Pelican harmondsworth (883 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 221 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. A few scattered pencil marks. Browning. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. *** Arguably the best introductory survey on Neo-Classicism. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. xxiii, 161 pages, illustrations, 1 map; 20 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. *** "In Tilt, author Nicholas Shrady reveals how the campanile, or bell tower, in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli became the iconic Tower of Pisa. Even standing straight and true, the tower's marble and lime fa ade would be instantly recognizable the world over. Yet its distinctive tilt, which measured 1.6 degrees from vertical when construction was completed in 1370, has long been a mystery. Was it the result of shoddy workmanship or the brainchild of a hunchback maestro who skewed the tower to avenge his own condition? Nearly a millennium since its construction, the tower still stands (more than 4 meters -- or 5 degrees -- askew) in defiance of logic, gravity, and soaring odds -- a mute witness to history as it has unfolded. Envisioned as a display of wealth and power in Pisa's medieval heyday, the tower was revolutionary in its design. Architectural sleight of hand lent the campanile the appearance of weightlessness even as it supported seven colossal bronze bells. Technical achievements and rare beauty aside, it is the tower's glaring folly that has attracted legions of admirers and would-be saviors -- even as it alarmed engineers. In addition to having defied the known laws of physics, the tower's cylindrical masonry has concealed a storied past. Galileo was said to have launched his experiments on the velocity of falling bodies from atop its heights. Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and their Romantics frolicked in its listing shadow. Benito Mussolini tried to right the tower by ordering that cement be injected into its foundation. During World War II, the "Tiltin' Hilton" was a suspected enemy hideout and narrowly escaped being bombed. Following a $30 million stabilization and restoration effort lasting more than a decade and into the twenty-first century, Pisa's Leaning Tower has been preserved for the ages as an architectural marvel and a paragon of modern tourism. Tilt encapsulates the tower's singular history in a hugely entertaining and informative narrative, by turns learned and whimsical, reverent and surprising. Here is a 'biography' that, like its subject, is all the more delightful for its thorough improbability. It is a celebration of inspired vision and human machinations, of supreme ambition and spiritual enlightenment, of science and superstition, of faith and miracles. / Nicholas Shrady is the author of Sacred Roads: Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail. His articles have appeared in Architectural Digest, The New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, Forbes, and Town & Country. Since 1986, he has made his home in Barcelona. His wife, Eva Ortega, and his sons divide their time between Barcelona and their olive grove in the hills above the Ebro Delta." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. vii, 371 pages, [12] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. First published, London: Chatto & Windus, 2002. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. *** "In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the curved surface of vaults, which dominated the chapel's ceiling. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant, and he stormed away from Rome, risking Julius's wrath, only to be persuaded to eventually begin. Michelangelo would spend the next four years laboring over the vast ceiling. He executed hundreds of drawings, many of which are masterpieces in their own right. Contrary to legend, he and his assistants worked standing rather than on their backs, and after his years on the scaffold, Michelangelo suffered a bizarre form of eyestrain that made it impossible for him to read letters unless he held them at arm's length. Nonetheless, he produced one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, about which Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists, wrote, 'There is no other work to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be.' Ross King's fascinating new book tells the story of those four extraordinary years. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the pope's impatience, Michelangelo created figures depicting the Creation, the Fall, and the Flood - so beautiful that, when they were unveiled in 1512, they stunned his onlookers. / Born and raised in Canada, Ross King has lived in England since 1992. His writing career began in 1995 with the publication of a historical novel, Domino, about the world of masquerades and opera in 18th-century London. Its successor, Ex-Libris, was a novel about bookselling, codes and spies in 17th-century Europe. King is best known to American readers as the author of the nonfiction Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 527 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean text. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. Another copy available. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd. 274 pages, illustrations, facsimile, portrait; 20 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, expected browning. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st. 126 pages, [127] pages of plates, illustrations; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. First Printing. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 527 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Reprint, 1984. Tight, clean text. Wraps with light edgewear, age toning. Top edge lightly soiled. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1983, 1984 reprints. 292pp, 247pp. paperbacks: both volumes are in Good condition [texts age browned w/top & fore edge foxing; Volume 1 has a crease on back cover; else complete & tight] A standard history covering the Old Regime and Revolution and From the First Empire to the Second Empire by the English historian Cobban (1901-68).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1980 reprint. 432pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; edges are foxed, particularly the fore edge; else a complete & tight copy] A Marxist perspective on the Great Britain of the "fin de siecle" 1970s.

