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Star Product Designers
Prototypes, Products, and Sketches from the World's Top Designers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Includes 350 illustrations and full-color photographs
Star Product Designers offers an insider's look at the best product designers working today. With the goal of eliminating the need for instruction manuals, every designer in this book endeavors to create products that are user-friendly,...
Extravagances
Habits of Being 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This final volume in the four-volume series Habits of Being shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. It considers how clothing and accessories can move quickly from the ordinary to the extravagant. Employing many different approaches,...
The Occult vs. Fashion, the Path to Success
Emerging designers in the global fashion market
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The research made throughout this piece was executed with the intentions of and in efforts to explore the significance of taking an “interdisciplinary approach” when emerging into today’s global fashion marketplace. The interaction between the subject of fashion and the multitudes of different...
The Making of the Prefident 1789
The Unauthorized Campaign Biography of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “witty, funny and hysterically silly” political parody that dares to take on the Mount Vernon Machine (The New York Times).
Lampooning the modern “campaign insider” books, this book asks: “How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more...
Death in Modern Scotland, 18551955
Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians...
by Natalia Brodskaya
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Manet es uno de los artistas más famosos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, ligado por lo general a los impresionistas, aunque en realidad no era uno de ellos. Tuvo gran influencia en la pintura francesa, en parte por la elección de sus temas, que sacaba de la vida cotidiana, pero también por el...
by Arthur Zaidenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Discover how to create realistic drawings of dogs, cats, and horses with this easy-to-follow guide. Written and illustrated by a noted creator of art instruction books, the manual emphasizes the importance of capturing your own distinctive vision to reveal the subject's special characteristics.
Clear,...
by Major Paul A. Braunbeck Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“Before the war, and still more during the conquest of the West, Hitler came to appear a gigantic figure, combining the strategy of a Napoleon with the cunning of a Machiavelli and the fanatical fervour of a Mohomet. After his first check in Russia, his figure began to shrink, and towards the end...
Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.
Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference....
Cultural Exchange
Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern...
by A. Goodman, Angus Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
An up-to-date synthesis of the spread and impact of humanism in Europe. A team of Renaissance scholars of international reputation including Peter Burke, Sydney Anglo, George Holmes and Geoffrey Elton, offers the student, academic and general reader an up-to-date synthesis of our current understanding...
by Stephen Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The enjoyment of working in a variety of Hotels has given me the pleasure of changing in different areas. To meet with a range of Comedians, Actors, Musicans again makes life worth it. The Staff in all the Hotels that I have been involved with, again made life easy as they always worked together,...
Halsey
Flying High to Success Weird and Interesting Facts on Ashley Nicolette Frangipane!
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
So, in this part right here guys, I’m going to convince you to BUY THIS TRIVIA. Now, if that is not yet convincing enough for you then how about this… so in this trivia, you will learn about a rising pop artist named Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. Nope? Still not convinced? Okay, how about HALSEY?...
by John Nici
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made...