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Skycrapers have been making their mark on skylines for hundred of years, amazing casual viewers and experts alike. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Skyscrapers brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re-create them at home. With this handsome collector's kit, you'll be able to take your place(...)
Master Builder Skyscrapers: Build your own models of the world's most famous structures
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Skycrapers have been making their mark on skylines for hundred of years, amazing casual viewers and experts alike. In rich narrative and with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, Master Builder: Skyscrapers brings these remarkable landmarks to life, and then lets you re-create them at home. With this handsome collector's kit, you'll be able to take your place among the visionaries of architecture with your own feats of skyscraper construction!
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The big fish
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A little island inhabited by fishermen, the sun, the waves. The little boats quietly fish the high seas, but one day a big boat comes to steal all the fishes to the fishermen. The poor fishermen are desperate, till a frightening storm will abandon a big, big fish on the beach: onec more the nature has won... Aoi Huber-Kono writes and draws a tender and fascinating(...)
The big fish
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A little island inhabited by fishermen, the sun, the waves. The little boats quietly fish the high seas, but one day a big boat comes to steal all the fishes to the fishermen. The poor fishermen are desperate, till a frightening storm will abandon a big, big fish on the beach: onec more the nature has won... Aoi Huber-Kono writes and draws a tender and fascinating story, where the soft and winding stroke and non-conventional use of colours create a mysterious and bewitching atmosphere. The creative make-up by Max Huber, inspired by calligrammes, follows the waves’ rythm, the spaces and moves suggested by drawings, and generates emotions in the reader. “Il grande pesce”, published for the first time in 1968, it’s a book that continues to talk and touch contemporary children and adults.
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I numeri / numbers
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Just like "Colors", "Numbers" was originally published in 1945 too. Once again, its graphic refinement makes this book an art project in itself, much more than a mere children’s book. I count from zero to ten with the fingers and with abstract compositions made of coloured shapes scattered on a black background and black & white squares tidily ranged on a white(...)
I numeri / numbers
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Just like "Colors", "Numbers" was originally published in 1945 too. Once again, its graphic refinement makes this book an art project in itself, much more than a mere children’s book. I count from zero to ten with the fingers and with abstract compositions made of coloured shapes scattered on a black background and black & white squares tidily ranged on a white background. A journey from abstract to concrete that gradually reveals through the pages. Lastly, two pages of "abstract additions": number 10 is obtained with every possible combination of numbers by the use of colours. Luigi Veronesi (Milan, 1908-1998) always thought art as an instrument that involves all the aspects of the aesthetic experience, and investigated its relationship with the age of mechanization. Famous for his colour transpositions of music scores, he was a member of the MAC (Movement for Concrete Art) and one of the most “european” among Italian abstract painters. He also was one of the first authors to use photography in childrens’ books.
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I colori / colors
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Published for the first time in 1945, in the middle of Veronesi’s researches about abstract cinema and photography, the quality of its graphics and teaching aspects remains undimmed. In the first part of the book the three primary colours and their complementary are associated to everyday objects, while the second part, more suitable to Veronesi’s “abstract(...)
I colori / colors
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Published for the first time in 1945, in the middle of Veronesi’s researches about abstract cinema and photography, the quality of its graphics and teaching aspects remains undimmed. In the first part of the book the three primary colours and their complementary are associated to everyday objects, while the second part, more suitable to Veronesi’s “abstract rationalism”, is dedicated to overlapping colours, and creates pages that have become real painting masterpieces. Luigi Veronesi (Milan, 1908-1998) always thought art as an instrument that involves all the aspects of the aesthetic experience, and investigated its relationship with the age of mechanization. Famous for his colour transpositions of music scores, he was a member of the MAC (Movement for Concrete Art) and one of the most "european" among Italian abstract painters. He also was one of the first authors to use photography in childrens’ books.
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Le livre noir des couleurs
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Thomas ne voit pas les couleurs mais elles sont pour lui mille odeurs, bruits, émotions et saveurs. Dans l'obscurité de ses yeux, il nous invite à les regarder autrement...
Le livre noir des couleurs
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Thomas ne voit pas les couleurs mais elles sont pour lui mille odeurs, bruits, émotions et saveurs. Dans l'obscurité de ses yeux, il nous invite à les regarder autrement...
