The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900

A compendium of the most innovative and influential residential buildings in the United States since 1900.

DescriptionThe city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concr...

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on ...

Classic text on this subject, now revised, updated, expanded and redesigned for this third edition. There are many new illustrations too, including...

Interior design experienced an extraordinary amount of changes in taste and style during the twentieth century. From William Morris and the Arts an...

The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world t...

DescriptionFeaturing one hundred of the most spectacular interiors across the world, this richly illustrated overview spans the entire twentieth ce...

Like no other, the Thomas Walther Collection at the MoMA captures the imaginative spirit of early 20th-century photography, a time of dynamic circu...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): James MeyerIllustration(s): 140 color + 60 b/w illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dime...

A new edition of this hugely successful international survey covering all aspects of fashion, organized around crucial shifts in style and major wo...

This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition,...

Reducere. This Companion explores women's work in music since 1900 across a broad range of musical genres and professions, including the classical tradition,...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century - 'Magnificently provoking' New Statesman

The overlap between periods of technological development that are misleadingly delineated is explored in this investigation of the use of invention...

Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Michael SchmidtNumber of pages: 224Publication date: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aims to bring to life the great dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, and the student and worker revolt of 19...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

Reducere. From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in cliched claims about high technology's ability to change the course of ...

For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

Reducere. Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced b...

Ideas defer to no border--least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes ...

Reducere. This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary r...

Reducere. This architectural guide brings together 100 of the most original structures built in New York City since 1999. Vladimir Belogolovsky pairs them wi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cary CarsonEditor: Carl R. LounsburyFor more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsb...

Publisher: Chronicle BooksAuthor(s): Shari Stahl GronwaldNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 190 x 238 x 23Cover type: HardbackRe...

The Little Book of Gucci tells the story of this historic yet flourishing house, and the visionary looks that have cemented its place in fashion hi...

Little Book of Louis Vuitton is the pocket-sized and fully illustrated story of one of the world's most luxurious fashion houses. Louis Vuitton's m...

A pocket-sized, illustrated book depicting the work and life of Balenciaga the couturier.Publisher: Welbeck Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Emmanuelle D...

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Reducere. This wonderful find, originally published in 1912 is filled with floor plans of many different styles of houses with floor plans and beautiful illu...

Alexandra Leggat, the author of Moondogging and numerous book and music reviews, puts on the page the remarkable texts that she is renowned for per...

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