Search Results: Authors starting with U from Paul Brown Books

-Federico Motta (2009)-. 2009 edition. Texts in Italian and English. 384 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Paperback. Very good indeed. As much as status symbols as pieces of jewellery and miracles of new technology, the watches covered in this book make up a comprehensive history covering 200 years. This publication features wonderful pieces from the beginning of our century with chronology, brands, typologies, and technical elements; a rich bibliography and a useful glossary make this publication a wonderful source of reference. Orologi da polso (Wrist watches) 9788871795492

-Faber and Faber (2008)-. First edition first impression 2008. 162 pages. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. Words & Pictures explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; Hogarth and Fielding, a writer and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick, a poet and engraver working separately, but imbued with the spirit of their age. A brief coda turns to a fourth kind of relationship, the writers and artists who collaborate from the start, beginning with Dickens and Phiz. Illustrated throughout with a wide variety of examples, this is a book to pore over and enjoy. At turns moving and comic, this book illuminates a brilliant poet, an engraver, a writer and an artist, it touches on a peculiarly British tradition of community and defiance of authority, unmasking pretension and celebrating energy and warmth. The visions it considers link daily life to the universal, the passionate and… Read More

-Cambridge University Press (2015)-. First edition first impression 2015. Cloth. Near fine in dustjacket. Ask to see our other Science titles. Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin propose relies on three central ideas. There is only one universe at a time. Time is real: everything in the structure and regularities of nature changes sooner or later. Mathematics, which has trouble with time, is not the oracle of nature and the prophet of science; it is simply a tool with great power and immense limitations. The argument is readily accessible to… Read More

-BiblioBazaar (2009)-. Facsimile of the 1922 edition 2009. Paperback. Spine uncreased. Near fine. Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals. Volume I 9781113167385

-Hamish Hamilton (2007)-. First edition first impression 2007. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. This new collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, 'Everything Considered', in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English and American contemporaries; as well as non-fiction topics from the sinking of the Lusitania to Coco Chanel's 'unsinkable career'; tributes to legendary New Yorker figures, and much more Due Considerations 9780241143971

-Penguin (2013)-. First paperback edition first impression 2013. Paperback. Spine uncreased. Small laminate loss with removal of a sticker front cover (unnoticeable mainly). Very good indeed Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism 0241962269

-Andre Deutsch (1984)-. First edition first impression 1984. Cloth. Very good in dustjacket with minor edge-wear. The Witches of Eastwick Updike, John 0233976655

-Abbeville Press (19 Nov 1992)-. First edition. Illustrated. Cloth, a little tanned in places. Very good in edge-damaged dustjacket with sticker removal mark. This is the first biography of Joseph Urban designer of furniture, stage, opera and film sets, also interiors, decorative objects and buildings. He was a household name in his time and his reputation is now set for a revival. Born in Vienna in 1872, the multi-talented Urban was already enjoying a career in archiecture, stage design, and book illustration before he was brought to America in 1911 to do stage settings for the Boston Opera. By 1914 his highly regarded productions had caught the eye of impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who lured him away to design nearly all of his shows and Follies on through the 1920s. His lush stagecraft soon revolutionized all of American theatre design, attracting the attention of William Randolph Hearst, who enticed Urban into becoming artistic director for his Cosmopolitan movie studio, where he designed all of… Read More

-Interpet Publishing (1999)-. First English edition Interpet Publishing 1999. 158 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Pictorial boards. Near fine, no dustjacket issued. With booksellers small sticker to rear Fila Brasileiro 1902389182

-Paisnel Gallery (2001). Exhibition catalogue. 248x185mm 23 pages 15 paintings illustrated in color. Card covers. Very good indeed. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence. British Artist 20th Century Debbie Urquhart Exhibition Catalogues: Artists, 20th Century

-Kegan Paul International, 1994-. Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. First edition. xvi+334 pages with index. Cloth a little marked. Very good in like dustjacket. This international political economy study analyzes the international regime and outcome of hunger as well as their effects on the incidence of hunger. In doing so, it touches a large variety of other disciplines such as trade and development economics, demography,. international finance and rural society. Four issue areas that are globally upheld as solutions to the problem of world hunger are studied in detail. These are: family planning to diminish population growth and the number of people to be fed; food trade, to import food according to comparative advantage increase the total supply of food in developing countries; structural adjustment, to increase the efficiency of economy-wide resource allocation and stimulate food production; and food aid, to temporarily assist the developing countries in their economic… Read More