NUEVAS PÁGINAS DE IDIOMAS EN LA TETA NEGRA

Disponemos de tres nuevas páginas de idiomas en nuestra web, una dedicada a la narrativa, otra a las ciencias y una tercera con diferentes temáticas como historia, arte, política y mundo. Libros en:

Française, English, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Català, Euskera...

LA TETA NEGRA IDIOMAS, ENTRA AQUÍ 

TECHNIQUES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Weddle, A.E. -Heinemann (London) 1967-

This essentially a practical book. It sets out to describe the range of techniques that can be drawn upon in tackling the diversity of tasks encountered by the landscape architect. Landscape is defined by the authors as the whole outdoor environment: at one extreme they deal with the conservation and management of the coastline and countryside, at the other with pavings, fencing, and the other detailing and planting of open spaces between buildings.
Between these two extremes come the numerous tasks involved in town development and the design of industrial, recreational, and other specialised areas. For the lanscape architect, in his role of co-ordinador and designer, this book will be an essential manual. It will also be found useful by architects, engineers, town planners, surveyors, park superintendents, foresters, ecologists -in fact by all the land- using and land- managing professions.

Ref. 1278
Autor: Weddle, A.E.
Idioma: English
Editorial: Heinemann (London)
1967
22,50x28,50 cm.
226 páginas. Tapas duras con sobrecubiertas protegidas con plástico por anterior propietario. Numerosas ilustraciones b/n.

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ORLANDO. Virginia Woolf

"No human being, since the world began, has ever looked more ravishing. His from combined in one the strength of a man and woman's grace".
Orlando lives through four centuries and many disguises. He is page to Queen Elizabeth I, beau at the Court of King James, Ambassador to the pompous palaces of Constantinople. There, he undergoes a miraculous transformation. While revolution explodes around him he sleeps -for days- and finds on waking that he has become a woman. Orlando as a woman is as beatiful, sensuous and unfashionably irrepressible as when she was a man. Times change, but Orlando's youth is unceasing. Though the Wits of the eighteenth century bore her to tears and the crinolines of the nineteenth threaten to engulf her, Orlando bursts into the twentieth century still full of energy and irreverence.

Ref. 5925
Autora: Woolf, Virginia
Idioma: English
Editorial: Granada (London)
1984
11x17,50 cm.
208 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. Muy buen estado.

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THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS 1754-1954 Hudson, Derek & Luckhurst, Kenneth W.

It was E.V. Lucas who first called the Royal Society of Arts "England's Fairy Godmother" -and it was a good description, for the nation owes more than it realises to this essentially English society whose public-spirited and pioneering endeavours in so many different fields, through two hundred years, have affected the lives of every one of its citizens. Perhaps no society has ever had more varied aims, for there is little that cannot be brought within its declared objetive of "the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce", and everything within its range has benefited incalculably from a philanthropy which has always remained independent and unaided by the State.
The Society's adventures make a fascinating story, historically important and often highly entertaining. We follow it from the great early days of Dr. Johnson and Reynolds, when it sponsored our first art and industrial exhibitions; we watch its encouragement of artists and see it originating the _Great Exhibition of 1851 under its president Prince Albert; we learn to appreciate the great  flow of scientific knowledge that has been passed on to the public through the papers published in the Society's Journal; and coming to modern times  we are reminded of Marconi's epoch-making lectures, of the saving of the village of West Wycombe, of the establishment of the distintion of R.D.I., of the early papers on penicillin and the pioneer demostrations of the telephone and the "talkies".

Ref. 3747
Autores: Hudson, Derek & Luckhurst, Kenneth W.
Idioma: English
Editorial: John Murray (London)
1954
15x22 cm.
411 páginas. Tapas duras con sobrecubierta. Ilustrado con láminas b/n y una a color. Firma. Buen estado.

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DICTIONARY OF BELIEFS & RELIGIONS Rosemary Goring

With 2,900 concise, informative entries from Aaron (Moses' elder brother) to Zurvan (a Zoroastrian God of Time), the Wordsworth dictionary of beliefs and religions provides answers to questions on all aspects of the world's major faiths and ideologies, both historical and current. Unrivalled in its scope and detail, the dictionary contains a comprehensive subject index which groups the entries for each religion of belief, is fully cross-referenced, and includes a valuable calendar of festivals. From the days of Palaeolithic cave art to the musings of "New Age" thinkers people have striven to understand the purpose behind life, and this dictionary will guide the labyrinth of human beliefs since the dawn of recorded thought.

