This is a comprehensive monograph on the work of Achille Castiglioni, one of the most important designers of the second half of the 20th century. Architect and designer of lighting, exhibitions, and a variety of products, the Milan-based Castiglioni has been working since the 1930s and is today recognized around the world as one of the undisputed masters of contemporary design. He has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in the early 1990s. Many of his products have been awarded with the prestigious Compasso d`oro prize. Achille Castiglioni was born in 1918. After his degree in architecture in 1944, he started his career, concentrating mostly in architecture,...
ISBN: 1-904313-04-3
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: январь 2001
An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a housefly; and in the novella "A Smart Cunt", the drug-addled I young hero spins off on a collision course with his past. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 0-09-943501-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Амели Нотомб – современная французская писательница бельгийского происхождения. Каждый ее роман, а их уже вышло около двух десятков, сразу становится бестселлером. В своих произведениях она исследует вопросы любви. Любви страстной и мучительной настолько, что герой готов разрушить, убить объект своего воздыхания, лишь бы только он больше не мучил его сердце. В 2007 году роман удостоился премии – выбор...
ISBN: 978-2-253-12118-3
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The author of A Year in Provence takes readers on an around-the-world journey, showing them where to find the best of everything, including caviar, custom-made shoes, and more. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, Richard Cantrell, an American colonel, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has `a profile that could break your or anyone else`s heart`. Catrell is embittered, war-scarred old enough to be Renata`s father but is overwhelmed by the selflesess and freshness of the love she is offering. But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some the longed-for peace has come too late.
ISBN: 0-09-990960-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Across Cultures is a new modular, flexible, user-friendly course which presents a wide variety of material on the English-speaking world. Traditional topics, such as geography and institutions, are fully covered, along with the most up-to-date themes and topics.
ISBN: 978-0-582-81814-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone--one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship--tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn`t do something soon, her parents will be next. Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed`s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there`s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the...
ISBN: 978-1-59514-454-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the host of the popular "Steve Harvey Morning Show" comes a funny, honest, and foolproof guide for all women that takes them inside the heads of men and shows how men think about love, sex, and commitment.
`No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else`. Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London`s oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realizes that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man. Enter Marius into Marisa`s affections. And now Felix must ask himself, is he really happy?
ISBN: 978-0-09-952673-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
There are two weeks to go to the US presidential election when the hot favourite, Josh Alexander, is ambushed by a terrorist bomb. He narrowly escapes, but members of his entourage are not so lucky. Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote. On the surface, it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda. But then CIA director Irene Kennedy is presented with classified information so toxic that she has no option but to call on Mitch Rapp, America`s top counterterrorism operative: the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0269-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the bestselling author of "The Learning Curve". It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size… Sharp, witty Jasmin Field has her own column in a national magazine and has just landed the coveted role of Elizabeth Bennett in a one-off fundraising adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Better yet, the play’s director, Hollywood heartthrob and Oscar-winner, Harry Noble, is every bit as obnoxious as she could have hoped. Which means a lot of material for her column. And a lot of fun in rehearsals. And then disaster strikes. Jazz’s best friend abandons her for a man not worthy to buy her chocolate, her family starts to crumble before her eyes and...
ISBN: 978-0-09-950578-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
From firefighters to snowboarders, private investigators to movie stars, dress the dolls ready for action in this exciting sticker book. There are over 300 reusable stickers of clothes, costumes, equipment and accessories to get the dolls ready, so the book can be enjoyed time and time again.
The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied public interest in Abstract Expressionism and sparked rancorous debate? Drawing on recent critical, historical, and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a sharp new focus on a pivotal art movement. It also presents an extensive commentary on the two most influential critics of postwar American art—Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg—whose powerful views shaped perceptions...
Action Plan for IELTS is a short, self-study guide for students about to take the IELTS test. The book is organised by paper and examines each question type in detail. It gives students a last-minute action plan, providing examples, mini practice tasks and strategies to maximise their band score in the test. Action Plan for IELTS is available for both the Academic and General Training module. The Academic module is suitable for students around Band 6+ and the General Training module for students around Band 5+. A Self-study Student`s Book and an Audio CD are also available.
ISBN: 978-0-521-61527-3
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
ActionScript\'s sheer volume of capabilities can be daunting. The ActionScript Cookbook breaks it all down into tasks that are relevant, practical, and insightful. On top of hundreds of atomic recipes, it offers seven full chapters of larger sample applications. Appealing to all levels of ActionScript coders, this book offers concrete solutions to the most common ActionScript needs and problems. The ActionScript Cookbook is for people who want to hit the ground running.
ISBN: 0-596-00490-7
Издательство:
O'Reilly & Associates
Дата выхода: август 2003
"Action Plan for IELTS" is a short, self-study guide for students about to take the IELTS test. The book is organised by paper and examines each question type in detail. It gives students a last-minute action plan, providing examples, mini practice tasks and strategies to maximise their band score in the test. Формат издания: 22 см х 28 см.
ISBN: 978-0-521-61528-0
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Action Plan for IELTS is a short, self-study guide for students about to take the IELTS test. The book is organised by paper and examines each question type in detail. It gives students a last-minute action plan, providing examples, mini practice tasks and strategies to maximise their band score in the test. Action Plan for IELTS is available for both the Academic and General Training module. The Academic module is suitable for students around Band 6+ and the General Training module for students around Band 5+. A Self-study Pack and an Audio CD are also available.
ISBN: 978-0-521-61531-0
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Action Plan for IELTS is a short self-study guide for students about to take the IELTS test. The book is organised by paper and examines each question type in detail. It gives students a last-minute action plan, providing examples, mini practice tasks and strategies to maximise their band score in the test. Action Plan for IELTS is available for both the Academic and General Training module. The Academic module is suitable for students around Band 6+ and the General Training module for students around Band 5+. A Self-study Pack and Audio CD are also available.
ISBN: 978-0-521-61530-3
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Listening" Second Edition is a fully updated and revised edition of the popular three-level listening series for adult and young adult learners of North American English. Each level offers students 16 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic, the series gives students a frame of reference to make predictions about what they will hear. Through a careful balance of activities, students learn to listen for main ideas, to listen for details, and to listen and make inferences. "Active Listening", Second Edition, Level 1 is intended for high-beginning to low-intermediate students....
ISBN: 978-0-521-67814-8
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2012
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Expanding Skills for Understanding is the intermediate level of the Active Listening series. By activating students` knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. The listening activities are content-based, drawing on real information from a variety of sources.
