Книги издательства Daedalus Books
Название: Jane Austen: Four Classic Novels
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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Elegant, sophisticated and full of humour and romance, the novels of Jane Austen have been favourites of readers around the world for more than two centuries. Although set at the turn of the nineteenth century, in the England that she herself knew, Austen's characters espouse values and sentiments that still speak to modern sensibilities. No author has captured so vividly the affairs of hearts in conflict with class and social convention. This volume features four of Jane Austen's best-loved works: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2003
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Universally admired for his fables and contes (tales), Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) epitomised France's Great Century with his elegant style, emotional profundity and ready wit. This selection by award-winning poet Marie Ponsot is arguably the finest translation ever achieved. La Fontaine's menagerie of foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys, rats and other animals are handled with a naturalness and unaffected elegance that have escaped almost every other translation.
Название: Splat! What's That?
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2011
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This ingenious book with colourful illustrations throughout takes everyday things — such as ink blots, fingerprints, paint drips, screwed up pieces of paper and even coffee stains — and encourages children to transform them into extraordinary things. Ink splats become aliens or bonkers birds; a piece of paper becomes an iceberg filled with penguins, and a page of palm prints becomes a herd of elephants. Children can let their imaginations run riot and, with only basic drawing skills, they can create unique masterpieces.
Название: Who's Coming for Christmas?
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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This lift-the-flap book is an ideal way to introduce little ones to one of the most magical holidays of the year. Yuletide action is hidden under darling Christmas present flaps.
Название: The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2000
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This study of Pre-Raphaelite painters and poets reveals a style-derived from the idealized view of nature in the early Italian Renaissance-steeped in mythology and literary allusion and very popular today with lovers of romantic art and poetry. 125 illustrations, 95 in full color, 5 x 7»
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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4 books: Murder on the Orient Express, And then there were none, The body in the Library and Clues to Christie.
Название: Cinderella: Fairy Tale Theatre Book
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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This is the story of Cinderella told through six beautifully illustrated 3D peep-through tableaux. A young girl with an unpleasant stepmother and two cruel stepsisters...and a Fairy Godmother with a magic wand. The classic tale of Cinderella is theatrically retold in six exquisite three-dimensional scenes by Jane Ray. Each scene is three layers deep so you can peer through to wonderfully romantic backdrops: a lonely kitchen, a sparkling ball room, a city nightscape and a magical garden. With fold-out flaps covered in starred indigo curtains, and a wooden stage, the magic of the theatre is beautifully recreated in this wonderful fairy-tale gift. Ideal for any fan of fairy tales, the classic Cinderella story is brought to life in this exciting new fold-out format with Jane Ray's exquisite artwork. It is a companion to Jane Ray's «Snow White: A Three-Dimensional Fairy-tale Theatre» It is a perfect gift for Christmas!
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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With realistic illustrations and creepy fun facts about each bug, this colorful book will fascinate young readers as it brings six different bugs to life in 3-D. Readers will meet a hairy orange spider, a honeybee, a huge red cockroach, a blue beetle, a grasshopper, and a spotted ladybug. Along the way readers will discover all sorts of fascinating facts, including: there are eight million beetle species; grasshoppers are green because their blood contains no oxygen; ladybugs smell through their feet; and much more.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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Superhero fruits and vegetables are the stars in Deborah Zemke's latest doodle fest. With with oodles of step-by-step super doodles, kids of all ages can turn mild-mannered fruits and vegetables into super-charged super foods. One small tomato transforms into «The Tomatonator,» big, bold, and delicious; an onion becomes an «Allium Alien»; an ear of corn becomes «Colonel Kernels.» An appetizing addition to Zemke's wildly successful Doodles series, this instructive and playful book adds an entertaining element of action and informational messages about making nutritious choices.
Название: Artistic Luxury: Faberge Tiffany Lalique
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique — these great designers came together only once to display their goods in what was probably the most opulent exhibition ever mounted. At the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the three strove to position themselves ahead of their many competitors in the luxury market, each presenting his jewelry and home adornments as high art. Their success is explored in this splendidly illustrated catalogue, which elucidates the prewar pinnacle of European culture. The array of displayed objects was mesmerizing: Tiffany glass, Easter eggs to dazzle the Czars, realistic insects created in precious materials as sinister decorations. Many of these bore influences of the advanced art of the time, such as Art Nouveau, Viennese modernism, and symbolism, and of styles from around the world. Four essays discuss the works in the context of their times, illuminate the high societies served by the three masters, and trace the cultural trends behind their extraordinary creations. A treasure of accompanying photographs shows the individual exhibits, scenes from the World's Fair, and the glitterati who wore the jewelry.