Ref. 5235
Autora: Goring, Rosemary
Idioma: English
Editorial: Wordsworth (Hertfordshire)
1995
12,50x20 cm.
587 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. Buen estado.

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THE RHIND MATHEMATICAL PAPYRUS. Gay Robins & Charles Shute

AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is the oldest texbook of its sort in the world. Found in Thebes in the 1850s it dates back in its origins to the age of the great pyramid-builders. The ancient Egyptians were superb arithmeticians, with enough understanding of geometry and trigonometry to make their architectural triumphs possible. Their work was later to inspire the more theoretical achievements of the Greeks. From the papyrus we learn how young pupils weresubjected to a rigorous training in the manipulation of numbers that enabled the fully-fledged scribe to control not only the design and construction of huge monuments but also the more mundane activities of everyday life. Some of their methods are similar to those of today; others have been superseded but nevertheless retain a fascination of their own. Scholars still argue as to how the Egyptians obtained certain of their results: the authors provide a number of new interpretations and set out controversial matters so that the reader can decide for himself.

Ref. 3621
Autores: Robins, Gay & Shute, Charles
Idioma: English
Editorial: Dover (New York)
1990
19x24,50 cm.
59 páginas + 24 láminas a color. Cubiertas en rústica. Firma. Muy buen estado.

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FROM EUCLID TO EDDINGTON

A STUDY OF CONCEPTIONS OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD

This book is a profound philosophical study of the chaging conceptions of the external world forced upon us by the revolutionary discoveries in physics and mathematics of recent times. It traces the development of theories in natural philosophy from the rediscovery of Euclid by Western scholars to the present time. The conceptual frame of classical physics is presented, but the major emphasis of the work is on the inadequacy of these concepts and on our attempts to understand the nature of the universe according to the signposts supplied by modern physical discoveries-relativity, non-Euclidean geometry, space, curvature, the expanding universe, wave mechanics, quantum physics, electron spin. The presentation is non-mathematical, since it was Whittaker's explicits porpuse "to disengage the essential ideas from the intricacy of the mathematical presentations". Thus, the work can be read by the scientifically-informed layman, as well as by physicists, mathematicians and philosophers to whom it is primarily addrressed. 

The work is divided into five parts: 

I. Space, Time and Movement

II. The concepts of Classical Physics

III. The Concepts of General Relativity

IV. The Concepts of Quantum Mechanics

V. The Eddingtonian Universe

 
Ref. 4752
Autor: Whittaker, Edmund
Idioma: English
Editorial: Dover (New York)
1958
13,50x20,50 cm.
212 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. Firma. Buen estado.

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ANCIENT HISTORY: THE FIRST PUNIC WAR. J.F. Lazenby

The First Punic War (264-241 BC) was the longest continuous war in ancient history and arguably one of the most important. Fought between Carthage and Rome, it marks the point at which Rome ceased to be an essentially Italian power and became one of the great powers of the Mediterranean world. However, despite its importance this is the first major study in English to be devoted entirely to it. One reason for this apparent neglect of the war may be the comparative lack of evidence, but as the author demostrates, a closer look reveals rich and varied source material. Based on a detailed analysis of the ancient literary sources, but drawing on archaeological evidence where relevant, the author presents us with the fullest account we have of the greatest naval war ever fought.

Unashamedly a narrative history, The First Punic War is an important addition to our knowledge of the emergence of the Roman Empire and as a work of military hostory it will become the standard history of the war. In addition it provides a fascinating case-study in historical detective work which raises fundamental questions about the nature of such evidence. This much needed and engaging book will he widely welcomed by scholars and students of ancient history.

Ref. 3612
Autor: Lazenby, J.F.
Idioma: English
Editorial: UCL (London)
1996
15,50x23,50 cm.
197 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica protegidas con plástico por anterior propietario. Firma. Buen estado.

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GOLD CAMPS & SILVER CITIES. Merle W.Wells

Idaho's gold excitement began in 1862 and for many it has never ended. Who'd believe in mountain slopes sprinkled with glod? Hopeful argonauts did and ended up at Thunder Mountain.

Snowbound at Leesburg with food and health running out. Who else to the rescue but twelve shovel-wielding miners cutting a horse path through eighteen miles of snow, five to twenty feet deep.

Just how hard would a man work for a hole in the ground? To stay alive, he'd tote more than a pick in the Owyhee War or in the mining claim battles between the Hays and Ray and Poorman interests.

