With dozens of beautiful, original designs and detailed explanations, this Chinese paper cutting book is a great reference for beginners. Paper cutting is a popular papercraft in today's multicultural world, embracing a great variety of themes, designs and images. In China, its birthplace, it is regarded as an elegant traditional folk art. Chinese paper cuts reflect many...

The monograph should therefore play a binary role. First it should present the crystal structures of known chalcogenides. Second book should explain a wide range of preparation methods and basic chemical properties of sulphides, selenides and tellurides that can be important from practical point of view. These materials are referred to as compounds of technological future in optoelectronics...

This publication offers a wonderfully comprehensive and integrated picture of the Labour immigration in the European Union. The book falls into five overlapping parts: Migration – the Notion. The Review of Migration Theories; the Policy of the European Union towards Legal Labour Migration from the Third Countries; Polish Migration Policy. Principles of Admitting Labour Migrants into Polish...

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural...

Diese originallen und abwechslungsreichen Modelle macgem Lust, sofort loszulegen: Seien Siee einzigartige Strickstucke, die Ihre Lieben gefallen werden. Nichts geht uber Selbstgemachtes! 

Anna Bednarczyk jest pracownikiem Katedry Literatury i Kultury Rosyjskiej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Od lat interesuje się problematyką przekładu literackiego, czemu poświęciła cztery swoje wcześniejsze monografie (Wysocki po polsku, Wybory translatorskie, Kulturowe aspekty przekładu literackiego i W poszukiwaniu dominanty translatorskiej). Książka Poezja Syberii na przełomie epok (szkice o...

Viele sagen, wer einmal Krakau gesehen hat, wird wiederkommen. Sie sind jederzeit herzlich willkommen!

This book, a complete guide to the operation and features of the Fujifilm FinePix X100 digital camera, is a follow-up to the author's earlier guides to advanced compact digital cameras. The new book explains all operations, features, menus, and controls of the FinePix X100 camera in clear language, providing guidance not only about how to accomplish things with the camera, but when and why...

The world's most popular record book is back with thousands of new categories and newly broken records, covering everything from outer space to sporting greats via Instagram, fidget spinners and all manner of human marvels. Inside you'll find hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and countless facts, figures, stats and trivia waiting for you on every action-packed page. Guinness World...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author. 'Back in the 1960s, long before the denizens of Silicon Valley were infiltrating every facet of our lives, the smart men and women of The Simulmatics Corporation were creating algorithms to predict and even influence human...

Open house. Tour the world's most exceptional recent homes The third installment in our popular Architecture Now! Houses series incles 60 of the most dramatic new residences around the world. See the extraordinary House Turtle designed by the artists Carsten Höller and Marcel Odenbach in Biriwa, Ghana; visit Tadao Ando’s dramatic House in Monterrey, Mexico, or take off to see...

Серія тематичних книжечок з малюнками для розмальовування. Великий формат та чіткі контури сприятимуть забаві, а наклейки, які додано до комплекту, будуть додатково розважати. Seria bloków z tematycznie dobranymi obrazkami do kolorowania. Duży format i wyraźne kontury ułatwią dzieciom zabawę, dodatkową atrakcją są dołączone naklejki.

The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, delivers the definitive biography—unique, multi-layered, and at times even shocking. The Dalai Lama illuminates an astonishing odyssey from isolated...

1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important...

Książka podejmuje bardzo aktualne i ważne problemy, które są rozważane zarówno w ujęciu krajowym, regionalnym i lokalnym oraz w różnych ujęciach na obszarze Unii Europejskiej. W badaniach nad społeczeństwem obywatelskim oraz relacją społeczeństw obywatelskich w Unii Europejskiej integracja społeczna jest traktowana jako szczególna wartość perspektywiczna, bez której trudno byłoby mówić o...

This cult classic delves into mysteries such as whether the Loch Ness monster exists, and tells stories of dragons and monsters from around the world. It also looks at some of the most frightening creations of myth and legend. First published in 1977, this is the third book from Usborne's beloved World of the Unknown series to be brought back by popular demand. With a brand-new foreword by...

Monografia zawiera 13 artykułów przedłożonych do publikacji przez krajowych i zagranicznych autorów. Książka proponuje splot tekstów wyrastających ze ściśle naukowej perspektywy badawczej z bardziej praktycznym podejściem proponowanym przez autorów będących jednocześnie twórcami. U źródeł proponowanego zestawienia leży przekonanie redaktorów tomu, że w ostatnich dziesięcioleciach dokonało...

Zagadnienie polskiego procesu ziemskiego było już przedmiotem badania jurydycznego przez polską naukę prawa, ale dotyczyło to procesu epoki nowożytnej.

"Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the past and the present. For the many readers who found the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality of Clark's writing so compelling, Prisoners of Time will be a book...

Bogato ilustrowany album w języku niemieckim przedstawiający najpiękniejsze zabytki i zakątki Polski.