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During its more than 50-year history, the Corvette has developed into much more than an automotive nameplate—it has become one of the world’s most recognized automobiles. How the Chevrolet Corvette came to be one of the most popular sports cars in the world—and the longest-running automotive nameplate in Chevrolet history—is a rich and compelling story that combines politics, passion, performance, design, and popular culture.

Easily one of the most influential and popular design companies of our era, Apple has made electronics design history with its innovative iMacs, iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Colectia "Cinci clasici romani in limba franceza" - Eminescu, Creanga, Caragiale, Bacovia, Arghezi

Colectia "Cinci clasici romani in limba franceza" - Eminescu, Creanga, Caragiale, Bacovia, Arghezi

Colectia "Cinci clasici romani in limba franceza" - Eminescu, Creanga, Caragiale, Bacovia, Arghezi

Advertising for People Who Don't Like Advertising is partly a creative handbook and partly an attempt to make the world a very slightly better place. It's intended for anyone who has ever hated a web banner or zapped an ad break.

There are many ways in which a product can be manufactured but most designers know only a handful of techniques. Both informative and incredibly easy to use, this bestselling book explains over 100 production methods in detail.

Die lustigen Lernhefte mit Billi Biber wurden fon Grundschulpädagogen entwickelt. Mit Lernkarten zum Ausschneiden und einem Lösungsteil zur Selbstkontrolle.

Die lustigen Lernhefte mit Billi Biber wurden fon Grundschulpädagogen entwickelt. Mit Lernkarten zum Ausschneiden und einem Lösungsteil zur Selbstkontrolle.

Povestea celor 13 va cuceri copiii si-i va face pe adulti să se reintoarcă in timp, pe vremea cand pisicile, berzele si soriceii vorbeau, gainile, melcii si soparlele faceau planuri, mopsul putea vobi cu iepurii, iar copacii puteau participa si ei la actiune.

Cartea, aparuta pentru prima data în 1968, a fost premiata de Uniunea Scriitorilor din Romania.

In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.

'In Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel there are two stories - that of Paul Gauguin, the Post-Impressionist painter, and that of Paul Gauguin's grandmother, Flora Tristan . . . what makes the novel so illuminating is the continuity between their parallel lives . . . the novel is highly accomplished and teems with characters, ideas and incident - Gauguin and Flora may have thought they were masters of their own destiny, but this novel powerfully suggests that even that may have been an illusion - like paradise itself.' Literary Review

In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence. 

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ...

Nikos Kazantzakis' most popular and enduring novel, has its origins in the author's own experiences of mining and harvesting in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s.

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart.

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering.

'Do not on any account miss this if you want both a good read and some absolutely superb writing.' (John Braine)

Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed.

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art. 

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art.

Croncanul aduce la perfectiune registrul „vulgar“ boccaccian dezvoltand resursele expresive si stilistice ale Decameronului si ne ofera un model de proza desavarsita sub aspectul bogatiei lexicale, gata de a recurge, cum am mai spus, la solutii dialectale si argotice la limita scabrosului, fara a renunta insa cu nimic la demnitatea stilistica a unei frazari modelate pe sintaxa latinizanta, pe cadenta accentelor, pe rafinamentul clauzulelor medievale, toate conferind un efect de bas continuu si de contragreutate vulgaritatii lexicului. (Guido Baldassarri)

Romania a mostenit un patrimoniu istoric si cultural bogat. Cine nu cunoaste tara are nevoie de un timp relativ indelungat pentru a descoperi celebrele manastiri din Moldova, sculpturile monumentale ale lui Constantin Brancusi din Oltenia, arta si arhitectura brancoveneasca din Muntenia, vestigiile greco-romane de pe litoralul Marii Negre, castelele medievale din Transilvania...

Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is best known for his magical, timeless 35mm street portraits taken in Paris and its suburbs. Fresh, unstaged, and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portrary everyday people (in everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revealing fleeting personal emotions in a public context.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This two-volume, midsize format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.

Ca printr-un miracol, centrul istoric al Sibiului a reusit sa-si conserve aproape integral trasaturile originare. Elementele arhitecturale tipice unui burg medieval germanic si cele specifice barocului vienez s-au contopit intr-un ansamblu unitar. Era timpul ca acestui loc sa i se acorde importanta cuvenita in peisajul cultural european.

Cu un format amplu si tiparit in conditii grafice ireprosabile, albumul ilustreaza povestea timpului, urmarind metamorfozele celor patru anotimpuri romanesti. Din superbele fotografii care surprind Romania de-a lungul celor patru anotimpuri s-a inchegat imaginea unei lumi coerente, bogate in semne si povesti.

Fotografiile reunite in acest album compun un mozaic alb-negru complex al istoriei recente a Romaniei, aproape incredibila: scene necosmetizate, de la circ la armata, de la talciocuri si bazaruri la strazile innamolite ale oraselor in constructie, de la copii ai strazii la soimii patriei, de la munca in uzine la hoteluri de lux si distractiile turistilor straini,de la mesele in cantine de fabrica la sejururile in statiunile de odihna.

This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world's largest and most celebrated collection of such prints. On account of their rarity and value, 87 of them have been designated Japanese National Treasures or Major National Cultural Heritage Items. 

From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world.