The central form of communication on social network sites (SNS) is with and through images. Accordingly, this book highlights images and image-based communication on SNS, such as Facebook, and on nightlife platforms, such as Tilllate. First, the contributors analyze the two central image categories [...]

This book features adventures in pajamas. The complete Little Nemo compilation - Meet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic history, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century, and a masterpiece of narrative imagination. Created by Winsor McCay (1869-1934), restless sleeper Nemo tr[...]

More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies. This quality reprint includes the most enchanting color plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617[...]

Cat language is both complex and multi-faceted: cats do much more than just miaow, hiss and purr! Find out what your little tiger is really saying with all its many different sounds, facial expression and gestures, body posture and little behavioural quirks. Once you understand your cat better, you [...]

Over five years, Finnish video and installation artist Niina Lehtonen Braun (born 1975) collected motherly advice, ranging from loving and concerned to cold and cynical, for her project "Mother Said." This publication presents the artist's multimedia collages relating to this maternal guidance.[...]

This edition portrays the protagonists of this company, which has existed for more than 160 years, tracing the development of the location in Glashutte and its world-famous watchmaking industry.[...]

Braun products have been shown more frequently at exhibitions than those of any other comparable company. Some people find that they reflect basic human values such as authenticity and integrity. For others, they are the very incarnation of German perfectionism. Braun is not merely a trademark; it s[...]

Prikljuchenija Roberta Lengdona prodolzhajutsja.Na etot raz emu predstoit razgadat velichajshuju tajnu masonov, kotoraja sposobna izmenit mir.Vekami khranimye sekrety, zagadochnye znaki i simvoly – i smertelno opasnoe puteshestvie po labirintam proshlogo…[...]