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An Artist’s Insights on Art Appreciation • Written by a practicing artist, this book decodes and maps the basic elements of visual art, leading the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation. Not an art history lesson per se, this illustrated guide is rather a tool kit to make the study of art and a visit to the museum truly rewarding. An entertaining and informative read, The Joy of Art offers the reader • A working art vocabulary to help you identify and explain what you’re looking at • Answers to many of the questions you may have about visual art in general • A summary of the basic criteria to consider when looking at art • Highlights of the primary art genres and an introduction to the artists who pursued them • Many visual examples of aesthetic considerations and practices • Interesting facts about your favorite artists and clues to why they made the choices they did • A few games to test your new skills • The Joy of Art contains 150 color photographs and many interesting insights from an artist-author who takes readers behind the curtain and into the studio to uncover what actually goes into making a work of art

The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960–Today XL — масштабное исследование графического дизайна с 60-х годов прошлого века по наши дни. Автор — Йенс Мюллер (Jens M?ller). В издание включено более 3500 работ, рассмотренных в соответствии с годом создан

Книга охватывает историю графического дизайна с конца 19 века до 50-х годов. Она прослеживает эволюцию этой креативной области от ее зарождения в качестве дизайна плаката до ее дальнейшего развития в рекламе, фирменном стиле, упаковке и редакционном дизай

The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it • Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible-and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence • When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love-before an amazed Errol's eyes. As he follows their affair with jealous fascination, Errol watches helplessly from the sidelines as a proud and fierce woman is reduced to miserable dependence through miserable dependence

In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados • There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity • Each of them longs to escape – to go beyond the borders and circumstances that have contained them for so long – but each finds that they are trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments; and that it is dictating a future over which they have little control • With every passing decade another generation must contend with the same doubts about their identity, about their place in the small world they have carved out for themselves and the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures? • Perfect for fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING is a powerful story of family and hope, and marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction

A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight • Before Eve is born, her mother goes to the circus. She buys a penny twist of coloured sugar and settles down to watch the heart-stopping main attraction: a lion, billed as a monster from the savage heart of Africa, forged in the heat of a merciless sun. Mama swears she hears the lion sigh, just before it leaps…and when Eve is born, the story goes, she didn’t cry – she meowed and licked her paws • When Abel is pulled from the stinking Thames, the mudlarks are sure he is long dead. As they search his pockets to divvy up the treasure, his eyes crack open and he coughs up a stream of black water

Spring 1939. Taken prisoner by the Nazis, eighteen-year-old Ada is forced into a life of slavery and horror in Dachau concentration camp. Her skill as a seamstress is the only bargaining chip she has against the brutal SS guards. Back in London, she dreamed of being a world-renowned designer; now she must sew to save her life…but at what cost? • For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Librarian of Auschwitz, this is a powerful and moving story of courage and resilience, betrayal and passion

'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.' • There are books you can't stop reading, which keep you up all night • There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life and make them vividly real • There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days • The Shock of the Fall is all of these books • The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man's descent into mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction

A Race Against Time • The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat • A Fight For Their Lives • Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds • A Disaster Like No Other • Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation? • Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about

A race against time • The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat • A fight for their lives • Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds • A disaster like no other • Can they find a cure before it's too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation? • Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about

How do you solve a mystery when you can’t understand the clues? • There are three things you need to know about Jasper • 1. He sees the world completely differently • 2. He can’t recognise faces – not even his own • 3. He is the only witness to the murder of his neighbour, Bee Larkham • But uncovering the truth about that night will change his world forever… • An extraordinary and compelling debut which will make you see the world in a way you’ve never seen it before