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Gianni Giansanti, Paolo Novaresio
Vanishing Africa: A Photographer`s Journey

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A dead branch of the Rift Valley, worn hills and plains beaten by the relentless sun, this is the region that spreads around the valley of the Omo River. The wild and remote southern region of Ethiopia only appeared on maps little over a century ago when the first European explorers discovered there a mosaic of ethnic groups. These are peoples that have remained isolated for centuries and that have retained their cultures and customs intact to the present day-peoples like the Surma, Mursi, Karo and many more. By examining a region in the heart of the Black Continent, the book attempts to trace the roots of remotest Africa: the cradle of man, where ancestral bonds with nature still exist. By means of his camera and his pen, in this book the authors have encapsulated long years of study of the peoples and ethnic groups of this continent, in search of vanishing Africa. [detailed...]

ISBN: 8854400068
Book size: —; Page extent: 504.

 

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John Annerino
Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S.-Mexico Border

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: John Annerino, famed photographer of the Amerian Southwest, portrays the astonishing beauty of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and contrasts those with images of the conflict that threatens to destroy them.These 1,956 miles through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California on the U.S. side and Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California Norte on Mexico`s side are the beautiful, rugged, blood-stained borderlands that once lured conquistadors, missionaries, scalp hunters, bandits, smugglers, pioneers, and colonists from Spain, Mexico, and the United States.Annerino canoed the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte through the legendary Big Bend Frontier, walked treacherous immigrant trails like Arizona`s Camino del Diablo (Road of the Devil), explored borderlands jaguar country on foot, and came to know the resilient people who live, work, and cling to the traditions on both sides of the border. Along the way he chronicled his perilous journeys through this `geography of chaos,`… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0881507172
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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Michael Kluckner
Vanishing British Columbia

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThe old buildings and historic places of British Columbia form a kind of `roadside memory,` a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of Western history. More than a decade ago, Michael Kluckner began painting these dots on his personal map of the province in a watercolor sketchbook. With small towns declining and old rural properties changing, so little of the history of these places has been recorded in museums or archives, and so much of it may disappear `within a heartbeat` as families disperse and memories dim. After he put a few of the sketches onto his web site, a network of correspondents emerged that eventually led him to the family letters, photo albums, and memories from a disappearing era. Vanishing British Columbia is a record of these places and the stories they tell, and an argument for stewardship of regional history in the face of urbanization and globalization. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0295984937
Book size: —; Page extent: 223.

 

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Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945

— y.
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ISBN: 0674931998
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Vanishing Growth in Latin America: The Late Twentieth Century Experience

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990s failed to bring sustained growth to most of Latin America. AndrA©s Solimano and an impressive set of contributors analyze the last 40 years in order to determine the role of economic reforms, external conditions, factor accumulation, income inequality, political instability and productivity in explaining GDP increases. The book also looks at cycles of growth, identifying periods of rapid growth and contrasting them with periods of stagnation and collapse. [detailed...]

ISBN: 184542431X
Book size: —; Page extent: 245.

 

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Andrea Fredericksen
Vanishing Point : The Perspective Drawings of J.M.W. Turner

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionOver a period of 30 years, J.M.W. Turner taught perspective to the students of the Royal Academy in London. To aid him in his lectures he produced a portfolio of striking diagrams in red and black watercolor on paper, demonstrating various artistic and critical theories on perspective. A selection of these extraordinary works, long held in the Turner archives at Tate and catalogued by John Ruskin, is published here for the first time, accompanied by an incisive and accessible essay by Turner scholar Andrea Fredericksen. AUTHOR BIO: Andrea Fredericksen has recently finished cataloguing J.M.W. Turner`s perspective drawings in Tate`s Turner Bequest. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1854375687
Book size: —; Page extent: 40.

 

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David Markson
Vanishing Point

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionIn the literary world, there is little that can match the excitement of opening a new book by David Markson. From Wittgenstein`s Mistress to Reader`s Block to Springer`s Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readersfor decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as `Author`) sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a novel - and in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative life - all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughout - until he is swept inevitably into the narrative`s startling and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter both - and of extraordinary intellectual richness. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1593760108
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Milton E. Brener
Vanishing Points: Three Dimensional Perspective in Art and History

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis book traces the history of three dimensional perspective in art from prehistoric and ancient times, during which the portrayal of depth was practically nonexistent, through its early development by the Greeks and Romans, its virtual disappearance in the Middle Ages, and its re-emergence and perfection in the Renaissance. The book also examines the role of the right cerebral hemisphere in appreciation of aesthetics and particularly of three dimensional art. It further points to similar human attributes that have risen and declined in tandem with the use of perspective, and which are also mediated by the right hemisphere: expressiveness of the human face, use of metaphor, love of the grand panoramas of nature, and the sense of self. The book considers not only the role of three-dimensional art in the rise of landscape painting, but also its contribution to the admiration and investigation of nature and the rise of the scientific age. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0786418540
Book size: —; Page extent: 215.

