Railways Studios - How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand (Alsop Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Railways Studios - How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand (Alsop Peter)(Pevná vazba)

On the 100th anniversary of its creation, this book celebrates Railways Studios--the design studio of the New Zealand Railways--and its role in helping build and connect New Zealand. It's a surprising story: a government agency that produced advertising for any-and-all clients, and dominated

The New Irish Studies (Reynolds Paige)(Pevná vazba)

The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions demonstrates how diverse critical approaches enable a richer understanding of contemporary Irish writing and culture. The past two decades in Ireland and Northern Ireland have seen an astonishing rate of change, one that reflects the

How to Be a Historian: Scholarly Personae in Historical Studies, 1800-2000 (Paul Herman)(Pevná vazba)

Kobzar (Shevchenko Taras)(Pevná vazba)

Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage.As a foundational text, The Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko has played an important role in

Wool Studio: The Knitwear Capsule Collection (Babin Meghan)(Pevná vazba)

Round out your wardrobe with luxurious knitwear design Wool Studio is a capsule collection for the modern knitter featuring sophisticated, simple, and luxurious designs. In this collection you'll enjoy exquisite patterns from top knitwear designers including Norah Gaughan, Kate Gagnon Osborn,

Visual Methodology in Migration Studies - New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions(Pevná vazba)

This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of

New Yorkers (Davies Sally)(Pevná vazba)

New Yorkers presents more than 70 intimate portraits of people in their apartments and studios--captured in unique style by renowned New York street photographer Sally Davies--along with their testimonies and tales, and their illuminating observations on what it means to be a New Yorker

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication (Amaya Lucis Fernandez)(Pevná vazba)

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (im)politeness in human communication. The study of linguistic (im)politeness is undoubtedly one of the central concerns in the field of pragmatics, as

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America (Fine Peter Claver)(Pevná vazba)

Own Label: Sainsbury’s Design Studio: 1962 - 1977 - Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Jonny Trunk

A new expanded edition of this must-have book for all graphic designers In 1962, when Peter Dixon joined the Sainsbury’s Design Studio, a remarkable revolution in packaging design began. The supermarket was developing its distinctive range of Own Label products, and Dixon’s designs for the

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Eyal Nir)(Pevná vazba)

Revised and Updated, Featuring a New Case Study How do successful companies create products people can't put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook

Industrial Facility (Hecht Sam)(Pevná vazba)

The first monograph on the complete works of award-winning design studio Industrial FacilitySam Hecht and Kim Colin's world-renowned, London-based studio is one of the most influential in industrial design, and their work has enjoyed a global cult following thanks to its combination of simplicity

Romano - Ibiza Summer Houses (Romano Jaime)(Pevná vazba)

The prestigious architecture studio Romano presents its new book, a masterpiece dedicated to lovers of the world of decoration and architecture, lovers of contemporary lifestyle, and above all, of the Ibizan

Changing Language Assessment: New Dimensions, New Challenges (Hidri Sahbi)(Pevná vazba)

This edited book brings together fifteen original empirical studies from a variety of international contexts to provide a detailed exploration of language assessment, testing and evaluation. Language assessment has a key role in the development and implementation of language and educational

Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies (Coxon Peter)(Pevná vazba)

It reviews a number of significant advances in the last three decades on the understanding of the pattern and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and occupation

Sports in Africa, Past and Present (Cleveland Todd)(Pevná vazba)

These groundbreaking sports studies essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world.Since the late-nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political,

Growing: How Animals Come Into Our World (Willemsen Marlonneke)(Pevná vazba)

Dutch photographer Marionneke Willemsen uses studio style images to transform zoological facts into a highly poetic document of becoming and growing on our planet. Text in English, German and

Frank Bowling: London / New York (Bowling Frank)(Pevná vazba)

Fifty years of Bowling's adventures in abstraction, with archival studio shots and a conversation with the artist's familyA survey of Frank Bowling's (born 1936) abstract painting practice of the last 50 years, Frank Bowling: London / New York is published on the occasion of concurrent exhibitions

Megalith: Studies in Stone (Various)(Pevná vazba)

Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, Designa, and Trivium in the acclaimed Wooden Books series, Megalith is a compendium of writings about stone structures throughout history. How do you predict eclipses at Stonehenge? Why were stone monuments built where they are? What is the meaning

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Carson D. A.)(Pevná vazba)

Christianity Today 2008 Award of Merit (Biblical Studies)Readers of the New Testament often encounter quotes or allusions to Old Testament stories and prophecies that are unfamiliar or obscure. In order to fully understand the teachings of Jesus and his followers, it is important to understand the

NIV Soul Survivor Journalling Bible (Version New International)(Pevná vazba)

Spend time engaging creatively with God's word through interactive Bible studies and marginal activities in this journalling Bible from Soul

Big-Game: Everyday Objects: Industrial Design Works (Koivu Anniina)(Pevná vazba)

Big-Game is a design studio based in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 2004 by Augustin Scott de Martinville, Gr goire Jeanmonod and Elric Petit. Based on a series of interviews with the founders, this book looks at 15 years of the group's industrial design work on everyday objects, by way of

Lead!: How to Build a High-Performing Team (Carnegie &. Associates Dale)(Pevná vazba)

Dale Carnegie Training's LEAD! is for new leaders and seasoned leaders alike who want to learn how to become a friendlier person, how to win people to their way of thinking, and most importantly, how to be a successful leader

The New Jewish American Literary Studies (Aarons Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

This volume is designed for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars and teachers of Jewish American literature. It will be of interest to the educated lay audience given the timely nature of some of the issues addressed: race, gender, cultural and ethnic hybridity, and the relation of