Libros

NUNCA HUBO UN GRAN HOMBRE QUE PASARA TODA SU VIDA TIERRA ADENTRO HERMAN MELVILLEHaga un gran viaje a nuestro pasado marinero, desde la simplicidad de las embarcaciones prehistóricas al romanticismo de la vela. desde el drama de la guerra naval hasta los sofisticados buques gigantes de la (...)

A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his artWinslow Homer (1836 1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic. The (...)

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 (...)

Step inside the private realm of the great designer Karl Lagerfeld through the eyes of his fellow artist and close friend Patrick Hourcade.The artist Patrick Hourcade met Karl Lagerfeld in 1976. A friendship that will last more than twenty years is immediately born between the two men, strengthened (...)

Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers - Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union - decided to intervene. Spain turned out to be the perfect proving (...)

Una casa verdaderamente moderna debe satisfacer numerosas demandas relacionadas con la comunidad, la privacidad, la sostenibilidad y las manías de sus habitantes. Este compendio en dos volúmenes estudia los 100 ejemplos más extraordinarios de arquitectura residencial, narrando la historia de cada (...)

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 (...)