Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical mat[...]
Austerity has left local government struggling to meet the demands for local services. In this context, this book asks 'what are the fundamental principles that should guide decision-making by local councillors and officers?' It seeks to move the agenda from 'what works?' to 'what should local gove[...]
This first aid guide to treating common ailments focuses on just 12 stones that cover a wide range of applications. The guide shows the reader how to identify the right stone for each ailment - the index lists more than 300 specific complaints, including those that occur frequently, such as: allergi[...]
Fru Ines is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Constantinople. The city is a hub, a meeting point of East and West, where privileged Europeans enjoy a cossetted existence screened from the tumult and misery of the streets. One of the privileged is Ines,[...]
Celebrity model Ines de La Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure. Ines de La Fressange Frances icon of chic shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specif[...]
Ines de la Fressange shares fifty-two new secrets in this elegant and humorous weekly planner that is the chicest way to organize your schedule in style. The authors of the New York Times best seller, Parisian Chic: A Style Guide by Ines de la Fressange, share a new year's worth of fashion, style, a[...]
Dresden 1982: Nach einem gescheiterten Fluchtversuch wird Jutta Gallus von den DDR-Behörden inhaftiert. Ihre beiden Töchter Claudia (11) und Beate (9) kommen ins Heim. Als Jutta Gallus nach zwei Jahren schließlich vom Westen freigekauft wird, beginnt sie den verzweifelten Kampf um ihre Kinder. Be[...]
This diagram is based on the newest Industrial Standard IAPWS-IF97 for the Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Steam.[...]
Combining high quality images and written text, this illustrated book reflects upon the fascinating life of Ines Papert.[...]
No artistic education is complete without a healthy dose of the Impressionists. Here, fifty of the most important works from the early nineteenth to the turn of twentieth centuries are reproduced in gorgeous colour, including the best of Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Manet, Seura[...]
English summary: Paradise of the "Beautiful Savages": For the European traveller at around 1900, the South Seas were connected with the desire for alien beauty and the fascination of the nativeness of the people. The paintings of Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, e. G., attest to this view. In this volu[...]
The catalog for the exhibition of the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart presents the culture of the Inca from their beginnings in the middle of the 11th Century to the colonial period. Many of the pictured objects are to be shown in Europe for the first time and they impressively demonstrate origin, religi[...]
Isabel Alende - odna iz naibolee izvestnykh latinoamerikanskikh pisatelnits, uvenchana mnozhestvom premij i literaturnykh zvanij. Nachinaja s pervykh romanov - "Dom dukhov" i "Ljubov i Tma" i vplot do takikh knig, kak "Eva Luna", "Skazki Evy Luny", "Doch fortuny", "Portret v korichnevykh tonakh", li[...]
En historie om en kat og dens to meget forskellige familier: Nattime- og dagtimefamilien