Nomad`s Dream, Li August

Автор: Sarnitz August
Название: Adolf Loos (Basic Arch)
ISBN: 3836544679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836544672
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: With his passion for smooth surfaces, fine lines, and spatial plans, Adolf Loos was a prophet of 20th-century architecture. This essential introduction explores his rejection of ornamental forms and his radical pursuit of stark, bold, and beautiful design.

Автор: Faulkner William
Название: Light in august
ISBN: 0099283158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099283157
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner`s central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner`s complex and tragic world.

Автор: Faulkner William
Название: Light in August
ISBN: 067964248X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679642480
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14100.00 T
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One of Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, "Light in August" reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove's resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner's most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and Joe Christmas, a ragged, itinerant soul obsessed with his mixed-race ancestry. Powerfully entwining these characters' stories, "Light in August" brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of literature's great invented landscapes, in all of its unerringly fascinating glory. This edition reproduces the corrected text of "Light in August" as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

Автор: Tuchman, Barbara W.
Название: The Guns of August
ISBN: 0345476093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345476098
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 6750.00 T
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Описание: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era

In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war's key players, Tuchman's magnum opus is a classic for the ages.

Praise for The Guns of August

"A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.'"--Newsweek

"More dramatic than fiction . . . a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained."--Chicago Tribune

"A fine demonstration that with sufficient art rather specialized history can be raised to the level of literature."--The New York Times

" The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues, which are considerable, and its feel for characterizations, which is excellent."--The Wall Street Journal

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Автор: Barbara Tuchman
Название: The Guns of August
ISBN: 0241968216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241968215
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From the precipitous plunge into war and the brutal and bloody battles of August 1914, this book shows how events were propelled by a horrific logic which swept all sides up in its unstoppable momentum.

Автор: Glantz David M.
Название: To the gates of Stalingrad: soviet-german combat operations, april-august 1942
ISBN: 0700616306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700616305
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Описание: The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale - a campaign that was both a turning point in WWII and a lasting symbol of that war`s power and devastation. This book provides an account of the opening phase of this iconic Eastern Front campaign.

Автор: Claire North
Название: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
ISBN: 0356502589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356502588
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The extraordinary journey of one unforgettable character - a story of friendship and betrayal, loyalty and redemption, love and loneliness and the inevitable march of time. *Richard and Judy Book Club pick* *Waterstones Book Club Pick* *BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick*

Автор: Cohen Walter
Название: August Macke
ISBN: 1781602506 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781602508
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August Macke (1887-1914) was a master of German Expressionism, a movement which sprang up in the early 1900s with the intent to forego physical reality in search of its emotional counterpart, with a particular emphasis on expressing dark moods of tragedy and angst. Macke was a master of color and form, producing eye-catching canvases that evoke a strong sympathetic reaction in the viewer. He was equally at home portraying the sun drenched streets of Tunisia, the cloudy sky around the Bonn cathedral, and the faceless multitude of a crowded railway station. In this compelling text, Walter Cohen examines the brief life of an artist whose seemingly limitless potential was tragically cut short by his untimely death.

Автор: Sarnitz August
Название: Otto Wagner (Basic Arch)
ISBN: 3836564335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836564335
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Описание: At once a realist and a visionary, an architect and a builder, Otto Wagner innovated a new era in building-making. Born in Vienna, the visionary architect made his presence felt-he pioneered the use of materials like glass, steel, and aluminum, in a ceaseless experimentation with form that would come to redefine Viennese structural identity,...

Автор: Sarnitz August
Название: Hoffmann (Basic Arch)
ISBN: 3836550393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836550390
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Описание: The life aesthetic
Josef Hoffmann's pioneering minimalism

Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish. With his radical new approach and a band of like-minded figures, Hoffmann was a founding father of the Viennese Secession and Wiener Werkstatte, and revolutionized Western aesthetics with a brave new minimalism.

A trained architect, Hoffmann lived his life as an extreme aesthete, while also cultivating his image as a bon viveur, a lover of women, a snappy dresser, and a provocative thinker. Gifted with a questing intellect, he continually challenged received orthodoxies and pushed for purer design in buildings and furniture, glass and metalwork.

Joining forces with Joseph Maria Olbrich, Gustav Klimt, and Koloman Moser, he founded the Vienna Secession in 1897, and later established the prestigious production community of the Wiener Werkstatte, with its close connection to the Arts and Crafts movement. Over his 60-year career, Hoffmann's radical approach saw the creation of some of Europe's first major modernist buildings, such as the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904) and the Palais Stoclet (1905-1911), replete with Klimt murals. Many of his homeware designs remain in production to this day.

This essential introduction explores Hoffmann's key ideas, buildings, and designs to examine an essential modernist who continues to directly inform and inspire European aesthetics, from monochrome interior schemes to the cutlery we set on the table.

Автор: Chatterjee, Upamanyu
Название: English, august: an indian story
ISBN: 0571345891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571345892
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna - a town with the highest temperatures in India - deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies.

Автор: Williams Timothy
Название: Black August (Commissario Trotti #4)
ISBN: 1616955767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616955762
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Commissario Trotti of Italy s Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of the brutal murder of an old friend, schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, who has been found bludgeoned in her apartment. Trotti s superiors warn him off the case, but he is determined to hunt down the killer.
There are lots of loose ends. Rosanna s sister, a notorious drug addict, is missing. Is a recent, unexplained suicide in the River Po connected to the murder? Where does the discovery of a car dredged up from the delta fit in? Faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, Trotti must also grapple with obstructive colleagues and problems arising in his private life."