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100 All-Time Favorite Movies by Jurgen Muller
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Category: Art/Fashion/Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of 20th century cinema into one indispensable guide to movie gold. The collection is arranged chronologically and in ...Show more
100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings by Philip Jodidio
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Category: No Category | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Concrete Heights The most exciting projects behind the contemporary concrete trend Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is ...Show more
100 Contemporary Fashion Designers by Terry Jones (Editor)
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Category: Art/Fashion/Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Mode matters The hottest names in the style game This compilation brings together highlights from TASCHEN's Fashion Now! series to create a comprehensive overview of fashion design around the world at the start of the 21st century. Edited by i D creator Terry Jones, this book is an indispensible work of ...Show more
100 Contemporary Houses by Philip Jodidio
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Category: Art/Fashion/Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Domestic bliss: Innovative, intimate architecture from China to ChileDesigning private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requir ...Show more
100 Contemporary Wood Buildings by Philip Jodidio
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Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Timberland: The wooden structures of the 21st century Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefit ...Show more
A History of Photography - from 1839 to the Present by Steven Heller
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Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
This is a unique survey of photography from its origins until now. From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. ...Show more
Bauhaus: Updated Edition by Magdalene Droste
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Category: Art/Fashion/Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
This handy, updated edition explores the Bauhaus School of Art and Design through 575 illustrations across 552 pages, as well as biographies of its key personalities. Realised in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, the reference work is now available in Bibliotheca Universalis format, the p ...Show more
David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Paul Duncan (Editor)
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Category: Music & Entertainment | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Loving the AlienBehind the scenes of Nic Roeg's 1976 sci-fi masterpiece starring David BowieFirst advertised as a "mind-stretching experience," Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only hallucinatory ...Show more
Film Noir by Alain Silver, James Ursini
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Category: Art/Fashion/Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Into the Night All you need to know about Film Noir Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan ...Show more
Green Architecture by Philip Jodidio
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Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Where the grass really is greener: Eco-friendly building in the world today The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gases in ...Show more
Gustav Klimt. Drawings and Paintings by Tobias G. Natter
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Category: Art/Fashion/Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Defining DecadenceThe legacy of Gustav KlimtA century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative a ...Show more
Horror Cinema: The Best Scary Movies of all Time by Jonathan Penner;
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Category: Music & Entertainment | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horror movies of one kind or another. Depicting deep-rooted, even archetypal fears, while at the same time exploiting socially and culturally specific anxieties, cin ...Show more