Libros

Timetunnel to the 15th century. This is 1493's must-have history book and city guide by Hartmann Schedel. Hartmann Schedel's "Weltchronik", or "Chronicle of the World" (better known today as the "Nuremberg Chronicle", after the German city in which it was created), was a groundbreaking encyclopedic (...)

Ha sido llamado el acontecimiento histórico puntual más importante del siglo XX: el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins hicieron realidad la promesa de John F. Kennedy de colocar una nave tripulada en la Luna a finales de la década de 1960. Diez años de pruebas y (...)

Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize (...)

This book examines the RAF's ground attack capabilities, the threats it faced, and the weapons, technologies and aircraft developed to counter those threats from the end of World War II to the present day, moving from the era of the Hawker Typhoon to that of the Eurofighter Typhoon.Throughout the (...)

íEl Mediterráneo restaura el cuerpo, la mente y el alma! Descubra impresionantes destinos de ensueño en este libro actualizado y lujosamente ilustrado: desde las suites tipo cueva de Perivolas, en Santorini, ubicadas de forma majestuosa con las aguas del Egeo a sus pies, hasta el Hotel Le Corbusier (...)

This lavish book highlights a selection of the wonderful illustrations held in the archive of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Each illustration included in the book is accompanied by a plant profile, stating where the plant was found in the wild and explaining something of (...)

Le officine di statuaria lignea dipinta attive a Napoli nel corso del Seicento crebbero rapidamente di numero e importanza grazie all'incessante richiesta di manufatti da parte di ordini religiosi ed esponenti della corte reale, che ne decretarono il successo. I traffici commerciali lungo le rotte (...)

At the height of the Cold War it was Britain's V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK's nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixties. Their nuclear arsenal included not just freefall bombs but far more advanced weapons such as the Blue Steel (...)

Pasión por la modaLa historia de la moda moderna, desde la alta costura hasta los diseños para el consumo masivoEl siglo XX fue testigo de la evolución de la moda, que comenzó como un negocio exclusivo de los salones parisinos dirigido a una elite adinerada y acabó convirtiéndose en una industria (...)

El siglo que cambió el arte para siempreUna selección muy representativa del arte entre los años 1900 y 2000En la Nochevieja de 1899 ¿quién hubiera podido prever que, 100 años más tarde, la pintura y la escultura dejarían de ser requisitos esenciales para convertirse en dos opciones más? El término (...)