Libros

"Esta exposición pretende celebrar el proceso de construcción de la arqueología española coincidiendo con el 150 aniversario de la fundación del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN), pero también del nacimiento de la red de museos arqueológicos españoles.El objetivo central es presentar la historia y (...)

This Japan travel guide presents a journey into the true heart of the Kyoto experience one which brings you deep into the world of Kyoto's ancient Zen Buddhist culture.This is the first comprehensive guide to Kyoto's most important Zen garden and temple sites. Kyoto's Zen heritage represents one of (...)

Presenting twenty-five master gardens, this landscape design book explores the ingenuity and range of Japanese landscaping, from the self-imposed confines of courtyard designs to the open expanses of the stroll garden.No two Japanese gardens are ever the same. The Japanese Zen garden is a work of (...)

In 1906, the British launched one of the most revolutionary ships ever built - HMS Dreadnought. Besides being a big ship powered by turbines the ship was constructed with "all big guns". This meant that the earlier battleships were typically equipped with just 4 main guns intended to engage other (...)

The Mirage F1 emerged from a series of design studies performed by French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. Having originally sought to develop a larger swept wing derivative of the Mirage III, which became the Mirage F2, to serve as a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) propulsion testbed (...)

The birth of the Ninth Squadron (Novena Escuadrilla) of the Spanish Navy Fleet Air Arm (Flotilla de Aeronaves in short FLOAN) took place in 1987 with the receipt of the first three AV-8B aircraft from McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis on October 6 of that year. Deliveries continued for a total (...)

Un estudio revelador y pionero de cómo, a lo largo de la historia, se ha tratado de plasmar el rostro en imagen y de las dificultades para lograrlo.En ningún lugar alcanza el ser humano una presencia visual mayor que en su rostro. Por eso llevamos milenios tratando de descifrarlo a través de (...)

"...todos estos trenecillo, víctimas del progreso y de la carretera, cumplieron sin embargo honrosamente con su función durante un tiempo que pasó y que hoy creemos haber dejado ya muy atrás. Ellos también contribuyeron e su día al progreso y el bienestar... Por eso creo sinceramente que merecen (...)