Type Specimens introduces readers to the history of typography and printing through a chronological visual tour of the books, posters, and ephemera designed to sell fonts to printers, publishers, a...
The battleships of the Dunkerque and Richelieu classes were the most radical and influential designs of the interwar period, and were coveted by the British, the Germans and the Italians following ...
Tom XIV. Materiały konferencyjne IV Międzynarodowego Kongresu Naukowego Stan badań nad wielokulturowym dziedzictwem dawnej Rzeczypospolitej, który odbył się w dniach 3-6 października 2018 r...
Explore the long and rich history of China's great dynasties.From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China's imperial history to life through...
This sequel to Olivier Dupon's bestselling The New Artisans - the book that began it all - showcases 60 new makers whose creations will inspire and delight. The book is divided into two sections fo...
A new softcover edition of a classic work at a very pleasing price. Superb photographs from the author's exhaustive collection. Simply the best reference book available on the most popular subject ...
The Humvee, the modern-day US military four-wheel-drive successor to the Willys Jeep, is used by numerous armed forces around the world and in some civilian adaptations. Over 10,000 Humvees were de...
Książka opowiada o powstawaniu i przemianach zabudowy mieszkaniowej dla kolejarzy. Specyficzne warunki pracy na kolejach – wymagające dyspozycyjności służbowej, odpowiedzialności i szczeg&oac...
All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and...
We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contr...
"[...] dzieje Ekspozytury 300 podczas drugiej wojny światowej przedstawiają się następująco. Powstanie agentury było związane z reorganizacją francuskiego ośrodka kryptologicznego „P.C. ...
Throughout, the shifting balance of power between the Axis and the Allies and the global nature of the war and its devastation are made strikingly clear. Original, accessible and fascinating,...
This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized s...
This book is designed to give language teachers a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. The paperback edition is a collection of selected essays that attempts to provide ...
This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what ...
Pepys’s Navy describes every aspect the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of...
For anyone who has ever been fascinated by the night sky, this beautifully designed introduction to astronomy and its history reveals the compelling story of mankind's quest through the ages to unl...
"Porsche: The Classic Era offers something for all Stuttgart enthusiasts and those interested in automotive history.There are few automobiles in the world as iconic as Porsche's ai...
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or th...
Wybuch II wojny światowej spowodował, że tworzony od podstaw polski przemysł zbrojeniowy został częściowo zniszczony, a jego kadry naukowo-techniczne uległy rozproszeniu. Wielu inżynierów i ...