Literatúra faktu sa teší veľkej obľube už od konca druhej svetovej vojny. V širšom slova zmysle označuje širokú škálu nefiktívnej literatúry, ktorá využíva biografické, reportážne, cestopisné, memoárové a denníkové prvky. Má obrovský význam pre kultúru, keďže sú v nej príťažlivo spracované udalosti dejinných a súčasných vedeckých materiálov. Najslávnejšími autormi sú napr. E. von Däniken, L. Souček či V. Zamarovský. Ak ste fanúšikom tejto literatúry a okrem čítania sa radi dozvedáte množstvo zaujímavostí, kníhkupectvách zoženiete rôzne knihy, ktoré si vás určite získajú.
Přináší hlavní empirická zjištění stejnojmenného prjektu, který v letech 2007-2008 podpořila Grantová agentura Akademie věd ČR. Veřejná a mediální agenda: komparativní analýza tematizace veřejné sféry - podrobnější popis Stručný popis ke knize Veřejná a mediální agenda - Komparativní analýza tematizace ...
The second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia contains completely new drawings, text and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his fifty years working as a prison guard in St Petersburgs notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, ...
Celebrate the impossibly tiny with The Book of Mini--a one of a kind collection showcasing hundreds of squeal-worthy miniatures from all over the world--that includes its own tiny, removable book!
Composed of paper, commercial packaging and the stuff of everyday life, Bodys Isek Kingelez’s ‘extreme maquettes’ transform these materials into fantastic visio…
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 ...
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World is a tribute to queer ground breakers who changed the face of music and popular culture. LGBTQ+ musicians have been pushing for change since the 1920s, with singers such as Bessie Smith crooning about ...
Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanitys battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves,
A GREAT GIFT FOR THE ART LOVER IN YOUR LIFE A collection of fun, inspirational, meaningful quotes perfect for every art lover. What is art? Art is beauty; art is love; art is anything you want it to be. In short, art is creativity in tangible form, something to appreciate and experience. The best kind ...
The Element in the Room will take you on a rib-tickling, experiment-fuelled adventure to explain everyday science that is staring you in the face. If you are sci-curious, pi-curious or just the-end-is-nigh-curious then this is the book for you.
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A compact, introductory guide to modern art that explains styles, schools, and movements from Impressionism to the present day. The first in a new series of essential introductions to art, Modern Art guides the reader through individual movements from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situated within ...
Even at the high noon of Europe's empire-building China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonizing process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th ...
Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as ...
A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western culture Exotic explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque. Through a host of evocative images, this book ...
Aimed at children between the ages of nine and twelve, Seeing Things is a wonderful introduction to photography that asks how photographers transform ordinary things into meaningful moments. In this book, acclaimed and beloved photographer Joel Meyerowitz takes readers on a journey through the power ...
'One of the best music books ever written, because Michael Odell knows music isn't about the musicians – it’s about what it does to the listener, even if what i…
