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First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city’s most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese entryways, until now hidden away behind often restrained façades, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian modernism, mediating public and private space with vivid configurations of color and form, from floors of juxtaposed stones to murals of minimalist geometry. The collection spans buildings from 1920 to 1970 and showcases the work of some of the city’s most illustrious architects and designers, including Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, and Luigi Caccia Dominioni, as well as non-pedigreed architecture of equal impact and interest. The photographs for the publication were exclusively shot by Delfino Sisto Legnani, Paola Pansini, and Matthew Billings, each evoking the entryways with individual sensibility and a stylistic interplay of detail shots—such as stones, door handles, and handrails—with larger architectural views. The images are accompanied by concise contributions from Penny Sparke, Fabrizio Ballabio, Lisa Hockemeyer, Daniel Sherer, Brian Kish, and Grazia Signori, together bringing a wealth of architecture, design, and natural stone expertise to guide the reader through the applied materials and fittings as well as the art-historical and social implications of each of the ingressi. As much an architectural city guide as an aesthetic study, the book provides the exact address and an annotated Milan map for all featured entryways, as well as the architect name and date of construction. In the well-documented realm of 20th-century Italian design, Kolbitz has stepped over the threshold and delivered a brand new area of inquiry in Milanese modernism. With the rigor of its multifaceted research, poised photography, and breadth of its featured hallways, this is an invigorating new reference work and an inside look at the city’s design DNA across high to low architecture. Σελίδες: 384, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0603, Διαστάσεις: 26x26cm

First published in 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations of photographers around the globe. Reissued for contemporary audiences, this edition adds a chapter of unpublished work found in a recently resurfaced cache of negatives and recontextualizes this pivotal book for our time. Cole, a Black South African man, photographed the underbelly of apartheid in the 1950s and ’60s, often at great personal risk. He methodically captured the myriad forms of violence embedded in everyday life for the Black majority under the apartheid system—picturing its miners, its police, its hospitals, its schools. In 1966, Cole fled South Africa and smuggled out his negatives; House of Bondage was published the following year with his writings and first-person account. This edition retains the powerful story of the original while adding new perspectives on Cole’s life and the legacy of House of Bondage. It also features an added chapter—compiled and titled “Black Ingenuity” by Cole—of never-before-seen photographs of Black creative expression and cultural activity taking place under apartheid. Made available again nearly fifty-five years later, House of Bondage remains a visually powerful and politically incisive document of the apartheid era. Σελίδες: 216, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1129, Διαστάσεις: 21.3x21.3cm

This beautiful new edition brings together four volumes in one stunning slipcased gift book: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. A.A.Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh is nothing less than a true children’s classic. Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends Piglet, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, he’s never far from an adventure. This very special updated collection of the classic stories and poetry will delight fans of Winnie-the-Pooh young and old. Bound in a stunning gold-foiled slipcase, relive all your favourite moments in the Hundred Acre Wood, brought stunningly to life with the iconic decorations by E.H.Shepard, which have been reproduced to echo the original vivid artwork. The nation’s favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for almost 100 years. Milne’s classic children’s stories – featuring Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin and, of course, Pooh himself – are gently humorous while teaching lessons about friendship and kindness. Pooh ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage. Whether you’re 5 or 55, Pooh is the bear for all ages. Do you own all the classic Pooh titles? Winnie-the-Pooh The House at Pooh Corner When We Were Very Young Now We Are Six Return to the Hundred Acre Wood The Best Bear in All the World Once There Was a Bear Tales From the Forest Winter in the Wood Σελίδες: 432, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0218, Διαστάσεις: 22.2x22.2cm

