Lost Languages

Автор: Robinson, Andrew
Название: Lost languages
ISBN: 050028816X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500288160
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Цена: 27450 T
Описание: A barefoot Mary has danced to soaring ballet music from an old gramophone, in her back garden ever since she learned to walk. Her head is filled with dreams of someday becoming a ballerina. Even when she is old enough to go to school, she rushes home everyday and with brown paper wings pinned to her shoulders, she dances and dances until darkness falls. When, at last, a dance teacher comes to her small town, she learns to arabesque and plie and leap gracefully through the air. After a while she is chosen to perform a solo in a town hall concert. She is filled with both pride and anxiety. She needs a ballet dress. But there is a problem: it is wartime. When she visits a draper`s shop, she learns that there is no fabric suitable for making her dress. She is devastated. Can her dream of becoming a ballet dancer ever come true? And will her mother somehow find a way to make her a ballet dress?

Название: Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain
ISBN: 1910350621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910350621
Издательство: ACC-distribution titles
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Описание: An in-depth exploration of the forgotten buildings of postwar Britain, charting their evolution from ambitious concepts to abandoned constructions.

Автор: McGann
Название: Dante Gabriel Rossetti & the Game that Must Be Lost
ISBN: 0300080239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300080230
Издательство: Wiley yUP
Цена: 27500.00 T
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Описание: Why did the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti come to dominate the cultural geography of England between 1850 and 1910? And why, having attained that kind of eminence, did Rossetti's star decline so precipitously with the advent of Modernism? Finally, what is there about Rossetti's work and its historical aftermath that makes these questions important ones to ask? The cultural and aesthetic problems raised by those questions are the subject of this fascinating book. Jerome McGann, an eminent authority on Rossetti, demonstrates the programmatic aims of Rossetti's innovative multimedia work by focusing on two issues, one philosophical and one cultural. First, McGann shows how in Rossetti's work high-order thinking processes are modeled and executed as aesthetic practices.

Second, from Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelite 'art of the inner standing point' McGann argues that Rossetti forces a revision of the cultural norms commonly used for evaluating artistic success and failure.

Автор: Shacochis Bob
Название: The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
ISBN: 0802119824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802119827
Издательство: Abbeville Press
Цена: 21950.00 T
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Описание: Renowned through four award-winning books for his gritty and revelatory visions of the Caribbean, Bob Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled knots of romance, espionage, and vengeance. In riveting prose, Shacochis builds a complex and disturbing story about the coming of age of America in a pre-9/11 world.

When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It's the late 1990s, a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings, and everyone has secrets. The journalist, whom he knew years before as Jackie Scott, had a bigger investment in Haiti than it seemed, and to make sense of her death, Tom must plunge back into a thorny past and his complicated ties to both Jackie and Eville Burnette, a member of Special Forces who has been assigned to protect her.

From the violent, bandit-dominated terrain of World War II Dubrovnik to the exquisitely rendered Istanbul in the 1980s, Shacochis brandishes Jackie's shadowy family history with daring agility. Caught between her first love and the unsavory attentions of her father--an elite spy and quintessential Cold War warrior pressuring his daughter to follow in his footsteps--seventeen-year-old Jackie hatches a desperate escape plan that puts her on course to becoming the soulless woman Tom equally feared and desired.

Set over fifty years and in four countries backdropped by different wars, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul is a magnum opus that brings to life, through the mystique and allure of history, an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.

Автор: Bertholet Ferdinand M., Van Der Aalsvoort Lambert
Название: Impressions of a Lost World: A Century of Chinese Photography, 1860-1950
ISBN: 0300196563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300196566
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and travelling in China increased, early photographs of China were taken by and for an international audience. Among the Celestials assembles 250 fascinating images of China in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th, captured by the Western camera lens. The photographs portray the gritty side of the country as well as stunning views of palaces, temples, harbours and gardens. This juxtaposition of the sordid and the serene provides a multidimensional picture of China's physical and social landscape before Mao Zedong's ascent to power changed the country forever. The photographs, many published here for the first time, are both beautiful and moving, and together offer a new understanding of a social and cultural history associated with a time of significant historical change.

