Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his hometown of Glasgow during his lifetime, his bold new blend of simplicity and poetic detail inspired modernists across Europe. Mackintosh's avant-garde approach embraced a variety of media as well as fresh stylistic devices. His multi-faceted oeuvre incorporated architecture, furniture, graphic design, landscapes, and flower studies. He embraced strong lines, elegant proportions, and natural motifs, combining an ... |
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Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 - 1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his structures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality. This essential introduction brings together 17 of Kahn's most important buildings across his cultural, governmental, religious, and residential repertoire. Plans, views, descriptions, and quality photographs trace the context and development of each project, while an ... |
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Midnight tales and dangerous Magic. №1 New York Times Bestselling Author. ... From bestselling author of "Six of Crows", Leigh Bardugo, comes a lavishly illustrated collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice and love. Inspired by myth, fairy tale and folklore, "The Language of Thorns" will transport you to both lands familiar and strange that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse. Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread ... |
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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. ... |
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Изданието е триезично - на английски, немски и френски език. 40th Anniversary Edition. ... "The works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a limited time and to leave unique, unrepeatable impressions. From the smallest of the Packages made in Paris in the early 1960s, to the delicate pattern of hundreds of branches embraced by a translucent fabric veil... in Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works there is nothing abstract, nothing imagined; it is all there - corporeal and tangible." Lorenza Giovanelli Part biography, ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This is a fresh, contemporary translation of Sun Tzu 's "The Art of War" for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance, it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. It also contains a full commentary on Sun Tzu, the man and his ideas, contemporary of Confucius and Buddha; and a critical guide to further reading. ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. On a hot August night in Milwaukee in the USA, a young artist and a gang leader's girlfriend are shot in the street, a woman dies mysteriously in the Mercy Hospital emergency room, and a famous artist is killed at the opening of an exhibition of his work. Dr Maxine Cassidy feels sure there must be a connection between these events and sets out to find it. ... |
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In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company. Part of the "Macmillan Collector's Library", a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by writer and academic, Zachary Seager. "The Art of Solitude" shows some of the myriad ways in which people throughout history have understood their experiences of ... |
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Йога Васища без съмнение е една от уникалние книги в историята на човечеството. Тази велика творба е за онези, които с отворен ум търсят отговорите на въпросите: Как всъщност е започнало сътворението? Ако Бог е създал света, кой е създал Бог? Какво е Бог? Кой съм аз? Защо съм тук? Каква е действителността? Светът е оптическа измама. Според законите на съвременната физика всичко е енергия и вълни и реално материя не съществува. Древните хора са знаели, че всичко е съзнание, светът е илюзия, а животът не е по-различен от един сън. Този древен текст представлява разговор между мъдреца Васища и принц Рана. Книгата ... |
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Практични съвети за родители. ... "Опознай детето си" е богата компилация от лекции на Шри Шри Рави Шанкар на теми, свързани с изкуството да отгледаш дете. Тази уникална сбирка е безценен подарък за родители и педагози, които желаят да вникнат във фините аспекти на детската психология. Книгата включва безценни практични съвети - древни и революционни истини, толкова актуални за нашето време - за това как да насочваме цялостното развитие на децата ни в израстването им като пълноценни и уверени човешки същества, имащи силата на човешките ценности, здрав дух и здраво тяло. Шри Шри Рави Шанкар по много обикновен ... |
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Усмивката един свят дар e неповторима книга, изпълнена с мъдростта и вдъхновението на Шри Шри Рави Шанкар. Безценното знание от това четиво можете да прилагате успешно и във вашия живот. Тази книга е същевременно и прозрение, и един незаменим практически наръчник."Любовта никога не може да бъде изразена на сто процента. Както и да се опитваш да я изразиш, тя все остава недоизразена." Шри Шри Рави Шанкар ... |
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"Постоянно ни вълнува какво мислят хората за нас. Но забележи как мислите и идеите на всеки се променят само за няколко минути. Някой, който те възприема за добър човек, може да дойде и да нарече лош. Някой, който те мисли за добър човек и да те нарече лош. Някой, който те мисли за добър човек, в следващия момент ти казва, че си лош. Колко време мислите, че е необходимо, за да се промени мнението ни? Само няколко минути!" Шри Шри Рави Шанкар ... |
