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Tao te Ching
Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

1842 648 ed.
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton

The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious has...

1990 93 ed.
Leonardo
Leonardo

by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster

If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.

1946 89 ed.
Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens, Eileen Warren Norris

In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London-measuri...

1840 352 ed.
The Elements of Typographic Style
The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst, Robert Bringhurst

Like oratory, music, dance, calligraphy - like anything that lends its grace to language - typography is an art that can...

1992 8 ed.
Big fish
Big fish

by Wallace, Daniel

He was born during the driest summer in forty years.

1998 18 ed.
Pictures from Italy
Pictures from Italy

by Charles Dickens

ON a fine Sunday morning in the Midsummer time and weather of eighteen hundred and forty-four, it was, my good friend, w...

1846 99 ed.
Architectural principles in the age of humanism
Architectural principles in the age of humanism

by Rudolf Wittkower

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE is nowadays usually interpreted in terms which stress its worldliness.

1949 18 ed.
Lies In a Mirror
Lies In a Mirror

by Peter Charleton

There is a lie behind every crime.

2006 3 ed.
The natural way to draw
The natural way to draw

by Kimon Nicolaïdes

CORRECT OBSERVATION.

1941 17 ed.
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering

by Alan Williams

Mix proportions may be specified either by weight or by volume in terms of the ratios of fine aggregate and coarse aggre...

1999 17 ed.
Le Corbusier, an analysis of form
Le Corbusier, an analysis of form

by Geoffrey H. Baker

Professor Rudolph Arnheim argues that it is by the controlled application of forces that visual phenomena may be communi...

1984 4 ed.