The Eye of History: When Images Take Positions (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

The Eye of History: When Images Take Positions (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's 'photoepigrams.'From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, War Primer, with war photographs clipped from

The Man Who Walked in Color (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and

Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had

Bark (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Pevná vazba)

A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as

Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to

Survival of the Fireflies (Didi-Huberman Georges)(Paperback)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber

Animal Farm (Orwell George)(Pevná vazba)

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take

Harley-Davidson: The Complete History (Holmstrom Darwin)(Pevná vazba)

Cruise through this collection of Harley-Davidson's most iconic motorcycles When most people imagine a motorcycle, chances are they picture a Harley-Davidson. That's because Harley-Davidson machines look the way the primordial biker inside each of us feels a motorcycle should look. In short,

The Papers of George Washington, 2: September-December 1775 (Washington George)(Pevná vazba)

This volume covers the middle months of the siege of Boston when George Washington faced the delicate task of disbanding one army and recruiting another, all within musket shot of the British forces. Throughout the fall of 1775, assisted and sometimes thwarted by congressmen, New England officials,

George Orwell: English Rebel (Colls Robert)(Pevná vazba)

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who

Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past - An Irish Novelist Re-imagines History (Hicks Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

Great Moments in the History of Life (Shaw George H.)(Pevná vazba)

Presents a lucid introduction to the earth history leading up to human historyIntegrates aspects of cosmology, astrophysics and chemistry wth the fossil record in the examination of the evolution of major groups of animals and plantsAs a general introduction to science this book emphasizes the

Curious George and the Firefighters (Rey H. A.)(Pevná vazba)

George and the man with the yellow hat take a trip to the firehouse where George finds all sorts of new things to explore. When one curious monkey meets a company of unsuspecting firefighters, a big adventure is sure to

Machine Learning in Image Steganalysis (Schaathun Hans Georg)(Pevná vazba)

Steganography is the art of communicating a secret message, hiding the very existence of a secret message. This is typically done by hiding the message within a non-sensitive document. Steganalysis is the art and science of detecting such hidden messages. The task in steganalysis is to take an

Bradshaw's Handbook (Bradshaw George)(Pevná vazba)

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or

Eye Of The Cyclops(Pevná vazba)

Giorgione's Ambiguity (Nichols Tom)(Pevná vazba)

The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or 'big George' died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than twenty-five works. But many of these are among the most mysterious and alluring in the history of art. Paintings such as The Three Philosophers and The

St George: A Saint for All (Riches Samantha)(Pevná vazba)

The image of St. George atop his horse, lance plunged halfway into a dragon s body is so familiar to us that we take for granted what a long history it has had. As Samantha Riches demonstrates in this book, St. George is easily one of the most transported icons across cultures, and his history is

Girl Who Died - The Sunday Times bestseller that will take you to the edge of the world (Jonasson Ragnar)(Pevná vazba)

What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History (Fagan Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many

A Short History of Falling (Hammond Joe)(Pevná vazba)

A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places.We keep an old shoebox, Gill and I, nestled in a drawer in our room. It's filled

A History of Photography. from 1839 to the Present (Taschen)(Pevná vazba)

George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of

Selected Poems (Keats John)(Pevná vazba)

John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. But when he died at the age of only twenty-five, his writing had been attacked by critics and his talent remained largely unrecognized. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket

The Evolution and Function of Biological Macrostructures (Glaeser Georg)(Pevná vazba)

With spectacular large-format images complemented by scientifically grounded, yet easy-to-read, explanatory texts, Georg Glaeser and Werner Nachtigall take you on an exciting journey through the fascinating world of macrostructures - small structures in nature that fulfill specific functions. This