Скачать книгу (размер 2 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 428) Аннотация: With this volume, Gabriele Fahr-Becker delivers a complex portrait of the Art Nouveau phenomenon in all of its fantastic variety. It features different national variations of Art Nouveau in Scotland, England, France, Germany, Austria, the United States and other countries. It offers a comprehensive portrayal of famous individual artists including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Edward Munch, and Rene…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A big bear with a straw hat and his young companion take a break for some fishing on the cover of this journal. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages—lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The design of this journal represents a traditional floral pattern exquisitely foiled on hand crafted paper. Production methods dating back many centuries have been used to create the cover paper, which embodies a touch of fine French artistic elegance. Magnetic flap cover with 144 pages of Designwallas signature creamy paper with ribbon marker inside.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual — though, as she maintained, a virgin — Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years — from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 — and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. This book dismantles this false conclusion using a researched study that helps in understanding the French emperor better.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A final, apocalyptic, world war has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending the majority of mankind off-planet. Those who remain, venerate all remaining examples of life, and owning an animal of your own is both a symbol of status and a necessity. For those who can't afford an authentic animal, companies build incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 855 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 365) Аннотация: A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.
Скачать книгу (размер 208 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 42) Аннотация: A Victorian scientist, R.W. Greasebeam, presents the original correspondence of early explorers who encountered some of the world's most fearsome dragons. Base's fans will be delighted by his humorous stories and intricate renderings of these colorful creatures.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The great American artist William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) completed a wide variety of portraits over his long career. Among his subjects were presidents, businessmen, celebrities, New York luminaries, and members of his family as well as a number of self-portraits. Chase's ability to capture a likeness was renowned, yet it was his dashing and bravura brushwork that truly set his portraits…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed — Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists — all inhabit this world spinning out…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: Western-style furniture was a relatively late arrival in Asia, where climates and lifestyles were markedly different from those in Europe. But colonial incursions and circumstances of history conspired to bring about profound changes, and furniture design in Asia blossomed into a major decorative art. Each of the eight countries covered here — China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand,…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Create Jewelry: Crystals presents 20 glittering projects ranging in difficulty from easy stringing pieces to seed bead weaving designs. All projects are glamorous and timeless and represent unique ways to use crystals in jewelry designs for necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings. In Create Jewelry: Crystals, the editors of Beadwork magazine combine innovative designs with intriguing anecdotes,…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 964) Аннотация: A policeman, a criminal overlord, a Bollywood film star, beggars, cultists, spies, and terrorists — the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched, and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai, in this soaring, uncompromising, and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Arturo Perez-Reverte has enthralled readers and critics around the globe with his Captain Alatriste series. Having sold four and a half million copies to date in the Spanish-speaking world, the series has made Perez-Reverte a literary superstar and his fictional seventeenth-century mercenary a national icon. And the appeal of Perez-Reverte's adventurer and his exploits continues to grow, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 345 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 69) Аннотация: Laminated with a pink cover and illustrated with authentically detailed watercolors in a timeless style, this tall, slim book retells ten classic fairy tales for all ages: «Aladdin and the Magic Lamp», «The Frog Prince», «Peter Pan», «Pinocchio», «Thumbelina» and five traditional tales are each told in a few pages, with pictures reminiscent of such treasuries from decades ago.
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: C.S. Lewis's beloved Narnia chronicles spring to life here in the dramatic pop-up tableaus of paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Each of the seven books in the series has its own pop-up spread, rendered in spectacular detail with special effects; in the scene for «The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe», Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmund are emerging from the wardrobe under a snowy, sparkling forest as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces — armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions. When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: With Cop Hater, the first of his superb 87th Precinct crime novels, Ed McBain debuted in 1956. Here, after more than 100 books, the MWA Grand Master culls 25 stories he wrote before he was Ed McBain, writing in «Manhunt» and other detective magazines as Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten, and Hunt Collins. Hunter — already well known as the author of «The Blackboard Jungle» and other books before he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 059 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 209) Аннотация: Honored with a National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000, a National Medal of Arts in 2004, and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 2007, Ray Bradbury continues to present new work after 70 years. This is an omnibus of two previously unpublished novellas: «Somewhere a Band Is Playing» follows a writer drawn by his dreams to tiny Summerton, Arizona, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 507 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 689) Аннотация: To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, «Tune in, turn on, drop out» became a mantra, and its popularizer, Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students…