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Why do we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces as he confronts his past. On a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. In a story that blends breathtaking insight, exotic locales, and dramatic adventure, author Coelho masterfully displays the acclaimed storytelling talent that enriches his bestselling fictional works — in a riveting true-life odyssey that delivers a poignant message about letting go of the past and believing in the future. |
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Lighting Design Alliance's goal is to design lighting in conjunction with architecture and interiors to create dramatic, memorable spaces. Dynamic environments are achieved by integrating the use of concealed light sources, natural light and decorative fixtures. The careful implementation of a collective design concept throughout every phase of the project guarantees success. This beautifully photographed, 176 page, full-color volume reflects LDA's lighting design philosophy by showcasing their very best work. Featured projects include: LAX Masterplan, The Port of Los Angeles, The Venetian, The Borgata, Atlantis Resort Phase III, The Cheesecake Factory (60+ locations, Endeavor Talent Agency, Warner Music, and Warner Home Video.) This collection is a must for anyone seeking innovative and imaginative solutions to architectural lighting challenges. |
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These behind-the-scenes, intimate, and unguarded shots, have been unearthed after spending 45 years in a duffel bag of The Rolling Stones' former tour manager, Bob Bonis. Bonis was the US tour manager for The Stones on their first US tour from 1964-1966. This remarkable collection captured a pivotal time in the bands' career as they break new ground in the US. The photos show band members in candid, intimate shots on stage, in rehearsal, in concert, backstage (tuning up, waiting to go on stage and clowning around), dressing and relaxing, on vacations or en route to shows or cities, getting haircuts, bowling, recording in the studio, at press events, and just hanging around being themselves. Fans will see Keith Richards cutting Charlie Watts' hair and Mick Jagger relaxing in front of the television. This title offers groundbreaking, amazingly candid look at some of the 20th centuries biggest icons during their first moments on the world stage. |
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Minimalism Designsource covers the last years of the 1990s and the first years of the twenty-first century and looks at the origins of the term minimalism and how a phenomenon like Minimal Art which originated in the United Status in the 1960s in the fields of painting and sculpture has filtered into other sectors of society. Minimalism is now used in fashion, music, decoration, as well as architecture, and it has come to define the result of the use of pure and simple lines, the reduction of language elements and, as far as architecture is concerned, the investigation of the treatment of space and of building possibilities. Architects featured include John Pawson, David Chipperfield, Shigeru Ban, Claudio Silvestrin, Satoshi Okada, Pool Architecture or Aranda, Pidem y Vilalta. This is the first in a new series of DESIGNSOURCE of full — colour books on design and architecture-featuring 750 colour photos on 650 pages. |
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From comic illustration Ikari Studio comes the ultimate guide on how to draw manga. The Monster Book of Manga 3: Fairies and Magical Creatures focuses on these figures of wonder. Each illustration is broken down into six stages of creation and is accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from an initial black-and-white sketch to final colour piece. Each drawing is also accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips. This monster-size manual is the must-have book for anyone interested in learning how to draw manga, appealing to beginning and advanced artists alike. |
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From contemporary sustainable architectural projects to a review of the historical trends in architecture and interior home design, this magnificent book is a collection of the most innovative residences built over the past ten years. Richly illustrated with site photos, floor plans, interior and exterior shots, this thorough compendium will serve as a source of inspiration for anyone seeking building or renovation plans. Whether you are actually planning to build or just want to feast on this architectural bounty, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Houses is sure to be a must-have for any home owner, renter, or dreamer. |