 

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Susan R. Playfair
Vanishing Species: Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Vanishing Species chronicles the fate of groundfishing in New England waters since the Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) was enacted in 1996, causing increasingly strict regulations to be placed on the harvesting of fourteen species of edible fish. The SFA mandates that within a ten-year period, the stocks of these fish were to be brought up to levels prescribed by the government. To achieve this goal, strict regulations were put in place to limit net size, how many fish were caught, and the number of days fishermen could spend at sea. The SFA and regulations like it govern how, when, and where fishermen may fish. Since its inception, the SFA has been a fulcrum for escalating tensions between environmentalists, who argue that the mandates of the SFA are being ignored, and fishermen and their families, whose existence has come to depend on how government employees and a federal judge interpret the SFA. Although some scientists and environmentalists believe the fish stocks… [detailed...]

ISBN: 158465452X
Book size: —; Page extent: 292.

 

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Susan R. Playfair
Vanishing Species: Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fishermen

— y.
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Description: The story of the ongoing debate between the New England communities of fishermen, federal regulators, scientists and environmentalists. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1584653183
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Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine
Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World`s Languages

— y.
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Description: Few people know that nearly 100 native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia`s 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world`s languages may die out in the next century. What has happened to these voices? Should we be alarmed about the disappearance of linguistic diversity? The authors of Vanishing Voices assert that this trend is far more than simply disturbing. Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction of languages is part of the larger picture of near-total collapse of the worldwide ecosystem. Indeed, the authors contend that the struggle to preserve precious environmental resources-such as therainforest-cannot be separated from the struggle to maintain diverse cultures, and that the causes of language death, like that of ecological destruction, lie at the intersection of ecology and politics. And while Nettle and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0195136241
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Fredrik Granath
Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 0081099464
Book size: —; Page extent: 264.

 

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Vanitas: Designs

1994 y.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Description: This work presents 300 of Versace`s highly colourful designs in the world of haute couture since 1982. It follows on from his `Signatures`, published in 1992. Versace`s designs encompass the theatrical, the whimsical, the playful and the elegant. Hamish Bowles supplies the commentary. Формат: 25 см x 33,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-55859-804-9
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Stuart Clark
Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Vanities of the Eye investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe, a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was the focus of much debate. In medicine, art theory, science, religion, and philosophy, sight came to be characterized as uncertain or paradoxical--mental images no longer resembled the external world. Was seeing really believing? Stuart Clark explores the controversial debates of the time--from the fantasies and hallucinations of melancholia, to the illusions of magic, art, demonic deceptions, and witchcraft. The truth and function of religious images and the authenticity of miracles and visions were also questioned with new vigor, affecting such contemporary works as Macbeth-- a play deeply concerned with the dangers of visual illusion. Clark also contends that there was a close connection between these debates and the ways in which philosophers such as Descartes and Hobbes developed new theories on the relationship between the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199541604
Book size: —; Page extent: 428.

 

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair (+ CD)

2009 y.
Publisher: Mary Glasgow Magazines, Scholastic Ltd.
Description: The classic by William Thackeray. `If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.` Формат: 13 см x 20 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-905-77564-4
Book size: —; Page extent: 88.

 

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William Thackeray
Vanity Fair (подарочное издание)

2006 y.
Publisher: CRW Publishing Limited
Description: Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Vanity Fair is among the richest and most entertaining of novels, a sparkling and witty story of English society during the Napoleonic Wars. A piercing satire of the Victorian middle classes, it was hugely popular from the moment of its first publication in 1847. The narrative follows two contrasting young women, the flighty and enterprising Becky Sharp and her more upright counterpart Amelia Sedley. Their adventures take them from Miss Pinkerton`s Academy in Chiswick to the glamour of high society in both London and Paris. Along the way, Thackeray treats the reader to `a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting` together with `cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling`. The result is one of the true classics of nineteenth-century literature. Формат: 10 см x 15,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-904919-95-7
Book size: —; Page extent: 808.

 

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Grandon Carter
Vanity Fair Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images

2008 y.
Publisher: National Portrait Galery
Description: From Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino, `Vanity Fair`, `The Portraits` celebrates 95 years of photographic history, with classic images commissioned and published first in the pages of `Vanity Fair`. These portraits have become, and continue to convey, the iconic likenesses of the best-known figures from the worlds of art, film, music, sports, business and politics. `Vanity Fair: The Portraits` traces the cultural history of the 20th century and its leading personalities in the pages of a magazine that helped usher in the modern age and which has itself become a benchmark of modern achievement. This book brings together more than 300 photographs from the two incarnations of `Vanity Fair` and offers an authoritative roster of fame, talent, and glamour. The first era-from 1913 to 1936-is dominated by figures from the Jazz Age and covers subjects drawn from art, dance, music, film, and world affairs, including luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, Amelia… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-185514-392-0
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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Carter, G,Friend, D
Vanity Fair Portraits

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 9783829604000
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair. Volume one

2006 y.
Publisher: АСТ, Астрель
Description: Неадаптированное издание на языке оригинала. [detailed...]

ISBN: 5-17-032882-6, 5-17013738-9, 5-271-10945-3, 5-271-12447-9
Book size: 60x50/12; Page extent: 456.

