This is the bible of breakthroughs and inspiration in the design of the 20th century. Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics entered into everyday life with often staggering results. Our homes and workplaces turned into veritable galleries of style and innovation. From furniture to graphics, it's all here - the work of artists who have shaped and recreated the modern world with a dizzying variety of materials. From the organic to the geometric, from Art Deco, through to Pop and High-Tech, this book contains all the great names - Bernhard Bertoia, De Stijl, Dieter Rams, Philippe Starck, Charles and Ray Eames, to name only a very few. This essential book is a comprehensive journey through the shapes and colors, forms and functions of design history in the 20th century. This title offers an A-Z of designers and design schools, which builds into a complete picture of contemporary living. Lavishly illustrated, this is design in the fullest sense.
White Lotus meets Hereditary in this uproarious and unsettling dissection of a dysfunctional family and their ghosts, both literal and metaphorical. Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Ronald Malfi
Effektives Wortschatztraining, das Spaß macht.English Vocabulary in Use Elementary bietet authentisches Wortschatztraining für Lernende auf Niveau B1 und arbeitet nach dem erfolgreichen "Murphy-Doppelseitenprinzip". 60 lernerfreundliche, kompakte Units vermitteln allgemeinsprachliches Vokabular aus den verschiedensten Themenbereichen.Die Neuausgabe enthält drei komplett neue Units, neue Illustrationen und noch umfangreichere interaktive Lernsoftware mit eingebautem Vokabeltrainer. Typische sprachliche Schwierigkeiten, die anhand des Cambridge Learner Corpus ermittelt wurden, werden als error warnings intensiv behandelt.60 Units auf lernerfreundlichen Doppelseiten: Links Präsentation des neuen Vokabulars in authentischen Kontexten, erklärt in einfachem Englisch und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, rechts abwechslungsreiche Übungen, die auch im Unterricht eingesetzt werden können. Hervorragende Eignung für Selbstlerner: Eingängige Erklärungen in den Units und Lernerfolgskontrolle im übersichtlichen Lösungsteil. Authentisches und aktuelles Englisch durch Verwendung des Cambridge International Corpus.Ausgabe mit Lösungen.
Effektives Wortschatztraining, das Spaß macht.English Vocabulary in Use Elementary bietet authentisches Wortschatztraining für Lernende auf Niveau B2 und arbeitet nach dem erfolgreichen "Murphy-Doppelseitenprinzip". 60 lernerfreundliche, kompakte Units vermitteln allgemeinsprachliches Vokabular aus den verschiedensten Themenbereichen.Die Neuausgabe enthält drei komplett neue Units, neue Illustrationen und noch umfangreichere interaktive Lernsoftware mit eingebautem Vokabeltrainer. Typische sprachliche Schwierigkeiten, die anhand des Cambridge Learner Corpus ermittelt wurden, werden als error warnings intensiv behandelt.60 Units auf lernerfreundlichen Doppelseiten: Links Präsentation des neuen Vokabulars in authentischen Kontexten, erklärt in einfachem Englisch und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, rechts abwechslungsreiche Übungen, die auch im Unterricht eingesetzt werden können.Hervorragende Eignung für Selbstlerner: Eingängige Erklärungen in den Units und Lernerfolgskontrolle im übersichtlichen Lösungsteil.Authentisches und aktuelles Englisch durch Verwendung des Cambridge International Corpus.Ausgabe mit Lösungen.
"Jupiter's Travels" - Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world. It is the book that inspired Ewan McGregor's "Long Way Round". In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into the depths of fear and reached the heights of euphoria. He met astonishing people and was treated as a spy, a welcome stranger and even a god. For Simon the trip became a journey into his own soul, and for many others - including bikers Charley Boorman and Ewan McGrergor - it provides an inspiration they will never forget. This classic text, which has informed a whole genre of travel writing in the thirty years since it was first published, will never be bettered for sheer adventure, passion, humour and honesty. Brought up in England by a German mother and a Romanian father, Ted Simon found himself impelled by an insatiable desire to explore the world.It led him to abandon an early scientific career in favour of journalism, and he has worked for several newspapers and magazines on Fleet Street and elsewhere. Ted Simon is also the author of "Riding Home" and "The Gypsy in Me".
In this warmhearted romantic comedy, a mistaken identity leads to a blossoming romance between two boys.Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she’s written the name of another boy—Ida—on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!Aoki has a crush on Ida, a boy in his class. Ida has learned from Akkun the story behind Hashimoto’s eraser—that Aoki told Ida he liked him to protect Hashimoto’s secret crush. The only trouble is that Aoki really does like Ida, so now Aoki has to confess his love to Ida all over again!
THERE ARE MANY LEGENDS ABOUT MY MOTHER... Raised far away on the moon, Xingyin was unaware she was being hidden from the Celestial Emperor - who exiled her mother for stealing the elixir of immortality. But when her magic flares and reveals her, Xingyin is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind. Alone, powerless, and afraid, Xingyin makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets.In disguise, she trains alongside the Emperor's son, mastering archery and magic, despite the passion which flames between them. Vowing to rescue her mother, Xingyin embarks on a quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies. But when forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, Xingyin must challenge the ruthless Emperor, leaving her torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos...Inspired by the legend of Chang'e the Moon Goddess, this captivating debut weaves Chinese mythology into a sweeping adventure of love and family, immortals and magic.
Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband Cyril - both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties - make a pact: to commit suicide together once they've both turned eighty. A lot can change in thirty years, however... By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril. Do they honour their agreement? And if not, will they live to regret it? 'Some books become so popular that the lucky author can thereafter churn out any old cobblers, confident in the knowledge that it will be published and find an audience. Lionel Shriver never took that easy route' Irish Independent
While her starfaring people are being hunted by an implacable enemy, a young caver discovers a traitor in their ranks and must undertake a transformative journey across the galaxy to save everything she has ever known. Persecuted for their worship of the Endless-an ancient, galactic-spanning race of god-like power, who disappeared long ago-the Pilgrims escaped the world of Raia almost a century ago, fleeing the despotic rule of the United Empire in a dozen space-faring fleets. The Pilgrims of the Horizon of Light fleet have spent two long years being hunted by an especially determined Empire foe.Now though, it appears they've finally caught a break, laying low on a non-descript comet that's hurtling into deep space. Young Pilgrim Sewa Eze wants to become a caver-and head into the depths on deserted moons, asteroids, and worlds to secure whatever the fleet needs: precious resources, Endless relics, even Dust. However, a strange device is discovered deep in the ice of the comet they shelter on-suggesting dark forces are afoot-and Sewa is instead selected for a leadership role at the Ceremony of Duties and must reassess her life, beginning with finding the traitor in their ranks who threatens her entire fleet's existence.The course of Sewa's life changes forever as she is forced to confront treachery, discover the secrets of the ancient past and travel to the very heart of the tyrannical United Empire.
This illustrated book features the many versions of Godzilla and its monstrous foes, from the original 1954 movie to SHIN GODZILLA in 2016, and even the 2021 animation. With in-depth explanations accompanied by illustrations from renowned manga artist and monster designer Shinji Nishikawa, this 216-page book explores the powers and anatomy of over 100 kaiju, including Mechagodzilla, SHIN GODZILLA and Mothra! Nishikawa worked on the monster designs for many Godzilla movies from 1989 to 2004, and here he unravels the live-action special effects and theatrical CG animations of the Godzilla franchise in this essential enyclopedia. This comprehensive guide covers the Godzilla Showa Era (1954-1975), Godzilla Heisei Era (1984-1995), Godzilla Millennium (1999-2004), SHIN GODZILLA (2016), Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters Toho's animated Trilogy (2017-2018), and Godzilla: Singular Point animated series(2021).
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 352, Publishers: Yale University Press, Author: Peter Burke, ISBN-13: 9780300260465, Date of issue: 2021
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 464, Publishers: Pearson Education, Author: Len Bass,Paul Clements,Rick Kazman, ISBN-13: 9780136886099, Date of issue: 2021
Manual of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: A Step by Step Approach is a practical, easy to read reference guide on how to perform percutaneous coronary intervention in non-CTO lesions. Written by recognized experts in the field, this referenc
This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.In Chernobyl, following the nuclear disaster, only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes. On an uninhabited Scottish island, feral cattle live entirely wild. In Detroit, once America's fourth-largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves, looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods.This book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live - or survive in tiny, precarious numbers - to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankind's impact on nature is forced to stop. From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean, the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland, Flyn brings together some of the most desolate, eerie, ravaged and polluted areas in the world - and shows how, against all odds, they offer our best opportunities for environmental recovery.By turns haunted and hopeful, this luminously written world study is pinned together with profound insight and new ecological discoveries that together map an answer to the big questions: what happens after we're gone, and how far can our damage to nature be undone?More praise for Islands of Abandonment'Extraordinary ... Just when you thought there was nowhere left to explore, along comes an author with a new category of terrain ... Dazzling' SPECTATOR'A haunting look at how nature fights back ... Beautiful, evocative' SUNDAY TIMES'Flyn's brave, thorough book sets out to explore places where angels fear to tread ... The result is fascinating, eerie and strange ... There is some thrilling writing here' KATHLEEN JAMIE, NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful' ADAM NICOLSON'Exhilarating' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 368, Publishers: Yale University Press, Author: Mark Leopold, ISBN-13: 9780300260885, Date of issue: 2021
A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today-bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep. Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn't need a reminder she's getting older, or that she's feeling indifferent about her own life.Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway-not with him, but with Sloane's longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues she'd rather not confront, like her husband's repeated infidelity. But when they arrive at their rental cottage, it becomes clear Naomi has something else in mind.She wants Sloane to stop letting things happen to her, for Sloane to really live. So Naomi orchestrates a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers, only for it to take a horrifying turn that changes Sloane's and Naomi's lives literally forever. The friends are forced to come to terms with some pretty eternal consequences in this bloody, seductive novel about how it's never too late to find satisfaction, even though it might taste different than expected.
An unabashedly honest and hilarious portrait of a life gone slightly off the rails in the wake of a devastating breakup-an irresistible debut novel full of sharp observations from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica HeiseyMaggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's completely broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days (not that she's counting) . . . but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée(TM).Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and "get back out there" sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of singledom, intermittently dating, and asking tough questions along the way.Laugh-out-loud funny and painfully relatable, Really Good, Actually is a surprisingly tender and bittersweet page-turner that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love and friendship and that thing we like to call "happiness". It's an anti-romantic comedy for anyone who's ever had their heart broken and marks the debut of an unforgettable new voice.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 224, Publishers: Hodder & Stoughton, Author: Dr. Aseem Malhotra, ISBN-13: 9781529354102, Date of issue: 2021
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 360, Publishers: Pearson Education, Author: Scott Kelby, ISBN-13: 9780137357635, Date of issue: 2023
The Definitive Guide to Valuing Hard-to-Value Companies: Fully Revised for Today's Financial Markets Valuing money-making companies that have long histories and established business models is straightforward. It is when you encounter difficult-t
