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Una obra en la que se dan cita los libros de mayor relevancia histórica sobre la ciencia botánica y su impacto en la civilización. Con ayuda de hermosas ilustraciones, se narra la evolución de la botánica a través de libros y manuscritos fundamentales y se abordan los cambios de actitudes, enfoques, conocimientos y recursos a lo largo de los siglos. Partiendo de los antiguos conocimientos botánicos de Egipto, India, Grecia y China, así como el impacto de la ciencia islámica y el Renacimiento europeo, se pasa a examinar los herbarios ilustrados y la repercusión de la imprenta, el sistema de clasificación de Linneo, la «edad de oro» de la botánica en los siglos xviii y xix y su posterior transición a la fitología de vanguardia que se emplea hoy en la educación botánica moderna.

Desde la veneración de los antiguos egipcios por la acacia y el loto hasta el lenguaje victoriano de las flores y las obras de Vincent van Gogh y Georgia O'Keeffe, siempre hemos buscado sentido en la naturaleza. A menudo se ha atribuido un significado específico a ciertas plantas, y se ha relacionado con sus usos alimenticios o medicinales, sus asociaciones con santos y héroes o cualidades más abstractas o estéticas, como la resistencia, la belleza y la fuerza. Una guía, elegante y bellamente ilustrada que entreteje la botánica, la mitología, el folclore, los textos religiosos y siglos de arte y literatura para explorar el simbolismo cultural y los significados subyacentes de más de cincuenta plantas.

Una guía imprescindible para recorrer la historia del cine de DC. Descubre cómo los personajes, las localizaciones, el vestuario y las armas se han adaptado de las páginas a la pantalla y cómo han evolucionado a lo largo de las décadas. Algunos de los mejores actores del mundo, como Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix o Viola Davis han participado en muchas películas, algunos como superhéroes o supervillanos. Adéntrate en el fascinante mundo de las películas de DC y descubre datos poco conocidos mientras examinas impresionantes fotogramas, diseños de personajes, escenarios y guiones. ¡El libro que todo fan del cine de DC estaba esperando!

Explora los mundos de una galaxia muy muy lejana como no lo habías hecho nunca Con más de 60 intrincadas ilustraciones a todo color y mapas 3D, explora lugares icónicos que dan vida a la saga Star Wars. Esta edición actualizada ha sido completamente revisada e incluye las nuevas entregas de Star Wars junto a los cásicos: Los últimos Jedi, Star Wars: El ascenso de Skywalker, Rogue One: una historia de Star Wars, Han Solo: una historia de Star Wars, Star Wars: The Mandalorian y Star Wars: Andor. Adéntrate en más de 60 inmersivas secciones transversales de lugares icónicos de Star Wars. Compilado y escrito por expertos de Star Wars, este libro muestra fascinantes secretos sobre los mundos y escenarios de las películas y series de televisión.

Preserving and enhancing a property rich in narrative and natural beauty has been a twenty-year obsession for this property’s owner. Mavec has called upon a host of well-known garden luminaries to help preserve what began as a farm with a solitary stone house originally owned by the publisher of the Nancy Drew mysteries while making it functional, productive, and beautiful for the twenty-first century. Today, a series of individual gardens rest within a natural hollow surrounded by native woodland, including a broad gathering space defined by whimsical cloud-pruned boxwood hedges, groves of lilacs, and dogwoods and hellebores that entice visitors into early-season walks with delicate color each spring, a stone-walled vegetable and flower garden whose geometry is inspired by medieval monasteries, winding perennial-lined paths, orchards that produce over five hundred pounds of apples each fall, a natural pond brimming with aquatic plants, and an elliptical hillside meadow farmed for hay. All lead intuitively back to the “town square,” an open area tucked among the dwelling spaces featuring a broad ground-level fountain that clearly identifies it as the true heart of the farm.

