Warren and his sister Tracey first discover the Jewel of Fenrath and the Book of Spells . When Gorgool and his servantr take the Book and Jewel away, the kids and Johnny B. Dead struggle to regain them as Warren becomes a monster by mistake!
The best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design now compiles the most creative and inspiring work in the field in a stunning collection featuring the best of the past four volumes. From well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists, this collection includes everything identity, from logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, and the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This book is an invaluable resource for both design firms and their clients who are looking for inspiration and ideas that grab the viewer's attention and create a lasting impression.
Led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Studio Fuksas is one of the most outstanding international architecture firms in the world. Over the past 40 years, the company has developed an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions to airports; from museums to cultural centers and spaces for music; from convention centers to offices; and interiors to design collections. With headquarters in Rome, Paris, and Shenzhen, and a staff of 170 professionals, Studio Fuksas has completed more than 600 projects in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, receiving numerous international awards. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Optima}
As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. The consummate literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and sophisticated even by modern standards. This new, fully annotated translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the sources of the novel’s intertextual references, revealing the author’s erudition and versatility.
More than the document of a remarkable project: Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combined and interwoven to finally generate an unconventional, breakthrough museum design. Providing insight into the various ideas, experiences and ambitions behind the project, this book allows visitors to take the museum home. Through photographs, diagrams, text, and drawings, this book explains the unique Mercedes museum design model, developed by UN Studio: the digitally programmed, three-dimensional, cross-connected trefoil. Implementing this model has resulted in a building that radically breaks with many of today's architectural conventions, a building that is highly complex, but still maintains a strongly directional structure, which provides many surprising perceptual experiences.
Created in Paris in 1973, Architecture Studio today integrates the work of seven associate architects, architects, city planners, engineers and interior designers of various nationalities. The group has an open-door policy and has grown bigger with the
La dinamica dei prezzi è uno degli argomenti classici della storia economica. L'attenzione per questo tema fu particolarmente viva a partire dagli anni trenta del novecento, in tutti i paesi europei. I materiali raccolti e pubblicati a quell'epoca continuano a costituire una base documentaria importante per ogni ricerca sull'andamento economico delle economie pre-industriali. L'interesse per i prezzi si ridusse dagli anni settanta agli anni novanta. È ripreso, tuttavia, negli ultimi quindici-venti anni come conseguenza della rinnovata attenzione per il tema della crescita e per i cambiamenti di lungo periodo nelle economie del passato. Il confronto fra i livelli di sviluppo di economie diverse, come quella europea e quella asiatica, insieme con l'uso di strumenti statistici più avanzati nel campo della storia economica, ha rafforzato l'interesse per i prezzi. I contributi presenti in questo volume si articolano intorno a due macro-temi: La formazione dei prezzi nelle economie e società pre-industriali durante i secoli dal XII all'inizio del XIX e il movimento dei prezzi nel lungo periodo, nonché il rapporto esistente con quello di altre variabili economiche e non-economiche, quali la popolazione, la massa monetaria, il prodotto, la produttività, la velocità di circolazione della moneta, i cambiamenti nelle istituzioni.
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