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A home is where you live and what you live with. At Fallingwater, this truth has never been more extraordinarily, more enthrallingly so illustrated here as never before. Famously designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright over the falls of Bear Run river in the forests of Western Pennsylvania as a weekend home for the Pittsburgh department store magnate and philanthropost Edgar Kaufmann Sr. and his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, Fallingwater is lauded for its architectural daring, innovativeness, and drama. But above all, for the Kaufmanns, the house served as a home in which the family sought to live in harmony with the natural world and with their immediate surrounds, including most significantly the rooms of the house. Far from being some precious thing, the Kaufmanns meant for their home to be comfortable while retaining a sense of relaxed elegance. This atmosphere is everywhere in evidence, in part as a consequence of the collection built by the Kaufmanns, a unique assemblage of objects, paintings, textiles, sculpture, and many other items acquired through retailing, travel, professional associations, and personal friendships. The collection contains objects from countries around the world, both rustic and high-style, spanning centuries, and features such wide ranging works as Jacques Lipchitz s statue Mother and Child and Rene Lalique glassware to furniture by Mies van der Rohe, Tiffany lamps and vases,and Diego Rivera s Portrait of a Man; as well as woodblock prints by the Japanese masters, including Night Snow at Kanbara by Hiroshige, to point out only a few highlights. And yet Fallingwater, beyond what it contains, its startling form, or the site upon which it stands, is so much more than the sum of its parts here on brilliant display it is a total and sublime work of art. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 24.1x24.1cm

This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 CE. The book is richly illustrated with c. 400 full-colour photographs, and maps and time charts that guide readers through the chronology and geography of this part of the ancient Near East. The book addresses such essential art historical themes as the origins of narrative representation, the first emergence of historical public monuments and the earliest aesthetic commentaries. It explains how images and monuments were made and how they were viewed. It also traces the ancient practices of collecting and conservation and rituals of animating statues and of architectural construction. Accessible to students and non-specialists, the book expands the scope of standard surveys to cover art and architecture from the prehistoric to the Roman era, including the legendary cities of Ur, Babylon, Nineveh, Hatra and Seleucia on the Tigris. Σελίδες: 376, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0201, Διαστάσεις: 21.5x21.5cm

An innovative examination of sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawing against the backdrop of the urban economic boom, the Protestant Reformation, and the Eighty Years’ War Featuring works by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), Jan Gossaert (c. 1478–1532), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617), and others, this book positions drawing in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century as a dynamic, multifaceted practice. Drawings played roles as varied as the artists who made them: they were designs for prints, paintings, stained glass windows, decorative objects, and tapestries, as well as tools for presentation, translation, and the display of knowledge and virtuosity. The artists’ diversified urban communities shaped their drawing practices, as did shifting cultural and political circumstances surrounding Protestant Reform and the Eighty Years’ War. In addition to the book’s four illuminating essays, many of the more than eighty catalogue entries—selected from the holdings of The Albertina Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art—present new research.Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 9, 2022–January 8, 2023)The Albertina Museum, Vienna (2023) Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1116, Διαστάσεις: 22.9x22.9cm

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Reinventing the Image of the Global Metropolis Image Cities takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of “global interconnectedness.” We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy façades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected. It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova’s photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations - their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography’s role in the creation of a gap between these citie’s brand identity and their everyday reality. Σελίδες: 168, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0722, Διαστάσεις: 24x24cm

A study of two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels city-centreFull House explores two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels and featured over 300 contemporary art works from the renowned collection of Frédéric de Goldschmidt.   The first show, Not Really Really, was organized in 2016 in a building that had only been vacated a few months before by a mental health clinic. The works were mostly sculptures made with everyday objects and played with the ambiguity of what the last occupants could have left and what the artists purposefully created.   The building then underwent a long renovation, with photos included illustrating this process. The second show, Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly), then engaged with themes such as order and disorder, time, classification, the artist’s process or his/her position in world conflicts using the prism of the famous Arte Povera artist Alighiero Boetti.    Curatorial texts and images of the works both in context and in studio allow the reader to discover and appreciate both exhibitions.Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:Cloud Seven​, Quai du commerce 7 (November 11, 2021–January 30, 2022)   Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1122, Διαστάσεις: 21.1x21.1cm