Автор: MacLeod, Catharine
Название: The Lost Prince
ISBN: 1855144581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781855144583
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: Brave, handsome, clever, athletic, noble and cultured, Henry, Prince of Wales embodied all princely virtues, or so his contemporaries would have us believe. In his short life he was the focus of great hope and expectation in Europe, and his court was the centre of a revival of chivalry and a renaissance in the arts.

Автор: May, Brian Vidal, Elena
Название: Village lost and found
ISBN: 0711230390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711230392
Издательство: Frances Lincoln
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Описание: Brian May`s painstaking reproduction of exquisite stereo photographs from the dawn of photography transports the reader back in time to the lost world of an Oxfordshire village in 1850s England.

Автор: Beckham Andrew
Название: Lost Christmas Gift
ISBN: 1616891025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616891022
Издательство: Abrams
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Описание: Sixty years after his father left to be a mapmaker in the war in Europe, Emerson Johansson received a package that had been lost in the mail for decades. The package contained a most extraordinary gift: an exquisite book Johansson s father lovingly handmade detailing an extraordinary adventure they shared together just months before his departure. This book tells the tale of how father and son set out into the mountains on Christmas Eve to cut a tree, but get caught in a dangerous blizzard. Lost in the snow, they are helped by a mysterious figure, a silvery man who does not speak but leaves them a series of gifts that help them survive and who ultimately leads them home in an almost magical way. The enigmatic man's image is not captured in the photographs the boy took with his new camera, pictures he believed, until now, were long lost. Little did he know that his father had taken the photographs, and drawing on vellum overlays from his own memory of that night's events, meticulously reconstructed, mapped, and narrated their adventure, revealing that the curious man in the woods was, in fact, no stranger, but somebody well known to us all. This book, destined to become a Christmas classic, is a faithful facsimile of the magnificent handcrafted present Johnasson s father sent him, and a poignant reminder that the best gifts, of memory, family, and the kindness of strangers, transcend time but never our understanding.

Автор: McCrea Barry
Название: Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe
ISBN: 0300185154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300185157
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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Описание: Shows how the mass abandonment of rural vernaculars (such as the Irish language, Italian dialects, and French patois) shaped European literary modernism.

Автор: Austin, Peter K.
Название: 1000 Languages
ISBN: 0500514119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500514115
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Цена: 21950.00 T
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Описание: There are over 6,000 languages used around the world, and linguists estimate that by 2050 half of these will have become extinct. This book offers a linguistic guided world tour, looking in detail at the eleven global languages. It also explores the major languages of each region in turn.

Автор: Blume Lesley M M
Название: Let`s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition
ISBN: 1452105308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781452105307
Издательство: Abrams
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Цена: 12860.00 T
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Описание: Let`s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition is a collection, organised by topic, of forgotten but wonderful words, phrases, names, insults and idioms including fascinating and funny anecdotes, etymologies and occasions for use.

Название: Lost Control
ISBN: 3899551893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783899551891
Издательство: Gestalten
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Описание: Neasden Control Centre was the first book to feature the artist project of the same name. It shows how NCC uses talent, technique and a childlike perspective to create works that mix drawing, graphic design and art. Because these multi-disciplinary works are exactly in tune with the zeitgeist, the book achieved cult status in the design scene and is one of the most sought after out-of-print titles at dgv. Lost Control is the self-deprecating title of the new publication from the Neasden Headquarters. The book presents graphic design, installations and collages in NCC s incomparable style that always comes across as simultaneously spontaneous and calculated. These seemingly contradictory, but in NCC s work so coherently united characteristics give their work a powerful appeal. They are not only influencing creatives from around the world today, but are also increasingly recognised by clients such as Volkswagen and international museums such as the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The majority of work featured in Lost Control was created by Neasden Control Centre exclusively for this book and is complemented by images from current commercial and artistic projects.

Автор: Hawass, Zahi
Название: The Lost Tombs of Thebes
ISBN: 0500051593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500051597
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Описание: In the foothills of the Theban massif in southern Egypt, not far from the Valley of the Kings, lie hundreds of unique and wonderfully decorated tombs from the New Kingdom belonging to the people who served the pharaohs. This book gives the reader access to a selection of these extraordinary monuments.