General Design category: 1730 books

Are the promises of salvation made by digital technologies threatening to turn into the opposite? How can the various issues our societies face these days as a result of the negative effects of the digital revolution be resolved? Strategists, designers, engineers, researchers, journalists, philosophers,...

Consumers spend approximately $93 billion on denim products every year. This consumption comes at a great cost, with thousands of litres of fresh water, hazardous chemicals and energy contributing to just one pair of jeans, leaving the environment and the industry vulnerable to pollution and climate...

First published in 1906, this vintage book contains an illustrated catalogue of "Royal Canadian" boots and shoes for both men and women. It includes information concerning the company, as well as an exposition of their ethos, an overview of their quality standards, details relating to their manufacturing...

This vintage book contains a detailed investigation into the composition of sole leathers in the early twentieth century. A thorough and comprehensive treatise, "Leather Investigations - The Composition of Some Sole Leathers" will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in the leather...

While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and...

The subject which we have here treated is a sort of figurative battle-field, where fierce contests have for ages been from time to time waged; and, notwithstanding the determined assaults of the attacking hosts, the contention and its cause remain pretty much as they were at the commencement of the...

Johnny is an impetuous young man who has died and been recruited by a Heavenly Order as an Earth Angel on the upcoming apocalypse. When he suffers an ostensibly fatal accident, causing him amnesia, he will have to find out who he really is again, and with the help of a beautiful chosen one...

Dos cirujanos que trabajan juntos, amigos desde la juventud, un joven investigador curioso y una serie de circunstancias fuera de lo común, componen esta narración. Intriga acción y momentos, a veces límite, en un duro entramado progresivamente agobiante, ponen a prueba las capacidades y recursos del protagonista, al fin y al cabo una persona normal, en situaciones desconocidas.

Siguiendo con la saga de “Retratos y Biografías de Pintores” En 700 años de Historia del Arte, en este libro llamado: “Retratos y Biografías de Músicos Clásicos” En 300 años de Historia, encontrará un retrato de cada autor acompañado de una breve introducción a la historia de vida...

La filosofía de George Santayana representa una de las elaboraciones más significativas y profundas del pensamiento americano de principios del siglo xx. Su fama de pensador intempestivo, habituado a moverse a contracorriente, hace más oportuna que nunca una relectura estética de su obra, que...

Esta novela es casi una historia real. Surgió de la sangre y del dicho que dice “La tierra tira”. Hoy puedo decir que cuando llegué a un pueblito llamado Aczo, que está remontando las cordilleras Negra y Blanca en Ancash-Perú, fui un privilegiado, porque me sentí como si aquel lugar se hiciese...

Un grupo de biólogos está desarrollando la clave alimenticia sostenible para el pueblo orco. Esta es la única clave que puede detener la horrible invasión del ejército extranjero, que huye de un páramo helado. En cuyo lugar no pueden mantener su estilo de vida actual.

"La pittura rappresenta emozione e quindi vita" Trattasi della raccolta di alcuni dei quadri più significativi realizzati da Antropoetico dal 2014 al 2017. Buona visione.

La novela más popular y escandalosa de Virginia Woolf en una edición maravillosa, con la traducción de Jorge Luis Borges y acompañada de espléndidas ilustraciones. Virginia Woolf se atrevió a abordar temas tan tabú para su época como la sexualidad en su sentido más amplio, y retrató...