 

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair. Volume two. Неадаптированные издания на языке оригинала

2006 y.
Publisher: Астрель, АСТ
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ISBN: 5-17-032883-4, 5-17-013738-9, 5-271-12462-2, 5-271-12447-9
Book size: 60x50/12; Page extent: 454.

 

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Mira Nair
Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray`s Timeless Novel to the Screen (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description The full-color companion to the new film version of the Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mira Nair ( Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay! ). Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, one of the greatest female characters ever created. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820, alongside her best friend Amelia. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles?military and domestic?are fought, fortunes made and lost. In addition to the complete screenplay by Oscar®-winner Julian Fellowes ( Gosford Park ) and Matthew Faulk &, Mark Skeet (NBC`s Jason and the Argonauts ), this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook features over 150 full-color illustrations, extracts from Thackeray`s novel, interviews with the cast and crew, notes by director Mira Nair, and sidebars on the film`s… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1557046387
Book size: —; Page extent: 176.

 

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair

1994 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton`s Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair where the only standard is worldly sucess. Becky, charming and amoral, is well-fitted for the fight, when an ill-judged bowl of punch ruins her plans for marriage, her quick wits soon find a range of alternatives. But sweet and sentimental Amelia only longs for her worthless soldier lover. There are battles, military and domestic, fortunes made and lost, elopements and betrayals. The corrupt, the grotesque and the downright wicked all struggle to make their way amongst the tawdry glamour of the Regency. And through the narrative strolls the relaxed figure of the author, pointing out a moral here and there as he shines a light into society`s murkier corners. Формат: 11 см x 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-14-062423-6
Book size: —; Page extent: 688.

 

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair

2001 y.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Limited
Description: Thackeray`s upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled `A Novel without a Hero`, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Bronte commented: `The more I read Thackeray`s works the more certain I am that he stands alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling… Thackeray is a Titan`. Формат: 12,5 см x 20 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-85326-019-3
Book size: —; Page extent: 720.

 

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Vanna White
Vanna`s Choice Color It Beautiful Afghans

2007 y.
Publisher: Leisure Arts
Description: Want to color your world with cozy afghans? The choice is simple: pick any one or all of these 15 lovely afghans presented by America`s favorite crocheter, TV game show co-host Vanna White. Showcasing Vanna`s Choice yarn from Lion Brand, the designs demonstrate how amazing afghans can be made using one simple block or a single pattern stitch. Along with the colorful Warm Up America! Afghan featuring striped, shell, and textured blocks, the projects include baby blankets, lap throws, and full-size afghans in four styles: granny square afghans, log cabin quilt-inspired afghans, ripple afghans, and striped afghans. To encourage individual creativity, there also are 14 pattern stitch blocks and 12 options for arranging the 10` squares. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1601406851
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Vanna White, Lion Brand Yarn, Leisure Arts
Vanna`s Choice Heartfelt Gifts to Knit and Crochet

2007 y.
Publisher: Leisure Arts, Inc
Description: One of the most comforting gifts you can give someone, particularly a child who`s `on the mend,` is a cozy knitted or crocheted item. In this practical guidebook for kind hearts, popular TV game show co host Vanna White brings together 25 easy designs for afghans, slippers, hats, scarves, and wraps perfect presents for babies, children, teens, or anyone in need. All of the projects showcase the new Vanna`s Choice yarn from Lion Brand. Crochet projects include a scarf, baby afghan, beret, wrap, slippers, hats, teen`s lap robe, security blanket, and afghans. Knit projects include a wrap, hats, baby and full size afghans, scarf, cap, booties, and slippers. Most designs are for Easy skill level. [detailed...]

ISBN: 160140686X
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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George Seuss
Vantage Point

— y.
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ISBN: 1892696215
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J. A. van Ek and J. L. M. Trim
Vantage

2001 y.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: Vantage is a statement of language learning objectives which sets out how learners at upper-intermediate level should be able to use English in everyday communication. It specifies the most essential situations, topics, functions and notions and their lexical and grammatical exponents. Further specifications include sociocultural competence, learning to learn, pronunciation and intonation. This specification is of practical use to all those concerned with constructing language teaching syllabuses, course design, materials writing, language planning, and evaluation and assessment. Vantage is the third and highest level in the Waystage - Threshold - Vantage series. This series has been published by Cambridge University Press and developed in the framwork of the Modern Languages Programme of the Council of Europe. Формат: 15 см x 22,5 cм. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-521-56705-X
Book size: —; Page extent: 200.

 

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Ibp Usa, USA Internations Business Publications
Vanuatu Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Vanuatu Country Study Guide (World Country Study Guide) [detailed...]

ISBN: 0739796267
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Ibp Usa
Vanuatu Foreign Policy And Government Guide

2008 y.
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Description: Vanuatu Foreign Policy And Government Guide [detailed...]

ISBN: 0739796534
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Ibp Usa
Vanuatu Investment And Business Guide

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Vanuatu Investment And Business Guide [detailed...]

ISBN: 0739759914
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Ibp Usa
Vanuatu Offshore Investment &, Business Guide

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Vanuatu Offshore Investment &, Business Guide [detailed...]

ISBN: 0739763059
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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