The birthday present

Nunca, como nos nossos dias, se operaram tantas alterações no mundo da arte: alguns artistas continuam a laborar nos moldes tradicionais, e outros há que procuram novas vias de conhecimento e de comunicação. Cria-se, assim, uma cisão entre artistas continuadores de técnicas antigas e artistas...

Alfonso, the thoroughly likeable green magician, disappears and reappears in trunks and boxes. At the end he finally manages to play his violin in peace. Together with other eight albums, "The green conjurer" is part of the historic 1945 series created by Bruno Munari. He devised these lively boo...

Texto ilustrativo daquilo que é o design, de como funciona a lógica criativa dos designers e do uso que estes fazem das técnicas e dos materiais, esta é uma das principais obras de Munari....

Everybody knows who is Little Red Riding Hood, but perhaps anybody doesn't know the story of Little Green Riding Hood, Little Yellow Riding Hood and Little White Riding Hood, sent by their mother to take their grandmother a basket full of green, yellow, white eatings. The black wolf is waiting for t...

Uma introdução à arte de "saber projectar", sobretudo coisas que estão ao alcance de qualquer pessoa. A arte de resolver problemas que atormentam muita gente: como decorar a casa? Como aproveitar o espaço? Que materiais utilizar?...

Collection of British Authors. Selected, with an introduction, by William Sharp. Copyright edition. ...

Bernard Lewis gives us a rich overview of two thousand years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. We hear from Napoleon, St. Augustine, T. E. Lawrence, Karl Marx and Ibn Khaldun. We peer into Queen Elizabeth's business correspondence, strike oil with Freya Stark and follow the footsteps of M...

Shadow of the Silk Road records a journey along the greatest land route on earth. Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way b...

In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing ...

Limited edition, 100 numbered copies of a 200 total, this being numbered 16. ...