Hokusai - A Life in Drawing (Baatsch Henri-Alexis)(Pevná vazba)

Hokusai - A Life in Drawing (Baatsch Henri-Alexis)(Pevná vazba)

A beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), the most prolific and diverse artist of Japan's Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e - `images of the floating

Le Corbusier: Drawing as Process (Pauly Daniele)(Pevná vazba)

'Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them, the secrets of form.'--Le Corbusier Charles- douard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), is famous for transforming 20th-century architecture and

Hokusai (Mextorf Olaf)(Pevná vazba)

His Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric obsessed with art, created with his pictures of the floating world, a veritable encyclopedia of Japanese daily life and thus became a major source for Europeans seeking to understand the art

Hokusai Pop-Ups (Watson McCarthy Courtney)(Pevná vazba)

Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist born in 1760 whose legacy remains, some 150 years after his death, as important as ever. His work influenced Impressionism and Art Nouveau, and a range of contemporary artists working today.Realized in jewel-like colors, Hokusai's simple views of everyday

Walking (Thoreau Henry David)(Pevná vazba)

This summation of his life's work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. 'Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present,' he wrote. He extolled walking as a delightful and necessary

No Lawyers in Heaven - A Life Defending Serious Crime (Milner Henry)(Pevná vazba)

In this remarkable memoir, Milner gives a real insight into the life of a top London criminal lawyer and into the mind of his clients, along the way introducing us to some of the most colourful characters ever to appear on either side of the

Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948-1949, 1958 (Frizot Michel)(Pevná vazba)

In December 1948, Henri Cartier-Bresson traveled to China at the request of Life magazine. He wound up staying for ten months and captured some of the most spectacular moments in China's history: he photographed Beijing in 'the last days of the Kuomintang,' and then headed back to Shanghai, where

Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks (Rockman Alexis)(Pevná vazba)

The shipwreck narrative is used to explore globalization, colonization and climate change in the masterful works of contemporary American painter Alexis RockmanIn Shipwrecks, Alexis Rockman (born 1962) looks at the world's waterways as a network by which all of history has traveled. The transport

Margaret Tudor: The Life of Henry VIII's Sister (Clegg Melanie)(Pevná vazba)

A fresh look at the turbulent and dramatic life of Henry VIII's eldest

The Illustrated Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Thoreau Henry David)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. 'Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!' Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as

No Life Too Small - Love and loss at the world's first animal hospice (Fleming Alexis)(Pevná vazba)

A Way to Pray: A Biblical Method for Enriching Your Prayer Life (Henry Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life (MacCulloch Diarmaid)(Pevná vazba)

The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have been awaiting for four hundred years. --Hilary

Hokusai (Paget Rhiannon)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of prints, illustrations, paintings, and beyond forms

An Education in Ruin (Bass Alexis)(Pevná vazba)

From Alexis Bass, the acclaimed author of Happily and Madly, comes this lush and sophisticated tale of scandal, greed, love, and revenge, An Education in Ruin. The Mahoney brothers are the golden boys of Rutherford Institute. Collins Pruitt is going to ruin them. Theo Mahoney is well-connected and

King Henry V (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and

Hokusai - beyond the Great Wave (Keyes Roger)(Pevná vazba)

An acknowledged master during his lifetime, Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Exhibitions since the 1980s have presented his long career as a chronological sequence. This publication, which will coincide with an

Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered (McDonald Henry)(Pevná vazba)

To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tells the remarkable story of McGuinness' journey from IRA leader to deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, and features all the milestones in his life

Life in a Jungle (Grobbelaar Bruce)(Pevná vazba)

David Hockney: Drawing from Life (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrating more than 60 years of intimate portraiture by David HockneyPublished to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney's drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close

Lock 13 (Helton Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Bath, England. When his life drawing model disappears without trace, painter-sleuth Chris Honeysett uncovers evidence of a dangerous conspiracy. Henry Blinkhorn drowned when his boat capsized in the Severn estuary. So how come his photograph appears on the front cover of The Angler six years later?

Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering (Ott Henry W.)(Pevná vazba)

Praise for Noise Reduction Techniques IN electronic systems 'Henry Ott has literally 'written the book' on the subject of EMC. . . . He not only knows the subject, but has the rare ability to communicate that knowledge to others.' --EE Times Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering is a completely

Hobbsy - A Life in Cricket (Kelly Rob)(Pevná vazba)

Walden and Civil Disobedience (Thoreau Henry David)(Pevná vazba)

In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort to get away from the noise brought about by a