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100 All-Time Favorite Movies by Jurgen Muller
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Category: Performing Arts | 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 Fashion Designers by Terry Jones (Editor)
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Category: Fashion | 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 Wood Buildings by Philip Jodidio
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Category: Architecture and Design | 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
Auguste Racinet - The Complete Costume History by Françoise Tétart-Vittu
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Category: Fashion | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Togas, turbans, tailcoats, and top hats: The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888 Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and ...Show more
Burton Holmes - Travelogues: The Greatest Traveller of His Time 1892-1952 by Burton Holmes
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Category: Travel | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Wanderlust Burton Holmes, the man who brought the world home It was the Belle poque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home. From the grand boulevards of Paris to China ...Show more
Cabins by Philip Jodidio
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Category: Architecture and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Yearning for rustic simplicity Open the door to Cabins, agorgeous showcase of minimal, low impact, peaceful abodesaround the world. From contemplative bliss in an Englishcoastal studio to eco home huts in the Western Ghats ofIndia, each of these minimal homes exude innovative, ecofriendly,mindful living ...Show more
Film Noir by Alain Silver, James Ursini
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Category: Performing Arts | 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 and Design | 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 | 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: Performing Arts | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
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
Interiors Now by TASCHEN
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Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Come On In A tour of contemporary home decor around the worldWith an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, these homes, residences, hideaways, and studios will astound and astonish, no matter the taste; be it rustic country cottage, New York-style loft, or bohemian bungalow. This survey of co ...Show more
Living in Japan by Angelika Taschen (Editor); Reto Guntli
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Category: Architecture and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's hard to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding new ways to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of old. Whether it's a pristinely preserved traditional house or a cutting edge apartment, the ...Show more