Barcelona is the cultural center of Spain. A tourist`s hot spot and one of the most frequented cities in summer. There is a lot more to Barcelona`s architecture than just Gaud?. Since the Olympic Games in 1992 international architects began to shape the capital of Modernism with numerous contructions. Norman Foster, Frank O. Ghery and many more have left their footsteps. The Forum of Cultures 2004 provided another opportunity of city planning. Slowly Barcelona has been transformed into a an artistic reference: it has an insatiable appetite for new design and innovations, but still highly values its rich architectural past. Old and new are close. Like this it became a model that other cities may choose to imitate due to its cosmopolitan...
ISBN: 978-3-86654-029-3
Издательство:
daab
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Barry Edelstein gathers together the timeless Shakespearean wit and wisdom that`s right for the big moments in life-and some of the not-so-big moments as well - and presents it in accessible and entertaining terms. Selections are grouped by occasion and presented with lively and succinct background material. For public speakers or letter writers hoping to enhance their remarks with some choice Shakespearean gem, "Shakespeare for All Occasions" provides nuts and bolts tips on pronunciation, delivery, and emphasis, and offers suggestions and examples that illustrate ways in which musings from the Bard can be woven into a simple and elegant speech, missive, or meditation. This `how-to` material makes "Shakespeare for All Occasions" stand...
"Down time" is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan`s vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a suspicious fire, and a mysterious black residue from a small-plane crash. But most troubling of all are the bones… Tempe`s daughter`s new boyfriend invites them to a picnic - a pig pickin` - in the North Carolina countryside, where a cache of bones turns up. But are they animal or human? X-rays and DNA may link the crimes, but they can`t reveal who is closing in on Tempe and her daughter - and how far they will go to keep her from uncovering the truth.
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: • How a war started when a Brit insisted on sitting on a stool? • Who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls? • Why a Brit soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe? Discover all the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-407104-21-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
From the outside in, explore exquisite timber frame homes at your leisure. Floor plans serve as your tour guide, while leading architectural photographers illuminate the astonishing spaces and intimate detailing of authentic homes. Each evokes the grandeur of the inherited barn-style form, while expressing the individuality of the owners who took part in designing their one-of-a-kind homes. In all, 30 homes are presented for your inspection, with imagery of exteriors, great rooms, kitchens, dining areas, intimate studies, dens, and formal living rooms, as well as spacious master suites and beautifully appointed bedrooms and baths. This book will inspire all who hope to build or furnish a unique post and beam home of their own.
ISBN: 978-0-7643-2386-7
Издательство:
Schiffer
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dickens`s first historical novel is set against the infamous `No Popery` riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who would exploit these for political ends, are Dickens`s targets. His vivid account of the riots at the heart of the novel is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism. A typically rich cast of comic characters, from the snivelling Miss Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted `Barnaby Rudge` of the title, ensures high entertainment.
ISBN: 1-85326-739-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
It`s carnival time under the sea! Join all of your underwater friends for games, goodies, and rides galore! This incredible hardbound book features eight fully-illustrated spreads of aquatic antics and amazing pop-ups, with enough hilarious details to keep you exploring again and again. Sales of this book benefit Conservation International.
Now available for the first time in paperback, this extraordinary book examines the ‘culture of excess’ in all its twentieth-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in Stephen Calloway’s consideration of the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical. The author examines early examples of Baroque excess – by the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and others – as well as the darker Baroque spirit of the wartime Neo-Romantics or film-makers such as Fellini and Jarman. Tracing the Baroque tendency into the 1990s, he shows how ideas have cross-fertilized, providing links between such unlikely bedfellows as Leon Bakst and Luis Bunuel, Coco Chanel and Nigel Coates, Liberace and Lacroix....
ISBN: 0714838608
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Sicilian Baroque architecture was open to the whole world of European Baroque and yet stubbornly protective of its own unique identity. Sicilian Baroque was once described by Anthony Blunt as the style ‘in which the energy and imagination of the south attained full and mature expression’. This volume superbly affirms that this era in the island’s history was a crucial phase in Western civilization. Through analysis and above all by revelatory photography it seeks to define what makes the Baroque of Sicily distinctive: • How does it differ from the Baroque not only of other countries but also from that of other Italian regions? • How was it possible to impose that particular character upon churches and palaces, sculpture and...
Indochine, années 1920. Ruinée après l`acquisition d`un terrain incultivable, la mère de Suzanne et Joseph érige en vain des barrages contre l`océan, qui noie ses récoltes. Alors qu`elle sombre dans la folie, les adolescents, livrés à eux-mêmes, font l`apprentissage de la vie. A travers ce roman d`inspiration autobiographique, Marguerite Duras dénonce, dans une écriture âpre et sans détour, l`injustice du système colonial. Le texte intégral de l`oeuvre accompagné de notes de bas de page. Huit fiches pour faire le tour de l`oeuvre: Marguerite Duras en 17 dates, l`oeuvre dans son contexte, la structure de l`oeuvre, les grands thèmes de l`oeuvre, les...
Leading colleges, universities, and government agencies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa recognize IELTS as fulfilling English competency requirements for ESL students. This new manual with audio CDs presents six full-length IELTS practice exams with answers and explanations. The compact discs provide audio for all six of the tests` listening and reading modules. Test takers can use these exams as solid preparation for the actual IELTS. They can also use this book as a supplement to the recently published Barron`s IELTS, which contains extensive practice and review for all test sections plus additional practice exams.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-9798-7
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This manualas new edition offers prospective graduate students intensive preparation for the GRE Graduate Record Exam. Opening chapters provide a perspective on the exam with a GRE overview, advice on effective test-taking tactics, and a diagnostic test to help students pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses. Subsequent chapters review all GRE test areas and include practice exercises for the following topics: antonym, analogy, and sentence-completion questions, reading comprehension, vocabulary, analytical writing, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, data interpretation questions, and math. The math review includes questions in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. The manualas concluding section presents...
ISBN: 9780764142000
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2009
The GRE Graduate Record Exam is changing substantially starting in August 2011, and Barron`s will be ready in early July with a thoroughly revised test prep manual that reflects the new exam content. New question types will appear in both the GRE`s Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections, and the model tests in Barron`s brand-new 19th edition reflect these changes: Verbal Reasoning - The Reading Comprehension Question will now consist of three types: Multiple-choice questions for which only one answer out of five choices is correct; additional multiple-choice questions in which one or more of three choices might be correct; and Select-In Passages which require test-takers to choose a sentence that accurately describes a...
ISBN: 978-0-7641-4616-9
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The two-part Writing Test is an important component of the SAT, and this workbook offers college-bound students comprehensive preparation for both parts. Instruction in organizing one’s thoughts, drafting, and editing an essay includes advice on completing the essay within the SAT’s time limitation. Preparation for the Writing Test’s second part includes exercises consisting of multiple-choice questions that test each student’s skill in correcting mistakes in grammar and improving poorly-written sentences. This workbook also presents five writing tests with answers, explanations, and criteria for analyzing and assessing written essays.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-4204-8
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
College-bound students preparing for the ACT will find the help they need in this new, seventeenth edition. Its helpful features include: A detailed explanation and overview of the ACT; Three full-length model tests with all questions answered and explained in depth PLUS a new rubric for calculating and interpreting your ACT score; Detailed subject reviews that cover all parts of the ACT: English, math, reading, science, and the writing test; Study advice and proven test-taking strategies.
