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„Asemeni filosofilor din secolul al XVIII-lea, Stendhal are un cult pentru libertate; el detesta toti tiranii, ca sint tirani de familie (Dl de Renal) sau politici (Principele de Parma). Ca si Voltaire, el n-are incredere in puterea preotilor, iar Rosu si negru denunta alianta dintre Tron si Altar. Ca si Rousseau, se ridica impotriva inegalitatilor sociale; este nedrept ca un tinar de mare calitate ca Julien Sorel sa fie condamnat, prin nasterea sa de origine modesta, a ramine in umbra; sub Imperiu, s-ar fi putut ridica pe calea glorioasa a armelor (Rosu); sub Restauratie, nu-i ramine decit sa imbratiseze o cariera ecleziastica (Negru); Julien nu-i ipocrit prin temperamentul sau, ci din necesitate; este arma sa impotriva societatii.” (Michel ECHELARD)

Aceasta minunata antologie de povesti ii poarta pe cititorii de toate varstele in calatorii uimitoare, tulburatoare si emotionante, pe meleaguri indepartate.

Basme de neuitat ca Lebedele salbatice (din Danemarca), Frumoasa si Bestia (din Franta), Preafrumoasa Vasilisa (din Rusia), Perla care straluceste noaptea (din China) si Maslinele (din Orient) au fost repovestite cu multa sensibilitate de Arnica Esterl, o renumita si talentata scriitoare pentru copii.

Ilustratiile pline de fantezie ale pictorului Germano Ovani completeaza magia textului, oferind volumului o valoare artistica incontestabila.

Ati trecut vreodata, vara, pe langa un crang inflorit? Daca veti trece, uitati-va bine, pentru ca s-ar putea s-o zariti pe Lili, mica printesa a florilor...
Aceasta poveste incantatoare, cu ilustratii de o rara frumusete, ne poarta  in imparatia florilor, bucurandu-ne sufletele si facandu-ne sa visam.

" Scufita Rosie " de fratii Grimm, cartonata, cu ilustratii de Lica Sainciuc.

Conferintele  despre alimentatie ale lui Rudolf Steiner destinate publicului larg se afla in relatie nemijlocita cu conceptia stiintei spirituale despre istoria culturii si educarea spirituala a omului.
Volumul cuprinde instructiuni dietetice privind cerintele alimentatiei si reprezinta un veritabil ghid pentru un mod de viata sanatos. Ni se deschid perspective spre o viitoare noua dieta, spre metode de imbunatatire a fertilitatii solului si a calitatii vietii.

„Daca-ti doresti sa traiesti mai mult in prezent, calauza ta ar trebui sa fie Ingeborg Bosch. Cunostintele ei despre natura umana nu au fost egalate de vreo alta scoala de psihologie sau de o alta forma de terapie.“ (Preston Ford, master in administrarea afacerilor si in IT la Harvard University)

Intamplari pilduitoare cu personaje biblice, repovestite pentru copii, in 12 volume fascinante.

The 50 years of artistic and mass photography taken into consideration in this volume are unquestionably the most important in the twentieth century. The acceleration of technological progress, the advent of the era of the machine and the metropolis, the epoch-making economic crisis, the dramatic aftermath of the collapse of the old nineteenth-century order in Europe with political upheavals, wars, revolutions and dictatorships, the first appearance of a mass society capable of expressing cultures and systems of communication in line with its needs: these are the most obvious stages of a history that was also recorded as it happened, in various forms and media. Among these, key importance certainly attaches to photography. It is evident that mankind had never before been in possession of an instrument capable of supplying such an enormous number of images of such universal accessibility as regards both visibility and creation. The Kodak camera, a device anyone could use, and the popular illustrated press are the two cornerstones of this aspect of the photographic history of the twentieth century. This richly illustrated book – complete with synoptic tables and a summary glossary – offers a wide-ranging survey of this era that will delight and inform a constantly growing audience.

Fifty of the world’s modern architectural masterpieces, constructed between 1950 and the present, are analysed through specially commissioned drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring.

Includes c. 2,500 line drawings and 50 photographs.

From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout history. Drawing its examples from all around the globe, Architecture: The Whole Story is a richly illustrated and comprehensive account of the architects, plans, designs and constructions that over the centuries have most engaged our minds, inspired our imaginations and raised our spirits.

For everyone who has ever wished for greater insight into the art of building design, Architecture: The Whole Story provides the analytical tools to appreciate to the fullest the variety of architectural achievement and the built environment in the world.

A treia carte din saga familiei Courtney se ridica, intr-adevar, cu succes la inaltimea asteptarilor milioanelor de cititori ai lui Smith.“ (The Sunday Times)

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Gothic and Gothic Revival, or how to distinguish between Baroque and Neoclassical? This guide makes extensive use of photographs to identify and explain the characteristic features of nearly 300 buildings. The result is a clear and easy-to-navigate guide to identifying the key styles of western architecture from the classical age to the present day.

Over the last ten years there has been a huge growth in the area of materials for design, but most books on this subject deal with advanced, semi-formed materials (that is, materials sold as sheet, rod, tube, etc.). This book provides much-needed information on the raw materials, and the low-down on how these can be used. 

Organized into three sections embracing grown, oil-based, and mined materials, each entry includes information on key features, typical applications, production processes, and sustainability issues. This fact-packed book will allow professional designers and students from a range of disciplines to understand in simple, exciting, visual terms the different qualities and features of materials.

Manfred De La Ray si Sasha Courtney, fiii vitregi ai lui Centaine de Thiry, au fost destinati sa fie dusmani pe viata inca din copilarie. Prinsi in tumultul istoriei Africii de Sud, crescuti in lumi diferite in aceeasi tara, cei doi sunt adversari intr-o confruntare salbatica pentru a dobandi puterea suprema asupra pamantului lor.

