ilość książek w kategorii: 581
Trams: an Illustrated Anthology
ISBN: 9780709090892 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evocative, entertaining, nostalgic, and informative, "Trams" is a fascinating anthology of some of the best stories and descriptive articles written about a vehicle that was once queen of the road. The book covers many aspects of the tramcar, in the days of horse, steam, cable, and electric power. Stories range from amusing incidents to childhood recollections and from trams that put out to sea to those that were bombed in the Blitz. Including extracts by well known writers (such as Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, and L.A.G. Strong), entertainers (such as Jimmy Saville), poets, journalists,...
Evocative, entertaining, nostalgic, and informative, "Trams" is a fascinating anthology of some of the best stories and descriptive articles written a...
|
|
cena:
276,15 zł |
Liverpool Ghost signs: A Sideways Look at the City's Advertising History
ISBN: 9780752465708 / Angielski / Miękka / 93 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take a photographic journey into Liverpool's often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted advertising from across the city and investigates the companies that commissioned the signs that now appear faded on the brickwork of buildings. It is a snapshot of a time that is almost forgotten but which lives on through the sometimes haunting presence of ghost signs on Liverpool's city streets. Over 150 signs, gloriously illustrated here in full colour, are explored through chapters focused on the types of products advertised: Food & Drink;...
Take a photographic journey into Liverpool's often overlooked local, craft and advertising history. This intriguing book profiles hand-painted adverti...
|
|
cena:
67,22 zł |
Beauty in Decay Ii: Urbex
ISBN: 9781908211101 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture. Beauty in Decay - The Art of Urban Exploration broke new ground in depicting the global phenomenon of Urban Exploration (Urbex) when it published in 2010. Author RomanyWG has again tirelessly tracked down dozens of new locations to amaze viewers of Beauty in Decay II, a further peek behind the Urbex curtain. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of history, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, ancient initials in the dust and the other...
Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Culture....
|
|
cena:
103,23 zł |
States of Decay: Urbex New York & Americas Forgotten North East
ISBN: 9781908211125 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If America is the Roman Empire of our time then New York City is Rome. The pulsating heart of the West pumps greenbacks through the veins of Manhattan, the richest place in the world. Power emanates from it's corporate brains and financial muscle across the whole surface of the globe. So how is it that even in the body of America, land of eternal youth, there is failure, death and decay hidden just beneath its glossy surfaces? A new breed of urban adventurers take a savage ride through the invisible story of the North Eastern USA. From NYC to the infamous Rust Belt, once home to America's...
If America is the Roman Empire of our time then New York City is Rome. The pulsating heart of the West pumps greenbacks through the veins of Manhattan...
|
|
cena:
152,66 zł |
Abandoned Futures: A Journey to the Posthuman World
ISBN: 9781908211132 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What will the end of the world look like? Abandoned Futures is a breathtaking global overview of the decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of humanities constant push towards an uncertain future. It s a visual epic dedicated to the edge of our power, where human industry fails and decay takes over. These are the landscapes that give the lie to our dreams of immortality. Abandoned Futures is a roadtrip into a post-apocalyptical landscape that is at turns both beautiful and frightening. It features striking imagery from every continent: from the futuristic island that forms the base of...
What will the end of the world look like? Abandoned Futures is a breathtaking global overview of the decay and abandonment that sits in the midsts of ...
|
|
cena:
152,66 zł |
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
ISBN: 9783037782989 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower-- the third highest in Venezuela--had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill--it is a -vertical favela, - now containing not just housing but also other...
Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. W...
|
|
cena:
206,96 zł |
Chernobyl Zone (ii)
ISBN: 9783868282108 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk took several trips to Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted 30-kilometre zone of alienation around the reactor. This book shows pictures he took of the rural landscape, alongside moving portraits of people who refused to leave their homes despite the danger of radiation.
Since 2008 photographer Andrej Krementschouk took several trips to Chernobyl, venturing into the restricted 30-kilometre zone of alienation around the...
|
|
cena:
138,08 zł |
Beyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment
ISBN: 9780812223095 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how the past jostled the present." In "Beyond the Architect's Eye," Mary N. Woods expands on this range of images through a rich analysis that commingles art, amateur, and documentary photography, genres usually not considered architectural but that often take the built environment as their subject. Woods explores how photographers used their built environment to capture the disparate American landscapes prior to World War II,... Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's po... |
|
cena:
157,35 zł |
The Forbidden Tourist: An artist's journey through abandoned spaces
ISBN: 9780979135217 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
114,43 zł |
Bridges of Lancaster County Postcards
ISBN: 9780764346729 / Angielski / Postcard book or pack / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vibrant color photograph postcards show 32 Lancaster county covered bridges, representing every season. GPS coordinates with each bridge make every bridge easy to find using a GPS satellite navigation device. If you prefer, you may also use a local tour map. These bridges are architectural treasures spanning the rivers and streams of Lancaster County, a scenic landscape dotted with pristine Amish farms. These postcards will be treasured by all who enjoy the beauty of rural America and her historic covered bridges.