Over two decades, William Curtis and Russell Windham have worked to show that classical architecture can embody the same attention to context and custom approach to design often ascribed to more modern movements, underscoring how versatile classical ideals and details can be. In styles reminiscent of the great Tudor manor houses of England to quaint symmetrical clapboard farmhouses, quintessentially Mission-style haciendas, and of course neo-Georgian mansions, the firm builds houses with a faithful adherence to historical detail, proportion, and materials that makes them stand out as truly world-class designers. With interiors as much a part of their core practice as exteriors, this firm is able to carry through an integrity of vision—graciously curved banisters, warm and inviting mantels, detailed brickwork, and coffered ceilings—that makes every project feel truly whole, complete. Yet a strong sense still pervades every featured home that they are organized to support modern lifestyles, taking the best of the past and adapting it to create homes that are truly comfortable and functional for today’s families.

Conceived by William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, and built between 1555 and 1587, Burghley House is a testament to the ambition and vision of the most powerful courtier of the first Elizabethan age. Designed by Cecil himself, in consultation with the Dutch Renaissance architect and painter Hans Vredeman de Vries, the architecture and interiors at Burghley reflect a mix of contemporary fashionable influences. The house’s facades are each markedly different, with a striking and ornate Gothic gatehouse beneath a roofline of cupolas and obelisks, and with French and Italian styles visible in the windows and pilasters. And inside, where the State Rooms house remarkable collections of furniture, textiles, and Old Master paintings acquired over the centuries, Cecil’s Gothic-style Old Kitchen remains alongside the magnificent Renaissance staircase and Italianate fireplace in the Great Hall.

A unique collection of photographs by Yuriko Takagi, showcasing her poetic and surrealist look at Dior haute couture creations. An important addition to the library of leading artistic photographers working to interpret the fashion house’s oeuvre. Takagi is an icon of Japanese photography, her enchanting and otherworldly images are built with a unique and careful consideration of shadows, the result of a career-long contemplation of natural light—a theme that plays a pivotal role in her work for Dior. This book features exclusive shootings by Takagi of the most emblematic Dior haute couture designs. Takagi delivers her personal reinterpretation of the essence of Dior, opening a profound dialogue between her artistic conception and the codes of the House. Her photographs capture an ephemeral, intangible quality of the subjects, and her signature technique of layering images, in this case of flowers and architectural motifs over toiles of dresses and models, creates a dreamlike atmosphere. The result is a collection of great poetry, a surrealist promenade through Dior’s eras, and a unique observation of the inventiveness of the House over the decades.

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan, this volume explores the deep and transformative relationship between Louis Vuitton and Japan, which has produced myriad innovative collaborations that have defined the brand and revolutionized contemporary fashion. This fresh perspective on the global impact of the luxury powerhouse follows Louis Vuitton’s journey from pioneering trunk innovations to its outsize influence on global street style, especially in Japan. In the volume, the Maison’s history comes to life, from the evolution of its Monogram logo (which took inspiration, in part, from Japanese design) to the ingenious flat stackable trunk and patented lock innovations, alongside the brand’s bold expansion into Japan. The authors consider the house’s groundbreaking artistic collaborations most notably with artists Takashi Murakami (with his iconic “Monogramouflage”) and Yayoi Kusama (with her signature polka-dot motifs) which transformed Louis Vuitton’s visual identity.

This panoramic collection showcases stadiums, venues, and pitches, from the quirky to the historic, covering both men’s and women’s leagues, professional to amateur, wherever the game is played with enthusiasm and great style. For those who love the sport, either from birthright or from newly kindled passion, there’s a distinct and beloved resonance and local character to each stadium. This is one of soccer’s great charms, and this book is a road map to a pilgrimage to 1000 arenas that anyone in love with the beautiful game would want to visit in person: some visionary and new, some ageing but iconic, some remote yet picturesque, some tumbledown, quirky yet historical and utterly lovable—but all with such genuine personality, the fans’ hearts beat a little faster to see a match there.