Pornind de pe campurile aurifere pana in citadelele secrete ale puterii sud-africane, de pe stadioanele inflacarate ale Olimpiadei berlineze din timpul lui Hitler pana la razboiul crancen din Abisinia, povestea lor avea sa devina o aventura palpitanta, o saga epica a rivalitatilor si a razbunarii, a castigului si a ratarii intr-o lupta unde numai cei nemilosi supravietuiesc.

In an informed defence of innovative fashion, Marnie Fogg explains why challenging established codes of dress can be highly creative if also, at times, wildly controversial.

Bazata pe o poveste originala de Jalmari Helander si Petri Jokiranta.

All men are Brothers features 108 leading contemporary poster artists, modern heroes and heroines who can be found relentlessly fighting the good design fight all over the world. All answered eight questions about life and design and offered a selection of their best work to date.

The aim of the book is to illustrate the different ways of understanding landscape, creating a dictionary that can convey not just the scope of the designing processes and their related actors, but to provide a first key for interpreting the various approaches to this discipline that has given rise to an entirely new dimension in designing the cityscape, turning the open space of the city into a space for art and sculpture, for garden and architecture, and into a new field for cultural activity.

It documents the surprising extent of the planning experience and profiles world-renowned architects, engineers, landscape architects, artists and photographers. It also provides the reader with a key interpretation of the different approaches to an experience that has introduced a new dimension in the physical transformation of our environment.

The dictionary features leading figures from the international scene, including Tadao Andao, Emilio Ambasz, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Toyo Ito, Anish Kapoor, Rem Koolhaas, Maya Lin, Richard Long and James Turrel, to name a few.

Do you know a Doric column when you see one? Of course. But what about an entablature, a hypostyle, a pylon, or a pagoda?

Architectural Details renders accessible, to students and non-students alike, the vast range of architectural terminology used to describe buildings.

The chronological arrangement of the book allows the reader to place elements, forms, techniques and styles firmly within their context.

Beautifully engraved plates of great works of architectural history accompany the text to illustrate the architecture of civilisations from around the world and throughout history, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution.

Saying that an architectural form is naked is a typical affirmation of everyday language that synthesises multiple characters and meanings through a metaphor. Anti-decorative architecture of modern tradition is naked, buildings under construction or ruined are naked, as are in general those whose bare, essential appearance is intended to give an impression of sincerity. Any architecture expressing an archaic or frugal or even at times primitive atmosphere may also be considered naked.

Today, the return to nakedness in architecture may be interpreted as the symptom of the definitive crisis of post-modernism, of its masks and coverings that no longer represent a world with an ever-increasing need for “naked” essentialness.

Pentru ca sanatatea incepe din farfurie!

In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern photography. Choosing 100 key photographs – with particular emphasis on the last twenty years – she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. In doing so, she brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred, overexposed or ‘badly’ composed.

The book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical hostility – from Cy Twombly’s scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat’s crude but spontaneous LNAPRK (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emin’s My Bed (1998) – and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are extensions of the artistic ideas of their time.

Welcome to the world of Victorian product design, and the improbable inventions that never quite made it into production during Britain’s period as the workshop of the world.

These genuine domestic and professional designs, registered in the nineteenth century for the most unlikely innovations, have been boxed away – until now – deep in the vaults of The National Archives.

Meticulous illustrations and descriptions accompany the boldest of claims for making daily life in a newly industrialized world that little bit easier.

This volume features carefully selected products that showcase the innovative use of a particular material, focusing on specific categories of products – grown materials, surface fortification, advanced composites, additive manufacturing media, recycled materials and the integration of electricity. Clearly structured and illustrated with carefully selected images throughout, this book will connect material to reader and will inspire both students and professionals to pursue the optimal material for each specific application.

Material Innovation is an ambitious new series identifying and examining the new and innovative materials that are transforming art, design and technology practice.

Clearly structured and illustrated with carefully selected images throughout, this book will connect material to reader and will inspire both students and professionals to pursue the optimal material for each specific application.

This volume focuses on specific categories of materials – glass and ceramic, altered naturals, high-performance composites, digitally fabricated metals and polymer films – applied to an extensive range of projects, from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to the Ordos Art and City Museum in Mongolia. Seven specially commissioned ‘visual narratives’ by such architects as Zaha Hadid are also included.

The series is being produced in association with Material ConneXion, a materials consultancy agency with unparalleled expertise in innovative and sustainable materials. Its materials library of advanced, innovative and sustainable materials and processes is the largest of its kind in the world.

Dictionarul contine peste 70000 de neologisme explicate.

Pentru lamurirea cititorilor, tinem sa precizam ca Simeon Florea Marian nu a reusit din pacate, sa incheie prezentarea etnologica a tuturor sarbatorilor pagane si crestine de peste an, ci doar a celor de iarna (incepand cu Anul Nou) si de primavara (pana la Inaltare).

Mai departe, ele au fost cercetate si infatisate de Tudor Pamfile, in volumele: sarbatorile de vara, 1910; Sarbatorile de toamna, 1914 si Craciunul, 1914. Asa incat, studiile celor doi mari etnologi nu numai ca nu se suprapun, ci se intregesc, intr-o serie fundamentala pentru cunoasterea spiritualitatii nationale. (I.Oprisan)

Irlandezii se pricep la cateva lucruri importante. Stiu sa cante, sa scrie, sa bea, sa indure frigul si sa rada. Printre dovezile acestei din urma calitati se numara si culegerea de panseuri N-ai decat sa ma citezi.