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ShaoLan Hsueh, Noma Bar (ilustrácie) Chineasy TravelThe essential pocket-sized Chineasy guide to characters, phrases, and culture for travelers makes learning Chinese fun and easy. Entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh created Chineasy® to educate the world about the richness of ...
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Shaolan Chineasy Workbook ENWhere Chineasy's books, flashcards and memory game helped learners to recognize a diverse range of characters, this new workbook offers the opportunity to practise writing Chinese characters. Noma Bar's playful and appealing colour illustrations are interspersed with practical pages showing learners how to write the characters themselves. Short facts illuminate the meaning of a character or the origin of its shape,…
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Chineasy: 60 Flashcards ENThe Chinese language is traditionally taught through a series of between roughly 180 and 215 radicals. These radicals are then used to form the characters of the Chinese language. Chineasy has broken down this collection of characters into their most basic and recurring forms, allowing students to learn fewer and simpler radicals that we have termed ‘building blocks’. One building block, or a specific compound form…
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Florence Müller, Fabien Baron Christian Dior ENChristian Dior’s first collection in 1947 heralded the birth of a new fashion silhouette for women. Here, seventy of the most memorable looks created by Christian Dior and his successors—Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri—have been specially selected and photographed in intimate detail. This essential volume also features those designs in original…
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David Coles ChromatopiaDid you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artist pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, ...
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Philip Kemp Cinema ENCinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema in the context of social and cultural developments that have taken place since its beginnings. Organized chronologically, the book traces the evolution of cinematic development, from the earliest days of film projection to the multiscreen cinemas and super-technology of…
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CinemaCinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema in the context of social and cultural developments that have taken place since its beginnings...
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling Amsterdam ENhe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling Antwerp and Ghent ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling Barcelona ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling Berlin ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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City Cycling Copenhagen ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling London ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling Milan ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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Max Leonard, Andrew Edwards City Cycling Paris ENThe eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle maps and places to visit where cyclists are always welcome. Aimed primarily at those looking to take casual weekend breaks, there is also information for hardcore racing…
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William A. Ewing CivilizationWe hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed - or so it seems to the collective psyche. Every day and every hour, human civilization expands, evolves and mutates. While we frequently lapse into celebrating the individual at the expense ...
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Janet Wilson Classic and Modern Fabrics ENThis is the definitive reference guide to all the major types of fabric in circulation today, with more than 600 examples, from classic tweeds to state-of-the-art nano fabrics. Ease of recognition is the book’s primary aim: each entry is written in an easy-to-follow format, including a definition, notes on structure, and a list of the fabric’s principal applications. Almost all examples are accompanied by a…
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Amber Creswell Bell Clay ENCeramics is back in a big way, experiencing a steady surge of interest and popularity not seen since the 1970s. The return to the handmade, driven by our increasingly digital lives, means there are now more makers, sellers, and collectors than ever. There is also a new desire for unique objects made by hand and the imperfections associated with the marks of the maker. Pottery captures this authenticity in ways no…
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Bob Nickas, Diedrich Diederichsen Cologne / New York 1984-1989 ENThis seminal publication examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens of international art scenes based at the time in Cologne arguably the European centre of the contemporary art world and New York. From breakout exhibitions of local artists at established Cologne spaces such as Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner and Rudolf Zwirner, to their embrace in newer galleries, the 80s marked a…
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Colors for Modern Fashion ENColors for Modern Fashion is a complete course and guide to drawing modern fashion in color that shows how to realize the full potential of markers as a medium for fashion drawing and design. With over 1,000 original, full-colour drawings, and numerous other illustrations, Colors for Modern Fashion is a treasure trove of inspiration, a pleasure to spend time with, and a state-of-the-art guide to learning to draw.
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Jean-Pierre Bibring, Hanns Zischler CometComet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission – to find clues to the origins of our solar system and the emergence of life on Earth....
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Dan Mazur Comics ENThis is the first global history of comics from 1968 through to the present day, arranged chronologically and richly illustrated with prime examples of the artists, styles and movements being discussed. The authors contextualize the crucial modern period within the art forms broader history and offer a description of the more fluid, international and digital scene that is the mediums likely future. They supply…
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Steven Heller Comics Sketchbooks ENComics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of 76 of the worlds most inventive, innovative and successful artists, alongside new talents and emerging illustrators, in a breathtaking range of creative play. From cartoons to the graphic novel, from humour to superheroes, comics are the worlds most popular form of illustration. However, we rarely see the creative thinking the doodling, the experimentation that…
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Complete Fashion Sourcebook ENThis beautifully illustrated, easy-reference volume features over 2,100 meticulous illustrations that record in fascinating detail the ways in which fashion has changed year by year, decade by decade, from the boyish silhouette of the 1920s right through to the structured ‘power dressing’ of the 1980s.