Product Description: This book is a unique treasure in the history of photography; Hinz got everybody in front of his camera: from Muhammad Ali to Richard Avedon, from Jeff Koons to Karl Lagerfeld, from Annie Leibowitz to Robert Mapplethorpe, from Helmut Newton to Irving Penn, from Sebastião Salgado to Andy Warhol - the list is endlessLimited, numbered and signed edition of 1,000 copiesA must-have for lovers and aficionados of photographyIn Love With Photography is a unique treasure in the history of photography, lifted from the archives of Volker Hinz, one of the most important and indefatigable photographers of our time...read more

Product Description: Zoom into a cloud. Zoom out of a rock. Watch the volcano explode, the lightning strike, an aurora undulate. Imagine ice sheets expanding, retreating - pulsating - while continents continue their leisurely collisions. Everywhere there are structures within structures...read more

Product Description: The world-famous Wiener Staatsoper, seen here in portraits of the 54 members of its ensemble The best singers in the world of opera, caught in fascinating images, giving a very personal glimpse behind the scenes of a great opera house The opera looks back on a history of more than 400 years...read more

Product Description: 120 years ago the first permission was granted for archaeological excavations in Ephesos. The signature of Emperor Franz Josef I laid the foundation for one of the most prominent excavation enterprises in the world and to this day it has lost none of its significance for science or its fascination for visitors...read more

Product Description: Ephesos is one of the most important archeological digs in the world. For 120 years Austrian archeologists have been at work on this magical site in western Turkey and continue to bring up spectacular finds. In this place archeologists have succeeded like nowhere else to make academia and the public aware of the distant past...read more

Product Description: ·This book showcases the concurrent approaches of one generation of architects (204 individuals) to creating buildings for the same function ·Unites architectural positions on one functional theme ·Reflects current architectural theories on kindergartens in terms of 'form follows function' ·Compiles a series of new landmark buildings in rural areas as a manifestation of a certain aesthetic arriving in non-urban places ·This book attempts to answer the question: will architecture be a teacher? For decades municipalities in Lower Austria have cooperated with the provincial government to provide families with - mostly free - kindergarten places near their homes...read more

Product Description: Photographic artist Lois Lammerhuber takes an impossibly close look at one of the oldest and most famous female figures in history, the archeological icon Venus von Willendorf

Product Description: 4 July 2012 - Scientific sensation: Higgs boson found! Extraordinary pictures are interspersed with texts about the machine that made this discovery possible the Large Hadron Collider.

Product Description: With architecture designed by I. M. Pei, an interior by J.-M. Wilmotte, and one of the world's finest collections, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, showcases the artistic achievements of the Muslim world in a dazzling way...read more

Product Description: Biedermeier furniture and interior design are recognized today as the first great flowering of haute bourgeois taste in interior design. Beginning in the early 19th century, these bourgeois ideals in design were pursued by a wide range of society from the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollern rulers to the middle classes, from Middle Europe to Italy...read more