6722 results for '"DRAWING"'

An engaging, illustrated collection of insights revealing the practices and principles that expert software designers use to create great software.What makes an expert software designer? It is more...

 Consummate painter, draftsman, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design, which was...

"An exploration of depictions and use of water within Renaissance Italy, and especially in the work of polymath Leonardo da Vinci. Both a practical necessity and a powerful symbol, water presents one...

The Radical Twenties breaks with standard accounts of the period. Drawing on the work of DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Ivor Gurney, Patrick Hamilton and others, John Lucas...

Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of 18th-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during the...

Dancers, friends, exiles, saints, devils, childhood memories, sex, love and death are the characters that take center stage every night at around 3 A.M. An intimate collection of drawings by the...

Drawing on the 8th-century chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, this book presents a highly accurate view of the society in which Charlemagne's ancestors set themselves on the road to power and...

Equity and Trusts in Australia is a practical and engaging introduction to equitable and trusts law in Australia. Drawing on the authors' collective 45 years of teaching experience, this text is...

An activity book offering hours of science play through puzzles, activities, and gamesThis hands-on activity book includes all the classic puzzles and games that children love but with a quirky twist...

In this book, Professor Christopher Coker presents an original and controversial thesis about the future of war.Argues that the biotechnology revolution has given war a new lease of life.Draws on...

A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary...

Published for the eighth Liverpool Biennial, A Needle Walks into a Haystack reflects on notions of intimacy, delinquency and inefficiency though the work of critics, philosophers and writers such as...

Here is a Thurber world of enchanted deer and seven-headed dragons, of wizards and witches, of riddles and spells, of false love and true. It is the story of a beautiful princess, transformed from a...

Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready. 'Reassuring...

Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he's ready. 'Reassuring...

Draws on the account of World War II French political novelist and court interpreter Louis Guilloux, who witnessed general Patton's example-setting executions of seventy American troops, many of whom...

Throughout the poems in Exile Is Home, Elvis Alves examines the drudgery of work and the draw of the creative mind. He juxtaposes these aspects in the attempt to reveal the freedom that is inherent...

The author of Wild at Heart and The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula writes of what Tennessee Williams called "something wild in the country/that only the night people know." He draws his characters from...

Exhibition to be held at Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, München. Daniel Hopfer, a contemporary of Dürer and the inventor of iron engravings, considerably...

“Magnificently detailed and wide-ranging.”―Steven Shapin, The New Yorker Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism,...