Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and ... |
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It is getting dark over the mountain lake; the passing winter freezes the quiet northern land. A little boy dressed in fur, girded with a sword decorated with a raven head, struggles with uneven terrain, mud, and unbearable load - the remains of his father - Edsgar, the mighty warrior of the Great North. A stream of white light splashes from the sky to the funeral pyre. A ringing sound fills everything around. It is as if billions of metal particles are sprinkled on a steel shield. Edsgar bids farewell to Erik, the lovely Valkyries take on the spirit of the warrior, and he flies with them to the gates of Valhalla to take ... |
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The much-anticipated first book in a brand-new duology by New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Face your demons or feed them. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war - and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a ... |
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The first novel of "The Last Hours". ... From internationally bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes the first novel in a brand new Shadowhunters trilogy. Evil is hiding in plain sight and the only thing more dangerous than fighting demons is falling in love. Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to Edwardian London in hopes of preventing the family's ruin. Cordelia's mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia ... |
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From the towering Sagrada Família to the shimmering, textured façade of Casa Batlló and the enchanting landscape of Park Güell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the wonder of natural creation: columns soar like tree trunks, window frames curve like flowering branches, and ceramic tiling shimmers like scaly, reptilian skin. Window frames curve like flowering branches and ceramic tiling shimmers like reptilian skin in the fervent architectural imagination of Antoni ... |
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Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who can marry, who can procreate and who is permitted to live. In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's ideas about evolution, a new full-blooded attempt to impose control over our unruly biology began to grow in the clubs, salons and offices of the powerful. It was enshrined in a political movement that bastardised science, and for sixty years enjoyed bipartisan and huge popular support. ... |
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"Деца от кръв и кости" е фентъзи дебют на Томи Адейеми, базиран на западно-африканската митология и е бестселър на "New York Times". Потопете се във фантастичната земя на Ориша 11 години по-късно, след като магията е изчезнала... Те убиха майка ми. Те отнеха магията ни. Те се опитаха да ни погребат. Дойде моментът да се надигнем. Зели Адебола все още помни времето, когато почвата на Ориша е жужала със силата на пропитата в нея магия. Огнените магове са творили пламъци, Приливните магове са подчинявали вълните, а Жътварите са зовели душите на мъртвите. Но всичко се променя в една нощ... нощта, в която ... |
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At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then", he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no greater wish". Throughout his life, Dali was out to become Dali: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dali's painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret located painted works by the master that had been ... |
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The Sunday Times bestseller. ... 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top ... |
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Пилигрим ставаш, си и оставаш... Великият Гьоте казва, че съзнанието на Европа се е родило в пилигримството. Тъкмо пилигримите са помогнали за оформяне на географията на спасението: техните маршрути, техните връзки и открития са създали географска карта на свещеното, а пешеходното пилигримство до Сантяго де Компостела може да се преживее и като дълга медитация върху Европа. Чрез него ценности, едновременно християнски и човешки, като достойнство на човешката личност, чувство за справедливост и свобода, стремеж към труд, предприемачески дух, любов към семейството и уважение към живота, толерантност и желание за мир, ... |
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В дните, когато все повече хора се обръщат за помощ към нетрадиционните методи на лечение, тази колекция: ще ви помогне да се справите с над 160 заболявания ще ви запознае с повече от 40 най-ефективни видове алтернативна медицина, с разнообразни масажи и подмладяващи техники ще ви покаже най-популярните диети и хранителни режими, за да изберете най-подходящия за вас ще ви представи лечебните свойства на много билки и растения В този том на "Енциклопедия на алтернативната медицина" ще научите: какво представляват древните методи на лечение - акупресура, акупунктура и аюрведа какви са механизмите на ... |
