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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher

Book- Art nouveau (Fahr-Becker)

Book- Art nouveau
Author: Gabrielle Fahr-Becker

Score: 10/10
Year: 2004 
Editor : Könnemann 
ISBN 3-8331-1234-4
425 pages
Language:  English


This is a wink to Carole... as we shared a class some years ago (ABF,)  had to choose a topic in a draw and came across Art Nouveau. I knew only a little bit about it, so I had to research books treating this subject. Through my research,  I fell in love even more of this art current and this particular book, full of beauties ... The only regret: not having anything to materialize this!


This book is divided into 15 chapters, each concentrating on the presence of the Art Nouveau in a country - or city, with long texts and many photographs in very good quality, of works of art created in this style . It ends with the list of picture credits and an index.


To give you an idea, this book weighs over 2kg and measures 2.4 x 22 x 25.5 cm, 428 pages, and the good news is that it was reissued in 2015.




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