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At no time since the rock & roll explosion of the 1960s did music matter more than in the 1990s — the decade of grunge, gangsta rap and Britney Spears. The Nineties might have kicked off with Vanilla Ice, but music changed forever the following year when Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit exploded onto the airwaves, giving birth to the alternative nation. The decade spawned dozens of new stars (Pearl Jam, Eminem, Dave Matthews, Christina Aguilera and Jay-Z among them); top artists from U2 to Madonna made their most adventurous records; and hip-hop icons Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls met violent ends. Rolling Stone was there to tell all those stories and more — and The '90s collects the best of them: the last major interview with Kurt Cobain, conducted by David Fricke three months before the Nirvana singer took his life in 1994; Jonathan Gold's 1993 trip to Compton to check in with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre; Carrie Fisher's intimate one-on-one with Madonna following her 1991 film, Truth or Dare; Kim Neely partying with a riot-starting Guns n' Roses in 1991; Anthony Bozza riding along with an Ecstasy-gobbling Eminem in 1999; and, that same year, Steven Daly's visit to the bedroom of a teenage Britney Spears. Packed with over fifty stories, portraits by the biggest names in photography including Mark Seliger, David LaChapelle and Steven Meisel, and a guide to the decade's hundred greatest albums, The 90s is a definitive look back at the decade that rocked. |
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From the visionary talent of Justin Bua — the ground-breaking artist who created the best-selling college dorm poster The DJ and author of The Beat of Urban Art — comes The Legends of Hip-Hop. Featuring fifty portraits of the leading names in the hip-hop world, including everyone from Prince Ken Swift and Crazy Legs to Jay-Z and Big Daddy Kane, The Legends of Hip-Hop records the progeny of hip-hop, tracing its evolutionary course in cultural history. Each portrait is accompanied by a brief, insightful essay that places the artwork in historic context and details how or why each profiled individual impacted Bua's life and work. An instant classic, this visually arresting collection is perfect for anyone interested in the evolution of graffiti, hip-hop, and old-school style as a cultural phenomenon. |
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Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, drawings, floor and aerial plans, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture features today's most noteworthy environmentally-friendly architectural projects. A range of sustainable design ideas are covered, from bioclimatic strategies to more complex off-the-grid constructions that include passive designs, prefab systems, water-harvesting mechanisms, and green renovations. Projects include building eco-certifications and eco-design solutions that utilize advanced technologies as well as cost management plans. All projects included in The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture have been completed or are ongoing in the twenty-first century and were chosen as highly successful examples of green architects meeting the individual needs and tastes of their clients. It is the perfect resource for architects, city-planners, engineers, and designers looking for both knowledge and inspiration. |
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For over 50 years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competition. Typography 32 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field for the year 2010. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors Club competition, the winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, encompassing a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logo types, stationery, annual reports, video and Web graphics, and posters. |
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This new edition of Collins Gem Thesaurus is part of the Collins Gem range — the world's best-selling little dictionaries and thesauruses. The seventh edition is fully up-to-date, with the newest words to enter the English language. With thousands of alternative words, subject lists and a new supplement, this colour edition of the Collins Gem English Thesaurus is ideal for everyday use in home, school and office. The handy little thesaurus gives you practical, applied knowledge in your pocket. It contains a wide selection of alternative words and opposites, with the most useful words highlighted for ease of reference. The clear colour layout also makes the content easily accessible. Giving you added value, the supplement provides advice on finding the right words for your purpose, including tips on making the right choice between two easily. |
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This colourful fold out map of central London is ideal for visitors and tourists. Shopping areas, theatres, cinemas, hotels, places of tourist interest, bus routes and bike stations all shown. Central London mapped out in an exceptional detailed scale of 1:9,000 (7 inches to 1 mile). MAIN FEATURES: This colourful little map is an ideal day trip or tourist purchase. It is packed with useful information including major shops, museums, theatres, selected pubs, popular restaurant areas and bike stations. Footpaths and pedestrian areas are shown for those exploring the city by foot. Planning journeys by public transport is made easy with numbered bus routes and underground stations colour coded on the map face to identify the relevant tube line. The key to map symbols is shown in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese and the index includes street names, places of interest, major hotels, cinemas, hospitals, tourist information centres and much more. |
