Metropolis, Hardcover - Thea Von Harbou

Reducere. This remarkable novel, the basis for the world's greatest science-fiction movie, has long been a rare but ardently sought-after collector's item. I...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in...

Reducere. The 75th Anniverary edition of Thea von Harbou's classic, the basis for van Harbou's screenplay for Fritz Lang's ground-breaking 1926 Science Ficti...

The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealiz...

Contributor(s): Editor: Chiara CavalieriEditor: Paola ViganoWe usually think of cities as dense and vertical--but in reality most cities extend vas...

Does a city sleep at night? Is the rainforest as lively as it is during the day after the sun goes down? Featuring two remarkable panoramic play sc...

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard's new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Plantin...

Reducere. From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' ...

Reducere. Just over 180 years ago, the city of Houston was nothing more than an alligator-infested swamp along the Buffalo Bayou that spread onto a flat, end...

Reducere. A chunk of Kryptonite has turned Superman into a wild animal! He's on the streets and looking to make monkey trouble. Can Beppo the Super-Monkey st...

DescriptionDelicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, f...

This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheav...

DescriptionThe illuminations of Hildegard, multitalented visionary and the great predecessor of Hilma af Klint and Emma KunzBefore Hilma af Klint a...

After Ludwig von Mises's death in 1973, his wife, Margit von Mises, went through his unpublished and out-of-print essays and selected twenty-one of...

'Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven't read a better book on Berlin.' Gordon A. Craig

Reducere. The essential record of America's most American design movement, in a form that perfectly matches its content. -- Michael BeirutEarthquakes, Mudsli...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

Reducere. Metropolis este un demers admirabil și o lectură extrem de captivantă. — The New York Times Book ReviewÎn cei două sute de mii de ani ai existenței...

"The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time."--Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many ...

Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)Author(s): B. A. ShapiroIllustration(s): Text onlyNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months' filming, it was Germany's most expensive feature film, a canvas for ...

George is playing with his boats, but there's no wind to make them sail. Then one of the wind children comes and blows especially for him - and tog...

Pete Von Sholly's History of Monsters is a glorious look at the phenomenon of monsters as they figure in pop culture as well as from the anthropolo...

„Metropolis este un demers admirabil si o lectura extrem de captivanta." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn cei doua sute de mii de ani ai existent...

Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. We may ask of th...

King Lion is having a feast. All his animal subjects bring their favorite meal -- saltwater lemonade from the fish, snail sausages from the hedgeho...

DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative reco...

Reducere. How will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trainsWith the promise of delivery drones, ...

The Randstad metropolitan region in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a successful polycentric metropolis. This book will...

Reducere. Inspired by his stepfather, photographer Wendy Hilty, who presented him with his first camera, a Rolleiflex Twin Lens 2.8, award-winning photograph...