Libros

Cuando en el siglo XIX las excavaciones de Pompeya se realizaron por primera vez bajo premisas científicas y arqueológicas, los hermanos Fausto y Felice Niccolini se sumaron a la gran tarea. Haciendo uso de la entonces novedosa técnica de la litografía en color, documentaron edificios, frescos, (...)

At home with modern french families . . .Si Mazouz, curator of the popular blog FRENCHBYDESIGN, introduces a dozen sophisticated French families in her debut book, How the French Live to engage and inspire.Si shares each family?s personality and values through the lens of their uniquely styled (...)

Don't just set the table set the mood! Planning the ultimate dressy dinner party? Or something more laid-back and casual? There's an art to tuning your table to the occasion and House BeautifulTablescapes helps you master this often underappreciated skill whether it's for a Sunday supper, (...)

Alexandra and Michael Misczynski, the wife-and-husband team behind the Los Angeles-based AD100 design firm Atelier AM, are standard-bearers for the concepts of quality and connoisseurship. In an image-driven culture, where novelty and extravagance so often masquerade as virtues, the Misczynskis (...)

How did ISIS - a widely hated, massively outnumbered and ludicrously outgunned organisation - manage to occupy over 120 cities, towns and villages from the Southern Philippines to Western Libya? Seeking to understand ISIS's combat effectiveness, Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical (...)

This captivating book, fully revised and updated and featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior and exterior design.This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes entries for new properties (...)

The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession - that the total amount of (...)

If big numbers worry you, DON'T BE SCARED! How Many Hairs On a Grizzly Bear? And Other Big Questions about Numbers introduces children to a world of eye-popping information about the infinite world of numbers.Have you ever wondered . . .- How many stars there are in the night sky?- How many germs (...)