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At the dawn of the 20th century, Bruno Paul (1874-1968) stood like a colossus astride the landscape of an emerging Modernism. As an illustrator, architect and educator his influence was unequalled. Arguably the most important German designer of his generation, his work was ubiquitous in the technical and professional publications of his day. For five decades, Paul's reputation was unparalleled among progressive German artists. As a young man he was a member of the Munich avant-garde responsible for the creation of the Jugendstil. As a designer of furniture and interiors, he achieved a commercial success unmatched by his illustrious contemporaries. In the light of his professional accomplishments, he was the most influential German architect of his generation, a figure of international significance. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Meyer and Kem Weber were among his students, and their work developed from the practices of his atelier. Indeed, as director of the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst in Berlin he presided over an institution that rivaled the Bauhaus as a centre of progressive instruction in the arts. Despite the renown he enjoyed at the height of his career, Paul's name has been largely absent from the standard histories of the modern movement. Indeed, this book is the first comprehensive study of his life and work. Nevertheless, Paul's story embodies a significant facet of the history of 20th-century design: the development of Modernism in Central Europe and its coalescence from the influences of Jugendstil, Elementarism, Classicism, Expressionism and Functionalism. Paul played a prominent role in this coalescence, and he deserves a place of honour in the history of the modern movement. Yet his biography also encompasses a less familiar, but no less significant, aspect of the history of modern design. It is the story of a pragmatic Modernism that occupied a middle ground between avant-garde experimentation and conservative professional practice, a Modernism that was timeless, practical and principled. It was this pragmatic Modernism that won the patronage of the middle classes and established progressive design as an accepted alternative, and eventually as the preferred alternative to the period styles. Moreover Paul's pragmatic Modernism, and its underlying principles, remain as relevant today as when they were first conceived.

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* Esta es la historia de cómo se conocieron Brunilda y Bruno.* Cuando Brunilda se muda a su enorme casa, le parece que hay demasiado silencio. Brunilda invita a sus hermanas a pasar unos días, después a unos animales de compañía inusuales, y se produce el caos.* Brunilda se pregunta si estará sola para siempre? hasta que ve un gato negro estropajoso. Una tierna aventura de Brunilda y Bruno!La colección de Brunilda y Bruno ha sido la delicia de los lectores, jóvenes y adultos, desde 1987. Ambos se han convertido en personajes preferidos en muchos hogares y escuelas de todo el mundo.

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In 1600 the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher Giordano Bruno for his heretical beliefs. He was then burned alive in a public place in Rome. Historians, scientists and teachers usually deny that Bruno was condemned for his beliefs about the universe and that his trial was linked to the later confrontations between the Inquisition and Galileo in 1616 and 1633. Based on new evidence, however, Burned Alive asserts that Bruno's beliefs about the universe were indeed the primary factors that led to Bruno's condemnation: his beliefs that the stars are suns surrounded by planetary worlds like our own, and that the Earth moves because it has a soul. Alberto A. Martinez shows how some of the same Inquisitors who judged Bruno also confronted Galileo in 1616. Ultimately the one clergyman who wrote the most critical reports used by the Inquisition to condemn Galileo in 1633 immediately wrote an unpublished manuscript, in which he denounced Galileo and other followers of Copernicus for believing that many worlds exist and that the Earth moves because it has a soul. This book challenges the accepted history of astronomy and shows how cosmology led Bruno bravely to his death.

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An exciting storybook based on the new Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!™ animated series on Netflix and Cartoonito, introducing Bruno, Thomas’ new brake car friend with autism!When Diesel’s speediness gets him into trouble, Thomas and Bruno—the first brake car with autism in the Thomas & Friends series—keep Diesel on track! Train-loving boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this adorable picturebook based on the Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!™animated series on Netflix and Cartoonito!As the hero of his own adventure in Thomas & Friends: All EnginesGo!™, Thomas will be center stage and we will see the world through his young eyes. More playful and relatable than ever before, his competitive spirit will be readily apparent as he strives to be the Number One Tank Engine on Sodor through play, trial and error, and just enjoying being a kid.

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We may not talk about Bruno, but we can certainly find him hiding in the various rooms of Casita and all around the town of the Encanto!Join Mirabel and her family as you explore the Madrigal's magical home. From Casita's courtyard and Antonio's newly created jungle-themed room to Bruno's rat-filled lair and the colourful streets of the town of the Encanto, you'll have fun spotting Mirabel, Bruno, Antonio, Luisa, Isabella and the rest of the family Madrigal! Perfect for Disney fans young and old, this unique search and find book will keep you entertained for hours.Also available: Where's Mickey?, Where's Minnie?, Where's Olaf?, Where's Spidey?, Where's Grogu? and Disney Princess Magical Worlds Search and Find Activity Book.

