Nicolas: 1685 books

In The Japanese Chronicles, Swiss travel writer and photographer Nicolas Bouvier shares his intimate experience of Japan. Based on three decades of travel throughout the islands, his reports, recollections, and reflections take the reader beyond the commonplace and into an unexpected landscape. Whether...

Electromagnetic wave scattering from random rough surfaces is an active, interdisciplinary area of research with myriad practical applications in fields such as optics, acoustics, geoscience and remote sensing. Focusing on the case of random rough surfaces, this book presents classical asymptotic...

Remember your first customer service job? Of course you don't! Because you've been trying to push it out of your subconscious for the past fifteen to twenty years! It's cool, I get it; I'm right in that position as we speak. Here's what you've been dying to say all this time though.

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design. Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from...

Solitude des premiers salons du livre, erreurs sur la personne, séances de dédicaces interminables, cadeaux des lecteurs, témoignages émouvants, insultes et humiliations, séjours à l’étranger, fêtes et durs lendemains de veille, moments décisifs et consécrations, péripéties de tout acabit…...

Une fois encore Nicolas Barreau nous embarque dans une magnifique histoire d'amour, qui nous enseigne que laisser tomber son sac dans le Grand Canal, faire confiance à un vénitien à la beauté ténébreuse et sentir la terre se dérober sous les pieds peut aussi être une chance. Éléonore...

Il était une fois le cinéma Paradis Alain Bonnard est le jeune propriétaire du Paradis, un cinéma d'art et d'essai, hérité de son oncle. Un jour, il se décide enfin à inviter la charmante inconnue qui, chaque mercredi, s'installe au rang 17 pour la dernière séance. Une soirée magique où...

Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre Jean-Luc Champollion, galeriste parisien, s'était promis de ne plus jamais écrire une seule lettre d'amour depuis une terrible déception à l'adolescence. Pourtant, lorsqu'il en découvre une dans sa boîte à lettres, intrigué, il ne peut s'empêcher d'y...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market of 1986 through the official creation of the...

The Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) is one of the finest long-distance cycle rides in England and tackling the route over four days is a marvellous mini-adventure that should appeal to all sorts of cyclists. Every stage of this 205-mile long cycle route, from Southport on Merseyside to Hornsea in East Yorkshire,...

Un guide pratique et accessible pour apprendre à s'évaluer Si l’évaluation pratiquée par un employeur ou un pair est souvent source d’angoisse et d’inquiétude, réalisée par soi-même elle peut se révéler très enrichissante. Qu’il s’agisse d’une autoévaluation suite à...

Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context explains key ways of understanding and interpreting the graphic designs we see all around us, in advertising, branding, packaging and fashion. It situates these designs in their cultural and social contexts. Drawing examples from a range of design...

When you keep repeating that the worst is about to happen, it finally does. The threat of terrorism has caught up with us. By invading Iraq in 2003 and not intervening in Syria since 2011, we have helped fuel radicalization. And we continue to fuel it, by making diplomatic compromises with dictators,...

This is an intense psychological suspense story by Nicolas Z Porter. Having just buried one child, how far will you go to get another one?