Chatham from old photographs

Brighton From Old Photographs

Explore the history of Brighton through this fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.

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Orkney from Old Photographs

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In a Around Rotherham From Old Photographs

A fascinating portrait of the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham presented through a remarkable collection of historical photographs.

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Burton's Lost Breweries From Old Photographs

Explore the history of Burton-on-Trent's lost breweries through this fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.

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Old Houses Made New

A multitude of photographs and architectural drawings illustrate the rehabilitation process of over 30 projects, from concept to construction. Text in

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Horsekeeper's Daughter

A small girl's fascination with a battered old box of letters and photographs from a pioneer family in Queensland leads to the discovery of a tale of

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Prague at the Turn of the Century - Pavel Scheufler

Anotace: Towards the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Prague still possessed its venerable majesty, but now it was fast becoming a modern European metropolis. The old Jewish Quarter had been replaced with broad boulevards, modern bridges spanned the river, and the first steam trains from Vienna were arriving at the station. While only recently the Emperor and his guard...

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Praha za císaře pána - Pavel Scheufler

<p>Towards the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Prague still possessed its venerable majesty, but now it was fast becoming a modern European metropolis. The old Jewish Quarter had been replaced with broad boulevards, modern bridges spanned the river, and the first steam trains from Vienna were arriving at the station. While only recently the Emperor and his guard ...

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The Kinfolk Home

Interest in home design has been on the rise for some time, but Kinfolk's focus on slowing down and creating a more intentional, beautiful home is where the attention is shifting.Through luscious photographs and insightful interviews, the author takes us into 40 homes around the world, from the Americas to Europe, Asia to Africa, ending in Australia. The homes range from ...

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (9781594746031)

Kniha - autor Ransom Riggs, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá A New York Times 1 best seller On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island.?? An abandoned orphanage.?? A strange collection of very curious photogra...

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Chtíč po svobodě - Jáchym Topol

Fotografie Pavla Hrocha a esej Jáchyma Topola zaznamenávají divoká léta po sametové revoluci v Praze, vzrušené období oslav nově nabyté svobody o pádu komunistického režimu v Československu. Emoce se z intimní zóny vnitřního exilu obyvatel dostaly na ulici, společně s mnoha potlačovanými tématy i recidivisty propuštěnými po prezidentské amnestii. Zmatek se mísí s radostí,...

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Chtíč po svobodě - první roky po sametové revoluci - Pavel Hroch,Jáchym Topol

Anotace: Fotografie Pavla Hrocha a esej Jáchyma Topola zaznamenávají divoká léta po sametové revoluci v Praze, vzrušené období oslav nově nabyté svobody o pádu komunistického režimu v Československu. Emoce se z intimní zóny vnitřního exilu obyvatel dostaly na ulici, společně s mnoha potlačovanými tématy i recidivisty propuštěnými po prezidentské amnestii. Zmatek se mísí ...

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Chtíč po svobodě

Fotografie Pavla Hrocha a esej Jáchyma Topola zaznamenávají divoká léta po sametové revoluci v Praze, vzrušené období oslav nově nabyté svobody o pádu komunistického režimu v Československu. Emoce se z intimní zóny vnitřního exilu obyvatel dostaly na ulici, společně s mnoha potlačovanými tématy i recidivisty propuštěnými po prezidentské amnestii. Zmatek se mísí s radostí,...

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Living in Japan. 40th Anniversary Edition - Alex Kerr

<p>Japanese homes are refuges of tranquility, crafted in a unique domestic aesthetic of Eastern minimalism. Traditional architecture features alongside cutting-edge contemporary dwellings in this collection of homes, with many never-before-seen photographs. Turn to the rising sun and discover the fluid simplicity of these spaces where Zen philosophy breathes.</p&...

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Daniel Kramer: Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day - Daniel Kramer

When photographer Daniel Kramer first met Bob Dylan, the 23-year-old singer was still widely unknown. At their initial meeting in Woodstock, Dylan seemed restless and uncomfortable in front of the camera. Yet over the course of a year and a day, all of that would change. From 1964 to 1965, Kramer’s extraordinary access to Bob Dylan on tour, in concert, and backstage, allo...

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Sanctum

Haunting, fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling photo-illustrated novel ASYLUM. Perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Featuring real found photographs from vintage carnivals, SANCTUM is a mind-bending reading experience that blurs the lines between past and present, genius and insanity. Dan, Abby, and Jordan were traumatised by the...

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Amy Winehouse: Blake Wood - Nancy Jo Sales

<p>Photographer Blake Wood met Amy Winehouse at the peak of her career, and for two years they became inseparable. In 85 color and black-and-white photographs, this collection records their time together, spanning private moments in London, Paris, and St. Lucia. These previously unseen photographs capture a rare and lighter side of this much-missed icon, and are an ...

