Ten unusual stories: ""Micromégas"" by Voltaire; ""The Atheist's Mass"" by Balzac; ""The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler"" by Flaubert; ""Spleen of Paris"" by Baudelaire; and more. English translations appear on facing pages.
Trotsky was among the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution, but within a decade he had been forced into exile by Stalin. In this blistering indictment of Stalin's political... Læs mere
Fairies never fail to engage the imagination, and this colouring book promises to please everyone! Twenty-three magical scenes feature fairies surrounded by flowers, butterflies, and friendly woodland creatures.
A collection of eighty-three fairy tales and folk tales from Wales, including The Lady of the Lake, The Fairy Harp, Pennard Castle, and The Stray Cow.
An inspiring sourcebook, this guide helps artists discover a wide variety of subjects and ideas for their next sketch. More than 140 of the author's drawings illustrate nostalgic scenes, old engravings, atmospheric effects, photographs, and landscapes.
This accessible approach to set theory for upper-level undergraduates poses rigorous but simple arguments. Topics include classes and sets, functions, natural and cardinal numbers, arithmetic of ordinal numbers, more. 1971 edition with new material by the author.
Classic overview for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics explores affine and projective geometry, symplectic and orthogonal geometry, general linear group, and structure of symplectic and orthogonal groups. 1957 edition.
Picture yourself in a panorama of giant flowers, mushroom-shaped houses, grinning suns and snoozing moons, with spaceships soaring between the stars. Thirty-one detailed scenes of fantasy landscapes offer scope for imagination.
From a celestial angel posed against a background of planets and stars to angels representing each of the four seasons, these 31 illustrations will captivate colorists with their originality and stunning details.
These 31 full-page illustrations portray horses as symbols of beauty, romance, and freedom. Horses with flowing manes run through fields of wildflowers, along the shore, and in other idyllic settings.
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
One hundred plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements.