Critically acclaimed author Pericoli pens an all-true story of how he and his wife, Holly, came to rescue and raise a little finch, Stellina, who had fallen from her nest onto a busy street. There, in a Manhattan apartment, Stellina leaned how to eat, fly, and sing. Illustrations.
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso , Boiardo's chivalric tale dating from the 1480s, first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in Italy. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of Angelica through a fairyland that combines the military valours of Charlemagne's crusaders with the ...
Italian architect and artist Matteo Pericoli drew two meticulous 37-foot scrolls of Manhattan for his adult book MANHATTAN UNFURLED. He offers a children's version here. The innovative binding is structured to open in two different directions to display the West Side and East Side. The enormously detailed pen-and-ink drawings of the buildings are ...
"Gamescenes" is a book about Game Art. Game Art is any art in which digital games played a significant role in the creation, production, and/or displayed of the artwork. How can artists make art with videogames? Todd Deutsch takes pictures of game players during exhausting contests; Tobias Bernstrup creates music performances and invents fabulous ...
From the moment Giovanni da Verrazzano first spied it in 1524, Staten Island has been recognized as a verdant oasis at the mouth of one of the world's most breathtaking natural harbors. Since that time, Staten Island has evolved from a hunting ground and farming community to one of suburban homes and small businesses. People have been drawn to the ...
This publication on Spanish dance includes: photographs and art reproductions that effectively illustrate points that are made in the text, a bibliography of more than 250 works, the basic rhythms and melodic lines for fifteen flamenco dances, and an index.
A surprising and visionary work by architect and artist Pericoli renders Manhattan's skyline as viewed from within Central Park. Full-color illustrations throughout. 24-foot continuous single folded sheet.
The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, "Against Method," stemmed from Imre Lakatos's challenge: "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. "Paul", he said, "you have such strange ideas. Why don't you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you - we shall have a lot of fun." ...
Famed artist and illustrator Matteo Pericoli has created a massive mural in the American Airlines terminal of JFK airport in New York. Featuring a panorama of famous buildings from cities around the globe, the mural pays tribute to architectural genius of all stripes. Our distinctive accordion-fold-format book contains the mural in its entirety on ...
All of the examples included here are flexible spaces that can evolve according to the needs of the people occupying them. In a sense, loft architecture is often a way of taking advantage of limited surfaces. Through practical tests, useful drawings, and numerous illustrations, the reader will understand how small areas can offer a spacious feel.
New manufacturing technologies have made possible the integration of entire systems on a single chip. This new design paradigm, termed system-on-chip (SOC), together with its associated manufacturing problems, represents a real challenge for designers. SOC is also reshaping approaches to test and validation activities. These are beginning to ...
This authoritative book offers a detailed overview of present and future tissue engineering approaches and their contribution to regenerative medicine. It combines comprehensive reviews of the biology and materials science underlying the development and regeneration of different types of tissues with descriptions of current and future strategies ...
Following the success of its predecessor, Proud 2be a Flyer, Proud 2be a Sticker now celebrates the humble decal and it's use as the badge of choice for a host of independent artists and producers... Full colour examples are featured from the vaults of underground giants such as Stussy, Fresh Jive, Fuct, Hysteric Glamour, X-Large, SSUR, Futura Lab ...
This book is a comprehensive survey of most of the theoretical and experimental achievements in the field of quantum estimation of states and operations. Albeit still quite young, this field has already been recognized as a necessary tool for research in quantum optics and quantum information, beyond being a fascinating subject in its own right ...
The science of complex materials continues to engage researchers from a vast range of disciplines, including physics, mathematics, computational science, and virtually all domains of engineering. This volume presents a unique multidisciplinary panorama of the current research in complex materials. The contributions explore an array of problems ...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the main international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 12 revised full papers presented ...
Bob Dylan is an icon of twentieth century culture -- songwriter, musician, and social conscience. In addition to helping to popularize the folk music movement, he has strongly shaped rock and roll through his influence on such other musicians as varied as The Beatles. Jimi Hendrix, and Bruce Springsteen, and his songs have been covered by numerous ...
Profiles one of Europes most exciting and innovative architecture practices, Denmarks 3XN. Key to their success has been the immense importance they place oninvestigating and interpreting the historical and cultural context of the site of each new project.
As with the first in the series, this close-up of contemporary domestic architecture in the USA focuses on a select group of living units, and analyzes each one's various aspects of function, distribution, composition and visual impact, with an eye also to each home's rapport with its surroundings. This rich selection of new designs for single ...
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