Название: 12 Years a Slave: A True Story
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2014
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The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years — before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman's chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.' 1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York State — with no hope of ever seeing them again — and forced to work on the cotton plantations in the Deep South, he spends the next twelve years in captivity until his eventual escape in 1853. First published in 1853, this extraordinary true story proved to be a powerful voice in the debate over slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. It is a true-life testament of one man's courage and conviction in the face of unfathomable injustice and brutality: its influence on the course of American history cannot be overstated.
Название: Voyages of Discovery
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2011
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In the three decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape of the globe to knowledge of an atlas that was almost complete. They did so in search of spices, gold, silver and slaves, but with rudimentary technology, huge courage and boundless confidence in themselves and their calculations. The exchange of flora, fauna, diet, disease and culture changed the world within a few generations. The final touches to the pattern of oceans and continents came two-and-a-half centuries later with the voyages of James Cook. Voyages to Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific and the legacies of those journeys and encounters are here dramatically described through an authoritative text and an original selection of images. «Voyages of Discovery» also contains 9 facsimile documents, including an extract from Captain James Cook's diary, 1769 and the title page of Cortes' second dispatch to Charles V, 1520.
Название: Crystals
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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Create Jewelry: Crystals presents 20 glittering projects ranging in difficulty from easy stringing pieces to seed bead weaving designs. All projects are glamorous and timeless and represent unique ways to use crystals in jewelry designs for necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings. In Create Jewelry: Crystals, the editors of Beadwork magazine combine innovative designs with intriguing anecdotes, history and tips about these multi-faceted beads. Designs are divided into the Classics, Special Occasions, and Fashion Forward so readers can easily find designs of their choosing. Beautiful photos are accompanied by step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow so readers can recreate their own designs. Additional material of interest for crystal lovers includes crystal basics, how to tell the difference between manmade and rock crystal, entertaining tidbits about this specialty bead, and more.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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Cliches, those trite little phrases that often get a point across quickly and efficiently, have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech. This entertaining book takes an in-depth look at hundreds of these common expressions in their many forms — where they came from, what they mean, how they've evolved over time, and their prominence in today's society. Inside you'll discover hundreds explored and explained, such as... Thinking outside the box; All hands on deck; My way or the highway; To be perfectly honest; Technical terms, like collateral damage and pushing the envelope; And many others! You'll quickly discover why this fun little compendium is truly the best thing since sliced bread!
Название: Black Mischief
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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Black Mischief, Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a Birth Control Gala, the rightful ruler's demise at his own rather long and tiring coronation ceremonies, and a good deal more mischief.
Название: Blast Off with Doodle Tom
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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Cartoon-style boy-astronaut Doodle Tom and his sidekick Astrocat take kids on a doodle odyssey through space. Offers over 40 space-related topics, with each spread or double spread featuring info on that topic (i.e. planets, things in space, space travel, ETs, technology, etc.) and a related drawing activity. The space info is mostly factual and written in a kid-friendly manner; the drawing activities are more whimsical, though they do reference the topic in some respect. For example, kids are inspired to draw faces on moons, or the tail of a comet, or what a Martian might look like. The pages contain partially drawn figures and compositions to help kids get started, with plenty of room for them to invent their own drawings. Two pages of stickers add to the creative possibilities.
Название: Star Trek
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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This essential guide will cover all prominent actors including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and Patrick Stewart and will explore the connection between Star Trek and the US cold war foreign policy, why much of the far-out science from the show is now at the forefront of research, why linguistics are now studying Klingon, and much more.
Название: The English Reformation
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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By 1600, England became a radically different nation in which family, work, religion, and politics were radically altered. In this Brief History, Tudor historian and expert DerekWilson describes the dramatic changes that occurred to England, how the nation became Protestant, and why it still matters today.
Название: The Complete Stories
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters (Time).
Название: The Complete Stories
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2012
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A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters (Time).