Vibrant color photograph postcards show 32 Lancaster county covered bridges, representing every season. GPS coordinates with each bridge make every br...
|
|
cena:
55,18 zł |
Fast Wide Open
ISBN: 9780988251038 / Angielski / Twarda / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney: I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from storytelling since I was sixteen years old selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Funnily enough, some of the stories I told back then were more fictional than the novels I write today. Over the years, the mediums I've used have changed, but for me, it's always been about the story. Through blogging and songwriting and photography and speaking and design and sales, I've learned that the power of story is universal. Today, I apply my passion to...
From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney: I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from stor...
|
|
cena:
171,22 zł |
Fast Wide Open
ISBN: 9781495335280 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney
I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call it that-from storytelling since I was sixteen years old selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Funnily enough, some of the stories I told back then were more fictional than the novels I write today. Over the years, the mediums I've used have changed, but for me, it's always been about the story. Through blogging and songwriting and photography and speaking and design and sales, I've learned that the power of story is universal. Today, I... From #1 bestselling author Justin Blaney
I love telling stories. I've been earning a living-though sometimes it's been hard to call i... |
|
cena:
68,80 zł |
Soviet Ghosts: The Soviet Union Abandoned. A Communist Empire in Decay
ISBN: 9781908211163 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Only the most intrepid urban explorers cross the tattered ruins of the old iron curtain to endure the excessive bureaucracy, military paranoia and freezing winds of the East to hunt for the ghosts of an empire. Rebecca Litchfield is one who couldn t resist the haunting allure of the ruins of the Soviet Union. Time and again she risked radiation exposure, experienced arrest and interrogation, and was accused of espionage while collecting the stunning photography in Soviet Ghosts. Join her on an adventure through the ruins of soviet bloc, never before seen by western eyes. The emotional affect...
Only the most intrepid urban explorers cross the tattered ruins of the old iron curtain to endure the excessive bureaucracy, military paranoia and fre...
|
|
cena:
103,23 zł |
Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan
ISBN: 9780295993980 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion in the region since the twelfth century, discourages tombstones or decorative markers. However, elaborate Kyrgyz tombs combine earlier nomadic customs with Muslim architectural forms. After the territory was formally incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1876, enamel portraits for the deceased were attached to the Muslim monuments. Yet everything within the walls is overgrown with weeds,... A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this ... |
|
cena:
162,66 zł |
Age of Electricity: Pioneering Achievements in Electrical Engineering
ISBN: 9783422072541 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
130,20 zł |
Cairo Islamic Architecture
ISBN: 9781500485351 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Khaled Sayed, acclaimed photographer and documentary filmmaker, has put together a custom curated collection of photographs he personally took while strolling in old Cairo in 2013. The book is an amazing exploration of this small section in Cairo, which Sayed has visited many times over the years, examining the architecture and learning the history. He decided to include in this book an essay he wrote about the hidden-in-plain-sight treasure in the heart of this bustling modern city. This book explores some of Cairo's richest and most ancient Islamic constructions, and would be a wonderful...
Khaled Sayed, acclaimed photographer and documentary filmmaker, has put together a custom curated collection of photographs he personally took while s...
|
|
cena:
137,55 zł |
Abandoned America
ISBN: 9782361950941 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more.
Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America rapidly grew to encom...
|
|
cena:
134,48 zł |
Cazelles, Gariottes lotoises
ISBN: 9782365416207 / Francuski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Un document exceptionnel sur le Lot qui disparait...
Livre d'art. Interieur: 123 photos en Noir et Blanc. Cazelles ou Gariottes? Peu importe le terme pourvu que l'on ait la construction de pierre seche... Abris fragiles, encore plus en l'absence d'entretien, et ils disparaissent dans l'indifference, ronges par les mousses, demolis par la vegetation, emiettes par le gel, detruits pour permettre le passage des tracteurs et autres engins agricoles toujours plus larges. Une gariotte qui tombe, c'est un peu d'espace regagne par l'agriculteur... Plus de 80% des cazelles lotoises... Un document exceptionnel sur le Lot qui disparait...
Livre d'art. Interieur: 123 photos en Noir et Blanc. Cazelles ou Gariottes? Peu im... |
|
cena:
76,14 zł |
Play Grounds: How Vision is Learned by Children
ISBN: 9781505615012 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Play Grounds - How Vision Is Learned by Children" is an insightful book of photographs that examines the effect of acculturation on the development of Vision.
"Play Grounds - How Vision Is Learned by Children" is an insightful book of photographs that examines the effect of acculturation on the development o...
|
|
cena:
59,40 zł |
English Cathedral
ISBN: 9781858946429 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the most magnificent buildings of England are its Anglican cathedrals, great symbols of spiritual and architectural power. There are few experiences more uplifting and humbling than standing in the nave of a cathedral, and no one can fail to marvel at Durham's incomparable Romanesque masterpiece, the elegant stylistic unity of Salisbury, the world-famous stained glass of Canterbury or the striking Gothic scissor arch at Wells.
Britain is the top foreign tourist destination for Americans, with 3 million visiting each year, and historic buildings are the top visitor sites. Canterbury... Among the most magnificent buildings of England are its Anglican cathedrals, great symbols of spiritual and architectural power. There are few experie...
|
|
cena:
129,10 zł |