Книги издательства Daedalus Books
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1997
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In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly written, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East.
Название: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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We spend most of our waking lives at work — in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. Along the way he tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can ask about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet? Characteristically lucid, witty and inventive, Alain de Botton's 'song for occupations' is a celebration and exploration of an aspect of life which is all too often ignored and yet as central to us as our love lives.
Название: Rabbit and Turtle Journal
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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The tortoise and the hare seem old friends on the cover of this journal, as the turtle kicks his heels and the rabbit looks on. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages — lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Название: Art Nouveau
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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Recognized by its organic, nature-inspired forms, the international style eventually christened art nouveau represented an endeavor to make everyday objects — and thus everyday life — beautiful. It arose from aesthetic movements in various European cities at the end of the 19th century and continuing through World War I. This substantive volume explores the movement's impact on architecture, interior design, furniture, gold and silversmiths' works, art ceramics and glass, and graphics and painting. It is illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, from a reproduction of Edvard Munch's Madonna to a double-page, 17 x 10-inch image of the magnificent greenhouse dome at the Royal Palace at Laeken. The book tours the various national schools of the style in Scotland, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and the United States, focusing on such major artists and designers as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, René Lalique, Antoni Gaudí, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. It also provides a glossary, capsule biographies of art nouveau designers, and a bibliography.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flemalle, and his pupil Rogier van der Weyden were two of Europe's greatest Northern Renaissance painters, though art history has been slow to catch up with them. Along with Jan and Hubert van Eyck, Campin and van der Weyden are now considered synonymous with the development of Old Netherlandish painting, having given oil painting some of its earliest virtuoso works. Campin's work marks the shift from manuscript painting to Realist painting, both in its subject matter and in the artist's use of oils to mold signature shapes such as brocades or the teardrops on the cheek of a grieving Madonna. His «Merode Altarpiece» at The Cloisters in New York, is perhaps Campin's best known painting — but both his and van der Weyden's reputations have fluctuated, as the work of each has been attributed to the other. (When van der Weyden died in 1464 he was the most famous painter in Europe, but today not one painting is decisively attributed to him).
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1988
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Exquisitely produced — bound in sandalwood linen and presented in a matching linen case with a button-tie closure and stamped Chinese yin mark — this album offers a vivid impression of pre-World War II China. Stanley Gamble, the grandson of the co-founder of Proctor & Gamble, took three extended journeys through China from 1917 to 1932. His surveys of life in Beijing and rural northern China included the remarkable photographs reproduced here, paired with Chinese poetry.
Название: About Face
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption. In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore. Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti's work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favor. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of an investigation into murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before.
Название: The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur held court with his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Poor Givret, who is easily the shortest man at court, bears the brunt of their jokes. But what he lacks in stature, Givret makes up for in brains — and before he knows it, his quick thinking has landed him a place at the famous Round Table And so beginneth the exciting and funny adventures of Sir Givret the Short, Brilliant, and Marvelous.
Название: The Almost Moon
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.
Название: Amazing Pop-Up Big Machines
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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When is a pop-up book not a pop-up book? When it's also a play space for youngsters 5 to 8, featuring paper models with moving parts and accessories. Paper engineer Robert Crowther presents this celebration of fascinating construction machines — a dump truck, bulldozer, tractor, forklift, and tower crane — each at the center of its own pop-up tableau. The book describes what the machine can do and provides facts about its size, weight, and capacity, while in storage pouches are such accessories as trailers, tractor blades, cargo pallets, and construction materials, which can be unfolded and used with the heavy equipment.
Название: Dracula
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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Though considerably toned down for readers 7 to 10, this visual treatment of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula remains largely true to the original story, with journal entries, clippings, and news articles augmenting the action and sidebars with helpful techniques for how to spot, capture, and kill a vampire. Solicitor Jonathan Harker is menaced in Transylvania by his new client, Count Dracula; the Count makes his way to England and turns Lucy Westenra into a vampire; and Mina Harker, Dracula's next victim, wavers between her vampire and human self before helping Jonathan and Van Helsing kill the Count. The book includes several practical inserted elements, including a travel guide to Transylvania (with hilarious ads for products like neck protectors), a pullout map of Dracula's castle, and a pop-out horde of bloodthirsty rats, as well as a playable board game of the race to Dracula's castle.
