Культура и искусство

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it. Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; reli…

This broad-ranging Companion offers readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety. Provides an up-to-date and wide-ran…

Первая часть книги посвящена истории создания музыкального электронного проекта Moonbeam. Это история о взаимоотношениях когда-то близких людей, которые строили вместе большой проект, но, достигн…

Как сплетни разрушают человеческие судьбы? Как влияют на наше будущее и наше сознание? Молодой преуспевающей женщине общество внушило идею, что она была рождена от проститутки, она таит обиду на …

How can you tell if the materials and components you are specifying have a low environmental impact? A full life-cycle assessment is a complex, time-consuming and expensive process; the environme…

Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, cost consultants and contractors. Negotiating d…

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book en…

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. Brings together international art an…

The two plays presented in full in this volume – Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World – illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes …

Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the En…

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country’s intellectual life more broadly. Helps …

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published …

A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings …

В этой книге собраны сказки и легенды, на основе которых появились великолепные, знаменитые на весь мир оперы. «Садко» и «Снегурочка» – созданы на основе русского фольклора; «Гензель и Гретель» и…

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read. Crosses traditiona…

This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scri…

The most fucked up memoir you’ll ever read.A foul-mouthed memoir about a dysfunctional life.Each chapter recounts a key moment in the author’s life through the books she was reading at the time i…

Нетривиальные, оригинальные, часто спорные идеи на современную поэзию, литературную критику и на искусство в целом — самая суть «Гуманитарных экспериментов» Сергея Фаустова. Автор знаменитой «Хар…

В книге изложены современные воззрения на глобальные экономические и социальные вызовы современности по отношению к российской политике при формировании национальной инновационной системы и гражд…

Гейм-дизайн – это захватывающее искусство с неограниченным количеством стилей и форм. Перед вами пошаговое руководство по созданию игр с помощью итеративной разработки. Вы пройдете весь путь от и…