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The Mediterranean is surrounded by three continents – Europe, Africa and Asia – and even though the cultures around this sea are highly diverse, they harmoniously share a pleasant climate, distinctive flora and fauna, and not least the intense blue of the water. Angelika Taschen set out in search of the most beautiful hotels on a great variety of coasts, islands and beaches, taking you on a journey to the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc and the ultra-chic Les Roches Rouges on the Côte d’Azur, to the little-known Pardini’s Hermitage on the Italian island of Giglio, which is only accessible by boat or on foot, and to Bodrum in Turkey, where the elegant Amanruya resort lies hidden in one of the most stunning bays in the Mediterranean. She also presents new hotel concepts, great architecture and creative design – such as the finca Menorca Experimental on the Balearic Islands, the modernist Villa Dubrovnik in Croatia and Dexamenes on the Peloponnese, where new life was breathed into decommissioned wine tanks. Further highlights are the brand-new, stylishly designed Mezzatorre on Ischia and the Torre di Cala Piccola with its enchanting private beach on the Argentario peninsula in Tuscany, an almost unknown location that possesses the aura of 1960s Italy. Another gem is La Locanda del Barbablù, with just five rooms in the shadow of the mythical volcano on Stromboli. Look forward to staying at the Nord-Pinus in Tangier with its fantastic view of the Strait of Gibraltar, and the charming Coco-Mat Eco Residences on Serifos, or experiencing the originality of Ammos on Crete, where the art and design are as essential as the sun and the beach. Σελίδες: 360, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1201, Διαστάσεις: 23.8x23.8cm

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The immediate physical presence of color is central to Katharina Grosse’s creative endeavor. Through an open-ended creative process in which painting takes on the form of a performance, color embodies movement, making its emotional potential tangible. These issues are not only driving her dramatically large in situ works painted across various surfaces in public places. They also inform her studio paintings, which have played an equally central role in her practice from the start. This book is the first study focusing on Grosse’s studio practice from the late 1980s to the present. Five essays and an insightful interview with the artist explore how Grosse expands the concept of painting - not just in open space, but also on canvas - through creating an ephemeral character and removing the limitations of its traditional frame. Σελίδες: 312, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0203, Διαστάσεις: 22.8x22.8cm

A vibrant survey of the trends and talents across the globe fuelling street photography today and a fresh take of what street photography is and can be. A world tour of the very best street photography today, Reclaim the Street showcases work by more than 100 contemporary photographers, from the established to the emerging, from all corners of the globe: here is work by Indian practitioner Swarat Ghosh, Thai photographer Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet (aka Poupay), and the Brazilian photographer Gustavo Minas. Truly diverse in scope, it pays long overdue attention to flourishing scenes throughout the world, interweaving thirty-four photographer portfolios, in-depth case studies, and surveys of the geographical hotspots where communities of street photographers are thriving today. Great photographic minds don’t think alike, nor are two streets identical: follow these photographers as they capture snapshots of people and places perpetually in flux. The global, and ultimately optimistic and humanistic edge of Reclaim the Street will deepen its readers’ love of photography, as well as leave them inspired by the places and people captured through today’s sharpest lenses. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0406, Διαστάσεις: 25x25cm

Driven by the constant pursuit to create an alchemy of old and new, the esteemed firm of Cullman & Kravis is best known for its ability to create cohesive modern traditional rooms full of rich layers. Utilizing their decades of experience, they build out from the best classical foundations, then inject bold, stylish, and current elements into every home, mixing exquisite antiques with contemporary art to create truly dynamic spaces that will never feel dated. In this volume, Cullman & Kravis breaks down their process into a master class of twenty-first-century design, covering such topics as: creative approaches to injecting shine, texture, and personality with carpets and fabrics; when to inject custom furniture or artisanal/craft/art pieces; and when to embellish with standout details and when to keep things simple. The homes in this book (the majority exclusive to the volume) include sumptuous Manhattan apartments, a historic Stanford White designed house overlooking Long Island Sound, a contemporary beach house in the Hamptons, and a Palm Beach waterfront estate. With spectacular photography from Eric Piasecki, this volume will be a must-have for every enthusiast of interior design. Σελίδες: 288, Διαστάσεις: 22.9x22.9cm

