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Architect Albert Frey (1903—1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving to the United States in 1930, convinced it was the land of architectural opportunity. On a visit to Palm Springs, he fell under the desert spell. It was here, amid the arid and empty landscape, that he could truly envisage a perfect modern future. Like fellow Californian luminary, John Lautner, Frey would spend the rest of his career nurturing the...
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics. Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the...
| Автор | Sherriff R. , Р. Шеррифф |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2000 |
Modern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, Niall Ferguson offers a bold and original analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape. Far from being driven by the profit motive alone, our recent history, as Ferguson makes brilliantly clear, has also been made by potent and often conflicting human impulses - sex, violence and the desire for power. In this...
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2002 |
This spectacular book offers a scintillating, visually outstanding tour of more than 65 of the worlds most fascinating houses. Massimo Listris stunning photographs vary between sweeping panoramas of the houses in their glorious settings to close-ups of specific rooms, furniture and design details, and they span homes around the world, from India to France, from Morocco to Sweden, from the USA to the UK. Unprecedented in scope and scale, this book will be devoured by anyone with an interest in...
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| Год | 2008 |
The first monograph on the iconic independent New York street fashion label Supreme. In April 1994, Supreme opened its doors on Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan and became the home of New York City skate culture. Challenging the dominance of the established Wes Coast skater scene and the new conservatism of 1990s New York, Supreme defined the aesthetic of an era of rebellious cool that reached from skaters to fashionistas and hip hop heads. Over the last sixteen years, the brand has...
| Год | 2010 |
В эту книгу вошли теоретические работы замечательных педагогов Щукинского вуза — Вахтанговской театральной школы: М. А. Пантелеевой, Ю. А. Стромова и А. М. Поламишева, посвятивших себя благородному делу воспитания актёров и режиссёров. В своих трудах они объёмно раскрывают принципы щукинской школы, учения живого и постоянно развивающегося. Читателям представлены три взгляда на сложный процесс формирования театральных мастеров. Книга может быть интересна не только для практиков сценического...
| Автор | М.А. Пантелеева |
| Жанр | Книги о театре |
| Год | 2011 |
A CLASSIC TALE OF THE LOVES, CRIMES AND STRUGGLES CONFRONTED BY ONE FAMILY OF IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY. From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - must steer them through the Depression and the early years of war as they adapt to life in a strange land. However, she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian and American values - nor the violence and bloodshed which must surely follow...
| Автор | Puzo M |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2012 |
Was im Leben wirklich wichtig ist. Arno Geiger hat ein ausserst beruhrendes Buch uber seinen Vater geschrieben, der trotz seiner Alzheimerkrankheit mit Vitalitat und Klugheit beeindruckt. Im Alltag ist der Vater oft hellwach, aber seine Vergangenheit, sein Haus und seine Kinder hat er vergessen. Arno Geiger erzahlt, wie er nochmals Freundschaft mit seinem Vater schliesst und ihn viele Jahre begleitet. Er entdeckt, dass es auch mit der Krankheit bei seinem Vater noch alles gibt: Charme, Witz,...
| Автор | A. Geiger |
| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2012 |
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention...
| Автор | Baxter S. |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2013 |
From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or Picasso have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions, and libido and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica Universalis, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we...
| Год | 2013 |
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth – but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new ‘America’, called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth – and Valhalla...
| Автор | Пратчетт Т., Baxter S. |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2014 |
Der Albtraum einer Frau. Ein damonischer Psychothriller. Die verzerrte Stimme kam aus einem Lautsprecher irgendwo im Dunklen: »Herzlichen Gluckwunsch zu deinem Geburtstag, Merete. Du bist jetzt hier seit 126 Tagen, und das ist unser Geburtstagsgeschenk: Das Licht wird von nun an ein Jahr lang eingeschaltet bleiben. Es sei denn, du weisst die Antwort: Warum halten wir dich fest?« Am 2. Marz 2002 verschwindet eine Frau spurlos auf der Fahre von Rodby nach Puttgarden, man vermutet Tod durch...
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| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2014 |
2040-2045: In the years after a cataclysmic eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But he is not what he seems. For Joshua, the crisis he...
| Автор | Пратчетт Т., Baxter S. |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2015 |
Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries....
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| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2015 |
Virtually no style has left its mark on the image of an age as profoundly as Art Deco. From its origins in Paris, it asserted its influence throughout the world. Combining disparate elements to develop a unique language о forms, Art Deco embraced all fields of art and culture: painting, sculpture architecture, interiors, crafts, fashion, jewelry, and graphic design. This opulent volume traces the chronology of Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and...
| Год | 2016 |
Exit Art is an intimate portrait of an institution that from 1982 to 2012 challenged social, political, aesthetic and curatorial norms. Committed to experimenting at the intersection of disciplines, publications and design, the gallery Exit Art remained steadfast in its mission to provide new possibilities and opportunities for artists, curators and viewers through its expansive historical shows, exhibitions of emerging and under-recognized artists, experimental theater and performance works, as...
| Жанр | Искусствоведение |
| Год | 2016 |
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten...
| Автор | B. Bryson |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2016 |
Теодор Визенгрунд-Адорно - немецкий философ, социолог, музыковед, культуролог. Учился в Венском университете, изучал музыкальную композицию у А.Берга, ученика А.Шёнберга. С 1931 г. преподавал в Франкфуртском университете. В 1934 г. эмигрировал в Великобританию, в 1938 - в США. Выдающийся музыкальный критик исследовал становление музыки XX века, выявлял пути ее развития. В том вошли "Введение в социологию музыки. Двенадцать теоретических лекций", "Антон фон Веберн", "Moments musicaux"...
| Автор | Адорно Т. |
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| Год | 2017 |