Paris: The City of Lights (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

Paris: The City of Lights (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

Discovering the city through the magic of Marsilio's pop-up seriesChildren's book author and illustrator extraordinaire Dario Cestaro (born 1971) presents the beauty of Paris through the spectacular paper architecture of a pop-up book. Cestaro takes young--and young at heart--readers through a

The Wonders of Florence (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in colored pages shaped into Florence's most

Magnificent Milan (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

The first pop-up book on Milan, a 3-D guide for children and adults. Milan revealed by the spectacular paper architecture of Dario Cestaro, in a pop-up book that recounts the city's history in simple texts and curious anecdotes. A fascinating journey through colorful pages that turn into Milan's

In Paris - 20 Women on Life in the City of Light (Bastide Lauren)(Pevná vazba)

Skin & Earth Hc (Lights)(Pevná vazba)

The full collection of Lights' masterwork is here Based on Lights album of the same name, Skin&Earth is a story of a girl looking for hope in a hopeless world. Caught between romance and cults, gods and mortals, and just trying to find a good

Paris Stories (Whiteside Shaun)(Pevná vazba)

Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing

Paris (Rutherfurd Edward)(Paperback / softback)

Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction; from the Blanchards whose bourgeois

Paris - The City of Light (Horne Alastair)(Pevná vazba)

In 150 striking images, Paris celebrates the French capital, from its world-famous landmarks to evocative alleyways and corners that might surprise you. Presented in a landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each entry, Paris is a stunning collection of images celebrating the

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Ferlinghetti Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Printer's ink is the greater explosive.--Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World--and within a year, he had brought

Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning (Desnos Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair's pursuit of the siren Louise Lame: these are the essential ingredients of Liberty or Love , a masterpiece of early Surrealism written by Robert Desnos (1900-1945) and first published in 1924 to immediate acclaim

City of Tears (Mosse Kate)(Pevná vazba)

From the Languedoc to Paris and Amsterdam, Kate Mosse's novel sees the Joubert family caught up in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre and a frightening sequence of events thereafter

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (Briant Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure.As Pierre Briant

City of Pleasure: Paris Between the Wars (Dupouy Alexandre)(Pevná vazba)

After the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly emancipated women alike rejected pre-war values and moral restraints. They embraced new lifestyles, and discovered a lust for extravagance, partying, and erotic

P.S. from Paris (UK Edition) (Levy Marc)(Paperback)

They knew their friendship was going to be complicated, but love--and the City of Lights--just might find a way.On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. But in real life, she's an actress in need of a break from her real-life philandering husband--the megastar who plays her romantic interest

City of the Dead (Morson Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Renoir (Feist Peter H.)(Pevná vazba)

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his work shows painting at its most lighthearted and luminous, while championing the plein air and

Masters of Street Photography (Yarham Rob)(Pevná vazba)

Masters of Street Photography explores the craft and creative secrets of 16 leading lights of the genre. Through probing Q&A style interviews, beautifully reproduced images, captions telling the story of each picture, and detailed technical information, the reader is given an insight into the

Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City (Smith Macs)(Pevná vazba)

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In

City of the Uncommon Thief (Bertrand Lynne)(Pevná vazba)

A dark and intricate fantasy, City of the Uncommon Thief is the story of a quarantined city gripped by fear and of the war that can free it. Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in this city. I hope Errol Thebes is dead. We

Glasgow - A History of the City (Fry Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A one volume history of the great city of Glasgow from the Celts to Celtic by the controversial Scottish historian and biographer of

London 1: The City of London (Bradley Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The City of London encompasses architecture of unsurpassed richness and variety, from the Tower of London to Richard Roger's iconoclastic Lloyd's building. This guide unlocks the city's treasures and investigates its

Northern Lights - The Graphic Novel (Pullman Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle - a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. Lyra hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, never suspecting the shocking truth, that she alone is destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City (Meagher Sharon M.)(Pevná vazba)

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into clear sections addressing the following central topics: -

Paris (Almasy Paul)(Pevná vazba)

This captivating book of Paul Almasy's Paris photographs is a vivid and evocative portrait of the city in all its mid-century vibrancy and change. Text in English, German and