This monograph is the first to collect the photographs of internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Barry McGee. Though best known for the inventive graphic sensibility of his paintings and drawings, McGee’s use of photography is an essential, often underappreciated, component of his artistic vision. Captured at all hours and around the world with whatever camera is at hand, McGee’s images are immediate, casual, intimate, and anarchic all at once. His work boldly employs geometric shapes, clusters of framed drawings and paintings, distinctive characters, and found objects such as empty bottles, surfboards, and wrecked vehicles. Whether incorporated into his iconic multi-element compositions, or printed in the innumerable fanzines and artist’s books that often accompany his exhibitions, photographs pervade McGee’s practice. Barry McGee: Photographs provides unique insight into the process of a major American artist, and is a testament to the immense amount of visual information McGee has absorbed to build one of the most eclectic and innovative artistic legacies of our time. Σελίδες: 224, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1115, Διαστάσεις: 21.6x21.6cm

The first retrospective volume on the photography of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, photographer and music-video director Andrew Dosunmu. \'The beauty of Monograph—a new art book by acclaimed Nigerian and New York photographer, filmmaker, stylist, and creative director Andrew Dosunmu—lies in the uncanny juxtapositions of distinct realms. Wholly separate images shown side by side form their own dynamic relationships.\' - VOGUE Monograph looks back at 20 years of previously unpublished and sumptuously colorful portraiture and more, including stills from music videos and the 2022 Netflix film Beauty. Dosunmu has published his photography with iconic music and fashion magazines such as The Face, Vibe, Fader, Vogue Hommes, Paper and Interview, and has been commissioned by international brands such as Nike and Adidas. Throughout his career, Dosunmu has developed a prolific personal body of work that until now has never been published, though it has been sought after by private collectors and museums. The images compiled in Monograph portray uniquely stylish individuals in Dakar, Mumbai and Cartaghena. United by Dosunmu’s acute instinct for color into a compelling aesthetic vision, these portraits celebrate global culture with tremendous sensuality. The book includes a conversation between Dosunmu and Arthur Jafa. Σελίδες: 196, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1215, Διαστάσεις: 21.6x21.6cm

A compact edition of this landmark publication, which celebrates humanity\'s ability to create buildings that for millennia have responded ingeniously to cultural and environmental conditions. There has never been a more important time to understand how to make the best use of local natural resources and create buildings that do not rely on stripping our planet or transporting materials across the globe. First published in 2017, this major book gathers together the world\'s leading experts on vernacular architecture to examine how local buildings have stood the test of time and offer lessons for the future. The core of the book is arranged by climate zone, from desert to tropical, temperate to arctic. Within each section, buildings are presented regionally, showing how climatic conditions and vegetation affect the evolution of building styles. This central part is bookended by a range of essays exploring the economic and anthropological aspects, while the reference section offers information on materials science and engineering, including how buildings have been adapted to contend with natural disasters. The traditions of vernacular architecture have much to teach us. Given our ecosystem\'s increasing frailty, the architecture and building trade\'s new role in a post-digital era, and the desperate need to record fading cultural traditions, the relevance of this book is greater than ever. Σελίδες: 496, Έτος Έκδοσης: 2023, Διαστάσεις: 22.4x22.4cm

