2017
The Package Design Book
80,00 ₾As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Each year, the Pentawards celebrate the underrated art of package design by recognizing the most influential pieces from around the world. Featuring hundreds of works and with key pieces described in detail, this book brings together the lucky winners to celebrate the vivid creativity of packaging in its every form.
1000 Chairs
80,00 ₾Sit back, relax, and survey some of the most iconic chairs in history. A must for design addicts and collectors alike, this dependable compendium presents each chair alongside essential information about the designer and their work, from Alvar Aalto to Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style. This recently refurbished edition traverses archetypal seats of the 1800s right up to the most innovative designs of today.
100 Contemporary Wood Buildings
80,00 ₾Travel the world to investigate one of the greatest renaissances in architecture: wood. How has this elemental material come to steal the show at luxury hot spring structures and cutting-edge urban renewal schemes? With 100 projects from China, Chile, and everywhere in between, this global survey explores the technical, environmental, and sensory elements that have inspired a return to timber.
Schiele
58,00 ₾Radical and all-revealing figures
With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the 20th century.
Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more gritty and confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, and mannered, elongated figures. His prolific portraits and self-portraits stunned the Viennese establishment with an unprecedented psychological and sexual intensity, favoring erotic, exposing, or unsettling poses in which he or his sitters cower on the floor, languish with legs akimbo, glower at the viewer, and thrust their genitalia into the foreground. His models are at times skeletal and sickly, at other times strong and sensual.
Many contemporaries found Schiele’s work to be not only ugly but morally objectionable; in 1912, the artist was briefly imprisoned for obscenity. Today, his oeuvre is celebrated for its revolutionary approach to the human figure and for its direct and particularly fervent, almost furious brand of draftsmanship. This book presents key Schiele works to introduce his short but urgent career and his profound contribution to the development of modern art, which reaches right through to such contemporary talents as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville.
Human Genetics: The Basics
72,00 ₾Human genetics has blossomed from an obscure biological science and explanation for rare disorders to a field that is profoundly altering health care for everyone. This thoroughly updated new edition of Human Genetics: The Basics provides a concise background of gene structure and function through the lens of real examples. from families living with inherited diseases to population-wide efforts in which millions of average people are learning about their genetic selves. The book raises compelling issues concerning:
• The role of genes in maintaining health and explaining sickness
• Genetic testing. gene therapy. and genome editing
• The common ancestry of all humanity and how we are affecting our future.
Written in an engaging. narrative manner. this concise introduction is an ideal starting point for anyone who wants to know more about genes. DNA. genomes. and the genetic ties that bind us all.
Five Children & It
22,00 ₾Digging in the gravel pit on a hot summer’s day, five children discover ‘it’: a grumpy creature with eyes like a snail’s, ears like a bat’s, and a tubby body all covered in fur. ‘It’ is a Psammead, an ancient sand-fairy who has the power to grant the children one wish a day.
That, you might think, would be a dream come true! But you need to be very careful what you wish for: whether it’s for wings, treasure or beauty, things can – and often will – go wrong.
მოგზაურობა საქართველოში
60,00 ₾ამ ორენოვან წიგნში შესულია სერგო ედიშერაშვილის ნამუშევრები, რომელიც წარმოგვიჩენს საქართველოს მრავალმხრივ და ულამაზეს ბუნებას, კულტურას და საქართველოს სხვადასხვა კუთხის მაცხოვრებლებს.
Территория войны
30,00 ₾Революция на Кубе. Кровавый военный переворот в Чили. Падение — одного за другим — авторитарных режимов и диктатур в странах Латинской Америки. Отчаянные — не на жизнь, а на смерть в прямом смысле слова — войны полиции с наркокартелями. Трудно себе представить, насколько бурной выдалась вторая половина XX века для стран и континентов “третьего мира” — особенно для страстной, неистовой, экзотической Южной Америки, никогда не признававшей полутонов ни в любви, ни в ненависти.
Собранные в этой книге статьи, эссе и интервью Маркеса — не сухая хроника событий, а темпераментные, экспрессивные, субъективные и живые воспоминания человека, который лично участвовал в происходящих событиях, дружил с Фиделем Кастро и символом мировой революции — команданте Че Геварой, лично пережил боль изгнания с родины и едва ли не буквально воплотил в собственной судьбе судьбу всей Латинской Америки.
Среди Овец и Козлиш
31,00 ₾Жаркое лето 1976 года. Тихая улица маленького английского городка, где все друг друга знают. Внезапно размеренную жизнь нарушает шокирующее событие – одна из жительниц, миссис Кризи, пропадает… Полиция оказывается бессильна, и две десятилетние подружки, Грейс и Тилли, решают, что только они могут найти исчезнувшую, ведь у них есть отличный план. Они слышали слова местного священника, что если среди нас есть Бог, то никто не будет потерян, а значит, надо всего лишь пройтись по всем домам и выяснить, в каком именно живет Бог. И тогда миссис Кризи точно вернется. Так начинается их путешествие в мир взрослых… Оказывается, что не все так просто на этой залитой солнцем улице. За высокими заборами, закрытыми дверями и задернутыми шторами хранятся свои секреты. И где-то там, среди этих пересекающихся историй местных жителей, скрывается общая тайна, которую все они хотят забыть… • Новый роман для поклонников Донны Тартт и Харпер Ли! • Умная и пронзительная история о секретах за каждой дверью. • Ни один забор не может быть так высок, чтобы нельзя было заглянуть во двор. А в любой двери обязательно найдутся щели. И значит, все тайное однажды станет явным…
Sanity, Madness and the Family
66,00 ₾In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven vivid case studies, often dramatic and disturbing, reveal patterns of affection and fear, manipulation and indifference within the family. But it was the conclusions they drew from their research that caused such controversy: they suggest that some forms of mental disorder are only comprehensible within their social and family contexts; their symptoms the manifestations of people struggling to live in untenable situations.