Название: Brief History of Stonehenge
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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This is a complete new history of the world's greatest stone circle. Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all — Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric Harroway. He uncovers new evidence that the Welsh bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by glaciation rather than by man. And he reveals just how far the design of Stonehenge was influenced by Breton styles and by Breton cults of the dead. Meticulously research sets the record straight on the matter of Stonehenge's astronomical alignments. Although the existence of a sightline to the midsummer sunrise is well known, the alignment and the viewing-position are different from popular belief. And the existence of an earlier alignment to the moon and a later one to the midwinter sunset has been largely unrealized. One almost unexplained puzzle remains. The site of Stonehenge lies at the heart of a vast six-mile wide graveyard, but before it was built there appears to have been a mysterious gap two miles across on that site. Burl argues that earlier totem-pole style constructions served a ceremonial purpose for the living — to celebrate success in the hunt.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004
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The paper engineer behind such artistic pop-up books as The Night Before Christmas and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz offers this book of 26 alphabetical Christmas pop-ups, each presented behind a simple colored flap with an initial letter. «N» reveals a nutcracker opening his eyes and working his mouth, «S» is a 3-D snowflake, and two snowmen wave hello under «F», for friends. Each flap (which looks much like a Christmas card) has a multicolored interior with a white pop-up figure. Though ideal for beginning readers, this delightful book can be shared with the family and kept with the Christmas decorations.
Название: The Constant Gardener
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004
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»The Constant Gardener» is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle — young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well. A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In «The Constant Gardener» he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle — amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat — discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.
Название: Cry from the Deep
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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On August 12, 2000, the giant Russian submarine Kursk suffered a catastrophic explosion and sank in the icy Barents Sea. As survivors of the 118-man crew struggled to survive, the Russian Navy failed to notice the accident, while Western observers immediately alerted leaders in the United States and Britain. Why then did Western officials fail to alert Vladimir Putin and his new post-Soviet government? And why did the Russians then rebuff international rescue attempts when their own equipment proved woefully inadequate? Ramsey Flynn untangles the deceptions and conspiracies surrounding this disaster, and tells the gripping story of the men aboard Kursk.
Название: Dracula's Tomb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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Enter, if you dare, the bloodcurdling world of Transylvania's most infamous gourmet — Count Dracula. This sidesplitting history — coffin-shaped and complete with Velcro close tabs and a fabulous pop-up finale — sheds light on the little-known details of Drac's infancy, school days, cherished belongings, and lively nightlife. You'll be introduced to his friends and ancestors, get a peek inside his fridge and his closet, and get a taste, so to speak, of what eternal life is like for the world's biggest pain in the neck! Join Colin McNaughton, a three-time recipient of the International Reading Association Children's Choice Award, for a terrifically funny tour that fans of the illustrious Count won't soon forget.
Название: Eating Animals
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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On the brink of fatherhood and facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf Foer's casual attitude towards food takes on a new urgency. Here, he explores the many fictions used to justify eating habits and how such tales justify a brutal ignorance. Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.
Название: Fire Engine to the Rescue
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2009
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A book that turns the reader into a hero! Pop-ups and pull tabs draw children into the exciting world of fire fighters. Ready to rescue, when the alarm sounds young firefighters can jump aboard the fire truck. Slide down the pole! Steer the truck! Pull out the hose and turn up the pump! Use the ladder to save the cat! This exciting fire rescue story puts the youngest reader in charge. Also available in Spanish as Camión de bomberos al rescate.
Название: The Fox and the Crow: Aesop's Fables
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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When a hungry fox spies a crow with a piece of cheese in her beak, in this classic fable, he flatters the silly bird until she opens her mouth to sing — and drops the cheese to the ground. One of the best-known tales attributed to Aesop, «The Fox and the Crow» is presented in this board book for prereaders with Martha Lightfoot's simple and charming painted cartoons and her humorous retelling, ideal for reading aloud.
Название: The Lion and the Mouse: Aesop's Fables
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2010
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Instead of eating the little mouse who wakes him from his nap, the lion in this tale laughs when the mouse promises to help him one day, and lets him go free. But the mouse does indeed prove his worth, when the lion gets caught in a hunter's net. One of the best-known tales attributed to Aesop, «The Lion and the Mouse» is presented in this board book for prereaders with Martha Lightfoot's simple and charming painted cartoons and her humorous retelling, ideal for reading aloud.