An exploration of shifting landscapes—both real and represented—in nineteenth-century France and the role of images in both picturing and producing those shifts   What is the relationship between land and landscape? This engaging study examines the role landscape depictions played in the formation of modern France and reveals how art and visual culture contributed to the physical and symbolic shaping of the nation. Spanning more than a century, from the post-revolutionary period through to the early twentieth century, Land into Landscape explores political and environmental shifts alongside changes in landscape representation across a variety of media, including paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain, and maps.   Through this broad and diverse set of images—by artists such as Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Théodore Rousseau, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, as well as lesser-known figures—Kelly Presutti contends that representational problems were also political problems, which often required drastic solutions on the part of the state. In the nineteenth century, France’s forests were replanted, its wetlands were drained, its coasts were secured, and its mountains restored. Landscapes and their inhabitants, however, could resist being co-opted as emblems of a greater ideal. The book therefore addresses the tension between a place and its representation—a matter of heightened urgency in a moment when we are once again struggling to both see and manage our environment. Σελίδες: 232, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0110, Διαστάσεις: 20.3x20.3cm

The long-awaited third monograph on the work of the most important British designer of his generation, showcasing projects from the last thirty years of his career. Neville Brody’s work sits at the intersections between graphic design, communication design and graphic art, pushing boundaries and blurring lines between them as he fuses influences from art, design, fashion, music, low and high cultures. Brody has been one of the most consistently innovative and shapeshifting graphic designers of the past fifty years. He has produced a body of commercial work covering editorial, brand identity, typography, systems, information and interface design of unparalleled boldness and sophistication for global clients that include Shiseido, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Nikon, LVMH, Nike and Dom Perignon, and UK clients such as the BBC, Channel 4, Tate Modern and The Times. The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 3 also captures a body of one-off creative works and site-specific collaborations that are motivated by creativity, political and cultural viewpoints, provocation, and expression. The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 3 brings almost thirty years of work together in thematic sections that address the key fields of his vibrant design projects, including typographic experimentation, cultural subversion, and design systems. Richly illustrated, each project is explored in detail, revealing the work that has defined Brody’s recent practise across six chapters, from major brands to magazine editorials and features, revealing how Brody’s design language has been informed, evolved and remarkably stayed true to key themes and ideas throughout his career to date. Brody has produced a rich, dynamic and surprising body of new work that will attract a new generation of designers and art directors. This inspirational volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of graphic design over the past three decades. Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0525, Διαστάσεις: 25x25cm

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An elegant presentation of interiors for introverts, placing the memorable work of London architect William Smalley alongside buildings around the world that have inspired his practice. Quiet Spaces places the work of architect William Smalley alongside spaces that have inspired him. Places of private contemplation – calm spaces to read a book or listen to music in, to walk through or simply be in – they are spaces that achieve a rare sense of repose and peace. From his own Bloomsbury Apartment and projects in the UK, France and New York, the book expands to include the work of other architects: a sixteenth-century villa by Palladio, houses in Mexico and Sri Lanka and the Secular Retreat in Devon by Swiss master architect Peter Zumthor. There are also places of making and displaying art: simplicity in Barbara Hepworth’s garden and studio in Cornwall, and intimacy in Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge. Specially commissioned photography by Harry Crowder conveys the atmosphere of the spaces. A foreword by acclaimed potter and writer Edmund de Waal records the small, unspoken ways in which we relate to buildings and how they come to have meaning for us. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1012, Διαστάσεις: 24x24cm

This is the most in-depth exploration of Metallica\'s songs ever written.From their widely circulated demo, No Life \'til Leather, all the way to their 10th studio album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct - Metallica have earned the title of the biggest heavy metal band on the planet. Their albums, including the hugely influential Master of Puppets, are now considered classics of rock and metal, while singles such as Enter Sandman, Fade to Black and For Whom the Bell Tolls have stood the test of time. Follow the epic journey of the godfathers of thrash metal, song-by-song, and see how they became one of the biggest selling bands in the world.No stone is left unturned across more than 500 pages, illustrated with incredible photography throughout, from the inspiration behind the lyrics and melodies to the recording process and even the musicians and producers who worked on each track.Uncover the stories behind the music in this truly definitive book - a must-have for every Metallica fan. Σελίδες: 528, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1114, Διαστάσεις: 22.2x22.2cm

***WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK***This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks\' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.\'Superb - well worth it for the hardcore fans. This is an incredibly well put-together collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the all-time greats of science fiction and space opera. This book looks absolutely stunning and the quality is extraordinarily high. It was well worth the wait\' Waterstones bookseller review\'The Culture: The Drawings pulls together his art work for the first time, and it\'s clear he was a very good draughtsman. Maps of alien archipelagos. Sketches of spaceships and guns and castles and tanks . . . This isn\'t an archive of ideas so much as the melting pot from which ideas came\' The Times\'Banks was a dude who loved his whisky and his amateur draftsmanship has some of the character of cask spirit: raw and unrefined but heady and intoxicating\' Eurogamer\'The Culture series is incredible and this book goes to show how the books could be so intricate and consistent. He designed the whole universe by hand\' Reader reviewPraise for the Culture series:\'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution\' Independent on Sunday \'Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth\' New York Review of Science Fiction\'Banks\'s sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics\' New Scientist \'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention\' Scotsman \'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future\' GuardianThe Culture series: Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist***Also, look out for the Deluxe \'Special Circumstances\' Edition of The Culture: The Drawings. This ultimate, limited collector\'s edition includes an exclusive, numbered, cloth-bound edition of The Culture: The Drawings in a sumptuous presentation case, a booklet of original Culture-inspired artwork, specially commissioned 3D printing files and many other Culture-inspired features*** Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0123, Διαστάσεις: 25.8x25.8cm

This beautiful edition brings together the original illustrated Thomas the Tank Engine Railway Series stories by Rev. W. Awdry in one special collection. Rediscover the original classic stories about Thomas, James, Gordon, Edward and all their friends in this wonderfully nostalgic story treasury for Thomas fans young and old. Ideal for all those who delight in the adventures of this cheeky little engine and his friends. The perfect gift for baby showers, christenings, birthdays and Christmas. This is a delightful present for new babies who are sure to grow up to be firm Thomas fans. Children will love meeting classic characters such as Percy, James, Gordon, and Toby down on The Fat Controller\'s railway. The short stories and beautiful illustrations are perfect for bedtime reading. Thomas the Tank Engine has been delighting generations of children for over 75 years. It all began as a story made up by the Reverand W. Awdry to entertain his son when he had measles. Now millions of people across the world have grown up with the tales of Sodor Island, enchanted by the adventures of Thomas and his friends, Percy, Gordon, and Toby, and all the other engines that work on the Fat Controller\'s railway. Σελίδες: 416, Διαστάσεις: 22.2x22.2cm

Expert, guidance for the Google Cloud Machine Learning certification exam In Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Study Guide, a team of accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) specialists delivers an expert roadmap to AI and ML on the Google Cloud Platform based on new exam curriculum. With Sybex, you’ll prepare faster and smarter for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer exam and get ready to hit the ground running on your first day at your new job as an ML engineer. The book walks readers through the machine learning process from start to finish, starting with data, feature engineering, model training, and deployment on Google Cloud. It also discusses best practices on when to pick a custom model vs AutoML or pretrained models with Vertex AI platform. All technologies such as Tensorflow, Kubeflow, and Vertex AI are presented by way of real-world scenarios to help you apply the theory to practical examples and show you how IT professionals design, build, and operate secure ML cloud environments. The book also shows you how to: Frame ML problems and architect ML solutions from scratchBanish test anxiety by verifying and checking your progress with built-in self-assessments and other practical toolsUse the Sybex online practice environment, complete with practice questions and explanations, a glossary, objective maps, and flash cardsA can’t-miss resource for everyone preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning certification exam, or for a new career in ML powered by the Google Cloud Platform, this Sybex Study Guide has everything you need to take the next step in your career. Σελίδες: 368, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1103, Διαστάσεις: 18.5x18.5cm

