Sam: 465 books

Farbräume sorgen immer wieder für Verunsicherung. Sollte ich in der Kamera Adobe RGB statt sRGB auswählen? Was bedeutet dies eigentlich und was hat es für Auswirkungen? Lohnt es sich den Bildschirm zu kalibrieren? In diesem kleinen Büchlein erklärt der Autor kurz und verständlich, was Farbräume...

Fallen Begriffe wie Farbmanagement oder gar Farbräume, verdrehen Zuhörer die Augen und schauen sich schon mal nach einem Fluchtweg um. Zu oft folgt darauf ein Wirrwarr von Fachbegriffen gepaart mit vehementen Meinungen wie man hier vorzugehen hätte. Da ist dieses Buch eine angenehme Abwechslung:...

Love, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Madness. A fortune told … When Sarah Stone foresees Will Shakespeare’s latest play has opened doors to evil, she begs the playwright to abandon it. But Will refuses, aware the play is one of his best. And so rehearsals for Macbeth begin. Forbidden...

Japanese were for the first time measuring their strength in the China war. Bob Fawcett has the good fortune to do a service to Kobo San, the descendant of an ancient Samurai family and high in the Government Service. He was sent out to Japan before the outbreak of the war to test the range...

From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of the far East, blazing in rude vessels of baked earth;...

Veuve à vingt ans, son mari capitaine ayant été tué en juillet 1870, Mme de Tillières vit avec sa mère rue Matignon. Ce jour-là, son amie Mme de Candale lui rend une visite impromptue, suite à un accident de voiture, et l'invite pour le soir même à dîner. Cette invitation va prendre une funeste importance dans la vie de Mme de Tillières ...

La jeune comtesse de Nançay, locataire de la villa Wérékiew à Florence, a organisé une fête où se pressent plus de cent invités. Veuve à vingt-deux ans, riche de quatre millions, elle compte bien refaire sa vie ... mais sans commettre d'erreurs comme lors de son premier mariage ...

Ebook comprenant : - La Reine Margot - La Dame de Monsoreau - Les Quarante-cinq   **La Reine Margot ** Des " noces vermeilles " de Marguerite de Valois et Henri de Navarre, prélude au massacre des protestants, à la mort de Charles IX baignant dans une rosée de...

«Poe est l'écrivain des nerfs. Chez lui, toute entrée en matière est attirante sans violence, comme un tourbillon. Sa solennité surprend et tient l'esprit en éveil. On sent tout d'abord qu'il s'agit de quelque chose de grave. Et lentement, peu à peu, se déroule une histoire dont tout l'intérêt...

The Blue Raider: A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas is a good novel written by Herbert Strang.

Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. Very little is known as yet of the king himself, but twelve months hence no doubt his mummy will give up its secrets...

Greg Nojima is the CoD and charged with the solution to crimes of Homicide in the city of San Diego for the police department. He finds his daughter is one of those homicides and sets out on a search for the person, or persons, who did this. He runs through so many detours and misdirections his whole...

Egan, the Story of Two Families. The sons of Dean and Egan and several others with them, do not feel the restrictions of details over action against a lawless leader of a rapacious gang of bad bad people. In this case, chasing these people into a foreign country is not limited by border agreements...

MY object in the following pages is merely to give a very brief account of some of those birds which are useful, or the reverse, to farmers and gardeners. It is seldom possible, of course, to give an exact estimate of their value. In many cases they are useful in some ways, but mischievous in others....