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Elcuarto título de la colección infantil deElisabetta Dami, autora de GerónimoStilton.La familia Osítez vive en el Valle de la Felicidad, un lugar de encanto. Papá Osítez es guardabosques, mamá Osítez trabaja fabricando miel con sus amigas las abejas. Tienen tres hijos: Bruna, una niña amigable, intrépida y valiente, y Bruno, un niño listo, sensato y leal, y un pequeño al que sus hermanos mayores cuidan y quieren.El erizo Eric, amigo de Bruna y Bruno, cada día hace una pataleta: no quiere levantarse por las mañanas, y no le apetece asearse ni ir al colegio. Hoy sus padres le han dado un toque de atención: si vuelve a tener otra pataleta no podrá ir de excursión. Toda la clase se une para mostrarle que los días sin pataletas# son mucho mejores!Un libro para enseñar a los más pequeños el respeto hacia los demás y los buenos modales. Con Bruna y Bruno, los nuevos personajes infantiles que encantarán a toda la familia. Además, incluye activida

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El presente estudio aborda la obra de Giordano Bruno como una consciente reivindicación de la Filosofía. Ello es mucho más que la simple banalidad de que alguien defienda su oficio. Tras el gesto bruniano hay, por un lado, una idea precisa y fuerte de la Filosofía y del sujeto que la realiza (el Filósofo), idea que Bruno ve y vive como un conflicto radical con la realidad contemporánea del filósofo y la filosofía, así como con la inmediata tradición intelectual en que tanto el uno como la otra se insertan: la cultura cristiana y el lugar que ésta les concede. (...) Tras el gesto bruniano está la convicción de que se inicia una nueva etapa histórica que pone fin a un largo período de subversiónde valores y del mismo lenguaje que ha tenido en el cristianimo y en su premisa griega (el aristotelismo) su factor desencadenante. (...) Su reivindicación de la Filosofía se hace mendiante la apelación directa a lo que, fundamentalmente, había sido la filosofía en Grecia desde los orígenes hasta

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The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR and, finally, the Third Reich. Yet to use his own metaphor, Schulz remained throughout a citizen of the Republic of Dreams. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him “one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived.” Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz’s art became the currency in which he bought life. Drawing on extensive new reporting and archival research, Benjamin Balint chases the inventive murals Schulz painted on the walls of an SS villa—the last traces of his vanished world—into multiple dimensions of the artist’s life and afterlife. Sixty years after Schulz was murdered, those murals were miraculously rediscovered, only to be secretly smuggled by Israeli agents to Jerusalem. The ensuing international furore summoned broader perplexities, not just about who has the right to curate orphaned artworks and to construe their meanings, but about who can claim to stand guard over the legacy of Jews killed in the Nazi slaughter. By re-creating the artist’s milieu at a crossroads not just of Jewish and Polish culture but of art, sex and violence, Bruno Schulz itself stands as an act of belated restitution, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of a life with all its paradoxes and curtailed possibilities.

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A deep dive into the Bay Area’s ecological treasure trove—and how this wild mountain in our midst was saved.San Bruno Mountain, located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a four-square mile global treasure—a natural preserve touted by biologist E.O. Wilson as one of the world’s rare biodiversity 'hot spots'. Bathed in fog and wind and preserved from destruction by the fierce work of local conservationists, this mountain offers visitors a glimpse of what San Francisco looked like before colonization. Drawing on years of visits, observations, and research to offer a comprehensive flora of the San Bruno Mountains and its endangered species, conservationists Doug Allshouse and David Nelson help us understand this unique and precious place from the point of view of the plants in this one-of-a-kind field guide. Detailing a total of 528 plant species (among them 316 natives), the authors also delve into the history of this living, changing habitat at the southern edge of San Francisco. The birds, butterflies, reptiles, geology, climate, dynamic changes, and political history of the preserve also feature in San Bruno Mountain. Even locals who have enjoyed hiking and viewing the mountain for years will be astonished at this book’s revelations about the diversity and importance of this wild place.

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El siglo XVI es un siglo de hierro en el qe Europa asiste a cambios decisivos. La reforma religiosa desemboca en la tragedia de las guerras de religión; el descubrimiento de América abre paso a la empresa depredadora de la colonización; el Estado moderno prosigue su difícil obra de construcción, al tiempo que el sistema del saber y la imagen del mundo dominantes durante siglos entran en una crisis irreversible de la que surgirá el pensamiento de la modernidad. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) se enfrenta en su obra a buena parte de estos problemas, a la vez que lleva a cabo una revisión crítica del conjunto de la tradición filosófica y teológico-religiosa de Occidente con el fin de elaborar un pensamiento que recupere el conocimiento de la verdadera estructura del universo y devuelva la paz civil a una Europa envenenada por el sectarismo religioso, haciendo posible al mismo tiempo a la personalidad especulativa el libre ejercicio de la filosofía.El presente estudio aborda algunos compone

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