Mahārāsa Manjūṣa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance provides translation and scholarly commentary of Nandadāsa’s five chapters of rasa-lila, collectively known as the rāsapañcādhyayī. In the Vaiṣṇava tradition propounded by Vallabhācārya, Nandadāsa is considered to be one of the eight devotional poets, whose compositions are exquisitely detailed with description of both Kṛṣṇa’s cosmic form and his divine play. This gradually developed into a distinctive style of performing art, havelī-saṅgīta, which is practiced even today. Mahārāsa Manjūṣa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance brings out the poetics, narrative style, and idiosyncrasies of the recitation of devotional poems from the region of Vraja in the 16th Century. An exquisite specimen of devotional poetics, Nandadāsa’s Rasapancadhyayi is a Braja-Bhāṣā rendition of the Bhāgavata’s quintet of Mahārāsa written in Sanskrit verse. The Bhāgavata is one of the most beloved texts of Kṛṣṇa-devotional traditions and the foundational scripture of Braja Vaiṣṇavism and its five chapters describing the divine dance illustrate the ecstatic fruit of devotion. Presenting a devotee’s execution of the Mahārāsa while examining its interpretative themes underpinned in the epistemology of Vallabhācārya, Mahārāsa Manjūṣa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance offers an intensive view of the musical legacy, a devotee’s worshipful interactions, and Vedāntic foundations of the ecstatic devotion expressed by Nandadāsa. The introductory chapters provide first compendious study of the theo-aesthetic, epistemic, and liturgical framework of Puṣṭimārga’s orthopraxis that have fuelled this lyrical delivery. Enriched with annotations, the translations are literal while offering nuanced insights into the colloquial intricacies of Braja-Bhāṣā poetics and the cultural expressions of the Braja region. EXPERT SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS: Prakriti Goswami is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University who studies the role of poetics, music, and aesthetics within Hinduism. Foreword author David Haberman is a professor of religious studies at Indiana University who has written multiple books on northern Indian religious traditions. EDUCATION AID: Mahārāsa Manjūṣa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance is a rich source of knowledge which can supplement academic coursework or provide guidance for independent study of Hinduism. FIRST BOOK IN SERIES: This book is the first in a series of academic texts by the Bhaktivedanta Research Center, an academic institute which offers forums, conferences, courses, and other resources on Vaishnavism. Σελίδες: 184, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1018, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

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An authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance Meticulously researched and luxuriously illustrated, this volume offers a comprehensive view of Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/1466–1525/1526), whose work has been admired for centuries for its fantastical settings enriched with contemporary incident and detail. Capturing the sanctity and splendor of Venice at the turn of the sixteenth century, when the city controlled a vast maritime empire, Carpaccio combined careful observation of the urban environment with a taste for the poetic in his beloved narrative cycles and altarpieces. Providing a new lens through which to understand Carpaccio’s work, a team of distinguished scholars explores various aspects of his art, including his achievement as a draftsman. In addition to emphasizing the artist’s innovative techniques and contributions to the development of Venetian Renaissance painting, this study includes an in-depth consideration of the fluctuations in the reception of Carpaccio’s work in the five hundred years since the artist’s death. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington  Exhibition Schedule:National Gallery of Art, Washington (November 20, 2022–February 12, 2023)Palazzo Ducale, Venice (March 18–June 18, 2023) Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0906, Διαστάσεις: 24.8x24.8cm

The first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine world Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions of Nubia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had an indelible impact on the medieval Mediterranean world. Bringing together more than 170 masterworks in a range of media and techniques-from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, panel paintings, and religious manuscripts-Africa and Byzantium recounts Africa\'s centrality in transcontinental networks of trade and cultural exchange. With incisive scholarship and new photography of works rarely or never before seen in public, this long-overdue publication sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of late antique Africa. It reconsiders the continent\'s contributions to the development of the premodern world and offers a more complete history of Africa as a vibrant, multiethnic society of diverse languages and faiths that played a crucial role in the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 19, 2023-March 3, 2024)The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 14-July 21, 2024) Έτος Έκδοσης: 2023, Διαστάσεις: 27.4x27.4cm

