Libros

Historias de las calles de Madrid recoge de forma amena las historias, leyendas, tradiciones y biografías de personajes que han dado nombre a 959 calles, plazas y avenidas de la almendra central de la ciudad. Se han revisado y actualizado con las nuevas vías y con los cambios de nombres producidos (...)

Un análisis ambicioso de la historia de España pasado por el particular tamiz del reconocido hispanista norteamericano; un estudio meticuloso y brillante que nos conduce con maestría a través de una nueva lectura de nuestro pasado: desde los albores visigodos, pasando por la época imperialista, (...)

A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist's (...)

1901. En el idílico pueblo vasco de Ea, Dylan y Ulises Morgan contemplan en el horizonte cómo se hunde el Annabelle, el vapor de su abuelo, tras la terrible tempestad de la noche anterior. Después, el cuerpo de una joven aparece flotando en la orilla. Extrañamente, es idéntica a otra muchacha (...)

En el año 1820 Andrea Carbayo de Jovellanos, La Gabacha, hija de Gloria Carbayo, la Encantadora, y de Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Jovino, escribe sus memorias para dejar constancia de las aventuras y desventuras que la llevaron al lugar donde se halla, perseguida por la intransigencia del (...)

¿QUÉ HARÍAS SI, TRAS HABER SOBREVIVIDO A LA QUE CREÍSTE QUE ERA LA PRUEBA MÁS DURA QUE PODÍAS SOPORTAR, EL DESTINO TE LLEVARA OTRA VEZ AL LÍMITE? Para la inspectora jefa Ana Arén no hay tregua: después de que resolviera el caso que prácticamente acabó con ella, debe enfrentarse a un reto (...)

Angela Merkel se retiró hace seis semanas y acaba de mudarse con su esposo, el guardaespaldas y su perrito Putin a una despoblada pero encantadora región del interior de Alemania. Acostumbrada a una vida turbulenta que le llevó a enfrentarse a duros líderes mundiales, situaciones límite y unos tres (...)

Nina Vidal, joven famosa, rica y depresiva, es asesinada con una crueldad tan inimaginable como... ¿creativa?. Nadie ha visto algo así. Nunca.Días después, aparece el cadáver de otra joven, también famosa y rica. Las dos víctimas eran amigas y se habían criado juntas en el ambiente más elitista y (...)

Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical (...)

Madrid, junio de 2020. Tras un encierro de tres meses, el narrador asiste desde su balcón al despertar de la ciudad a la llamada nueva normalidad, mientras revive los recuerdos de su infancia en una cultura campesina cuyos últimos supervivientes ahora están muriendo. A la dolorosa constatación de (...)

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 (...)

Un viaje caleidoscópico a través del mar, el arte y la vida.En 1520, Alberto Durero, el artista más famoso del norte de Europa, zarpó ansioso hasta Zelanda, una de las doce provincias costeras de los Países Bajos, para ver por primera vez una ballena. Nadie pintaba o dibujaba el mundo como él y sus (...)

This book was published as part of the Glass in MAS project, a multidisciplinary research project on the glass collection of the MAS collection Vleeshuis (Antwerp, Belgium). Never before has the collection of archaeological glass of the MAS Vleeshuis Collection in Antwerp been described and (...)

Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the country that invented them. This book is an ambitious attempt to achieve the next best thing - a level of documentation in plans, photographs and words (...)

Christian Dior discovered gardening at his childhood home in Granville, France. Roses profoundly influenced the designer, especially with his famous New Look aesthetic, where they were placed beneath the iconic corolla symbol. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Musee Christian Dior (...)

La fuente de este riguroso y minucioso trabajo de investigación periodística es el archivo personal de Emilio Alonso Manglano, director del CESID entre 1981 y 1995: sus agendas, sus cuadernos de notas y los informes de inteligencia que guardó: una investigación de varios años repleta de secretos y (...)

In 2004, Patrick Gilles and Dorothee Boissier partners both at work and in life founded their Paris-based interior design studio and furniture line, Gilles & Boissier. The maturity of their style, their simple yet sophisticated aesthetic, and the cinematographic compositions of their interiors (...)

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur (...)

An essential addition to every book collection on photography, fashion, and graphic design his is the first survey to explore the history of photography through the lens of fashion magazines, spanning the years 1925 to 2018 Includes images rarely, if ever, republished by fashion and art (...)

With the publication of their previous book on the battleships of the Littorio class, the authors set new standards for the detailed coverage and sophisticated analysis of Italian warship design. Inspired by its success, both critically and commercially, the authors were inspired to follow up with (...)

En este libro de memorias, que tiene muchos momentos a la altura de 'El Gatopardo', Fulco di Verdura describe su idílica infancia en la magnífica Villa Niscemi en un mundo y un tiempo inolvidables: la aristocrática Palermo anterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Fulco nos seduce con divertidas (...)

The M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage, dubbed the Priest, was the most successful and widely used example of American self-propelled artillery during WWII. Examples continued to be used by the U.S. Army during the Korean war, and beyond, even serving Allied countries into the 1970s.

The Ming Dynasty (1368 1644) is regarded as one of the most glorious in Chinese history especially in regards to porcelain. Ming denotes the finest and most precious porcelain, which regularly achieves astronomical prices at auctions. The Ming vase is a popular cliche even for those who are not (...)

A hundred years after the death of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), the time has come to re-examine the artist's controversial place in Modernist art history. By examining a select group of outstanding originals, this recent study celebrates his best work through advances in our understanding of the (...)

Internationally acclaimed fashion designer Monique Lhuillier started by designing exquisite bridal wear in 1996 in Los Angeles. With collections that are sophisticated and feminine and appeal to modern women, Lhuillier expanded to include ready-to-wear, footwear, bags, accessories, and fragrances. (...)

Palacios comunales atemporales es un estudio sobre la persistente existencia de grandes estructuras espaciales dedicadas a alojar colectividades unidas por posiciones vitales alternativas al modo de vida familiar. Aunque se interesa en los principios espirituales y/o políticos que animan estas (...)

This versatile, rugged aircraft was a joint Anglo/French project and first flew in September 1968, becoming operational with both the RAF and Arme del'Air in 1972/3. The Jaguar's multi-role design made it easy to adapt for the ground-attack, reconnaissance, interceptor and maritime strike roles. It (...)

Tadema Gallery was founded in 1978 by Sonya and David Newell-Smith in London's famed Camden Passage in Islington. They were successful photo-journalists who ventured into the field of 20th century abstract art and the decorative arts of the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1982 they had discovered a (...)

Gardening is trending, and today s gardeners are embracing ecologically sound principles conserving water; avoiding invasives; reducing chemicals; supporting wildlife; and reviving time-tested, organic practices. Featuring sites across a variety of climates and conditions, this book includes (...)

The Wirtz Gardens Part III is the third in a series of books on the gardens of landscape architect practice Wirtz International Landscape Architects. It contains 30 gardens, a mixture of private, public and corporate projects in Belgium, Japan, France and England. Private projects in the USA and (...)

The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there were few roads, posed significant logistical (...)

La historia de la humanidad es la historia de los tejidos, tan antigua como la propia civilización. Desde que se hiló la primera hebra, la necesidad de obtener tejidos ha servido de impulso para la tecnología, los negocios, la política y la cultura. En El tejido de la civilización, Virginia Postrel (...)

Internationally acclaimed fashion designer Monique Lhuillier started by designing exquisite bridal wear in 1996 in Los Angeles. With collections that are sophisticated and feminine and appeal to modern women, Lhuillier expanded to include ready-to-wear, footwear, bags, accessories, and fragrances. (...)