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George R. R. Martin's superb fantasy epic continues in consummate style as bloodshed and alchemy lay waste the Seven Kingdoms in the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves. At King's Landing, the head of Lord Eddard Stark rots on a spike for all to see. His daughter Sansa is betrothed still to his killer's son Joffrey — Queen Cersei's son, though not the son of her late husband Robert. Even so, Joffrey is now a boy-king, Cersei is his regent, and war is inevitable. In Dragonstone, Robert's brother Stannis has declared himself king, while his other brother Renly proclaims himself king at Storm's End — and Eddard Stark's fifteen year old son Robb wears the crown of the north at Winterfell. A comet in the night sky, red and malevolent, the colour of blood and flame, can only be an omen of murder and war. Stannis's child Princess Shireen dreams of dragons waking from stone. And a white raven has brought word from the Citadel itself, foretelling summer's end. It has been the longest summer in living memory, lasting ten years, and the smallfolk say it means an even longer winter to come! The first rule of war is never give the enemy his wish. But winter will be the biggest enemy. From beyond the Wall the undead and Others clamour for freedom, and from beyond the sea the long-dead Dragon King's daughter hatches her revenge. Robb Stark will be exceedingly lucky to reach adulthood. |
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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock. |
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The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale large format road atlas for the year 2010, featuring Collins popular and well established road mapping; designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use. Includes a wide range of urban area maps at even larger scale plus 56 detailed town centre street plans. Presented with lie-flat spiral binding. Printed on paper sourced from a sustainable forest this fully updated road mapping covers the whole of Britain. Each scale of mapping is colour-coded for ease of use. The smallest scale maps are great for long distance route planning and the street plans help you locate your final destination. The atlas includes: — Route planning section including maps (16 miles to 1 inch) for long distance route planning, motorway services information and a handy distance calculator. — Easy to use, clear road maps at a scale of 3.2 miles to 1 inch (1:200,000) of England, Wales and Southern Scotland. Northern Scotland is shown at 5 miles to 1 inch (1:316,800). — 21 urban area approach maps at 1 mile to 1 inch which clearly show the best routes through and into the busiest built-up areas. — 56 street maps focussed on town centres showing places of interest, car park locations and one-way streets. — Fully updated fixed speed camera sites with average speed camera locations clearly highlighted. — Map showing the risk rating of Britain's major roads, courtesy of the Road Safety Foundation. — World Heritage Sites located with contact details and brief descriptions. — Over 30 categories of places of interest including castles, theme parks, sports venues, universities, mountain bike trails and surfing beaches. — Park & Ride locations shown, ideal when visiting towns and cities. — Full postcodes for the top 1000 places of interest; ideal for use alongside satnav systems. This atlas is ideal for any driver of any vehicle who prefers a large format road atlas and requires the latest information and extremely clear map detail. |
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The irresistible Paddington Bear, who was found on Paddington station, returns in this re-issued picture book with an eye-catching new cover design. It's Springtime again and Mr Gruber is taking Paddington down to the canal to join in the fun at the Spring Carnival. Hoping to win a boat ride for two, the friends enter the Busy Bee Adventure Trail. Paddington soon discovers that he's very good at spotting things beginning with the letter B, but it seems that he's not the only one with his eye on the prize! |
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Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth look at his life and work, and what makes him the much-loved author he is today. Paulo's first official biographer, Fernando Morais, provides an exhaustive look at Paulo's fascinating and varied life, taking several years to research his subject, and interviewing everyone who knows Paulo. He weaves together the strands of Paulo's life, revealing the man behind the world-famous writer. Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. Before he became internationally known and a worldwide bestseller, he had to overcome many obstacles. As a teenager, he was subjected to the brutality of electric shock treatment in the psychiatric hospital where his parents, who took his rebelliousness as a sign of madness, interned him three times. As a member of the esoteric underworld, he was put in prison for alleged subversive activities against the Brazilian dictatorship and subjected to physical torture. Later, Paulo joined forces with rock star Raul Seixas and together they composed songs that revolutionized Brazilian rock music. Hippie, journalist, rock star, actor, playwright, theatre director and producer of television programs, this whirlwind life came to an end in 1982, during a trip to Europe. In Dachau and later in Amsterdam, Paulo had a mystical meeting with J, his new mentor, who persuaded him to walk the Road to Santiago de Compostela, a medieval pilgrim's route between France and Spain. In 1986 Paulo walked the Road to Santiago, and it was there that he reconverted to Christianity and found again the faith bequeathed to him by the Jesuit fathers of his school years. He would later describe this experience in his first book, The Pilgrimage. The following year, The Alchemist, established his worldwide reputation. The novel has already achieved the status of a universally admired modern classic. Now, for the first time, discover the true story of the man behind some of the world's most loved books. |