In the late 1960s specialty bookstores selling magazines under the counter were replaced by sex shops, or “adult bookstores” in the U.S., at which point every subject, with few exceptions, was freely available. It started with Swedish Private and its shockingly explicit covers. Denmark’s Theander brothers countered with Rodox and Color Climax, with equally explicit content. Soon they were supplying most of Northern Europe, with the Netherlands pitching in. In the U.S. Reuben Sturman was hailed King of Porn, with affiliates churning out hardcore of every kind to fill his 800 bookstores. Suddenly men used to taking what was offered could be picky. Lesbian dominance? Hot housewives? Black and Asian women? Hippie nudists espousing free love and drug use? Hairy women? Shaved women? Shaved women giving hairy women enemas? It was all there. For the kinky, every fetish was represented: spanking titles Zap and Smack cuddled up to dominance titles Bitch and Aggressive Gals, and to Wet Dreams, Diapered and Dominated and Enema Pick ups. For rubberists there was quirky Atomage, and even quirkier Belly Button. Yes, Belly Button. Are you familiar with the name Edw. Wood, Jr., called the world’s worst film director? Then you’ll enjoy his little-known porn magazines, including Balling, Skin & Bones and Party Time. What a decade. Warning: everything in this volume is uncensored and for mature adults only. The photos do not represent the majority. Volume 6 features over 600 covers and photos from Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the U.S. with the usual, amusing text. Σελίδες: 460, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0622, Διαστάσεις: 21.3x21.3cm

#1 LSAT Exam Prep Book by Test Prep Insight: Test Prep Insight  is a review and analytics site that is a Kaplan affiliate but uses an independent review process.Kaplan\'s LSAT Premium Prep is the most strategic resource you need to confidently face the LSAT exam. Fully compatible with the test maker LSAC’s digital practice tool called LawHub Hundreds of Official LSAT practice questions Exclusive videos featuring top faculty Up-to-date for the 2024 test change; the biggest change to the LSAT since the 1990s. In-depth test-taking strategies to help you score higher! We are so certain that LSAT Premium Prep offers all the knowledge you need to excel on the LSAT that we guarantee it: after studying with the online resources and book, you\'ll score higher on the LSAT—or you\'ll get your money back.The Best Review Learn how to improve faster and study smarter with expert insights from Kaplan\'s elite LSAT faculty. Study plans will help you make the most of your practice time, regardless of how much time that is. Our exclusive data-driven learning strategies help you focus on what you need to study. Hundreds of real LSAT questions with detailed explanations Exclusive video instruction from Kaplan\'s top-rated teachers to give you the strategies and tactics experts use to master the LSAT. Online test analytics that analyze your performance by section and question type on the free exams on LawHub. Expert Guidance LSAT Premium Prep includes access to a spotlight video featuring one of Kaplan\'s award-winning LSAT Channel instructors. We know the test: Kaplan\'s expert LSAT faculty teach one of the world\'s most popular LSAT course All of the practice LSAT questions in the book are from officially released, licensed LSAT tests from the test maker themselves. We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams. Σελίδες: 708, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0116, Διαστάσεις: 21.3x21.3cm

Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Mao’s China, an all-out assault on ‘class enemies’ took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers’ skulls. Doctors were tortured in jail as foreign spies. Ordinary people condemned ‘counter-revolutionaries’ to execution – and then went home and ate their dinner. This was less than fifty years ago. But the victims are being forgotten already. Wang Youqin unmasks the true brutality of the Cultural Revolution. Documenting the deaths of over six hundred individuals, Victims of the Cultural Revolution calls on us to remember the evil ideological fanaticism wreaks and pays tribute to all those who suffered. Σελίδες: 592, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0704, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm