How Architecture Works - Witold Rybczynski

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Opis - An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form"but it remains mysterious to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good"and not-so-good"buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail"of a stair balustrade, for instance"can convey an architect"s vision. Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect"s private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works, explains the central elements that make up good building design. It is an enlightening humanist"s toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh. "Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today. Nazwa - How Architecture Works Autor - Witold Rybczynski Oprawa - Twarda Wydawca - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Kod ISBN - 9780374211745 Kod EAN - 9780374211745 Rok wydania - 2013 Język - angielski Format - 14.5x21.5cm Ilość stron - 356 Podatek VAT - 5%

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Disco Polo (edycja specjalna) - Bracia Figo Fagot (Płyta CD)

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Opis - DISCO POLO taki tytuł nosi czwarta już w dorobku płyta BRACI FIGO FAGOT. Znajdziemy tam hity: " A w niebie gra disco polo", "Polska" oraz mnóstwo innych "disco perełek". Premiera 30 września 2016. Album wydany nakładem SP Records. Wersja specjalna - tylko dla Empiku - zawiera dwa dodatkowe utwory! Nazwa - Disco Polo (edycja specjalna) Autor - Bracia Figo Fagot Wydawca - SP Records Kod EAN - 5909876540007 Rok wydania - 2016 Nośnik - Płyta CD Podatek VAT - 23%

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Complete Stories Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--"Everything That Rises Must Converge "and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death--is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.

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Complete Stories Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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"An essential American book" (Richard Stern), "The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud" gathers 55 stories, dating from 1940 to 1984, and includes the immortal stories from "The Magic Barrel" and the vivid depictions of the unforgettable Fidelman.

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Health, Healing, and Beyond Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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The much-sought-after, greatly beloved exploration of the work of Krishnamacharya, teacher of many of twentieth-century yoga's greatest and most influential exponents, "Health, Healing, and Beyond "is filled with deep wisdom--an indispensable guide to the philosophy, principles, and limitless possibilities of yoga. First published in 1998, it is now available again to yogis, students, and teacher trainees everywhere.

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Unwinding Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic economic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, leaving the social contract in pieces and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. George Packer narrates the story of this America over the past three decades with his sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.

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A Friend of Kafka Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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This book of twenty stories is Isaac Bashevis Singer's fifth collection and contains such classics as "The Cafeteria" and "On the Way to the Poorhouse."

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World and All That It Holds Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Letters on Cezanne Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art "For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes." Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his "New Poems." But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge." "Letters on Cezanne" is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

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Listening With the Third Ear Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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Kniha Nevada Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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Michael J. Novacek - Terra Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago. Its tremendous history is now in danger of profound, catastrophic disruption. This title presents a synthesis of evolutionary biology, palaeontology, and modern environmental science to show how we can understand and prevent 'mass extinction event.'

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Crescent and Star Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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"A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head." --Carlin Romano, "The ""Philadelphia"" Inquirer""" In the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch--poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. In this newly revised edition, he adds much important new information on the many exciting transformations in Turkey's government and politics that have kept it in the headlines, and also shows how recent developments in both American and European policies (and not only the war in Iraq) have affected this unique and perplexing nation.

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Cancer Ward Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's deathOne of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassio

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BUTTERFLY BURNING Farrar, Straus, Giroux

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"Butterfly Burning" brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late 1940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. Vera captures the ebullience and bitterness to township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.

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