The design of private houses is undoubtably a major chapter in this century's architectural history. Within the last hundred years, the emergence of new materials and methods has led to bold architect...
From "The World's Finest Automatic Washer" to the Cadillac which "Givesa Man a New Outlook," you'll find a colorful plethora of ads for just aboutanything the dollar could buy. Oh, and "Have you notic...
The largest and most diverse anthology on jewelry, supported with aconcise, authoritative and stimulating essay. This is the third book inSkira's series dedicated to the modern decorative arts, follow...
What does the future look like? The clues are in the work of today's mostforward-thinking designers, 100 of which have been selected for this guide.Names like Philippe Stark, Ross Lovegrove, Jonathan ...
This text offers the reader a wide-ranging panorama of French painting during the century of Enlightenment. It features the achievements of such great artists as Watteau and Fragonard while also cover...
During the twentieth century, medicine has been radically transformed and powerfully transformative. In 1900, western medicine was important to philanthropy and public health, but it was marginal to t...
This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20thcentury. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Banand all the best stuff in between, it's all here. The ch...
Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundredyears later, painting and sculpture would be only options, notprerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so m...
Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that theprevious century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design.Aesthetics entered into everyday life with often staggering ...
With c. 1.68 million entries the English Bibliography is the largest bibliographical database of English titles which were published between the 15th century and 1901.The World Bibliographies each con...
In this Bibliography Latin texts originating in a variety of countries over five centuries have been compiled for the first time on a single CD-ROM. With approximately 395,000 entries (about one third...
Elegant and daring 20th-century fashion history has been organized into stylistic periods featuring top design collections and fashion celebrities. 500 illustrations, 300 in full color.
10 full-color patterns. Each tear-out sheet four times book size.
This collection of Latin texts, published in a new edition with an English translation, draws on the rich hagiographical corpus of Anastasius, papal diplomat, secretary and translator in late ninth-ce...
Assembles and documents the birth, development and decline of 20th-century artistic movements in Italy and elsewhere: from Cobra to Fluxus, Pop Art to graffitism. This volume functions as a dictionary...
The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generousl...
We have been born and brought up in the era of scientific temper, economic growth and body welfare. Logic and thirst for knowledge are necessary to understand the world around us and to harness the po...
Wersja anglojęzyczna ?Muzyka polska XX wieku? pióra Jacka Rogali (kompozytora, dyrygenta i dziennikarza), to wydawnictwo o charakterze informacyjnym i promocyjnym, przeznaczone przede wszystkim dla od...
From molecular biology to multidisciplinary care of patientsCystic fibrosis used to be thought of as a respiratory and digestive disease, with a uniformly and rapidly fatal outcome. The spectrum of th...
This study examines the terms and features in the Greek and Coptic documentary papyri from 4th-century ce Egypt which bear on religious beliefs. These include onomastics, formulaic expressions, invoca...
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Latin Culture in the Eleventh Century is a collection of approximately sixty papers presented at the Third International Conference on Medieval Latin Studies held at the University of Cambridge in Sep...
Presents emerging and maturing radiation-generating technologies that will affect the health physics and radiation protection profession.
Originally written to wide acclaim in 2001, Ky Ewing's magisterial work on international competition law is here updated to take stock of the prodigious expansion of anti-cartel enforcement throughout...
Architecture in the 20th century has revolutionized the urban living environment. All over the world some cities have developed into mega cities of unprecedented dimensions, while others have shrunk t...
This volume deals with the history of the Ottoman-Polish political and diplomatic relations, and with the role and function of international treaties in early modern Europe, especially in the contacts...