Editore: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0500342733 ISBN 13: 9780500342732
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on the success of XS series, Nano House presents 43 examples the most innovative, most ingenious and most responsible designs for small-scale (less than 75m2) houses set in a variety of contexts. Each house, shown in texts, photographs and plans, is an object lesson in domestic design. Using digital tools, sustainable materials and new prefabrication technologies, all these projects offer exciting and realistic solutions for houses where space is at a premium, nature must be preserved or accommodation created for those who need it most.
Editore: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0500515980 ISBN 13: 9780500515983
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Spectacular, mysterious, elegant or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of evolution. Evolution in Action, a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time. In this sublime mosaic of photographs and text, evolutionary biologist Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu and photographer Patrick Gries explore the skeletal record, showing through words and images the defining mechanics of all living vertebrates, including human beings.Here is a powerful pairing: two hundred stark black-and-white photographs produced by Patrick Gries in collaboration with the Museum of Natural History in Paris are accompanied by text from scientist and documentarian Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu. The result is a revealing collection that profoundly illustrates the key themes of evolution - homology, convergence, adaptation, polymorphism and more.Now updated and presented in a smaller format with fifteen new gorgeous photographs, Evolution in Action steps beyond the debate and presents the undeniable truth of Darwin's theory, showing through skeletons both obscure and commonplace, but always intriguing, the process by which life has transformed itself, again and again.
Editore: Thames & Hudson Ltd Sep 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 050054395X ISBN 13: 9780500543955
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A collection of photographs that reflects the surreal vision of the New York collector W M Hunt. It presents a catalogue of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subject conceal, not by what the camera reveals.