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Graines de cabanes
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Voilà. Cela fait longtemps que je prépare ce voyage. Depuis le jour où j'ai entendu parler des graines de cabanes. Des graines qu'il suffirait de planter et d'arroser pour voir une cabane pousser. Mes baggages sont bouclés depuis longtemps. Je suis prêt. Prêt à découvrir les cabanes du monde entier, à rassembler les graines les plus extraordinaires. Le voyage(...)
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January 1900, Paris
Graines de cabanes
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Voilà. Cela fait longtemps que je prépare ce voyage. Depuis le jour où j'ai entendu parler des graines de cabanes. Des graines qu'il suffirait de planter et d'arroser pour voir une cabane pousser. Mes baggages sont bouclés depuis longtemps. Je suis prêt. Prêt à découvrir les cabanes du monde entier, à rassembler les graines les plus extraordinaires. Le voyage peut commencer... Alphonse Cagibi
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Regarder le paysage
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C'est avec des images que nous avons appris à découvrir le paysage : avec la peinture et plus tard avec la photographie et le cinéma. En sorte qu'aujourd'hui nous vivons la tête pleine d'images de la Terre tout entière : nous habitons le monde à la fois en portant les yeux sur ce qui est proche de nous, à notre échelle ordinaire, mais aussi - grâce à la technique - sur(...)
Regarder le paysage
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C'est avec des images que nous avons appris à découvrir le paysage : avec la peinture et plus tard avec la photographie et le cinéma. En sorte qu'aujourd'hui nous vivons la tête pleine d'images de la Terre tout entière : nous habitons le monde à la fois en portant les yeux sur ce qui est proche de nous, à notre échelle ordinaire, mais aussi - grâce à la technique - sur une immensité, comme la Terre vue du ciel, qui provoque en nous de nouvelles émotions. Claude Eveno est urbaniste et écrivain. Il a publié des livres sur la ville et l'architecture, et il est professeur à l'Ecole nationale supérieure de la nature et du paysage.
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365 contes en ville
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Un conte par jour, chaque jour de l'année. Babel ou Babylone, Madrid ou Marrakech ? De Rome à Ségou, de Berlin à Pékin, chaque conte dans une ville comme un pochoir sur un mur... Peintures de Mosner.
365 contes en ville
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Un conte par jour, chaque jour de l'année. Babel ou Babylone, Madrid ou Marrakech ? De Rome à Ségou, de Berlin à Pékin, chaque conte dans une ville comme un pochoir sur un mur... Peintures de Mosner.
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Construction zone
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Hoban uses her hallmark clear, full-color photographs to introduce construction equipment. Each of the 13 machines presented is given a two-page spread, one picture taken at middle distance, the other close up. The final two pages match thumbnail photos with explanatory text, allowing parents or teachers to describe what each machine is doing.
Construction zone
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Hoban uses her hallmark clear, full-color photographs to introduce construction equipment. Each of the 13 machines presented is given a two-page spread, one picture taken at middle distance, the other close up. The final two pages match thumbnail photos with explanatory text, allowing parents or teachers to describe what each machine is doing.
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"The green dollhouse" celebrates the wonderful ideas produced by entrants to the Green dollhouse competition, sponsored by Sustainable San Mateo County in 2005. The book showcases the most compelling entrants and highlights the environmental features and lessons of each of these selected green dollhouses. Illustrated with full color photographs, the book also contains(...)
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August 2005, Kansas City
Green dollhouse : creating a doll's eyeview of a healthier world
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"The green dollhouse" celebrates the wonderful ideas produced by entrants to the Green dollhouse competition, sponsored by Sustainable San Mateo County in 2005. The book showcases the most compelling entrants and highlights the environmental features and lessons of each of these selected green dollhouses. Illustrated with full color photographs, the book also contains three how-to sections so that readers can build upon the lessons learned from other dollhouse builders. Useful facts and statistics on sustainability are threaded throughout the book so that child and adult alike can learn critical information on how our homes and offices can have smaller environmental footprints. Visually rich, this publication promises to provide a wonderful entrance into the world of Green building – through a doll’s eye perspective that reminds us to: start small, think big, build green.
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