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Marta Serrats: Affordable Exhibition Design

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Including both modular systems and customized structures, Affordable Exhibition Design features full-color illustrations and photographs to take readers through the various stages of design required to create successful exhibitions, from initial design sketches to floor and aerial plans to finished products.

Will Burke: The Big Book of Packaging

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Intended as a comprehensive resource for designers, creative professionals, marketers, and retailers, The Big Book Of Packaging contains 384 pages of the most innovative packaging designs from around the world. With over 500 featured designs and profiles of twelve of the world's leading designers, the book is a must-have resource for anyone interested in the future of packaging and design. In…

Creativity Awards: Creativity 40

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The fortieth edition in the Creativity series displays the best and brightest ideas in advertising and design work from creative professionals around the world. Creativity 40 features more than 1,000 colour photographs and illustrations and covers dozens of categories in both the consumer and trade markets, including advertisements, posters, billboards, brochures, catalogues, calendars,…

Charuca: I Love Kawaii

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Kawaii is a recognizable art form practiced by artists all over the world and covers the visual gamut from commercial art (stickers, clothing, calendars, pens, pencils, erasers, and video games) to high-brow contemporary art (e.g. Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara). Presented primarily through full page images, Charuca (a Kawaii artist herself) has curated an international collection of the…

Donald Sturrock: Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers of all time. He pushed children's literature into uncharted territory and almost twenty years after his death his popularity continues to grow — worldwide sales of his books have now…

S. J. Parris: Prophecy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A Tudor thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, renegade monk, philosopher and heretic, for fans of C. J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose Autumn, 1583. The skies above England harbour dark omens! An astrological phenomenon heralds the dawn of a new age and Queen Elizabeth's throne is in peril. As Mary Stuart's supporters scheme to usurp the rightful monarch, a young maid of honour is murdered, occult…

Michael Morpurgo: Shadow

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A powerful novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller! Never have Aman and his mother needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears — thin and war-ravaged — in the mouth of their Afghan cave. Nursed back to health by Aman, the dog becomes a constant companion, a shadow, and that's what Aman decides to call her. But life in Afghanistan becomes more dangerous by the…

Collins Chinese Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 6 603 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1296) Аннотация: With its clear, colour layout the Collins Chinese Dictionary offers the learner of Chinese or English the essential two-in-one reference: an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly language supplement in one handy volume. The Collins Chinese Dictionary is designed for intermediate learners of Chinese or English up to university level and beyond. It is the ideal text for anyone who needs easy…

Arianna Huffington: Third World America: How Our Politicians are Abandoning the Average Citizen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Features updated material and a special foreword from Arianna for the UK audience It's not an exaggeration to say that the hard-working, average citizen on an average income is an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become outdated. The USA is in danger of becoming a Third World nation. The evidence is all around: its industrial base is…

Dante Alighieri: Inferno

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.' Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of…

John Milton: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Greedily she engorged without restraint, And knew not eating death', Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan's attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of knowledge. His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is vivid and…

Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has…

Aesop: Aesop's Fables

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.' Living in Ancient Greece in the 5th Century BC, Aesop was said to be a slave and story-teller. His much-loved, enduring fables are revered the world over and remain popular as moral tales for children. With infamous vignettes, such as the race between the…

Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.' Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo's take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by…

Homer: The Iliad

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. Attributed to…

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.' Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis befriend a young and determined country boy d'Artagnan, together they confront the scheming King's Minister, Cardinal…

E. Nesbit: The Railway Children

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. «When the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel, all three children stood on the railing and waved their pocket-handkerchiefs without stopping to think whether they were clean handkerchiefs or the reverse». When their father is mysteriously sent away, Roberta, Peter…

George Eliot: Middlemarch

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.' An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot's depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an…

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.' Following one soldier's journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War.…

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his…