This best-selling, illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, explaining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in a way that is both accessible…
Shelve Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Veneti…
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are pr…
This book is translation of ‘The Art of Loving’ by Erich Fromm. It is scientifically teaching how love is a powerful solution to problems of human existence. In this classic work, Erich Fromm explores…
The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obse…
El primer libro de Panenka con La Media Inglesa. Maidstone United siempre ha sido un equipo diferente, y nunca por una buena razón. Nadie ha sufrido una caída tan pronunciada en el fútbol inglé del pr…
La industria de la felicidad, que mueve miles de millones de euros, afirma que puede moldear a los individuos y hacer de ellos criaturas capaces de oponer resistencia a los sentimientos negativos, de …
Shelve Happycracia: Cómo la ciencia y la industria de la felicidad controlan nuestras vidas
Jaki los czeka wiedźmina? Czy dane mu będzie połączyć się z miłością jego życia? Czy ziści się złowieszcza przepowiednia i czy przetrwa świat ogarnięty morderczą wojną? Świat elfów, ludzi i krasnoludó…
C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.
Çehov bir taşra kasabasındaki akıl hastanesinde geçen bu novellasında, eğitimli bir hasta olan İvan Dmitriç ile Doktor Andrey Yefimıç arasındaki felsefi çatışmaya odaklanır. İvan Dmitriç maruz kaldıkl…
The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who m…
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935,…
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American…
Shelve The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, elegant and forceful, is a logical expansion of The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness announced by Tho…
While on a writer’s residency, a nameless narrator focuses on the color white to creatively channel her inner pain. Through lyrical, interconnected stories, she grapples with the tragedy that has haun…
For readers who delight in the darker corners of the human experience, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a masterful collection of short stories that will transport you to a realm of eerie m…
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the god…
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, his only novel. Visconti's film adaptation, starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme …
Can you imagine writing to Father Christmas and actually getting a reply? For more than twenty years, the children of J.R.R. Tolkien received letters from the North Pole - from Father…
"Güneşten ağır ağır gölgeye geçilir gibi, pek de anlamadan akşam olur gibi, ışıklı, neşeli bir yüzden kederlere geçti Aziz bey. Kederli bir mazisi oldu. Burnu havada, başı dikti hep. Başka türlü yaşam…
The author of 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where rea…
Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature. First published in 1913, her story spawned the formation of "Glad" clubs all over the country, devo…
In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré'…
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others …
Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration after defying his ALS diagnosis at age twenty-one. He is known for both his breakthroughs in theoret…
