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«О языке композиции» — сборник эссе известного графика, шрифтового дизайнера и художника Юрия Гордона. Десятки лет дизайнерской практики привели его к мысли о том, что едва ли не все области человеческой деятельности подчиняются единым композиционным законам. В рамках этой теории возможны такие необычные термины, как интерфейс Сикстинской капеллы, силовые точки киноплаката и глубина проработанности шрифта. Однако автор пишет не учебник, а потому не слишком заботится о строгости определений. По...
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| Год | 2018 |
In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova, the boy she liked, liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia’s Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreams. Then, on 22 June 1941, Hitler broke his pact with Stalin and declared war on the Soviet Union. All too soon, Leningrad was besieged and life became a living hell....
| Автор | Mukhina Elena |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2016 |
О том, насколько важны нюансы при ведении бизнеса. Закрывая глаза на «разбитое окно», можно довести компанию до ее полного краха, когда капля за каплей будут накапливаться и повторяться с виду ничем не примечательные, но очень значимые регулярные происшествия. О том, как теория разбитых окон Уилсона и Келлинга, описывающая проблемы в преступном мире, легко вписывается в мир бизнеса.
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| Жанр | Деловая литература |
| Год | 2020 |
The film tie-in edition of John Greens witty yet heart-breaking tour de force. This edition of the multi-million #1 bestseller contains images from the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters...
| Автор | Green |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2012 |
'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'. In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- wrote a spirited satire denouncing Josef Stalin. It proved to be a sixteen-line death sentence. For his one act of defiance he was arrested by the Cheka, the secret police, interrogated, exiled and eventually re-arrested. He died en route to one of Stalin's labour camps. ...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 1999 |
The term "smart" in reference to homes and communities describes places whose function is related to or affected by information technology. In the wake of the ongoing digital revolutions of the 21st century, designers and planners are paying significant attention to the design of dwellings and neighbourhoods and are considering new economic realities, by integrating innovative digital appliances, which are also helping to foster economic sustainability for future generations. In this important...
| Год | 2018 |
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey from an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, through the eccentricities of...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
'Well-being for all is not a dream.' In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs - beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today. Humane, thoughtful - but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal, narrow few clinging onto their wealth and privileges at the expense of the many), The Conquest...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2015 |
The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1,000 of today's most must-see contemporary buildings – whether at home or on the road Featuring 1,000 of today's most compelling buildings by the world's finest architects, Destination: Architecture is an unparalleled and comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to get more out of their travels. No journey, from a long weekend to a long-haul trip, would be complete without this expertly curated 'who's who' of the most exciting...
| Год | 2017 |
The fragment - an essential part of the structure which carries within it the genetic code of the whole, is in the core of this visual inquiry depicting Tel Aviv’s White City. The encounter between a building style originating in Europe and the Mediterranean glare, is highlighted by the colour photography. While paying homage to the Bauhaus spirit and the avant-garde photographers of the 1920s, it is also a tribute to past ideals and present renewal, enhancing the current relevance of the Modern...
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| Год | 2018 |
В течение десяти тысяч лет люди совершенствовали производство спиртных напитков, но лишь сравнительно недавно ученые начали использовать достижения науки для того, чтобы создать их идеальный состав. В ярком турне по культурам и континентам Адам Роджерс проводит нас по ведущим мировым лабораториям, барам и питейным заведениям, где совершенствуется наука пития. Автор описывает физические, биологические и химические основы идеального напитка, отдельно останавливаясь на психологических и...
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| Жанр | Кулинарные книги |
| Год | 2017 |
Zaha Hadid's gift to the world was a creative genius that captured the collective imagination and influenced designers to challenge the perceived limits that were once imposed by both aesthetics and engineering. Her sudden death in 2016 shocked the global architecture community and the public alike, inspiring a commitment to maintain her passion to create built spaces and works that are as unique as they are endearing to a fascinated global following. Zaha Hadid Architects maintains its...
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2017 |
The KingsHaven Design team is skilled at transforming timeworn interiors and exteriors into breathtaking spaces for inspired living by sharing with their clients the spectacular work of artisans and artworks from around the world, and by developing strong fair-trade relationships with artists that benefit them, their families, and their communities. Be it working with a stonemason to salvage the granite facade of a historic estate, collaborating with blacksmiths on a lighting fixture or custom...
| Жанр | Дизайн интерьера Декор |
| Год | 2019 |
No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vйra Slonim shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humour of any woman he had met. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vйra form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story, and they are memorable in their entirety. Almost always playful, romantic, and pithy, the...
| Автор | Nabokov |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2016 |
Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground.Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2006 |
Autobiographical in nature, yet global in its true scope, Song Without Wordsbrings to light the gifts of a major figure whose previously unknown works enrich our knowledge of literature, photography, and history.
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2007 |