Sanity, Madness and the Family was met with widespread hostility by the psychiatric profession on its first publication, where the prevailing view was to treat psychosis as a medical problem to be solved. Yet it has done a great deal to draw attention to the complex and contested nature of psychosis. Above all, Laing and Esterson thought that if you understood the patient’s world their apparent madness would become socially intelligible.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Hilary Mantel.
Stone Age Economics
65,00 ₾Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins’s Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original “affluent society.”
Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies, domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large, Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour, in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes, controversially, that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may actually have been better, healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern industrialisation and agriculture.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber, London School of Economics.
Logic: The Basics
72,00 ₾Logic: The Basics is an accessible introduction to several core areas of logic. The first part of the book features a self-contained introduction to the standard topics in classical logic. such as:
· mathematical preliminaries
· propositional logic
· quantified logic (first monadic. then polyadic)
· English and standard ‘symbolic translations’
· tableau procedures.
Alongside comprehensive coverage of the standard topics. this thoroughly revised second edition also introduces several philosophically important nonclassical logics. free logics. and modal logics. and gives the reader an idea of how they can take their knowledge further. With its wealth of exercises (solutions available in the encyclopedic online supplement). Logic: The Basics is a useful textbook for courses ranging from the introductory level to the early graduate level. and also as a reference for students and researchers in philosophical logic.
Discourse: The Basics
72,00 ₾Humans are social animals and are constantly interacting with each other through conversation. written communication. symbols and other expressions . Discourse: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the analysis of those interactions and the many forms and meanings they can take. The book draws on a range of international case studies and examples from literature. political speech. advertising and newspaper articles to address key questions such as:
What is discourse?
Why are there different approaches to understanding discourse?
How are individual interactions connected with the larger discourses that frame our ways of thinking and behaving?
How can discourse be analysed and researched?
Discourse: The Basics includes subject summaries. a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading. It will be of particular relevance to students of language and the social sciences but also useful to all students who are interested in how meanings are made.
Criminology: The Basics
72,00 ₾Criminology is a discipline that is constituted by its subject matter rather than being bound by an agreed set of concepts or way of thinking. This fully updated third edition of Criminology: The Basics is a lively and engaging guide to this compelling and complex subject. Topics covered include:
the history and development of criminology
myths about crime and offenders
the search for criminological explanation
victims of crime and state crime
crime prevention. cybercrime. and the future of crime control
criminology and intersectionality
This edition also includes new sections on genocide. terrorism. cultural victimology. and Westo-centric thinking.
Concise and accessible. this book utilises chapter summaries. exercise questions and lists of further reading to provide a perfect introduction to this subject.
Go Lean Vegan
25,00 ₾his revolutionary step-by-step 30-day diet plan will help you lose weight and start feeling better fast – while eating delicious, satisfying plant-based foods (and absolutely no calorie counting). Carefully developed by award-winning nutritionist and chef Christine Bailey, including nutritionally balanced, gluten-free and delicious recipes, this easy-to-follow, protein-rich vegan weight-loss programme will get the results you want and keep you healthy and energised. Whether you are looking to lose a few pounds or seeking a new way of eating to boost energy, Go Lean Vegan will provide you with all the nutritional principles you need for a vibrant, healthy life. Including nutritionally balanced recipes such as the Coconut Quinoa Bowl with Berries, Grab & Go Protein Raw Protein Bars, Courgette Carbonara and Orange Chocolate Pots, the Go Lean Vegan diet plan will get you in shape quickly, boost your vitality and overall wellbeing without cutting out the foods you love. You’ll be astounded at how amazing you look and feel in just 30 days!
Orion Plain & Simple: Wicca
25,00 ₾A practical beginner’s guide to Wicca, its traditions, spells and rituals.
An accessible, contemporary approach to Wicca, also known as witchcraft, this book shows you how to use it as a healing and positive force. Practice magic with tarot cards, agents, and pendulums; cast love, health, wealth, family happiness, and career spells; and discover which herbs are beneficial when conducting spells and rituals.
Leanna Greenaway and Judika Illes make these life-affirming, ancient Wiccan traditions meaningful and accessible to us today by providing a basic understanding of the key elements of Wiccan practice, including:
· Lunar magic
· Initiation
· Herbs and gardens
· Pendulum power
· Animal magic
Wicca, Orion Plain and Simple also includes over 25 spells for beginners that range from fertility spells and money spells, to love spells and much more.