Культура и искусство

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original essays written by prominent specialists in th…

Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volume offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks and the rewards of starting a firm. Covers the basic…

The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including t…

Книга выдающегося скрипача, дирижера и композитора, основателя русской скрипичной школы Леопольда Семеновича Ауэра, посвященная как самой игре на скрипке, так и обучению ей. Леопольд Семенович во…

The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them …

Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The first systematic survey of the…

Rome, Season One: History Makes Television examines the first season of the HBO-BBC collaboration, Rome, in a collection of thought-provoking essays by some of the world’s most influential schola…

В курсе представлены теоретические основы, классификации, понятийные категории пластических искусств, а также сведения по историческому развитию искусствоведения как науки. Курс содержит большое …

The CSI Sustainable Design and Construction Practice Guide is a compilation of information and recommended best practices for those who participate in the design and construction of commercial-le…

Architects and contract administrators spend a great deal of time writing letters of various types. Many of them are routine and repetitive in character, but they require proper consideration if …

The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written …

What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why…

Леонардо да Винчи – это гений-универсал, ученый, инженер, архитектор, талантливый художник. Как он смог преуспеть во всем сразу? В этой книге не только история этого неординарного человека и его …

Леонардо да Винчи – это гений-универсал, ученый, инженер, архитектор, талантливый художник. Как он смог преуспеть во всем сразу? В этой книге не только история этого неординарного человека и его …

This book provides over 300 standard letters for architects and contract administrators to use at all stages of contract administration. The letters are grouped into sections which correspond wit…

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situati…

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the h…

In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the h…

«Новый дом» построен таким образом, что удовлетворяет сразу две основные потребности: служит для отдыха и для работы. Издание публикует наиболее актуальные материалы по вопросам строительства и о…

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the…