Libros

En el palacio de Helios, dios del sol y el más poderoso de los titanes, nace una niña. Pero Circe es una niña rara: carece de los poderes de su padre y de la agresiva capacidad de seducción de su madre. Cuando acude al mundo de los mortales en busca de compañía, descubre que sí posee un poder, el (...)

Constancia de la Mora es una de las figuras españolas más paradójicas y enigmáticas de los años treinta. Nacida en un entorno privilegiado y conservador, destinada a casarse bien, tener hijos y formar parte de la élite de la vieja España , rompió con los cánones de la época al convertirse en una (...)

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541--1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice, to Rome and ultimately Toledo, Spain, "The (...)

The book structure is intrinsically related to ideas underpinning the attitude of Francis of Assisi that are still highly topical: human dignity in poverty, the revaluation of sensible knowledge as opposed to the hegemony of purely instrumental reason, the preservation of nature - entropy, walking (...)

Este ensayo propone una singular interpretación de la obra de los arquitectos Francesco Venezia y John Hejduk, sosteniendo que bajo sus obras subyace el antiguo "arte de la memoria", y que solo entendidas bajo los postulados de aquella olvidada ciencia cobran su verdadero sentido.

on este libro las Jornadas de Investigadores Pre-doctorales se consolidan al llegar a su tercera edi-ción, tras las reuniones celebradas respectivamente en Daroca (2014) y Albarracín (2016). En esta oca-sión han sido organizadas por el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Zaragoza (...)

The year 2018 celebrates the Centennial of US Cruise Missiles. In 1918 Col. Hap Arnold, future father of the U. S. Air Force, was sent overseas to France to prepare for the operational deployment of vast clouds of unmanned Kettering Bugs to be used against the German Army. This book begins with an (...)

Filling a void in major works on legendary U.S. Naval carrier-based jet aircraft, this book is the definitive work on the design, development, flight testing, and initial service history of the Chance Vought F-8 Crusader. Having become the Navy's first fully-operational supersonic aircraft, the F-8 (...)

Don McCullin's reputation stands as one of the greatest war photographers of our times. In recent years he has photographed the landscape surrounding his home in Somerset, but his later travels have taken him to some of the most remote regions in the world. His skill in photographing people in (...)

Una prestigiosa selezione di dipinti di maestri del Rinascimento e del Barocco italiano, da Bachiacca a Campi, da Guercino a Giordano, da Recco a Zuccarelli fino a Ceruti, dimostra come gli animali abbiano da sempre avuto un ruolo fondamentale nella storia dell'arte. Gli artisti, infatti, li hanno (...)

Este libro hace una rigurosa revisión de la etiqueta y el protocolo internacionales en la gastronomía a través del estudio de la evolución de las normas de cortesía a la mesa. Es un texto inspirado por los más actuales estudios científicos sobre la percepción humana de las experiencias (...)

seña del editorThe life of America's most beloved artist, in his own words-back in print with restored text and drawings, new illustrations, and more The wit, humanity, and many-sided talent of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) are on full display in his classic autobiography. Rockwell's New York City (...)

Since 1940 Slim Aarons has been hard at work, first as a war photographer, then with unprecedented access as a photographer to the rich and famous. In this gorgeous sequel to Slim Aarons-Once Upon a Time, he develops the environmental portrait to the level of art, always showing his subjects in (...)