We have tirelessly traveled through the countrysides of Sweden, Ireland, England, Holland, France, Greece, Tuscany, Majorca, and Greece in search of the best examples of rural homes that reflect the tradition and culture of their inhabitants. Many inspirational Taschen books have been born from these excursions, but this one is the first to combine examples from all of the different countries we have explored. In 400 pages of luxurious photographs, including details and descriptions, this new book affords fans of country living all the inspiration and diversity they could desire. Издание на английском, немецком и французском языках. Формат: 31 см х 26,5 см.
ISBN: 3-8228-4835-2
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: октябрь 2010
In "Living to Tell the Tale" Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. `My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house`. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood. In the first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103257-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
A wide-ranging Russian novel dealing with the ideas of language, power, and national identity, this comic and thought-provoking work has tremendous relevance to the present day In a world a few decades from now, Russia has descended into a farcical civil war. With an extreme right-wing cult in power, racial tensions have divided the country into the Varangians - those who consider themselves to be the original Aryan settlers of Russia - and the Khazars, the liberals and Jews driven out of Moscow by recent events. Morale has reached an all-time low as the brutality and pointlessness of the situation is becoming more and more apparent. What is left of the fighting now revolves around capturing and recapturing Degunino, a seemingly magical...
ISBN: 978-1-84688-126-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Our homes are not just bricks and mortar, but vital spaces with which we interact. Different colours can change, soften, intensify and alter mood and atmosphere. This book shows how to achieve the results you seek through the use of paint, fabrics, furnishings, ornamentation, plants and flowers.
ISBN: 978-0-06-058925-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Photographer Poul Beckmann`s first collection of larger-than-life beetles was hailed across the globe. The Houston Chronicle called it "one of the season`s happiest marriages of science and art". The Wall Street Journal declared it an "original and beautiful book", while American Photo praised its "dazzling color and sumptuous production values". Now Beckmann has compiled an entirely new collection of gorgeous beetles that are ready for their close-up. Magnified multiple times their normal size and photographed in rich color, their true magnificence is revealed: page after page of luminescent golds, electrifying greens, fiery reds, and unearthly blues. There are beetles with leopard spots and zebra stripes, beetles shaped like rhinos and...
ISBN: 978-3-7913-3777-7
Издательство:
Prestel
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Home series is devoted to interior design and decoration, and presented in a handy format. Leading architects and interior specialists provide inspirational and unique designs that are packed with impressive ideas for your own home. The living room is one of the most important spaces in the house, for rest, relaxation, entertainment, family gatherings, welcoming visitors, hobbies, and many other purposes. This room is the real heart of the house, a transitional space between the outside world and the more private areas of the home, such as bedrooms and bathrooms. When it comes to furnishing and decoration, the living room is traditionally the space that receives most attention - and rightly so. This is the place in the home where we...
ISBN: 978-9-0894-4032-7
Издательство:
Beta-plus
Дата выхода: август 2011
Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company and a Rayburn for comfort. After all, a relationship would only complicate things... But Polly`s life is already complicated. In addition to her job in the Whole Nut cafe and her part in the `Save Our High Street` campaign, there`s her pottery career to get off the ground. Not to mention dodging the efforts of her friends and mother to find her a husband...
ISBN: 0-09-944665-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Nous vivons dans un monde merveilleux et nous ne le savons pas. Nous cotoyons des univers paralleles fabuleux - parfois inquietants - et nous refusons de les voir. Le plus parfait, le plus fascinant, c`est le royaume des fourmis. Dans "L`Encyclopedie du Savoir Relatif et Absolu", Bernard Werber, a devoile une partie de cette civilisation de l`infiniment petit, ou se melent physique et metaphysique, technologie et magie, mathematiques et mystique, epopees modernes et rites anciens. Cette encyclopedie, enfin reconstituee dans son integralite et illustree par Guillaume Aretos, graphiste aux techniques heritees de la Renaissance, nous revele le secret de la pierre philosophale et celui du pain, les projets des tyrans les plus vils et les...
