Libros

Este libro recoge, con una visión general y unitaria, el devenir de la arquitectura occidental a través del tiempo, desde sus orígenes remotos hasta nuestra misma contemporaneidad; no es ni pre tende ser una historia convencional de la arquitectura, sino una introducción a su estudio que desvele (...)

La obra de arte es una expresión concreta y singular. Es un artefacto material. Su existencia no es gratuita, obedece a finalidades expresivas. La obra es expresiva a carta cabal. Todos sus elementos constitutivos, con todas sus cualidades sensibles, conceptuales y psicológicas, participan en y de (...)

Take an inspiring walk with legendary photographer Daido Moriyama while he explains his groundbreaking approach to street photography. For over half a century, Moriyama has provided a distinct vision of Japan and its people. Here he offers a unique opportunity for fans to learn about his methods, (...)

Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000 during Operation Barbarossa and made it a bulwark on the boundary between Heeresgruppe Nord and (...)

For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique.To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus (...)

Dentro del elenco de antihéroes y antiheroínas de la Historia de España, la reina de María Luisa de Parma ocupa un lugar de privilegio . Acusada por generaciones de historiadores de haber manipulado a su marido Carlos IV y de haberse encaprichado de Manuel Godoy, ha sido declarada culpable de la (...)

A highly illustrated account of one of Ancient Rome's most humiliating defeats, the battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, and how the embarrassment spurred the Roman Army on to eventual triumph.In its long history, the Roman Republic suffered many defeats, but none as humiliating as the Caudine (...)