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Nepal and Mao - Olof Jarlbro

Anotace: "Underneath the chaos and political standpoint Jarlbro photographs doesn't reveal the soldier instead the person behind the uniform." <br> <br> The book "Nepal & Mao" takes us to a country in which peace was declared many years ago. But somehow there is still tension in the country. Old royalist that won't step down ...

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Nepal and Mao

"Underneath the chaos and political standpoint Jarlbro photographs doesn't reveal the soldier instead the person behind the uniform." The book "Nepal & Mao" takes us to a country in which peace was declared many years ago. But somehow there is still tension in the country. Old royalist that won't step down from army posts, constant strikes and protests in the capital. S...

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Nepal and Mao - Olof Jarlbro

<p>"Underneath the chaos and political standpoint Jarlbro photographs doesn't reveal the soldier instead the person behind the uniform." The book "Nepal &amp; Mao" takes us to a country in which peace was declared many years ago. But somehow there is still tension in the country. Old royalist that won't step down from army posts, constant str...

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Miss Peregrine´s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Anotace: About Miss Peregrine´s Home for Peculiar ChildrenA New York Times #1 best seller On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage.A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits t...

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Miss Peregrine´s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

<p>A New York Times #1 best seller On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island.?? An abandoned orphanage.?? A strange collection of very curious photographs.?? It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s ...

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You Caught Me Kissing

Dorothy is delicious-her poems are like her. . . warm, funny, sexy, deep and very loving. How lucky her children are-to have learned how to love. . .I love you, Dorothy. -Barbra StreisandDorothy Bridges celebrates life and love in all its permutations and we are invited along to share in the festivities. You Caught Me Kissing" is full of love, humor, hope and inspiration....

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Miss Peregrine´s Peculiar Children - boxed set - Ransom Riggs

Anotace: Together for the first time, here is the #1 New York Times best seller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and its two sequels, Hollow City and Library of Souls. All three are packaged in a beautifully designed slipcase. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photog...

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New Dress and Other Stories - Virginia Woolfová

Anotace: As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by...

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Homage to Catalonia - Orwell George

Anotace: After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Having enrolled in the POUM militias, the young writer was soon forced to experience first-hand...

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Coming Up for Air, 1. vydání - George Orwell

<p>George Bowling, a forty-five-year-old insurance salesman with a wife and two children, is overweight, depressed and haunted by ever-present portents of imminent global conflict. Dreaming of escaping the staid suburban rut in which he has become embedded, he reminisces about his home town in Oxfordshire, Lower Binfield. But as he seeks refuge in the rural idyll of...

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Homage to Catalonia, 1. vydání - George Orwell

<p>After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco’s Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Having enrolled in the POUM militias, the young writer was soon forced to experience first-hand the h...

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The New Dress and Other Stories - Virginia Woolf

<p>As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by ...

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Gone with the Wind, 1. vydání - Margaret Mitchell

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realizes that young men can’t resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’s ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks ou...

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Praha panoramatická (ČJ, AJ, NJ, FJ)

Praha panoramatickáPrahou se dá procházet hodiny, roky a vždy nás něčím překvapí. Překvapení nebývá vždy milé. Vždyť žádné živé město nemůže mít onu strnulou dokonalost dávno opuštěných míst. Kdo se však chce těšit její krásou, toho město na Vltavě jistě nezklame. Stačí se jen dívat. Mít oči otevřené.Výsledek svého umění dívat se i za nás předkládá v této publikaci pražsk...

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Leni Riefenstahl: Africa - Angelika Taschen

<p>This remarkable collection gathers Leni Riefenstahl’s images of the Nuba, Dinka, Shilluk, and Masai tribes into a Baby SUMO-sized tribute to Africa. Riefenstahl’s images narrate her travels to the continent and immersion in the culture and customs of her hosts, detailing a harmonious meeting of difference and Riefenstahl’s deep respect for the people of the land....

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Praha panoramatická (ČJ, AJ, NJ, FJ) - Jiří Podrazil

<p>Praha panoramatická</p><p>Prahou se dá procházet hodiny, roky a vždy nás něčím překvapí. Překvapení nebývá vždy milé. Vždyť žádné živé město nemůže mít onu strnulou dokonalost dávno opuštěných míst. Kdo se však chce těšit její krásou, toho město na Vltavě jistě nezklame. Stačí se jen dívat. Mít oči otevřené.</p><p>Výsledek svého umění díva...

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Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis - Sebastiao Salgado

<p>Sebastião Salgado’s haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern societyand development. Salgado calls GENESIS “my love letter to the planet.”</p> <p> </p> <p>A photographic homage to our planet</p> <p>“In GENESIS, my camera allowed n...

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