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An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton's greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research Three men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room, almost invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen MicroTechnologies sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open up a whole new scientific frontier. But this opportunity of a lifetime will teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting-edge! The group becomes prey to a technology of radical, unimaginable power and is thrust out into the teeming rainforest. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, the young scientists face a hostile wilderness that threatens danger at every turn. To survive, they must harness the awe-inspiring creative — and destructive — forces of nature itself. |
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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children. Reflecting Max Hastings's thirty-five years of research on World War II, All Hell Let Loose describes the course of events, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which varied immensely from campaign to campaign, continent to continent. The author emphasises the Russian front, where more than 90% of all German soldiers who perished met their fate. He argues that, while Hitler's army often fought its battles brilliantly well, the Nazis conducted their war effort with 'stunning incompetence'. He suggests that the Royal Navy and US Navy were their countries' outstanding fighting services, while the industrial contribution of the United States was much more important to allied victory than that of the US Army. The book ranges across a vast canvas, from the agony of Poland amid the September 1939 Nazi invasion, to the 1943 Bengal famine, in which at least a million people died under British rule and British neglect. Among many vignettes, there are the RAF's legendary raid on the Ruhr dams, the horrors of Arctic convoys, desert tank combat, jungle clashes. Some of Hastings's insights and judgements will surprise students of the conflict, while there are vivid descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of ordinary people, in uniform and out of it. 'The cliche is profoundly true', he says. 'The world between 1939 and 1945 saw some human beings plumb the depths of baseness, while others scaled the heights of courage and nobility'. This is 'everyman's story', an attempt to answer the question: 'What was the Second World War like?', and also an overview of the big picture. Max Hastings employs the technique which has made many of his previous books best-sellers, combining top-down analysis and bottom-up testimony to explore the meaning of this vast conflict both for its participants and for posterity. |
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A4 format Scale 1:1 000 000 (1 cm to 10 kms/1 inch to 16 miles). A fully revised edition of A4 spiral road atlas containing road mapping, route planning maps, large scale road maps of the Ruhr and Rhine, city through route maps, city centre plans and a comprehensive place names index. NEW FOR THE 2009 EDITION: — Extra 24 city through-route maps. — 16 new city centre street plans. AREA OF COVERAGE Europe from North Cape to Gibraltar and from Ireland to western Turkey. MAIN FEATURES: Clear, easy to follow road maps at a scale of 1:1 000 000. Euroroutes and motorways easily distinguished. International road classification, road distances in kilometres and relief shown by attractive layer tints. I NCLUDES: Route planning maps; 72 through route maps of the following cities: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beflast, Belgrade, Berlin, Bern, Birmingham, Bonn, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cardiff, Chisinau, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Firenze, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Gothenburg, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kyiv, Leipzig, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Minsk, Moskva, Munich, Murcia, Naples, Orleans, Oslo, Palermo, Paris, Podgorica, Porto, Prague, Prishtine, Riga, Rome, Rotterdam, Sankt Peterburg, Sarajevo, Seville, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Tallinn, Tirane, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich; 16 centre street plans of the following cities: Athina, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, Dublin, Helsinki, Kobenhaven, Lisboa, London, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Roma, Stockholm and Wien. Also includes larger scale road mapping extending from Amsterdam to Munich and making route following easier through this densely populated area. WHO THE PRODUCT IS OF INTEREST TO Motorists planning a journey in Europe and for use en route. |
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