Paperback. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use, but this volume has passed through the hands of a college textbook store and has a "used" label at the lower backstrip and a bookstore stamp at the front endpaper and a price has been carelessly blacked out at the upper rear panel; else only mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; tiny, very faint creases at two of the corner tips; a former owner's name neatly penned at the upper corner of the front endpaper; two pages have been dog-eared at the upper corner; the binding is square and perfectly secure (the binding is sewn); the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive flaws - and of course the textbook company's marks. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.15 x 0.45 inches). 224 pages. 111 duotone illustrations. Cover illustration shows a detail from Donatello's "Cupid Atys". Language: English. Weight: 9.7 ounces. A Pelican Original. Style and Civilization Series. First Edition Thus (1967), Fourth Printing (1979). Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus (1967), Fourth Printing (1979).…

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 527 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. Another copy available. *** "With almost 4000 years of artistic evolution - from the Shang Dynasty to the end of the Ch'ing in this century - the Chinese boast a longer span of cultural history than any other race. The abiding influence of tradition is stressed by both authors. Confucian restraint and Taoist escapism, among other religious and philosophical ideals, are constantly re-appearing and the importance of Buddhism in Chinese architecture is evidenced in the text and illustrations. But side by side with the world of the mind, conditions of material prosperity are also revealed as potent forces in art." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 228 pages, a very good paperback [014021416X].

Mass-market paperback. Zustand: Very good. 464 p. illus. 18 cm. Pelican books, A904. Includes Illustrations. Bibliography: p. 432-[457] PB 52.

Reprint. Concise study of the processes of growing up. Bright tight clean unread copy. 259 pp, indexes, b/w photos & illus. VeryGood+ unmarked, no spine creases. MM paperback in glossy color-photo wraps.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1978 reprint. 324pp. illus. paperback: near Very Good [old store stamp inside front cover; text is age browned in the usual Penguin manner; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A well-received history.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Pelican #a-4 with some spine wear on ends.

Paperback. First Edition [1973], so stated. A paperback original. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows only former owner's name printed in ink at the top edte of the text block; the very lightest wear to the lower edge of the rear panel; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is leans but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Shows very mild wear and a few minor flaws, but remains a handsome copy: clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.15 x 4.35 x 0.65 inches). 256 pages. Weight: 6 ounces. Mass Market Paperback. Provides detailed chapters on sound, tone, vocabulary and syntax he shows how the words we choose and the way in which we present them can be varied and goes on the examine the cause and effect of these variations in a book which makes an introduction to this branch of linguistics. First Edition [1973], so stated. A paperback original.…

paperback. Zustand: fine copy, unread. reprint. trade pbk, photo-illus cover, w/ $5.95 listed at back; 496 pgs w/ 6-pg intro, bibliography, notes & index.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 311 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. *** CONTENTS: Historical summary; Pottery; Painting; Sculpture; Wood, Shell, Bone, and Ivory: Faience: Glass; Stone vases; Metal vases; Arms; Jewellery; Seals and gems. Size: 8vo.

First Edition. Light shelf wear to the wraps. Rubbing along the edge of the spine / spine creases. Original owner's name penned along the bottom edge of the pages. Title page has original owner's name penned. This is a solid copy and a interesting read.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good pre-owned paperback. • Clean pages with no highlighting or underlining found. • Previous owner's name written on front endpaper. • Original bookstore price sticker on front cover. • Light edge and corner wear from normal use. • Binding is solid and pages are secure. 1962 Pelican Books Ltd. reprint. Please see photos for the actual condition.…

paperback. Zustand: fine copy w/ uncreased spine. reprint. pocketsize pbk w/ turquoise borders; 122 pgs w/ index; author photo by Elwin Neame at back.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Light reading creases and shelf wear, some neat doodles to end papers, title page missing hence undated. ; Tables; 208 pages; A psychological study of the English schoolboy, arguing that personality counts for as much as ability in the student's choice of subject. Mass Market PB. …

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Twelfth Printing. Light reading creases and edge wear, marker pen initials to inside front cover, missing front endpaper. ; Nice tight flat copy. Cover design by Omnific. ; B&W Illustrations; 192 pages; In this sequel to "Know Your Own IQ", Eysenck responds to criticisms of his earlier work by providing five new tests of the standard type as a check. He also provides three specific tests which are designed to determine whether the reader shows more ability in verbal, numerical or visual-spatial terms. Mass Market PB.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Very Good softcover in Good DJ. Blue and white card covers with black and white letters. Bright, clean covers and spine; tightly bound; age darkening along text page edges; clean interior. DJ duplicates card covers; lightly scuffed with small chips and closed tears along edges. 12mo, 352 pp; index, biblio; illustrated.…

Paperback. Zustand: Average Minus. First Edition. . 463 pages. Paper browned.

Paperback. Zustand: Average. . 349 pages, paper somewhat browned.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Reprint; Fifteenth Printing. Corner crease to front cover, small sticker tear to rear cover, some shelf and edge wear, paper edge toned, some non text bookworm damage to top forecorner inside. ; Fifteenth printing of Pelican mass market edition, 1978. Good reading copy, no names inside. ; 288 pages; Parents no longer know when to say yes or no to their children. How to promote a child's mental health and full development so that discipline and freedom can be balanced. Mass Market PB.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Some cover creases and edge wear, original cover price ink obscurred, marker pen initials to inside front cover, missing front endpaper, title and contents page. ; Reading copy only. Cover photo by Bruce Rae. ; B&W Photographs; 128 pages; A moving picture of the complex situation of parents who have a mentally handicapped child. Seven case studies of families describing the way professions deal with the children's problems, but often neglect those of the parents. Mass Market PB.…