Carl Klaus Carl - Böcker

Compactly supported smooth piecewise polynomial functions provide an efficient tool for the approximation of curves and surfaces and other smooth functions of one and several arguments. Since they are locally polynomial, they are easy to evaluate....

Läs mer »

"A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition point in life that has gotten surprisingly little literary attention: retirement. . . . The quiet testimony of a man whose ongoing writing, editing, reading, gardening, traveling and ceas...

Läs mer »

In this distinctive daybook, Carl Klaus reminds readers that winter is just as much a part of the year as the time when tulips open, tomatoes thrive, and pumpkins color brown earth. Gardeners, lovers of the outdoors, and weather watchers will reco...

Läs mer »

My Vegetable Love offers a detailed daily record of gardenng, loving, and living during a single growing season--from the first outdoor planting in early spring to the final fall harvest shortly after Thanksgiving. Yet Klaus describes far more tha...

Läs mer »

The author reminds readers that the season of brown twigs and icy gales is just as much a part of the year as the time when the tulips open and tomatoes thrive. He keeps track of snow falling, birds flocking, soups simmering, garden catalogues arr...

Läs mer »

[Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Artic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her...

Läs mer »

Originally published in the June 11, 1984, New Yorker, this lengthy essay is a sharp-edged inquiry into the generational institutions of our national life. With the same iconoclastic spirit and multilayered prose that he interwove in his classic W...

Läs mer »

In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily lif...

Läs mer »

Compactly supported smooth piecewise polynomial functions provide an efficient tool for the approximation of curves and surfaces and other smooth functions of one and several arguments. Since they are locally polynomial, they are easy to evaluate....

Läs mer »

Converging technologies promise a new era of delivering education, health, and social services to millions of digitally excluded. Hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and beset with low human development outcomes, how can South Asia bring these benef...

Läs mer »

Compactly supported smooth piecewise polynomial functions provide an efficient tool for the approximation of curves and surfaces and other smooth functions of one and several arguments. Since they are locally polynomial, they are easy to evaluate....

Läs mer »

The Human presence that animates the personal essay is surely one of the most beguiling of literary phenomena, for it comes across in so familiar a voice that it's easy to believe we are listening to the author rather than a textual stand-in. But ...

Läs mer »

The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied source book for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the ess...

Läs mer »

Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, casual or formal: the self you project in writingyour personais the byproduct of numerous decisions you make about what to say and how to say it. Though any single word or phrase or sentence ...

Läs mer »

The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing demographic in the industrialized world. Covering eight years in lively six-month installments, Kla...

Läs mer »

El espÿritu, el carácter, la vida, la obra y el método de pintar de Rembrandt son un completo misterio. Lo que podemos adivinar de su naturaleza esencial proviene de sus pinturas y de incidentes triviales o trágicos de su infortunada existenci...

Läs mer »

Según los cánones definidos de la técnica del arte, el retrato debe ser, sobre todo, una representación fiel de su modelo. Sin embargo, esta galerÿa de 1000 retratos ilustra cómo el género se ha transformado a lo largo de la historia, y ha ...

Läs mer »

Ein Gemÿlde Rembrandts stellt ein lebendige Einheit dar, die die Vielfalt der Gedanken und Gefühle seines künstlerischen Schöpfers widerspiegelt und seinen eigenen Regeln folgt. Menschliche Charaktere und ihre geistige Verfassung: Dieser motiv...

Läs mer »

Greek art, at the very moment that it was breaking up in depth, was scattering over the whole material surface of Hellenic antiquity. After the movement of concentration that had brought to Athens all the forces of Hellenism, a movement of dispers...

Läs mer »

L?art grecque qu?on situe traditionnellement entre le Xe et le Ier siäcle av. J.C., est naturaliste - tout symbolisme lui est étranger. Et si dans son désir d?absolu réalisable, il fait la nature plus belle, c?est dans le sens étroit qu?elle ...

Läs mer »

Oskar Schlemmer (1888 - 1943) est un peintre, décorateur de théâtre et scénographe de ballet allemand. Il intägre le Bauhaus de Weimar de 1921 ÿ 1929 en qualité de professeur de peinture puis décorateur et scénographe, avant d''achever so...

Läs mer »

The self-appointed "e;leader"e; of the artists' group Die Brucke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the influence of Impressio...

Läs mer »

?No me intereso en mÿ mismo como tema de una pintura, sino en los demás... en especial en las mujeres...? Hermosas, sensuales y, sobre todo, eróticas, las pinturas de Gustav Klimt hablan de un mundo de opulencia y placer que parece estar a mile...

Läs mer »

El volumen de Mega Square Zapatos se centra en la historia del zapato y eleva este objeto a la categorÿa de obra de arte. El autor es un destacado experto en la materia, asÿ como el máximo responsable del Museo del Zapato de Francia, que cuenta...

Läs mer »

Durante a Renascença os pintores italianos representavam as mulheres dos seus patrocinadores como Madonnas, tornando-as muitas vezes mais belas que a realidade. Ao longo dos séculos, a Madonna tem sido representada como a mãe clemente e protect...

Läs mer »

El volumen de Mega Square Herbario está basado en la obra de Basilius Besler, el famoso experto en plantas que, por primera vez en la historia, describió, pintó y grabó más de mil especies de plantas. Sus dibujos son de gran valor tanto cient...

Läs mer »

Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten, 1862 ? Vienne, 1918)«Faire un autoportrait ne m''intéresse pas. Les sujets de peinture qui m''intéressent ? Les autres et en particulier les femmes? » Aucune référence au monde extérieur ne vient contrarier le char...

Läs mer »

Quelle utilité ont les dessous féminins qui s''étalent aujourd''hui tant sur les affiches que dans les magazines, enveloppant des corps de femmes parfaites? Pour beaucoup de femmes, les dessous sont achetés pour faire plaisir ÿ l''autre, « l...

Läs mer »

Qu?y-a-t-il de plus banal qu?une paire de chaussures ? Pourtant, aujourd?hui encore, la moitié de l?humanité n?en connaÿt pas l?usage. Dans un monde où la chaussure est devenue un objet de consommation, comment oublier que nos arriäre-grands-...

Läs mer »

L?art a été profondément marqué par la figure de la Vierge Marie, le symbole de la maternité, rayonnante de jeunesse, de tendresse et de compassion depuis deux mille ans. Trouvant en elle une source d?inspiration inépuisable, les artistes on...

Läs mer »