Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500651469 ISBN 13: 9780500651469
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Harnett, Katie (illustrator). Neuware - From the creators of the bestselling Franklins Flying Bookshop, Jen Campbell and Katie Harnett, comes another charming tale about two book-lovers Franklin and Luna. Luna and her best friend, Franklin the dragon, love stories and want to visit all the places theyve read about in books. But for all their reading they still dont know where dragons come from. And Franklin is now so old 605 to be exact he cant remember himself! They search high and low, but to no avail. Until one evening, Lunas tortoise, Neil Armstrong, notices something far away in the sky The three friends set out on their biggest adventure yet all the way to the moon in the hope of reuniting Franklin with his long lost family.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500293678 ISBN 13: 9780500293676
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsIs Capitalism Working is a highly relevant question today not least to a generation coming of age in a world still experiencing aftershocks from the near-meltdown of the world economy in 2008. Economic theory can be complex, but Jacob Fields wellstructured and thought-provoking text lays out the debate in a clear, accessible and engaging manner. Infographics and timelines ensure that readers grasp the basic tenets, history and context of capitalism, without distracting from the compelling arguments. Jacob Field presents a measured conclusion that reviews the evidence on each side, allowing room for the reader to draw his or her own conclusions.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 050029366X ISBN 13: 9780500293669
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A lucid analysis of a range of scientific debates and ideas past and present, from the idea of a multiverse to the various understandings of mathematical infinity - all of which have implications for the shape of the universe.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500293686 ISBN 13: 9780500293683
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 'Big Idea' series looks at the major political and sociological debates of the present by initially taking on one broad question in each instalment. Particularly suitable for GCSE, A Level and undergraduate courses.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500293651 ISBN 13: 9780500293652
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of four titles in Thames & Hudson's innovative new 'Big Idea' series, this book explores and interrogates each form of democracy and questions whether it remains fit for purpose today.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500651744 ISBN 13: 9780500651742
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A non-fiction title for children on the various and amazing ways that different species come into the world. Delicate illustrations over transparencies show the miracle of birth among turtles, seahorses and many others.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500204403 ISBN 13: 9780500204405
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new edition of this concise but authoritative survey of the diverse, dazzling and compelling art of Oceania in all its forms, past and present.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500651183 ISBN 13: 9780500651186
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Goble, Claire (illustrator). Neuware - Points of curiosity children may encounter in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and technology, following on from 'Why Don't Fish Drown ' and 'Why Is Art Full Of Naked People ' Contains detailed illustrations, photographs and diagrams.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500294410 ISBN 13: 9780500294413
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story begun in the bestselling and critically acclaimed 'The Mind In The Cave' is continued in this provocative set of new ideas on ancient revolutions in cosmology, the origins of social complexity and the reasons for the domestication of plants and animals.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 050002183X ISBN 13: 9780500021835
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Each chilli demands and deserves to be known in its own right. With hundreds of varieties, and a dizzying array of flavours, shapes, sizes and colours, chillies are a key ingredient in everything from our favourite curries to drinks and desserts. But even the most experienced chilli fanatic needs a guide to which variety to choose and how hot to go on the infamous Scoville scale. This essential kitchen companion profiles 100 versatile chilli varieties, chosen to showcase their impressive range of shape, colour, flavour and heat, ranging from milder everyday favourites such as the jalapeño, ancho and bell pepper to exotic new superhots including the Dorset Naga and Carolina Reaper. Organized by heat level on the infamous Scoville scale, An Anarchy of Chillies tells the story of each variety and offers advice on how to identify, grow and prepare them. The striking illustrations, in a vivid graphic style inspired by the CMYK process, make this not only a go-to reference but also a beautiful art piece. Written and illustrated by Caz Hildebrand, author of the successful Herbarium and The Grammar of Spice, this is a wonderful gift book for any cook, gardener or chilli lover.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 050029447X ISBN 13: 9780500294475
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This revised edition of the classic guidebook for budding interior designers is divided into thirty tutorial units structured to reflect the course content of top design colleges. Each chapter offers a series of projects to help designers develop creative, technical and professional abilities.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 050051996X ISBN 13: 9780500519967
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With an introduction from renowned novelist Douglas Coupland, this new book from Omar Kholeif applies an art-historical awareness to the contemporary art that promises great and transformative things to come from its artist, emphasising new forms of engagement with politics and technology.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500651698 ISBN 13: 9780500651698
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This large-format encyclopaedic book on the mysteries and wonders of the world's trees is illustrated by popular and stylish designer Piotr Socha, and comes in the same informative and quirky format as Socha's 2017 Educational Writers' Award winner 'The Book Of Bees'.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500480370 ISBN 13: 9780500480373
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Fotografie
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The history of staged photography told through one-hundred particularly indicative or pivotal images from the V&A's collection. Includes work by Roger Fenton, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500480362 ISBN 13: 9780500480366
