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 (...)

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 (...)