ISBN: 978-2-253-15576-8
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ah, enfin tu me prends dans tes mains! Ah, enfin tu lis ma quatrieme de couverture! Tu ne peux pas savoir comme j`attendais cet instant. J`avais si peur que tu passes sans me voir. J`avais si peur que tu rates cette experience que nous ne pouvons vivre qu`ensemble. Toi lecteur, humain, vivant. Et moi le livre, objet, inerte, mais qui peux te faire decoller pour le grand, le plus simple, le plus extraordinaire des voyages.
ISBN: 9782253150183
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Présenter un choix de textes littéraires originaux choisis parmi ceux d`auteurs français et francophones de tous les lieux et de toutes les époques, plus particulièrement du monde contemporain. Faciliter l`accès au texte littéraire par des thèmes attractifs et variés (la mer, le voyage, la table, le ). Offrir des propositions d`activités autour des textes littéraires pour mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de l`écriture et donc mieux lire les textes. Faire connaître les cultures et les civilisations française Aises et francophones. Donner à la littérature la place qu`elle mérite dans l`apprentissage de la langue française de tous les jours. Telles...
ISBN: 9782706114304
Издательство:
Presses universitaires de Grenoble
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Présenter un choix de textes littéraires originaux choisir parmi ceux d`auteurs français et francophones de tous les lieux et de toutes les époques, plus particulièrement du monde contemporain. Faciliter l`accès au texte littéraire par des thèmes attractifs et variés (la mer, le voyage, la table, le ). Offrir des propositions d`activités autour des textes littéraires pour mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de l`écriture et donc mieux lire les textes. Faire connaître les cultures et les civilisations françaises et francophones. Donner à la littérature la place qu`elle mérite dans l`apprentissage de la longue française de tous les jours. Telles sont...
ISBN: 9782706114298
Издательство:
Presses universitaires de Grenoble
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A cloud is blocking the sun and Lizard is determined to move it... But lizards are not wizards whatever Lizard thinks. This fun rhyming story, specially written to develop phonemic awareness, has wonderful illustrations by David Semple. The book is ideal both for reading aloud and for children who are beginning to read for themselves.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. This volume contains ten short stories, including touching and emotional "Lizzie Leigh" - a poignant tale about illicit love. It deals with the story of a young girl Lizzie who commits a sin and has to deal with consequences. Gaskell brilliantly portraits the deep and true relations of a family.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07712-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Lizzie refuses to speak. She doesn`t want to talk to Rory or Jake, her new stepbrothers. Or to Sam, their dad. Or even to her mum. She`s completely fed up with having to join a new family, and nothing can convince her to speak to them. Not football, not pizza, not a new bedroom. That is, until she meets Great-Gran - a member of the new family who is even more stubborn than she is . . .
ISBN: 9780552557849
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2019
This charming board book from award-winning illustrator, Axel Scheffler is now available in a jigsaw book format. Children will love reading about Lizzy the Lamb, who enjoys skipping, playing with the geese and most of all, jumping as high as she can! Bright illustrations, rhyming text, five fantastic four-piece jigsaws and a fun activity on the final spread will make this a storytime and playtime favourite.
ISBN: 978-0-230-01713-9
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: май 2012
Suso de Того es un reconocido у prestigioso autor de las letras espafiolas. A lo largo de su extensa trayectoria literaria ha recibido, entre otros, el Premio de la Critica espanola en 1993 у 2000, у el Premio Nacional de Narrativa en 2003. Su interes por la problematica social se evidencia tanto en la vida publics, en la que interviene con mirada critica desde tribunas periodisticas у literarias, como en su obra, en la que la proximidad al ciudadano de a pie conforma narraciones cercanas у naturales. Los dos relatos que incluye Llaman a la puerta son un buen ejempio de una literatura en la que el lector, interpelado de tu a tu, se reconoce у se involucra.
