Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art, Paperback - Alberto Manguel

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes an...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Why does knowing more mean believing--and doing--less? A prescription for change The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the ...

DescriptionReports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, y...

Definitive pop science from a world expert.

Reducere. Description"What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powe...

Interviews with people of faith including Sara Maitland | Sister Wendy Beckett | Delia Smith | The Revd Richard Coles | Dermot O'Leary | Cherie Bla...

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing ...

A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers.Publisher: Orion...

Reducere. A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine. -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician S...

Publisher: Troika BooksAuthor(s): Eleanor LevensonIllustration(s): Full colour throughoutNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 229 x...

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward cre...

Reducere. Description"A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine." -- Arianna Huffington In Well...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable BookAn NPR Best Book of 2012These eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination, show a ce...

We're more connected, yet lonelier than ever - practical ways to combat the alarming rise of loneliness by bestselling author and social researcher...

Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a teenager in Bombay. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a woman's magazin...

In What Do We Mean When We Talk About Meaning?, Steven Cassedy tells the story ofPublisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Steven (Distingui...

Following on from her bestselling book How to Survive Modern Art, Susie Hodge once again tackles a dauntingly complex subject: how can we evaluate,...

How hip hop shapes our conversations about race--and how race influences our consideration of hip hop Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in...

Reducere. Those of us who are over sixty are not amused at being compared to aging wine, and certainly not cheese. In this book thirty of us - writers, educa...

This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revol...

A searing indictment of modern sexual politics.

Reducere. Istoria lecturii. Cartea perfecta pentru orice iubitor de carti Intr-o clipa magica a copilariei tale, pagina unei carti - acel sir de simboluri co...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you've ever fallen in love, struggled with love, or faltered in love, Cupid on Trial will speak to your heart and change the way you ...

An extraordinary journey through the history of human imagination, from the dawn of civilisation to the present day

Reducere. Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on bo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties--emotion, perception and reason--to shape the his...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wednesday Martin Ph. D.Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. And what woman w...

O calatorie intima si emotionanta prin lumea cartilor. O meditatie asupra artei de a citi. - The New Yorker Impartasindu-ne experientele sale de ci...

An extraordinary journey through the history of human imagination, from the dawn of civilisation to the present day

Two more titles are added to our collection of Baby Montessori Board books, intended to develop the visual skills of the newborn babies. The shapes...

Reducere. Unele dintre personajele literare pe care le descoperim in copilarie ne insotesc toata viata, desprinzandu-se din paginile cartilor si devenind ade...

Reducere. In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGui...

Reducere. DescriptionThe ancient Greek word for "truth" means unconcealing or unforgetting. Yet today many ideas and stories that were once critical to how e...

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About The Future of Work? is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues oft...

What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Immigration? Is part of a new book series offering short, up-to-date overviews of key issues often misr...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to revers...