Silver City... Florence... Wood River & Ketchum... Pierce... Warren... Rocky Bar... Shoup & Ulysses... Boise Basin... Yankee Fork... Atlanta... Thunder Mountain.

Boom or bust -adventurous miners scrambled by the hundreds to these and other promising diggings in central and southern Idaho. Today, the names of the old camps stir memories of a great heyday in Idaho's gold and silver rushes.

Over 150 photographs and illustrations of the early mining days in Idaho accompany this extensively revised history.

 

Ref. 4674
Autor: Wells, Merle W.
Idioma: English
Editorial: Idaho Department of Lands
1983
21,50x28 cm.
165 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. 150 fotografías de la época. Buen estado.

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HISTORY OF ENGLAND (9 TOMOS)

1. Roman Britain. 

2. The Beginnings of _English society. 

3. English society in the Early Middle Ages. 

4. England in the late Middle Ages. 

5. Tudor England. 

6. England in the seventeenth century. 

7. England in the Eighteenth century. 

8. England in the Nineteenth century. 

9. England in the Twentieth century.

 

Ref. 1682

Autores: Richmond, I.,A. & Whitelock, D. & Stenton, D.M. & Myers, A.R. & Bindoff, S.T. & Ashley, M. & Plumb, J.H.  & Thomson, D.

Idioma: English

Editorial: Pelican (Aylesbury)

1977

11x18 cm.

Nueve Tomos. 2469 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica protegidas con plástico por anterior propietario. Firma. Buen estado.

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MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E: HARUNOBU. By Seiichiro Takahashi

This is the first series of books to gather together the full panorama of ukiyo-e-"pictures of the floating world"- from its inception in early genre paintings to the versatile genius of such masters as Hokusai. Each book examines a specific master, style or medium and has sixty-four pages of full-color reproductions, many available outside Japan for the first time. 

Harunobu: As the first ukiyo-e artist to successfully develop the full-color woodblock print, Szuki Harunobu marks an important turning point in the history of the ukiyo-e. 

Previous artists had made color prints, but it was Harunobu and a group of followers who first perfected the polychrome print-a development all subsequent ukiyo-e artists were to utilize.

As the most comprehensive representation in color of Harunobu in a Western language, this book is a selection of some of the artist's most famous prints, together with some lesser known works, many of which are reproduced here for the first time outside Japan. 

Ref. 1233
Autor: Takahashi, Seiichiro
Idioma: English
Editorial: Kodansha international (Japan)
1972
18,50x25,50 cm.
96 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica con sobrecubierta. Numerosas ilustraciones en color. Firma. Buen estado.

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THE PIROTECHNIA. Vannoccio Biringuccio

The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy

Vannoccio Biringuccio was the Siennese metallurgist and armament maker who wrote history's first clear, comprehensive work on metallurgy. First published in 1540, shorthy after Biringuccio's death, The Pirotechnia is a lavishly illustrated volume that describes in detail the equipment and processes of 16th-century mining, smelting and metalworking.

For centuries, this famous work has been a standard reference in the field of metals and metallurgy. It is especially valuable today as a vital source of information on the state of technology in the 15th and 16th centuries.

The book first addresses the principal ores -gold, silver, copper, lead, tin and iron- and the making of steel and brass. It then introduces semiminerals, from quicksilver and sulphur to manganese and rock crystal, and describes the assaying and preparing of ores for smelting. Other topics include the making of alloys, the art of casting, methods of melting metals, and the making of fireworks.

This edition of Pirotechnia has been reprinted from the authoritative translation published by The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and is complete with an historical introduction to Biringuccio and his work. It also contains reproductions of the 94 woodcuts from the original 1540 edition, which depict centuries-old technologies ranging from the recovery of mercury with a distilling bell to a machine for boring guns.

	Ref. 3427 Autor: Biringuccio, Vannoccio Idioma: English Editorial: Dover (New York) 1990 15,50x23,50 cm. 477 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica protegidas con plástico por anterior propietario. Ilustrado. Firma. Buen estado. Translated and Edited by Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi ENLAZA AQUÍ CON EL LIBRO

THE LONDON SCENE. Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century, is equally honored today for her fiction and for her essays, which covered a wide range of subjects. Born in 1882, she died in 1941.

These five sparkling essays on those aspects of London that have changed little since Virginia Woolf wrote of them in the 1930s show Woolf at the top of her from, blending together in her own unique fashion solid information and imaginative flights of fancy, fact and poetry.

