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Great Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers
Автор: Negri Paul Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20082007-05-16
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This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — includes such popular tales as Kafka's A Country Doctor, Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings, plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.
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Mucha Postcards
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2010 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20132012-05-06
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Alphonse Maria Mucha pioneered the use of Art Nouveau-style illustrations in commercial packaging, design, and ornament. These 12 color postcards reflect his predilection for women with flowing hair, flowers, jewels, and other images that add an otherworldly beauty to everyday products such as chocolate, bicycles, and liquor.
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Old Master Portrait Drawings
Автор: Spero James Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1990 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20091993-02-09
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Masterpieces of drawing from the great schools and traditions of Italy and northern Europe, spanning four centuries from Filippino Lippi, Andrea del Sarto, and Titian to Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Ingres. 47 plates.
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Ornament of the Italian Renaissance
Автор: Blakeslee Arthur L. Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2007 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20102010-09-27
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This title features grotesques from carved panels of choir stalls, tombstone and ceiling ornaments, pierced stone balcony panels, and more. This rich collection, assembled for a rare, early-20th-century publication, is a glorious gallery of architectural accents. It is the reprint of Ornamental Details of the Italian Renaissance, Architectural Book Publishing Co., New York, 1920.
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The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam
Автор: Adam Robert Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2006 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20082008-07-11
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One of the most celebrated books in architectural history, this volume consists of the Adam brothers' own selections of illustrations from their high-profile commissions. Dating from the 1770s, these 106 illustrated plates epitomize the style that influenced generations of British and American architectural and furniture designs.
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Treasury of Byzantine Ornament: 255 Motifs from St Mark's and Ravenna
Автор: Dehli Arne Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092010-08-31
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Decorative architectural elements derived from delicate line drawings of 6th and 7th-century Italian buildings and churches depict a wealth of interior and exterior adornments. Includes images of perforated marble panels, intricately fashioned stone grilles and cornices, and elaborate stone mosaics for floors and ceilings. A multipurpose reference for students, artists, and designers.
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Treasury of Ironwork Designs: 400 Examples from Historical Sources
Автор: Grafton Carol Belanger Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1992 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091993-12-20
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Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.
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Vintage Label Art (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Grafton Carol Belanger Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2007 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092009-10-11
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Miniature works of art, these old-fashioned labels beckoned consumers from cigars, fruit crates, wine bottles, and well-traveled luggage sets. This convenient collection features 270 unusual logos, trademarks, and advertisements in full color, promoting products from international luxury hotels to Duck Brand lemons, Wenoka apples, and Jack Daniel's whiskey.
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Favorite Jane Austen Novels
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092005-10-21
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Three of the author's most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style — brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the return of a once-rejected lover.
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Simplified Grammer of Arabic
Автор: Palmer E.H. Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092008-08-31
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With just a few hours of diligent study, this concise and practical book will enable students to analyze sentences in all 3 languages. Alphabets, numerals, verb parts, and tenses are given for each language, along with English equivalents, pronunciations, and explanations for forming compound words. Technical terms, arbitrary rules, and old classifications into declensions and conjugations are excluded.
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Medicinal and Food Plants: With 200 Illustrations for Artists and Craftspeople
Автор: Lehner Ernst Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2006 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20112008-07-21
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This fascinating reference offers a crisp pictorial record of foods found on our tables today that emerged thousands of years ago in faraway lands. Scores of rare woodcuts enhance intriguing anecdotes about the origins of grains and coffee, the odysseys of pineapples and peanuts, and the mysteries behind breadfruit, pomegranates, others.
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Geometric Themes and Variations: 4,300 Designs and Motifs
Автор: Serrano Miguel Angel Sanchez Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2008 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20102010-07-21
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In this amazing cache of designs, arresting displays of geometrics explode into thousands of fascinating variations. Each of 41 original black-and-white motifs is spun into three pages of adaptations, offering strikingly different variations on the original theme. More than 4,200 images form kaleidoscopic designs, optical illusions, and hypnotic abstracts.
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Full-Color Japanese Designs and Motifs
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2006 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20092009-09-27
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Dragons, tigers, cranes, peacocks, and peonies abound in this dazzling collection of popular Japanese motifs. So do other designs featuring flowers, plants, and animals. Geometric, abstract, and allover patterns are also included. More than 130 authentic illustrations serve as a wonderful source of inspiration for original design work.
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Medieval Life and People (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: LaCroix Paul Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2007 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092009-10-11
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Nobles, knights, serfs, and beggars — people from all walks of life populate the pages of this excellent archive. Derived from paintings, woodcuts, engravings, and other sources, these 283 black-and-white illustrations offer lively perspectives on the way people looked and dressed as well as their celebrations, ceremonies, work, and pastimes.
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Fantasy (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Shaffer Christy Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2006 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20082008-10-11
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Wily wizards in pointed hats, demonstrative dragons, the gentle unicorn and other figures from the realm of fantasy fill the pages of this versatile and virtually inexhaustible supply of easy-to-reproduce art. Dover Electronic Design series contains permission-free illustrations and designs for art, craft, business and educational use. Hundreds of designs scanned at 600 dpi and saved in the most popular formats; can be used for Mac and Windows. Each set contains CD-ROM and book with every image on the CD printed large for easy reference or direct use.
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Seguy's Art Deco Designs (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Seguy E.A. Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2006 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20082008-10-11
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From the Parisian studio of E. A. Seguy comes this dazzling portfolio of authentic Art Deco designs of the 1920s. This essential set gathers 152 full-color examples of the French artist's best and most beautiful work, featuring vivid floral patterns, exquisite butterflies, and colorful animal motifs originally designed for textiles and wallpaper.
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Volpone
Автор: Jonson Ben Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091995-12-20
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Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances who hope to inherit his fortune. Many complexities of plot and connivance ensue, but in the end, the guilty parties are exposed and punished. Explanatory footnotes.
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French Stories
Автор: Fowlie Wallace Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1991 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20091992-12-13
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10 unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: Micromegas, by Voltaire; The Atheist's Mass, by Balzac; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler, by Flaubert; Spleen of Paris, by Baudelaire; Minuet, by de Maupassant; The Guest, by Camus; and more. Accurate English translations appear on facing pages.
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White Heron and Other Stories
Автор: Jewett Sarah Orne Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1999 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092002-09-20
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A celebration of the past in stories dealing with female friendships and tales that portray the resilience with which her female characters respond to poverty. Includes The Town Poor, Miss Peck's Promotion, The Passing of Sister Barsett, The Denham Ladies, Miss Tempy's Watchers, and 5 more.
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Ready-to-Use Small Frames in the Art Nouveau Style: 227 Different Copyright-Free Designs Printed One Side
Автор: Solo Dan X. Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1995 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20091996-12-26
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Add Art Nouveau flair to any graphic project with the beautifully rendered royalty-free designs in this collection. Sinuous, organic shapes are perfect for highlighting announcements, catalog copy, advertisements, more. Also included is a selection of miscellaneous cuts and sections of frames useful as spots, tailpieces and other decorative elements.
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