Libros

This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names (...)

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of EuropeAt once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making Marvels demonstrate how European royalty from the (...)

Makgia sin lágrimas fue una de las últimas obras que escribió Aleister Crowley unos pocos años antes de morir, residiendo en la casa de huéspedes en Hastings, durante 1943. No obstante, el proyecto de este libro (escribir una obra mágica para principiantes) comenzó a gestarse alrededor de 1911 en (...)

Käthe Kollwitz (1867 1945), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 1907), Gabriele Münter (1877 1962) and Marianne Werefkin (1860 1938) are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each challenged prevailing ideals of (...)

Ésta es la historia, emocionante y asombrosa a un tiempo, del audaz secuestro del general alemán Kreipe en la isla de Creta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Stanley Moss y Patrick Leigh Fermor, oficiales británicos del Servicio de Operaciones Especiales, junto con un pequeño grupo de miembros de (...)

In this brilliant study of the early history of jet engines, Hermione Giffard demolishes the myth of German aeronautical triumph and transforms the way we should think about technological change in general. While conventional histories of technology focus on the inventor-hero struggling to fulfil a (...)