Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum (Jenkins Ian)(Pevná vazba)

British Museum: Mixed-Up Masterpieces, Amusing Animals (Nosy Crow)(Pevná vazba)

In this seriously silly series, featuring artefacts from the British Museum, children can solve the puzzle by matching up the correct animals on the split pages - and then mix them all up again to create 2000 hilarious

British Museum: Mixed-Up Masterpieces, Funny Faces (Nosy Crow)(Pevná vazba)

A fantastically funny fusion of faces from the British Museum's collection In this seriously silly flip book, featuring famous faces from the British Museum, children can solve the puzzle by matching up the correct faces on the split pages - and then mix them all up again to create two thousand

Lonely Planet's Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist (Lonely Planet)(Pevná vazba)

What's the #1 experience in the United Kingdom? The British Museum? Giant's Causeway? Edinburgh Castle? Sailing the Isles of Scilly? Hull Pier Toilets? For the first time, Lonely Planet has ranked the top 500 unmissable experiences across Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands- to create

Treasures of the British Museum (Caygill Marjorie)(Pevná vazba)

The BM is the greatest treasure house in the world and it could fill many books with pretty pictures ... but this is more than that. A choice selection of topics, some well known and obvious (Sutton Hoo, the Royal Cemeteries at Ur, the Elgin Marbles), others less obvious (the Folkton Drums, the

The Partition of India (Talbot Ian)(Pevná vazba)

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of partition through the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and

Degas, Painter of Ballerinas (Metropolitan Museum of Art the)(Pevná vazba)

Through Edgar Degas's beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his

The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (Peterson Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Compiled from original manuscripts and fragments in the British Museum Library, Joseph Peterson's new presentation is the most complete and accurate edition of this famous magical grimoire, The Lesser Key of Solomon the King. He goes to great length to establish the provenance of each part, and

The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Bloch Amy R.)(Pevná vazba)

Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed sweeping innovations in the art of sculpture. Sculptors rediscovered new types of images from classical antiquity and invented new ones, devised novel ways to finish surfaces, and pushed the limits of their materials to new expressive extremes. The Art of Sculpture

James Bond: Casino Royale (Fleming Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Ian Fleming's literary debut of British Secret Service agent 007 is stylishly adapted to the sequential art medium by Van Jensen and Denis Calero in the official James Bond: Casino Royal graphic novel. Sent to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux, Bond aims to eliminate the threat of the deadly Le

En Passant: Impressionism in Sculpture (Eiling Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the sculptures of Impressionism and how they embody the movement's ideals. Is there such a thing as 'Impressionist sculpture'? Since 1881 when Edgar Degas presented Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, the term has existed along with the discourse

British Museum: The Legend of Troy (Hawk Goldie)(Paperback / softback)

Coinciding with the hotly anticipated British Museum exhibition Troy: Myth and Reality in November 2019, this is the fascinating story of the destruction of an ancient city and the many ways it has been told and retold over

Dinosaurium: Welcome to the Museum (Murray Lily)(Pevná vazba)

The newest title in the Welcome to the Museum series focuses its attention on the impressive beasts that once ruled the world: dinosaurs. With artwork from Chris Wormell, this stunningly curated guide to dinosaurs gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the pages of a

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts (Collins Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Born into a large, musical, and bohemian family in London, the British artist John Craxton (1922-2009) has been described as a Neo-Romantic, but he called himself a 'kind of Arcadian'. His early art was influenced by Blake, Palmer, Mir , and Picasso. After achieving a dream of moving to Greece, his

Met Lost in the Museum - A Seek-and-find Adventure in The Met (Mabbitt Will)(Pevná vazba)

British Museum: Find Tom in Time, Ancient Rome(Pevná vazba)

A brilliantly fun search-and-find puzzle book for children from 6+, developed in consultation with the British Museum!Tom's not only lost in time, he's lost his cat,

British Museum 101 Stickers! Ancient Greece(Paperback / softback)

Take a tour of ancient Greece in this vibrant sticker activity book from the British Museum! Add some statues to the Acropolis, fill the busy marketplace with people and pots and use stickers to fill the ancient Olympic games with

British Museum 101 Stickers! Ancient Egypt(Paperback / softback)

Take a tour of ancient Greece in this vibrant sticker activity book from the British Museum! Fill the Nile with hungry hippos, add mummies into the embalming workshop and use stickers to add people building the

Louvre - The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum (Gardner James (Author))(Pevná vazba)

A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in

The British Dentist (Bairsto Rachel)(Paperback)

Published in association with the British museum of dentistry, this book explores the role of the dentist from its early, crude and gruesome beginnings as a sideline for barbers, wig makers and even blacksmiths Early procedures were tortuous experiences: Extractions were by forceps or commonly by

A House in the Sky: And Other Uncommon Animal Homes (Jenkins Steve)(Pevná vazba)

Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins shines as the author of this amusing and thorough introduction to animal homes. Turtles, birds, fish, beavers, and kangaroos are just like people--they need homes, and take up residence in unusual places. A simple main text introduces similarities between

Gothic Sculpture (Binski Paul)(Pevná vazba)

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wide variety of stone and wood sculpture from such

Judd (Judd Donald)(Pevná vazba)

The first retrospective in 30 years on American maverick Donald Judd's minimalist sculpture, architecture and furniture Published to accompany the first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd's sculpture in more than 30 years, Judd explores the work of a landmark artist who, over the course of

The Birth of the Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia of British Air Power Before and During the Great War - 1914 to 1918 (Philpott Ian)(Pevná vazba)

The Embedding - Ian Watson

Ian Watson´s brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British sf in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Fiercely