Книги издательства Dover Publications
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2001
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Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes «Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman», «Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp», «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves», «The Fisherman and the Jinni», «Judar and His Brethren» and «Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad».
Название: Victorian Foliage Designs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2003
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As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But Richard Branson has met many of them. He has worked with them, funded them, and flown with them. He admires them, and trusts them, and thinks they and their kind are our future. In this book Richard Branson looks at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired him throughout his life. In these pages you will find tales of miraculous rescues; of records made and broken; of surprising feats of endurance and survival, including some of his own adventures, as well as developments in the future of air (and space) travel. It is a story of pioneers, and of course it includes the world famous Montgolfiers and the Wright brothers, but he also wants to describe some of the lesser-known trailblazers. People like Tony Jannus, who in 1914 created the first scheduled commercial flight in the world, flying his passengers over the waters of Tampa Bay at an altitude of just fifty feet! The 'bird man' Leo Valentin, who in the 1950's jumped from 9000 feet with wooden wings attached to his shoulders. And Branson's friend Steve Fossett, who dedicated his life to breaking records and having adventures. This is their story. It is also, in a small way, his own.
Название: Notes from the Underground
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
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Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19'th and 20'th century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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This volume provides a fascinating sample of Erte's very best graphic work, offering every plate from his most popular collections: «The Alphabet» (1977); «The Numerals» (1968); «The Aces» (1974); «The Precious Stones» (1969); and «The Seasons» (1970). Each plate has been painstakingly reproduced from the autographed, limited-edition lithographs.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2003
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One of the great anthologies of historic ornament and design, on a par with Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament and Racinet's Historic Ornament, Dolmetch's dazzling collection of over 1500 illustrations — most in full colour — is a veritable treasure chest of permission-free images. Artists, designers, and hobbyists will also find design inspiration on every page, with images of artistic ornaments from antiquity through the nineteenth century, when this volume was originally assembled, Arranged chronologically, coverage begins in the ancient world, with designs from Roman architecture and sculpture, mosaic floors of Pompeii, and Byzantine embroidery. From the Middle Ages come illuminated manuscripts and stained glass decorations. Items dating from the Renaissance and later include Italian glass painting, pottery, and lace; French tapestry and block printing; and German metal work and weaving. Unabridged republication of Ornamental Treasures.
Название: Racinet's Historic Ornament (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2007
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Adapted from jewelry, textiles, hardware, ceramic, inlays, carvings, and more, 852 full-color designs, collected by famed French artist Racinet, offer decorative ornamentation from every major culture of the world. Highlighting the achievements of artisans from ancient Egypt to 18th-century France, this treasury of historic motifs is an unparalleled source of beauty and inspiration.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features. A rich source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics, as well, for commercial artists and designers.
Название: Chinese Design (+ CD-ROM)
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2006
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Striking compendium of Chinese art and design culled directly from rare sources includes animals, birds, fish, abstracts, and patterns in a remarkable diversity of styles, elegantly simple to intricately complex. 200 full-color and black-and-white illustrations.
Название: Algebraic Geometry
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2005
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An introduction to algebraic geometry and a bridge between its analytical-topological and algebraical aspects, this book explores fundamental concepts of the general theory of algebraic varieties: general point, dimension, function field, rational transformations, and correspondences as well as formal power series and an extensive survey of algebraic curves. 1953 edition.
Название: Shoes, Hats and Fashion Accessories
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1998
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Over, 1,500 detailed cuts — selected from Harper's Bazaar, La Mode Illustree, Life, The Delineator, and other vintage publications — span nearly 100 years of fashion history. On display are delightful examples of Victorian footwear and millinery, beaded handbags from the early 20th century, stylish high-heeled evening shoes from the 1920s, and much more.
Название: 700 Victorian Ornament Designs
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1998
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This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l'oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1980
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Great 19th-century illustrator's last major achievement: 108 brooding, surreal illustrations of magnificent, influential Renaissance epic poem. Damsels, knights, grotesque monsters. 208 black-and-white illustrations. Captions, introduction.
Название: The Rape of the Lock
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1968
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This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimile of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents that have been carefully chosen to put the poem into the social and historical context of Pope's eighteenth century. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications.
Название: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1971
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Dore's engravings for The Rime are considered by many to be his greatest work. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the hot equatorial seas swarming with monsters, the ice of Antarctica, more — are all rendered in a powerful manner. Full text and 38 plates.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1976
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135 fantastic and grotesque scenes depict the passion and grandeur of one of Dante's most highly regarded works — from the depths of hell onto the mountain of purgatory and up to the empyrean realms of paradise. Includes plates produced for The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, Illustrations accompanied by appropriate lines from the Longfellow translation.
Название: Drawings of Mucha
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1978
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Seventy large-size illustrations trace Mucha's skills as a draftsman over more than 40 years. Among the more famous examples are original plans and drawings for The Seasons, sketches for the Sarah Bernhardt poster, studies from Mucha's stunning and innovative stylebooks, and a sketch for the St. Louis World's Fair poster.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2009
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By the time he began this work, Rackham (1867-1939) was England's leading illustrator, famous throughout the world for his fantastic interpretations of fairy tales and myths. This, his masterpiece, is regarded by some as the greatest representation of Wagner's drama ever produced. Includes 64 illustrations and 9 vignettes.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2008
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To the general public, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is perhaps best known for his poster of Sarah Bernhardt and magnificent decorated plans such as The Seasons — work that continues to grow in popularity and value as the resurgence of interest in Art Nouveau increases. Among graphic artists and commercial designers, Mucha is praised for the innovative style books that pioneered the use of Art Nouveau in commercial packaging, design and ornament.
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 1982
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Splendid selection of 218 black-and-white inventions from legendary designer's productions for Harper's Bazar, 1918-32. Also 8 pages of full-color covers, originals now prized collector's items. Captions. Publisher's Note.
Название: Dore's Illustrations for Don Quixote
Жанр: Dover Publications
Год: 2000
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Dore's sympathy to Cervantes' satire was so complete that, of numerous interpretations by many artists, his has become standard. Here are 190 wood-engraved plates, 120 full-page: charging the windmill, traversing Spanish plains, valleys, mountains, ghostly visions of dragons, knights, flaming lake. Marvelous detail, minutiae, accurate costumes, architecture, enchantment, pathos, humor. Captions.
