What does it take to win success and influence? In a world where we are constantly connected, it''s those with the best people skills who win the day. Those who build the right relationships. Those who truly understand and connect with their colleagues, their customers, their partners. Those who others ...
Mit rund 400 Schmuckobjekten und Skulpturen aus dem Zeitraum von 1963 bis 2005 dokumentiert die vorliegende Publikation das faszinierende Werk des wegweisenden Schmuckentwerfers Anton Cepka und macht seinen kinetischen Schmuck erstmals in einer Retrospektive einem größeren Publikum zugänglich.
Bigger is better: Tom of Finland, oversized for maximum pleasureIn 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in the international gay community but was ...
The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC TV ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary. ''One of the great social diaries of our time.should become a classic.'' Sunday Times ''Eye-popping, brilliantly candid'' Evening Standard What a year for Vogue! Alexandra ...
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old maharaja of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public ...
This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Escher-like repeats. The book also shows how to make \''wallpaper repeats\'', where the elements of the pattern merge into each other, apparently seamlessly. Using ...
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu\''s ...
A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world. ''Correlation does not imply causation.'' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer ...
Jaké jsou obrazy, které tvoří svět okolo nás, a jak pomocí obrazů utváříme tento svět my sami? V knize Jak vidět svět nás známý britský teoretik kultury, umění a aktivista Nicholas Mirzoeff učí, jak dnes zodpovědně a kriticky obrazy tvořit, šířit a interpretovat. Srozumitelný a svižně psaný průvodce ...
In 1984, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the imagination of a generation with Subway Art, a groundbreaking book documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New York City. The 2009 edition of the book is now available in a new, slightly reduced ...