"London", she wrote, "is a city in the full tide and race of human life." It still is. The Docks, Oxford Street, the great men's houses within its confines -Keats', Carlyle's- its abbeys and cathedrals, the House of Commons, today reflect those same enduring qualities that Virginia Woolf observed so perceptively.

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PROPOSED IN ENGLISH

New Zealand Seabirds. Parkinson, Brian (2000)

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT . Twain, Mark (1899)

THE FACE OF SPAIN.Brenan, Gerald (1965)

GUERNICA. Boling, Dave (2009)

THE CITY IN HISTORY. Mumford, Lewis (1966)

A TIME FOR TROLLS . Asbjornsen & Moe (1986)

Para Acceder a otros contenidos en ingles no tenéis más que escribir ENGLISH en el buscador de nuestra web. 

THE MAGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL

ASPECTS OF ALICE. Robert Phillips.

THE MAGIC OF LEWIS CARROLL. John Fisher

THE ANNOTATED ALICE, LEWIS CARROLL. Martin Gardner

THE ANNOTATED SNARK, LEWIS CARROLL. Martin Gardner

THE MUMMY. A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaelogy - E.A. Wallis Budge

Natured by a strong unshaken belief in the hereafter, the people of ancient Egypt lived out much of their earthly lives preparing for the next wworld. Their efforts to pave the way to a life after death is the subject of this remarkable work -concisely, comprehensively and ably presented by one of the 20th century's greatest Egyptologists.

First published in 1893 and revised in 1925, Sir Wallis Budge's important volume offers a fascinating, erudite discussion of Egyptian funerary procedures, including mummification, burial practices and goods, ritual texts, gods, graves and tombs, coffins, mummycases, the Book of the Dead and much more. The author has also included much additional information of a general nature - a history of Egypt, royal cartouches (panel eclosing the king's name) decipherment- featuring an account of the Rosetta Stone- a list of hieroglyphs and other material vital to understanding the Egyptian way of death.

Ref. 3800
Autor: Wallis Budge, E.A.
Idioma: Esglish
Editorial: Dover (New York)
1989
14x21,50 cm.
513 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica. 154 ilustraciones. Firma. Buen estado.

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El rincón del Friki: Clean and Decent.

The fascinating history of the bathroom and the Water closet and of sundry habits, fashions & accessories of the toilet principally in Great Britain, France, & America.

By Lawrence Wright.

"Clean and decent", says the author's Preface "is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through" It is indeed fascinating; sometimes astonishing. Who would have supposed that the Romans had lagged hot-water cylinders? that Queen Elizabeth I had cushions in his bath? that baths have been concealed in sofas, and washbasins in pianos? that whisky may be added to the bathwater, but that mutton chops should not be eaten in the bath?that the shower-bath calls for a hat, and can cause asphyxia? that sponges have sex? It seems that more is to be learned about past peoples from their bath-rooms than from their bath-rooms than from their battlefields; patterns of social history are mirrored in the bathwater, of found locked in the water-closet. "To the historian", says Siegfried Giedion, "there are no banal things".

Ref. 3617
Autor: Wright, Lawrence
Idioma: English
Editorial: Routledge & Kegan (London)
1963
14,50x22,50 cm.
282 páginas. Tapas duras con sobrecubierta. Numerosas ilustraciones. Firma. Buen estado.

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Arte: Arts of Japan6. Meiji Western painting by Minoru Harada

Meiji Japan (1868-1912), open to the world after two and a half centuries of insolation and eager to catch up, promoted the study of Western arts and sciences with a purposeful intensity seldom equaled beforeb or since. Along with engineering and metallurgy, industrializing japan needed Western drawing and drafting techniques and undertook a comprehensive study of Western painting. This pragmatic approach was quickly transformed into an art movement; but, caught in a surge of nationalism, Western-style painting came to be accepted only slowly.
It was not until after painters like Seiki Kuroda and Chu Asai, who had studied abroad and been influenced by new currents in Western European ant, returned home that the new movement really began to take shape. Groups such as the Meiji Art Society and the White Horse Society at first held own exhibits, but in the late 1880s their work was finally accepted for display at the government-sponsored exhibits along with those of more traditional artists.

Estudio sobre la introducción en el arte japones de corrientes occidentalizantes, en las ultimas décadas del siglo XIX. 

Harada, Minoru. Weatherhill-Shibundo (Tokyo) 1974
English.
143 páginas.

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