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Definita in general in termeni specifici psihologiei, dragostea a facut rareori obiectul studiilor sociologice. Dragoste, familie si fericire schimba aceasta viziune, fiind prima lucrare de specialitate din mediul academic romanesc care analizeaza in mod sistematic evolutia celor trei concepte de-a lungul istoriei. Autorii abordeaza dragostea din punct de vedere psihosocial, urmaresc tendintele populatiei referitoare la casatorie, divort si nasteri, ofera solutii pentru ameliorarea situatiei persoanelor de varsta a treia si dezbat principalele aspecte ale fericirii din perspectiva psihosociologiei, precum si sistemele de valori si atitudini in cadrul comportamentelor prosociale. Rationalitatea, starea de bucurie, emotiile sau tentatia de a barfi completeaza tematica volumului, incurajand continuarea cercetarilor legate de universul familiei. O lucrare inovatoare, care se adreseaza atat studentilor si specialistilor din domeniile sociologiei, psihologiei, pedagogiei sau psihopedagogiei, cat si publicului larg.

„Dupa stiinta noastra, singur, jurnalistul sibian Dan Tomozei a dedicat in ultimii ani, cu subtila intelegere si profunda analiza comparativa, trei volume de scrieri realitatilor in mijlocul carora traieste China de azi. Sa scrii temeinic, neostenit si obiectiv despre o tara in care traiesti efectiv si afectiv de cativa ani de zile – iata o dovada de probitate profesionala!“ (Doctor in economie Emil David)

"Dragostea neimpartasita si pasiunea pot avea rezonanta peste decenii. Ne influenteaza iubirile, creatiile si ne definesc personalitatea. Jessica Levine ne prezinta o eroina puternica, Julia, o femeie care doreste sa faca ceea ce este corect, in timp ce lupta cu latura ei salbatica si dorintele care o coplesesc. In final, inima va fi cea care va face alegerea. Geometria iubirii reprezinta un debut literar minunat, care imbina analiza psihologica cu o captivanta poveste de dragoste." (Virginia Pye)

Volumul contine 49 de poeme grupate in capitolele: o biata lama de cutit, jurnalul unui naufaragiu, poemele nocturne. 

Raluca Leontina Neagu s-a nascut in 1993, in Calarasi. Este studenta la Facultatea de Psihologie si Stiintele Educatiei, Universitatea din Bucuresti. A colaborat cu revistele Algoritm Literar, Armonii Culturale, Actualitatea Literara, Mantaua lui Gogol, New York Magazin Cultural. In prezent este co-organizator al Serilor Literare Isis. 

unde se termina lumina constituie volumul de debut al autoarei. 

Aparitia volumului de debut al lui Emilian Pal implica o buna doza de stranietate. In primul rand prin aceea ca este foarte putin probabil ca un poet excelent sa apara din senin si sa debuteze la 35 de ani. De obicei aceasta este varsta la care poetii se rateaza, nu se nasc. Nu este cazul aici, Emilian Pal debuteaza in forta cu o voce distincta, taioasa si rafinata deopotriva. fortral este o carte spectru si, pentru ca tot vorbeam despre stranietate, pot garanta ca este o carte care isi bantuie cititorul, una dintre cele mai intense si mai subtile explorari ale traumei la care am asistat (prin lectura) vreodata. (Cosmin Perta)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pentru ca sanatatea incepe din farfurie!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Aceasta carte te ajuta sa-ti recunosti vocea interioara, sub ambele sale aspecte, si, prin „trucurile" pe care ti le impartaseste, sa o poti gestiona cu succes astfel incat sa nu-ti mai influenteze intr-un sens negativ atitudinea fata de propria persoana, deciziile si comportamentul. Este o lectura placuta si incitanta, presarata cu exemple din viata de zi cu zi si cu tehnici usor de pus in aplicare.

David Suchet shares his many memories of creating this iconic television series and reflects on what the detective has meant to him over the years.

O poveste despre dragoste, speranta, despre intimitate si pierderea ei, despre minciuni si consecintele lor devastatoare.  Viata romanticei Danica Greene se da peste cap atunci cand sotul ei, Etsell, de profesie pilot, dispare in mod misterios in timpul unui zbor in Alaska. Nu stie ce sa creada si nici cum sa reactioneze. A ramas vaduva sau, pur si simplu, barbatul pe care il adora a parasit-o? Desi are fobie de avioane si zbor, Danica porneste in cautarea sotului, care se dovedeste ca i-a fost infidel. Odata ajunsa in Alaska, tanara se vede nevoita sa isi infrunte temerile si durerea si incearca sa isi dea seama daca nu cumva isi pierduse deja barbatul inainte ca acesta sa fi disparut.  Departe a fost ca o calatorie extraordinara care m-a facut sa ma simt tamaduita si renascuta. Un omagiu adus iubirii in toate formele ei - intre un barbat si sotia acestuia, intre surori, precum si intre mame si fiice - m-a durut sufletul cat am citit Departe, dar si mai mult am suferit cand am ajuns la ultima pagina si povestea s-a terminat. – Nicolle Wallace

De mai bine de cincizeci de ani, Marea Britanie este zguduita de o Problema nemaiintalnita: noaptea, locuitorii sai sunt asaltati de Vizitatori nu tocmai prietenosi, sositi dintr o alta lume. Nimeni nu stie care este cauza acestor bantuiri, nici cum pot fi ele oprite. Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle si George Cubbins, membrii Agentiei Lockwood, isi unesc fortele in lupta impotriva Vizitatorilor, inarmati cu un intreg arsenal, din care nu lipsesc sabiile, pilitura de fier, lanturile sau... pliculetele de ceai. Primul volum al seriei semnate de Jonathan Stroud este, cu siguranta, o lectura palpitanta, care va va tine cu sufletul la gura si cu luminile aprinse... pana tarziu in noapte!

'Auster at the top of his game. This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise.' (New Statesman)

"What is really satisfying about this novel, like "The Time Traveler's Wife", is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief, the transforming power of love" (Daily Telegraph)

"A rich, involving novel" (The Times)

'You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you'

"Trust Mary Higgins Clark to know what frightens us to death" (New York Times)

When the lift cranks open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he's not alone - an army of boys welcomes him to the Glade, an encampment at the centre of a terrible maze. The Gladers have no idea why they're there, or what's happened to the world outside. And following the arrival of a girl with a message, they must find a way out- or die.

A must for fans of The Hunger Games

" An uplifting exploration of love, parenthood, and all that we become" (Daily Mail)