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Architects have always dreamed of shaping the future, of building Utopian worlds filled with seemingly impossible structures that break with the past to propel mankind far into the 21st century and beyond. This book reviews forty such visionary projects, encompassing the whole spectrum of the built ..

"The Canterbury Tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burly, drunken Mil..

New territories of design and architecture in our cities.For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radical imagination. Fut..

Into his story of a simple but beautiful country girl` s seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby to leave her on a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. `I have never been able to put on paper all..

"Hip Hotels Paris" is one of two special "Hip Hotels" editions publishing this spring, the first book in the series to focus uniquely on cities. In a smaller, more easily portable format than usual, these beautifully designed and lavishly produced books offer up a breathtaking selection of destinati..

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her we..

The French Riviera in the 1920s was 'discovered' by Dick and Nicole Diver who turned it into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful starlet, who falls in love with Dick and is enraptured by Nicole, unaware of the corruption and dark secrets that ..

Will is a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in his search for available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons he meets Marcus, a strange 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually, Will a..

This inspirational interiors book, the first in the series "New Country Style", redefines English country style for a growing international, design-savvy audience. A creative new generation of city-dwellers is seeking the country life, whether in the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, the Devon moorlan..

This final, classic collection of stories reveals Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Included are: "The Lotus Eater", "The Outstation" and "The Back of Beyond". This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique tal..

Classic grace and human grandeur.Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in his own right, one of the most important artists of the High Renaissance. Though Raphael painted many important works in his Florence period, including his famous Mad..

One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists and greatest painters of the 20th centuryMark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style ro..