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The V&A Photography Library is a new series of accessible, introductory volumes to the key themes, works, objects and individuals in photography, illustrated with unprecedented access to the V&As photography collection, the oldest held by a public museum and one of the largest and finest in the world, now expanded with acquisitions from the Royal Photographic Society collection. Written by Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs at the V&A, and publishing to coincide with the launch of the V&As new Photography Centre in autumn 2018, Cameraless Photography presents a concise historical survey of photographic images created without a camera. With over 125 photographs supported by extended commentaries and an introduction, it embraces a chronology spanning the early photographic experiments of the likes of Anna Atkins in the 19th century through the avant-garde photograms of modernists such as Man Ray, to the work of contemporary artists, such as Susan Derges, nearly two centuries later. Visually compelling, Cameraless Photography will be an outstanding introductory overview of the key creative, cameraless processes running throughout the history of photography including photograms, chemigrams, luminograms, dye destruction prints and more illustrated by the cameraless work of some of photographys greatest names.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500252254 ISBN 13: 9780500252253
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What should you do at Christmas In Edvard Munchs Christmas in the Brothel, the artist depicts himself sleeping off the effects of drink, but the Madame reads a book. What links Stalin and the artist Rosso Fiorentino What was Gauguin hinting at when he painted a copy of Miltons Paradise Lost into a portrait of a friend How did a chance meeting on Unter den Linden make the young owner of The Red Book famous Was it true that no one ever saw Picasso with a book in his hand And why were the Cumberland girls reading The Fashionable Lover in Romneys commissioned portrait Thousands of fine paintings include books in their subject matter. This companionable survey first asks what is a book ; it explores the symbiotic relationship between the development of books and the emergence of our modern idea of the role of the artist; it parades and interprets the work of many of the greatest artists of the last five hundred years; and it explains how and why books became the single most ubiquitous feature of our cultural lives and, in large measure, of our everyday existence. These paintings connect us with centuries of lived experience: religious systems, symbols of all kinds, education, changing patterns of transport, gender roles, social status, romance, the imagination of children, literary life, sex, friendship, civilized bathing, professional competence, scientific discovery, aids to rest, aids to reflection, danger books tell us about ourselves, and have earned their place in life and art through the ages.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500021325 ISBN 13: 9780500021323
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The interiors of the homes of a variety of artists and makers, offering inspiration for people after interesting ideas for interior design in their own homes. Homeowners include artist and seminal musician Penny Rimbaud, artist Billy Childish, and vintner Peter Hall.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500021465 ISBN 13: 9780500021460
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of several artists with a notable focus on the inner lives of women through an exploration of the range of stories and symbols to which they allude. Metamorphosis features vividly in the imagery, stories and media of the art that Warner has chosen to write about: in connection with animals in the work of Louise Bourgeois, for instance; with the Catholicism of Damien Hirst; and with performance as a medium of memory and resistance in the installations of Joan Jonas. Rather than drawing on connoisseurship, the authors approach grows principally out of anthropology and mythology. She argues that art and aesthetics increasingly fulfil a magical social function a principle that runs through these writings to give the collection a quality that is polemical as well as coherent. With an introductory essay and illustrations throughout, Marina Warner investigates how artists noted for their treatment of disturbing, uncanny material have reached beyond the visible, to express interior states. Truly inspiring, her writing unites the imagination of artist, writer and reader, creating a reading experience parallel to the intrinsic pleasure of looking at art.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500480338 ISBN 13: 9780500480335
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Coinciding with the opening of the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee, the original and pioneering designers of Scotland are analysed and contextualised, with attention to videogame development in Dundee, Scottish developments in renewable technology, the architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and more.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500294100 ISBN 13: 9780500294109
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revealing the elaborate embroidery, intricate pleats and daring cuts that make up some of the 20th century's most beautiful garments, this book explores the specific techniques used by couturiers as tastes and textile technologies evolved. Work by designers such as Mariano Fortuny, Madeleine Vionnet, Paul Poiret, Hubert de Givenchy, Mary Quant, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood is rediscovered, and exquisite haute-couture pieces, from sequinned Chanel trouser suits and richly embroidered Schiaparelli jackets to striking Balenciaga creations and Dior evening gowns, are examined.Part of the 'Fashion in Detail' series, this updated edition features a revised introduction and list of designers followed by chapters dedicated to a particular technique. Each garment is illustrated through detailed photography and line drawings and is accompanied by a commentary by leading experts in textiles and fashion.An extraordinary exploration of the techniques used by couturiers in the construction of these exceptional garments, 20th-Century Fashion in Detail will delight all followers of fashion.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500239886 ISBN 13: 9780500239889
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A stunning survey of yarn work in contemporary art, illustrating the myriad ways knitting and crochet have been embraced as a form of creative expression.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500519889 ISBN 13: 9780500519882
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative and stylish guide to Chinese movie magazines, depicting a period of cultural change in China and a fresh perspective of Chinese pop culture, media consumption and social life. Takes in silent films, Art Deco designs and communist films from the Mao era.
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0500519811 ISBN 13: 9780500519813
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Karl Lagerfeld was named at the helm of the fashion house in 1983, he set out to radically shake up and update its image - not only through bold collections but also, from 1987 onwards, by choosing to shoot the house's campaigns himself, a move that was unprecedented for a fashion designer.Conceived in collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld and the House of Chanel, this definitive publication opens with an essay by Patrick Mauries before exploring the campaigns themselves, organized chronologically. A carefully curated selection of images showcases hundreds of spectacular clothes worn by the top fashion models - and personalities - of each era, from Ines de la Fressange, Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne, to Kirsten Stewart and Lily Rose Depp, captured in glamorous locations, from Coco Chanel's Paris apartment to the French Riviera or LA.Presented in a high-end, slipcased package, Chanel: the Karl Lagerfeld Campaigns offers an unrivalled overview of the house of Chanel as seen through the eyes - and lens - of Karl Lagerfeld himself.