell

Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his

Fernando Botero

Famed for his modern art and rendering of human, animal and still life compositions, this is a celebration of the works of Colombian painter and

Bruegel: The Complete Paintings

Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town

Calder, 1898-1976 (Album Series)

He operated at the point where Modernity and nature Fused, developing an environmental art that changed the medium Forever. Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932,

Matilda. Special Edition (limba engleza)

Autor: Roald Dahl

Santiago Calatrava: 1951: Architect, Engineer, Artist

Winner of the 2005 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal as well as numerous other prestigious awards, Calatrava is one of the greatest and most

Caravaggio, 1571-1610

Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to

Candela (Basic Architecture)

Candela features some of the loveliest and unique homes in the picturesque state of Bahia, Brazil. Highlights include a treehouse by sculptor Frans Krajeberg, a

Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus

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

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism

He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul

Salvador Dali: 1904-1989

Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others

Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism

This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to

Albrecht Durer

His visits to Italy (where he studied most notably with Giovanni Bellini) had a profound effect on his artistic development and enabled him to combine

M. C. Escher

Renowned artist M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally

Giger (Basic Art)

H.R. Giger is a painter, Oscar award winner and cult figure for the international artistic community for which his aesthetics of the apocalypse represent inspiration

Gaudi (Taschen Basic Architecture)

Lucian Freud

I paint people, Freud has said, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they

Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903 the Primitive Sophisticate

We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment

The Mission Song

Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre's return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love

Philip Jodidio

Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said

Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese

Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real

Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely