Este extenso volumen reúne las aventuras de Long John Silver, Barbanegra y el capitán Garfio, junto con muchas otras figuras inspiradas en la histórica edad de oro de la piratería. Aunando placer estético y literario, esta antología presenta textos clásicos de la literatura universal, desde Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe hasta las novelas de aventuras de Julio Verne y La isla del tesoro de Robert Louis Stevenson, acompañados de fascinantes ilustraciones de artistas como N. C. Wyeth y Howard Pyle.

Este extenso volumen reúne las aventuras de Long John Silver, Barbanegra y el capitán Garfio, junto con muchas otras figuras inspiradas en la histórica edad de oro de la piratería. Aunando placer estético y literario, esta antología presenta textos clásicos de la literatura universal, desde Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe hasta las novelas de aventuras de Julio Verne y La isla del tesoro de Robert Louis Stevenson, acompañados de fascinantes ilustraciones de artistas como N. C. Wyeth y Howard Pyle.

Desde mediados del siglo XIX, esta ciudad estimulante y única del norte de California ha atraído a artistas, espíritus libres, soñadores y emprendedores. Esta edición muestra imágenes asombrosas procedentes de docenas de archivos y colecciones que nos ofrecen un recorrido completo por San Francisco desde sus primeros años de historia hasta hoy.

A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, primeval burial grounds and soaring cathedrals of light, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Featuring essays, interviews, and more than 400 images, ranging from ancient temples to contemporary works of modern land art.

A valuable insight into the works and mind of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. After 8 years, author Philip Jodidio explores long anticipated completed buildings, new projects, and a future outlook of the studio Shigeru Ban after TASCHEN has followed his career from the beginning. This updated XXL-monograph is a journey through the years and evolution of an architect who made a name for himself with true architectural marvels which cannot be surpassed in innovation, elegance, and sensibility. Next to early buildings deploying paper tubes as structural elements and such iconic houses as the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo, we see recent projects such as the Swatch/Omega Campus in Switzerland, a two-story penthouse on top of a 140-year-old New York City Landmark cast-iron house, and the Seine Musicale, a concert hall inserted into an overall master plan conceived by Jean Nouvel for the island Ile Séguin in France. Ban’s work is characterized by a quest to understand buildings and a commitment to save and use otherwise discarded materials, which led him to inventive solutions and to claim the material paper as the staple for several of his projects. Along with this ambition, Ban gave a face to Japanese architecture while staying in touch with his unique architectural handwriting, allowing him to create a magnitude of projects worldwide. The Pritzker-prize-winning architect's notoriety hasn't kept him from devoting his talent and innovative ideas to those needing help. He has built shelters for refugees in Rwanda and Sri Lanka, and utilized his paper tube structures to quickly erect emergency accommodations in Fukushima and Ukraine in times of crisis. With his problem-solving, generous, and elegant approach, Shigeru Ban coins humanitarian architecture and keeps pushing the boundaries of his trade.Also available as an Art Edition with a sketch by Shigeru Ban and a wooden custom-built 3D laser cut cover, limited to 200 copies and signed by the architect.