Wallpaper* City Guide Los Angeles

Author: Wallpaper*
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714879055
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The fast-track guide for the design-conscious traveller Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about the world’s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we’ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city’s landscape and the satisfaction you’ve seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer.

Wallpaper* City Guide Berlin

Author: Wallpaper*
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838661113
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Wallpaper City Guide: Athens

Author: Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714847153
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The fast-track guide for the smart traveller.

The Operetta Empire

Author: Micaela Baranello
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520379128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
"When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth‐century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.

Not Built in a Day

Author: George H. Sullivan
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780786717491
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
A unique, eye-opening guide to Rome, one of the world s most magnificent cities"

21st Century Tokyo

Author: Julian Worrall
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 4770030541
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tokyo has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking cities in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in its modern architecture. Authors and architects Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon, longtime residents of the city, have selected 83 outstanding examples of contemporary architecture, and introduce them, not just from an architectural perspective, but as part of the social, cultural, and political tapestry of the city. In addition to the monumental masterpieces of famous architects, "generic" buildings—from office blocks and convenience stores, to high-rise apartment towers—are also sprinkled throughout the book, creating a full and fascinating overview of the architectural landscape of the city. Each of the book's seven chapters covers a different geographical district of Tokyo; and each building is accompanied by a selection of stunning black-and-white photographs. Written in an accessible, conversational style, and including maps and access information for each building, this book will appeal to the layman as well as to the professional architect, the visitor to Tokyo as well as to the armchair traveler.

Blood Summit

Author: Robert Pimm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973196808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
More complex than Dan Brown. More thrilling than Le Carr�. Closer to the truth than either. Counter-terrorism expert Helen Gale has one job: to protect world leaders at a summit in the Berlin Reichstag. But terrorists take hostage presidents, prime ministers, one hundred innocent children - and Helen's journalist husband. Then the executions start. Helen's life implodes. Yet she alone can see the truth. As special forces plan a deadly assault, she must enter the shattered hulk of the Reichstag to stop a bloodbath. "Blood Summit is a cracker. Pimm has hit the ground running" - Matthew Parris "A scintillating take on tradecraft and statecraft" - Tom Fletcher "A rip-roaring romp of a thriller" - Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador to Germany and France

The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti

Author: Rafael Schacter
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300199422
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
DIVAn authoritative guide to the most significant artists, schools, and styles of street art and graffiti around the world/div

Street Art Guide Vienna--Volume 2

Author: Thomas Grötschnig
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783950471632
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description

The Hundred-year Walk

Author: Dawn Anahid MacKeen
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780544811942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize A New York Post Must-Read "Part family heirloom, part history lesson, The Hundred-Year Walk is an emotionally poignant work, powerfully imagined and expertly crafted."--Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance "This book reminds us that the way we treat strangers can ripple out in ways we will never know . . . MacKeen's excavation of the past reveals both uncomfortable and uplifting lessons about our present."--Ari Shapiro, NPR Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard from her mother how her grandfather Stepan miraculously escaped from the Turks during the Armenian genocide of 1915, when more than one million people--half the Armenian population--were killed. In The Hundred-Year Walk MacKeen alternates between Stepan's courageous account, drawn from his long-lost journals, and her own story as she attempts to retrace his steps, setting out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Dawn uses his journals to guide her to the places he was imperiled and imprisoned and the desert he crossed with only half a bottle of water. Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself. "I am in awe of what Dawn MacKeen has done here . . . Her sentences sing. Her research shines. Her readers will be rapt--and a lot smarter by the end."--Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion "Harrowing."--Us Weekly